Probably the easiest way you can better yourself intellectually is to listen to This American Life’s podcasts on the way to work. The show is often hilarious, high-brow by nature, and almost always insightful – and will only add to that jumble of Trivial Pursuit knowledge that your $120,000 liberal arts education got you.
Edit: I should probably disclose that my brother and I relentlessly made fun of a) my dad for liking this show when we were growing up and b) Ira Glass’s stammering. And here, out on this series of tubes, I am admitting I was totally wrong.
This American Life host Ira Glass (image courtesy Wikimedia Commons)
One of the most quality pieces on the show was last week’s story by contributing writer Jack Hitt on the island of Nauru, a tiny island most of us have never heard of, but one that has meant everything to the world economy in the past 10 years.
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18 December 2007 at 9:13 pm
Sometimes we come to things late. Fortunately you are not too late.
Dad