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Innovation & Obsolescence: The Life, Death, and Occasional Rebirth of Technologies
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Ben Gross' personal video discs and player. , Credit: Photograph by Mariel Carr.
Some technologies flash in the pan so quickly they hardly leave a trace (Google Glass anyone?); while others seem to stick around long past their u...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Apr 01, 2015
  • Length: 38:38
  • Purchases: 1
The Teeth Beneath Your Feet: Oddities in Urban Archaeology
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: URS Corporation archaeologists excavate at a site beside I-95 in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia., Credit: Mariel Carr
Where can you find a teacup, the molar of a goat, and an arrowhead all in one place? At an urban archaeology site, that’s where.

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 36:50
  • Purchases: 1
The Mad Scientist
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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David Kontak builds bizarre musical machines out of found objects and uses them to produce experimental soundscapes.

Bought by KMXT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 03, 2011
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 2