The danger posed by reading hot rod magazines — in the opinion of at least one English teacher — screeches, metaphorically, throughout this week’s Improbable Research podcast.
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This week, Marc Abrahams — with dramatic readings by Harvard physics professor Melissa Franklin — tells about:
- The danger from Hot Rod Magazines— “Hot Rod Magazines: A Harmless Diversion?” Eleanor M. Robinson, The English Journal, vol. 54, no. 1 (1965): 36-38.
- Some hot rod magazines
- Some more hot rod magazines
- Ed “Big Daddy” Roth’s rat fink hot rods and other hot rods
- Hot Rod Magazine. The magazine, still roaring along after all these years, now also produces videos about hot rods and Hot Rod Magazine, including this video about Hot Rod Magazine‘s 65th anniversary:
The mysterious John Schedler or the shadowy Bruce Petschek perhaps did the sound engineering this week.
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