The Marshall Project and Pro Publica: An Unbelievable Story of Rape.
“An 18-year-old said she was attacked at knifepoint. Then she said she made it up. That’s where our story begins.”
This was posted on MetaFilter last December, and a few days ago This American Life posted a new episode 581: Anatomy of Doubt on this case. The download is free until the end of this week.
The New York Times: When the Hospital Fires the Bullet. “More and more hospital guards across the country carry weapons. For Alan Pean, seeking help for mental distress, that resulted in a gunshot to the chest.” By Elisabeth Rosenthal.
This American Life: 579: My Damn Mind. “The brain! It’s powerful! We have the story of how one man’s delusions lead him to a situation that’s just as strange as the worst thoughts his mind is cooking up. That story’s a collaboration with the New York Times. Our second story is about a man using the power of his own mind to deal with a problem.” (The download is free during the week after release.)
Upside Down & Inside Out by OK Go has to be one of the coolest and most impressively made music videos this geek has ever seen. Check it out!
I heard of the band and their impressive videos before when a colleague recommended This Too Shall Pass (Rube Goldberg machine). It’s blocked in Germany because of GEMA issues, but should be viewable elsewhere.
Ok Go – Needing/Getting (This American Life – The Invisible Made Visible). The corresponding This American Life show is Live at BAM, the radio version is Invisible Made Visible (episode 464).
Serial Podcast: Season 1 Update.
“This week, Sarah Koenig ducks back into the Adnan Syed case for a few days. There’s a hearing in Baltimore—a court proceeding that’s been nearly sixteen years in the making. Syed’s attorney will introduce new evidence, and present a case for why his conviction should be overturned. Sarah and producer Dana Chivvis will discuss what happens, day by day.”
The first episode Dustwun of Season 2 of the Serial Podcast is out:
“For this season, Sarah Koenig teams up with filmmaker Mark Boal and Page 1 to find out why one idiosyncratic guy decided to walk away, into Afghanistan, and how the consequences of that decision have spun out wider and wider. It’s a story that has played out in unexpected ways from the start. And it’s a story that’s still going on.”
New York Times: ‘Serial’ Season 2 Lets Bowe Bergdahl Tell His Side of Afghan Story.
“In interviews with the screenwriter Mark Boal, he explained in his own words why he had left his base in June 2009, an action that prompted a manhunt involving thousands of troops and led him to spend nearly five years in brutal captivity under the Taliban.
His odyssey ended in May 2014, when the Obama administration swapped him for five Taliban detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a deal that was heavily criticized by Republicans.”
MetaFilter: Serial Season 2, Episode 1: DUSTWUN. “Bowe Bergdahl without preamble, and in (some of) his own words.” There’s also FanFare: Serial: Episode 01: DUSTWUN.
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