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Playlist: O'Dark 30 episode 96 (2-44)

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KUT's O’Dark 30 is off to Baltimore but still bringing you the very best from the world of independent radio production this week. Every Sunday at midnight on Austin's KUT 90.5 and also at 4pm on digital KUT2 we present 3 hours of a little bit of everything from the world of independent radio production.

Episode 96 (2-44) includes Clever Apes: Toolmakers...Cemetery Expedition...The Guru of Quince Dances...KUT's Portrait of an Artist with Elizabeth Perez Luna...Thanksgiving...WTF Episode 106 with Robin Williams...Fear...Representing Yourself...Homestead Childhood by Grace Edgerton of City High Radio

Clever Apes: Toolmakers

From WBEZ | Part of the WBEZ's Clever Apes series | 08:32

Humans have an incredible ability to fashion tools that make our lives easier and advance the goals of science, but we're not the only species making and using tools. In this episode, we explore tool-use from the ape house at the zoo to the conservation lab at the art museum.

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As we human beings have come up against our limits throughout history, we’ve managed to invent tools that can overcome them. Using tools we can fly, restart a human heart, photograph galaxies and amoebae. Tools are so central to our humanity that we used to think they defined us: “Man the Toolmaker.”

That notion began to unravel in the 1960s, as Jane Goodall discovered that humans aren’t the only clever apes around. Chimps, too, make and use tools. It was an existential turning point: As Goodall sponsor Louis Leakey famously responded, “Now we have to redefine tool, redefine man, or accept chimpanzees as humans.”

That line has only gotten fuzzier since then, thanks in part to work done on chimps and gorillas at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo. In this installment of Clever Apes we’ll meet a few of these crafty primates, and consider what the tools can teach us about the toolmakers.

Then we’ll pivot to another tool that probes – in this case, one that analyzes art (and, it turns out, artists). It’s an X-Ray fluorescence spectrometer, but we prefer to call it the “science gun.” We see it in action at the Art Institute of Chicago, thanks to conservation scientist Francesca Casadio.

 

Cemetery Expedition

From Jake Warga | 04:04

Walking around a cemetery at night

Ir01_small Commentary: Halloween? Going on a Cemetery Expedition with a group of GHOST HUNTERS. Aired ATC 5-17-04

The Guru of Quince Dances

From Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife | 05:17

Youth producers Oscar Hernandez and Domingo Diaz talk with the person who makes quinceanaras work: the dance choreographer. Produced at LBJ High School in Austin, Texas, as a part of Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife.

Quinceanera1_small Youth producers Oscar Hernandez and Domingo Diaz talk with the person who makes quinceanaras work: the dance choreographer. Produced at LBJ High School in Austin, Texas, as a part of Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife.

Thanksgiving

From Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife | 02:31

Youth producer Rochelle Smith gets to the real meaning of Thanksgiving with her family. Produced at LBJ High School in Austin, Texas, as a part of Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife.

Thanksgiving_turkey_small Youth producer Rochelle Smith gets to the real meaning of Thanksgiving with her family. Produced at LBJ High School in Austin, Texas, as a part of Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife.

WTF Episode 106 with Robin Williams

From WTF with Marc Maron | Part of the WTF with Marc Maron series | 58:59

Yeah, Marc's sitting down with Robin Williams for an hour. No big deal. Both news hole and 59 minute versions are provided.

Robin500_small Yeah, Marc's sitting down with Robin Williams for an hour. No big deal. So what do you talk about with an international comedy superstar? How about alcoholism, cocaine, divorce, joke stealing, heart surgery, fame, Richard Pryor, jealousy, and Twitter? Yeah. That should do it.

Fear

From KVNF | Part of the Belief Systems and Other B.S. series | 03:31

Nude modeling proves to be a most invigorating fear to face.

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Bwheadcopysmooth_small I recently agreed to model nude for an art class, not because I needed the money but because the prospect practically paralyzed me with anxiety. Facing up to a fear that wasn't likely to actually kill me turned out to be delightful.

Representing Yourself

From Rendered | Part of the Destination DIY series | 59:00

Representing Yourself is a DIY project we do in all kinds of ways — in job interviews, on stage, in court and through visual art such as self-portraits and tattoos. ***This show aired on Oregon Public Broadcasting as part of a series of 5 episodes in a twice-weekly time slot rotating with The Moth and Radio Lab Saturdays at noon and Wednesdays at 8pm.***

Self_small Representing Yourself kicks off this series of Destination DIY series of hour-long shows that push the do-it-yourself envelope beyond crafts and home improvement. This episode takes a look at all kinds of self-expression, from representing yourself in court to telling true stories on stage. We also explore the way tattoos represent a part of the self.

Segment A: DIY legal defense, representing yourself in a job interview and a walk through the park to ask people, "How do you represent yourself?"

Segment B: What tattoos represent about people and one man's compulsion to tell true stories from his dating life on stage.

Segment C: Self-portraits and an interview with one of the notorious Guerrilla Girls about representations of women in the art world.

Host name: Julie Sabatier (suh-BAH-tee-ay)

Homestead Childhood by Grace Edgerton of City High Radio

From YouthCast | 15:52

It’s a childhood dream, to grow up in the wild, close to nature, maybe in a tree-house, Swiss Family Robinson style. But in reality, it might not be as easy as the picture books show. Grace Edgerton grew up on a homestead out in the Arizona desert, initially living in tents before the house was built.

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Grace now lives in Tucson and attends City High School, a small charter school with an awesome radio program. And when it came time for her to make a feature,there was no other question as to what story Grace would tell: her own.

This episode includes an interview with the producer herself!

Listen to the orginal feature here