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February 04, 2008
Wow! Something Good on "This American Life"
I’m not much of a fan of “This American Life”. The over dramatic music overlaying the narration and joining the segments seems manipulative and distracting. The stories are too often banal or annoying. However, on the way home from the airport on Friday, I got caught up in the second part of this episode By Brilliant Plan.
It’s a fascinating tale of a man who became a physicist, and quite a good one, because as a child he wanted to make a time machine to go back and warn his father about his heart disease. The twist is that even by the time he was a successful scientist, this was not just a childhood dream but a living obsession. Very interesting listening.
Filed under General, NPR, This American Life, Physics and Time Travel.
Posted by eric at February 4, 2008 09:52 AM