Film screening, radio show episode of note

Sorry for not getting this info up earlier, but Astra Taylor's Examined Life documentary is playing this afternoon at Stephens College's Citizen Jane Film Festival. According to the site, Taylor will be at the screening, which starts at 3 at Windsor Auditorium. Astra's last film was Zizek! about Slavoj Žižek, the Slovenian cultural theorist, who is featured in Examined Life with Martha Nussbaum, Peter Singer, Cornell West and Kwame Anthony Appiah, among other modern day philosophers, theorists and critics. Tickets are $5 for students and available at Ragtag.

Also worth checking out is Act One of last week's This American Life episode, number 366, "A Better Mousetrap 2008." It might be interesting to listen to with what Dr. Markie's recent talk in mind. You can currently download the episode for free either from the show's site or from iTunes until, most likely, tomorrow, when this weekend's episode becomes available; however, you can always stream any episode of the show, in full, for free from the TAL site. Here's the description of the story:

Act One. Mother of Invention.

Karen Sosnoski's one-year-old son, Anton, was born with what's known as Mosaic Down Syndrome, a rare condition where some of his cells have the extra chromosome that causes Down syndrome and other cells don't. So as he grows, he could end up having all the health risks and challenges of Downs syndrome...or just a few of them. Through a website, Karen found a kid with the same diagnosis, named Tim Colvin, who was doing really well...perhaps because his mother, Kristy, invented a surprising and unusual way to raise her son. When some people hear about what Kristy did, they're shocked. Karen went to talk to Kristy and Tim about how Tim was raised. (13 minutes)

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