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Episode 123: Outliers

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows. Music We hear Valentine My Funny by Nils Frahm and F.S. Blumm from the album Tag Eins Tag Zwei. Notes This idea came...

An episode of the the memory palace podcast, hosted by Nate DiMeo, titled "Episode 123: Outliers" was published on March 12, 2018 and runs 9 minutes.

March 12, 2018 ·9m · the memory palace

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The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows.

Music

  • We hear Valentine My Funny by Nils Frahm and F.S. Blumm from the album Tag Eins Tag Zwei.

Notes

  • This idea came to me a long time ago while researching an old episode. I read an extraordinary article from the 1890s that hung with me, particularly the notion of folks writing in to try to become sideshow attractions.
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G42 Semi-weekly jams, recorded live at the Memory Palace. Jonathan Spence Academy of Achievement Over the last 40 years, Jonathan Spence of Yale University has become the West's leading authority on Chinese history. His books, such as The Gate of Heavenly Peace and The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, have brought remote times and places to life for the general reading public, while The Search for Modern China has become a standard text in universities around the world. The undergraduate course he teaches on the modern history of China is among the most popular ever given at Yale. Year after year, a new class of students packs the lecture hall to enjoy his spellbinding presentation. Born and educated in England, Spence did not discover his passion for Chinese studies until he came to Yale University, from Clare College, Cambridge, on a Mellon Fellowship. While still a graduate student, he became the first Westerner to study the confidential correspondence of the Manchu (Qing Dynasty) Emperors, preserved at the Palace Museum in Taiwan. The resulting dissertation became his first book It's the Pictures that Got Small Nate DiMeo and Karina Longworth From Nate DiMeo, the creator of The Memory Palace, and Karina Longworth, creator of You Must Remember This, comes a new movie podcast. Each episode, Karina and Nate reach out from their quarantines to a guest who’ll pick a movie they’ve heard is great but never found the time to watch. They’ll watch it, break it down, even play a game or two. All while raising money to support independent movie theaters, film societies, and other places that make us love going out to the movies.Join them and watch the best of the big screen on whatever little screens you have on hand as you hunker down and wait this thing out. Tip of the Tongue James Fisher-Martins Have you noticed how much harder it is to retain new words as you get older? You're not alone! >>>>Join James and Ryan as they place tricky words into their memory palace with some elaborate associations to help it stick in your porous head.A few minutes a day with Tip of the Tongue will give you a vocabulary boost so that you'll never be tongue-tied again.
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