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Re: What should I read to seem educated?

Post by T00L » Mon Feb 27, 2012 10:02 am

MachineLemon wrote:
Renzo wrote:Oh, I forgot to mention: as an added bonus, if you subscribe to the Economist, you can download an audio edition of a word-for word reading of each week's issue. Great way to get some high-quality news while you're driving of folding laundry.
! I didn't know this. Awesome.
Is it narrated by Morgan Freeman?
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Re: What should I read to seem educated?

Post by citygirl000 » Mon Feb 27, 2012 10:21 am

http://www.slate.com
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Re: What should I read to seem educated?

Post by Gecko of Doom » Mon Feb 27, 2012 10:35 am

T00L wrote:
MachineLemon wrote:
Renzo wrote:Oh, I forgot to mention: as an added bonus, if you subscribe to the Economist, you can download an audio edition of a word-for word reading of each week's issue. Great way to get some high-quality news while you're driving of folding laundry.
! I didn't know this. Awesome.
Is it narrated by Morgan Freeman?
Unfortunately, no, but they have British accents, which counts for something at least.
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Re: What should I read to seem educated?

Post by HWS08 » Thu Mar 01, 2012 6:11 pm

I think the WSJ or another newspaper would be better for your purposes, OP. It's more skim-able, plus you'd get new info daily instead of weekly.
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Re: What should I read to seem educated?

Post by laxbrah420 » Thu Mar 01, 2012 6:12 pm

the economist is not a good primary news source and is organized in a way that runs counter the OPs interests (by topic rather than relevance)
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Re: What should I read to seem educated?

Post by BEAST_mode » Thu Mar 01, 2012 6:17 pm

WSJ/NPR/BBC/Al Jazeera English/NYT

I would suggest The Economist, but you didn't ask what to read in order to appear pretentious.

HTH.
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Re: What should I read to seem educated?

Post by MachineLemon » Thu Mar 01, 2012 10:01 pm

BEAST_mode wrote:I would suggest The Economist, but you didn't ask what to read in order to appear pretentious. HTH.
Pish posh!
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Re: What should I read to seem educated?

Post by Mal Reynolds » Thu Mar 01, 2012 10:09 pm

How about you read enough so you actually ARE educated.
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Re: What should I read to seem educated?

Post by thecactus » Fri Mar 02, 2012 1:49 am

Wikipedia is easy and free.
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Re: What should I read to seem educated?

Post by vpintz » Fri Mar 02, 2012 10:04 am

Al jazeera ipad app. hth
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Re: What should I read to seem educated?

Post by chem » Fri Mar 02, 2012 10:07 am

thecactus wrote:Wikipedia is easy and free.
Try out the daily lit wikipedia grand tour. On dailylit.com they have a thing where they send you a wikipedia article every day organized into category.
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