{"id":948,"date":"2020-06-26T17:37:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T17:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=948"},"modified":"2020-06-26T17:41:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T17:41:32","slug":"jad-abumrad-how-dolly-parton-led-me-to-an-epiphany-ted-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=948","title":{"rendered":"Jad Abumrad: How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | TED Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"is-layout-flow wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\"><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jad Abumrad: How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/jad_abumrad_how_dolly_parton_led_me_to_an_epiphany\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Radiolab<\/em> is, and has been for a while, a most interesting and challenging program.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t listen to it regularly, but I&#8217;m usually sucked into it when I do.&nbsp; Jad and his co-host, Robert Krollwich (sadly, he&#8217;s now retired from the show) created a new way of doing talk radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, he does this TED talk, and it&#8217;s about how he sees what he&#8217;s done and what he needs to do.\u00a0 And, typically, he&#8217;s rethought how to do TED talks from a guy wandering around on stage with slides to a video podcast that&#8217;s really absorbing and good at explaining what he&#8217;s saying while he says it.\u00a0 And the point, which is a riff on the old Marxist thesis\/antithesis\/synthesis, is revealed as relevant to now, in a performance of exactly the point he&#8217;s making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worth a watch.&nbsp; If you haven&#8217;t listened to Radiolab, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnycstudios.org\/podcasts\/radiolab\">try it out<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radiolab is, and has been for a while, a most interesting and challenging program.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t listen to it regularly, but I&#8217;m usually sucked into it when I do.&nbsp; Jad and his co-host, Robert Krollwich (sadly, he&#8217;s now retired from the show) created a new way of doing talk radio. So, he does this TED [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":952,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}