For as ear-piercing as ambulance sirens are, you’d think they’d be better alert systems. Truth is: they’re shockingly ineffective. Drivers register the sound only at close proximity and at very low speeds. Guessing from which direction the ambulance will appear is always tricky too — especially when the new Daft…
Seinfeld excelled at criticism of the everyday. A few months ago, Sam Anderson suggested that Roland Barthes was the father of pop cultural criticism and that we are all now cultural critics in the Barthian vein, “decoding everything”. Perhaps. But if Barthes gave us serious criticism of popular culture, Seinfeld…
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