Nate's Favorite Episode of 2019

the memory palace

Nate DiMeo

Radiotopia, Publicradio, History, Natedimeo

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia.

Music

First up is Requiem from Nico Muhly’s score to How to Talk to Girls at Parties.
November by Colleen.
Edward Hong’s arrangement of Sleep from the Smoke and Mirrors Percussion Ensemble.
The solo version of Broad Channel by Bing & Ruth
Won’t Be a Thing to Become by Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld

Notes

Here’s Shane DuBay and Carl Fuldner’s study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, including Fuldner’s remarkable photographs.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Every year at this time, for the past few years, I have chosen my favorite store of the year
0:05.6	and played it one more time for you guys.
0:08.9	The process is a little bit arbitrary, but it is sincere.
0:12.8	And with this one, I'm not sure this is going to be the most crowd-pleasing.
0:17.6	I'm not sure this is the one that will match up necessarily with many of your favorites
0:23.4	out there.
0:24.4	But it is mine.
0:26.2	And I think it's because this is a pretty good job getting at some issues and some things
0:32.9	that I spent a lot of time this year thinking about.
0:36.1	Anyways, thank you so much for listening this year.
0:38.5	There are more stories to come in 2020.
0:41.4	This one here is from March of 2019.
0:44.7	This is the memory palace.
0:46.3	I'm Nate DeMoeu.
0:48.3	1347 Birds in drawers and boxes.
0:53.8	Dead and labeled with paper ID tags tied to their thin ankles.
0:58.7	They are horned larks and grasshopper sparrows, field sparrows, red-headed woodpeckers and
1:04.2	eastern tohies.
1:06.6	The oldest of these, two tohies, black-winged and black-hooded with red-brown feathers flanking
1:11.8	their white bellies.
1:12.8	In the lark, a brown speckled male with streaks of bright yellow framing its face.
1:18.0	Have been in storage in natural history museums since 1880.
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