Press Play with Madeleine Brand
The Right to Be Forgotten, Young Readers & Title IX
The right to be forgotten, young people reading less, applying Title IX to sexual assault, taking a gap year, ordering food online, and remembering H.R. Giger.
By Madeleine Brand • • 51m ListenEurope’s highest court has ruled that people can ask Google and other search engines to remove results that paint them in a bad light, even if they’re accurate. A new report finds that teens are reading less for pleasure than they used to. H.R. Giger, the artist who created the monster in the Alien films has died. We meet the national coordinator of all IX administrators around the country. “Gap year consultants” help students who don’t want to enter college immediately after high school. And ordering our food online may end up making us fatter.
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In this episode
6 storiesThe Right to Be Forgotten
A European court ruling that says people have a right to be forgotten. That might not necessarily sound like a good thing, but for those trying to put a piece of embarrassing personal history behind them, this is great news.
Read the story9 minYoung People Are Reading Less
A new report finds that teens are reading less for pleasure than they used to. According to the report, about half of 17-year-olds said they read for pleasure less than two times a year. What about all those blockbuster young adult books, like Harry Potter and The Hunger Games and Percy Jackson?
Read the story7 minRemembering H.R. Giger
If you had the wits scared out of you by the Alien movies, you have H.R. Giger to thank. He designed and created the Alien. Giger died today at the age of 74 in his native Switzerland. As one Twitterer perfectly summed it up: Giger “beautifully articulated our nightmares.”
Read the story8 minTitle IX
The federal government is bringing attention to the issue of sexual assault on campus. It’s up to the Department of Education to enforce rules about sexual discrimination and assault, and those rules fall under Title IX. Each college or university has one person on campus who’s in charge of administering Title IX according to the rules.
Read the story9 minGap Year Consultants
The end of the school year is fast approaching, and for a lot of high school seniors that means college next Fall... or maybe not. Maybe it’s a year off -- a “gap year” -- a time to figure out where you want to go and what you want to do with your life.
Read the story8 minWill Ordering From Machines Make Us Fatter?
Ordering food for delivery is easier than ever. Smartphone apps like GrubHub, Snapfinger, and Eat24 make immediate gratification only a swipe away. But ordering food from computers instead of humans has a side-effect: We order a heck of a lot more.
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