The Week’s Links 05

Dogs, public radio, bicycles of the mind and a distinct taste of fragility. The Noble Life of Moretto: An 18th-century Venetian Dog Not so much a long read as a cute read, especially for anyone who has ever been their dog’s amanuensis. We are asked what breed we think Moretto might have been, and my vote would be for the Lagotto Romagnolo, “a traditional breed of the once-extensive marshlands of the Delta del Po” that had somehow made its way north to Venice. Public Radio’s First Program Distribution Network is Born at WNYC came from the audio editor’s audio editor, Julia Barton’s newsletter Continuous Wave. It tells the story of how public radio in the United States came to be a network. WNYC sent tapes by post to other stations west of them. A week later, each station mailed the tape to another station, further west. A week at a time, the tapes made their way via this ‘bicycle network’ across the country. I particularly loved that the whole scheme got off the ground because WNYC was…

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