Who Are You Connected To?
-- NPR's David Baron reports on a study that bolsters the notion that everyone on Earth is connected by, at most, six people. The concept is commonly referred to as "six degrees of separation". The study appears in today's issue of the journal "Nature". The findings could have several practical applications, such as studying the transmission of diseases.
I thought I knew Sarah Jaffe, but I was wrong. With her third album, Don't Disconnect, Jaffe has proven to be much more than the rustic bedroom folksinger I'd been imagining all these years. Eschewing the strummed guitars of her early sound, Jaffe has drifted into a plugged-in pop-rock style that keys into the breezy, self-assured elements of early Magnetic Fields and YACHT. "Some People Will Tell You" issues a perfect farewell to summer: wistful and buoyant, with a tinge of melancholy and nostalgia.