Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Pete Seeger Remembered, Visiting the Middle & Gluten-Free Grub
Today on Press Play: the life and legacy of Pete Seeger, our Fault Lines series explores the medium income in L.A. County, the gluten-free craze, and more.
By Madeleine Brand • • 52m ListenToday on Press Play, we look back on the life and legacy of musician Pete Seeger with two people he had a huge influence on: Roger McGuinn of The Byrds and Ani DiFranco. Plus, as part of our Fault Lines series on the income gap, we meet a family that’s living at the medium income in L.A. County. Also: what are the long-term effects of the gluten-free craze, and are computers going to start watching us as we shop?
Banner Image: Pete Seeger performing at Clearwater Festival 2013; Credit: WFUV
In this episode
4 storiesRemembering Pete Seeger
One of the most influential musicians of the past 60 years died yesterday. Pete Seeger was known as much for his activism as his role in reviving folk music in American pop culture. We talk to musicians influenced by Pete, both personally and musically.
Read the story16 minLab Rats!
For this edition of our regular science segment “Lab Rats” we take a look at the gluten-free craze. Now even the Girl Scouts are offering gluten-free cookies . How might dropping gluten from our diets affect our health?
Read the story10 minFault Lines: Living in the Middle
President Obama is expected to spend a lot of his State of the Union address talking about the growing income gap between the rich and the poor. We try to find out what it’s like to live exactly in the middle. Madeleine meets a family in Downey to talk about what it means to make the median income in Los Angeles today.
Read the story17 minBig Data in Stores
Stores are starting to tap into big data in a major way. Retailers are developing new technology to track our shopping habits more closely than ever before, combining data about your purchasing history with real-time analysis of what you’re looking to buy. This raises all kinds of concerns, from privacy to price discrimination.
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