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Feb 2024
12m 57s

Episode 212: David Mills

NATE DIMEO
About this episode

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.

Music

  • Una Bravata from Carlo Rustichelli’s score to Amici Miei.

  • Sunshine on Fish Skin by Girls in Airports.

  • The Vienna Glass Armonica Duo performs Mozart’s Adagio for Glass Harmonium.

  • The Fellowship by John Shabason

Notes

  • The best read on Mills is a 2022 article by Nate Hopper in The New Yorker about the challenges of keeping time on the internet.
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