My Week in Review: Cool Things I’ve Read or Listened to this Week

Here are but a few of things I've stumbled upon this week.  

After hearing that someone with the incredible Icelandic name of Hildur Gudnadottir received an Oscar for Best Original Score in The Joker, I had to Google her.  Now I’m subscribed to her YouTube channel and have been listening to something new (to me) every day.  

On Wednesday I stumbled upon this interview with Tufts Political Scientist Eitan Hersh   on NPR’s Hidden Brain podcast Hidden Brain podcast: 

Many Americans feel an obligation to keep up with political news. But maybe we should be focusing our energies elsewhere. Political scientist Eitan Hersh says there's been a rise in "political hobbyism" in the United States. We treat politics like entertainment, following the latest updates like we follow our favorite sports teams. Instead, he says, we should think of politics as a way to acquire power and persuade our neighbors to back the issues we support.

Can’t escape from work?  Don’t blame your phones, it’s those damn laptops: 

But that blame is often applied solely to the wrong piece of take-home technology. If staying home with a cold still requires a full day of work or you can’t find a seat at your local coffee shop on a Tuesday afternoon, iPhones are not responsible for ruining your life. The novelty and early popularity of smartphones seem to have distracted America from how quickly its laptops were also dissolving much of the boundary between work and home.