Slate Article Response

     After reading the two slate articles, I learned that there are different ways that critics work that makes each one different.  For example, Alan Sepinwall reviews between 10 to 15 shows a week and writes about each episode of each show.  I think that this is pretty impressive and didn't realize how much time these people put into their line of work.  I also had no idea that there were so many different ways of approaching their job.  I thought that the way that critics and television shows have evolved is pretty interesting.  In the article it says that critics used to just review a few episodes to get an idea and write about it, nowadays, critics are reviewing every episode of a television series.
     There were some interesting hyperlinks throughout these two articles and two of them that caught my eye were one about how soda could be bad, and the other was about how Shakespeare could have used Marijuana as an influence to writing his sonnets.  I found the article about soda to be interesting because soda is something that millions of people in our country drink and if it's harmful, then it could be a serious problem.  What I found from clicking on this hyperlink is that soda use has increased obesity and diabetes in the past 20 years.  Also, researchers have found that there could be a link between soda and high blood pressure, liver disease, gout, and some kinds of cancer as well.  This is a bit unsettling.  However, what I found from the other hyperlink about Shakespeare, is that a South African Anthropologist has found traces of marijuana, cocaine, and myristic acid on pipe fragments found in Shakespeare's garden.  Upon seeing this, I had to click on it as it seemed entertaining and something you don't normally see on a news website.