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In the meantime, during the fund drive we'll be airing some favorite segments from our archives.
Here's what's on today's show:
Traffic Cops in the Age of Super Surveillance
Alex Campbelland Kendall Taggart are investigative reporters for BuzzFeed - together they tell the story of how lucrative license plate readers have been for the crumbling town of Port Arthur, Texas. Police say it's making the roads safer - but Alex and Kendall found that the cost to the town's poorest citizens is disproportionately high.
Read the article: "The Ticket Machine"
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Neologisms for the Modern World
In her book, That Should Be A Word: A Language Lover’s Guide To Choregasms, Povertunity, Brattling, And Other Much-Needed Terms For The Modern World, author Lizzie Skurnick has compiled a mini-dictionary that finally puts a word to the activity of doing a Google search to find the closest bathroom: Loogling.
Listen to this segment again: Neologisms for the Modern World
Built for Speed
There are some things we see every day, without seeing at all – and these mysterious elements of our everyday world are the subject of one of our favorite podcasts and radio shows, 99% Invisible. Host Roman Mars takes a closer look at an incredibly important, but under appreciated part of the road.
You can listen to this story again at PRX.org.