Read More Foreign Literature

Read More Foreign Literature

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 694 , Segment 3

Episode: SCOTUS and Cell Phones, Chefs and Food Waste

  • Dec 1, 2017
  • 15:04 mins

Guest: Marlene Hansen Esplin, PhD, Assistant Professor, Comparative Arts and Letters, Brigham Young University Twenty years ago, you’d be hard-pressed to find quinoa, gelato or Indian naan bread in most mainstream US grocery stores, but now they’re all favorites in our home kitchens. Turns out it’s good to try new foods! And the same concept applies to literature. Americans rarely read literature translated from other languages, but we are missing out on real treats. Recommended Books in Translation: Muriel Barbery, “The Elegance of the Hedgehog” Clarice Lispector, “The Hour of the Star” Carlos Ruiz Zafón, “The Shadow of the Wind/The Angel’s Game/The Prisoner of Heaven” Valeria Luiselli, “Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions” Hideo Yokoyama, “Six Four” Edgogawa Rampo, “Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination” Mikhail Shishkin, “Maidenhair” Sabahattin Ali, “The Madonna with the Fur Coat” Abdelfattah Kilito , “Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language” Halldor Laxness, “Paradise Reclaimed”  Nellie Campobello “Cartucho” Oliver Pötzsch, “The Hangman’s Daughter”  Sources for finding more books in translation: http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/, https://www.asymptotejournal.com/, https://www.dalkeyarchive.com

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Will SCOTUS Protect Your Cell Phone Privacy?

19 MINS

Guest: H.V. Jagadish, PhD, Bernard A. Galler Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan If your smartphone’s always within reach, if you talk to Alexa and Siri more often than you talk to some of your real-life friends, then you should really care about the outcome of a case being considered by the US Supreme Court right now. It involves a guy named Timothy Carpenter who was convicted of helping rob a couple of Radio Shack and T-Mobile stores several years back. The FBI was able to close its case against Carpenter by getting cell phone call records and location information from his wireless company. The reason the Supreme Court is hearing this case is that the FBI got Carpenter’s data from his cell company without a warrant.

Guest: H.V. Jagadish, PhD, Bernard A. Galler Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan If your smartphone’s always within reach, if you talk to Alexa and Siri more often than you talk to some of your real-life friends, then you should really care about the outcome of a case being considered by the US Supreme Court right now. It involves a guy named Timothy Carpenter who was convicted of helping rob a couple of Radio Shack and T-Mobile stores several years back. The FBI was able to close its case against Carpenter by getting cell phone call records and location information from his wireless company. The reason the Supreme Court is hearing this case is that the FBI got Carpenter’s data from his cell company without a warrant.