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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Earthquake Culture

    We live with the possibility of “the big one” hanging over our heads here in Southern California, and yet we keep building up and out. Living on solid ground just isn’t part of our ethos as Angelenos. So, where does that leave us? We talk to the L.A.

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    By Madeleine Brand • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    We live with the possibility of “the big one” hanging over our heads here in Southern California, and yet we keep building up and out. Living on solid ground just isn’t part of our ethos as Angelenos. So, where does that leave us? We talk to the L.A. Times’ David Ulin, author of The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith.

    The full episode

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    Earthquakes, Sanctions, and Random Tape
    1. 0:00Obama's Foreign Policy
    2. 7:11Political Reaction
    3. 14:50David Weinberg's Random Tape Project
    4. 26:39Earthquake!
    5. 34:52Earthquake CultureYou’re reading this
    6. 43:27Saving L.A.
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Andrew Walsh

      Too Beautiful to Live

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      Matt Holzman

      Producer, 'The Document'

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      Anna Scott

      Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter

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      David Ulin

      professor of English at USC, editor of literary journal “Air/Light”

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    The full episode

    5 of 6
    Earthquakes, Sanctions, and Random Tape
    1. 0:00Obama's Foreign Policy
    2. 7:11Political Reaction
    3. 14:50David Weinberg's Random Tape Project
    4. 26:39Earthquake!
    5. 34:52Earthquake CultureYou’re reading this
    6. 43:27Saving L.A.
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