EPISODE · Nov 2, 2020 · 29 MIN
The Great American Amnesia
from Garner Isn't · host Ed Garner
The great American amnesia. Clever people and grocers weigh everything.We like to think we know how to calculate, but ask a college student what you get when you multiply six times seven and they'll say they haven't their calculator. I memorized multiplication tables, but it doesn't help cause the numbers keep lying. The stock market is artificially inflated. Kasimir Malevitch's famous painting The Black Square. MUSIC Andriana Coselotti, Larry Morey, Frank Churchill, Kathryn Beaumont
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The great American amnesia. Clever people and grocers weigh everything.We like to think we know how to calculate, but ask a college student what you get when you multiply six times seven and they’ll say they haven’t their calculator. I memorized multiplication tables, but it doesn’t help cause the numbers keep lying. The stock market is artificially inflated. Kasimir Malevitch’s famous painting The Black Square.
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