The Myth of 'Blue Monday,' The Campaign for Creationism, and a Lying Cyborg Telemarketer

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🗓️ 10 January 2014

⏱️ 50 minutes

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0:00.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Bob Carfield.
0:06.3	And I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:07.6	Go to the website, BBCNews.com. Not much doubt about what people are clicking onto.
0:11.9	Thursday, most popular story, North America's big freeze seen from space.
0:15.6	Wednesday, North America temperature, records tumble.
0:17.9	Tuesday, North America deep freeze. It's east.
0:20.3	Monday. North America shivers. Sunday. It's East. Monday, North America
0:21.5	shivers. Sunday. Polar vortex. Two weeks ago, winter storm Hercules and this week,
0:27.0	the polar vortex, gave the media a massive frisson. Of course, we've been talking about the
0:32.9	winter storm that they've named Hercules. This storm is expected to affect 100 million people across 22 states.
0:39.5	A major airline is going to shut down
0:41.4	operations at some big U.S. airports
0:43.5	to give its system and its employees
0:45.7	a chance to keep up with the cold.
0:47.5	If you're under 30 years old, you've probably never
0:49.7	felt cold like this in your life.
0:51.7	Yes.
0:52.9	We're being hit by a polar vortex and thunder snow.
0:57.5	And frankly, folks, I'm not sure if those are weather patterns or finishing moves from
1:03.4	mortal combat.
1:05.1	Pontificators and politicians filled the jet stream with unbounded extrapolation.
1:10.2	From Republican James Inhoff.
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