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It was a very good month. Dig in. Every entry is a classic.

After the All These Years, Radio Labors to Stay Lame

In short, a small group of radio station owners now controls most of the radio stations in the country, and they use computers to send out the playlist to every station in their group. This results in the peculiar scenario that anyone who’s driven across the country has discovered: each city has all the same radio stations as every other city and their playlists are incredibly predictable.

June 23, 2009
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Nature Upside Down, Coyotes in Chicago and Disney Goes to the Arctic

Yesterday, NPR revealed that coyotes have been discovered hiding out in our cities, with one researcher estimating that more than 2,000 coyotes live undiscovered in the city of Chicago in particular. I’ve lived in Chicago myself, and the city looms in memory as a mass of brick, asphalt, and concrete, so it’s nigh unfathomable to consider that coyotes were my neighbors.

June 15, 2009
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