PTJ 188: Scientific Model




POP | TECH | JAM show

Summary: On this week’s episode, journalist <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/laura_m_holson/index.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Laura M. Holson </a>previews her upcoming <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/section/fashion?action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;region=TopBar&amp;module=HPMiniNav&amp;contentCollection=Style&amp;WT.nav=page">story</a> about the life of <a href="http://www.mayemusk.com/home/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Maye Musk</a>,  a registered dietitian-nutritionist and blogger who became a professional model in her late 60s. (Oh, and <a href="https://www.ted.com/speakers/elon_musk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">one of her kids</a> runs SpaceX and Tesla.) El Kaiser and J.D. also trot through a week’s worth of tech news, including the government’s initial approval of the Charter Communications-Time Warner Cable merger, the data breach that’s making the Beautiful People sad and continuing squabbles over at the Unicode Consortium.<br>