Playlist: O'Dark 30 episode 98 (2-46)
Compiled By: KUT
KUT's O’Dark 30 is sprinting toward Halloween (we love Halloween) and ready to bring 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 98 (2-46) includes Clever Apes: Godspeed, Tevatron...The Mikie Show #27, Rebecca...KUT's Views and Brews: Miles Davis and the Making of Kind of Blue...Ghost Stories...Rusty Nail...Through a Door
Clever Apes: Godspeed, Tevatron
From WBEZ | Part of the WBEZ's Clever Apes series | 08:24
We remember the legacy of the Tevatron, the particle collider that was shut down in September of 2011.
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- Clever Apes: Godspeed, Tevatron
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- WBEZ
The Tevatron particle collider shut down in September of 2011. Once the highest-energy collide in the world, it is survived by its descendants, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven, and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The Tevatron was 28. If ever a machine was deserving of an obituary, it is the Tevatron. Housed at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, the Tevatron spent decades at the frontier of science. Its collisions offered glimpses into nature’s secret places, on the tiniest scales and highest energies ever probed. 
And we consider the real value of basic science. Quarks don’t end recessions. Neutrino oscillations aren’t going to solve global warming. But there are a few benefits that belong on the balance sheet in the Teavtron’s favor. One is that, like NASA, pushing at the boundaries of our knowledge tends to bring ancillary benefits. In Fermilab’s case, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and specialized radiation therapy for cancer are part of the accelerator’s lineage.
The Mikie Show #27, Rebecca
From Michael Carroll | Part of the The Mikie Show series | 28:03
Join us for a conversation with choreographer and dance artist Rebecca Davis. She takes dance performance to new and different levels, using sculpture in her sets and collected objects for costuming, even, at times, engaging the audience in more than just viewing safely from their theater seats. There’s also a visit from, well, do you want me to spoil the surprise? Didn’t think so. Let’s see, what else. Oh, there’s the news and a quiz and help with a social dilemma. It’s going to be such fun, I can’t wait!
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- The Mikie Show #27, Rebecca
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- Michael Carroll
Join us for a conversation with choreographer and dance artist Rebecca Davis. She takes dance performance to new and different levels, using sculpture in her sets and collected objects for costuming, even, at times, engaging the audience in more than just viewing safely from their theater seats. There’s also a visit from, well, do you want me to spoil the surprise? Didn’t think so. Let’s see, what else. Oh, there’s the news and a quiz and help with a social dilemma. It’s going to be such fun, I can’t wait!
Rusty Nail
From KVNF | Part of the Belief Systems and Other B.S. series | 03:31
What happens when we see things that aren't 'really' there?
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- Rusty Nail
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- KVNF
One day, sitting at home, I saw a rusty nail protruding from the ceiling above me. I saw it very clearly, in great detail, and noted its location carefully. The next day, when I went to fix it? it was gone. When I tell this story to others, they nod in recognition: they've had similar experiences. So what's really happening? Are we all just lousy observers, or might there be some slippage in the supposedly solid fabric of reality?