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The fickle fortunes of professional gaming pioneers
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Saahil Arora in Alameda where he lives with his championship winning DOTA 2 team., Credit: Jeremy Dalmas
Video games are now a spectator sports. And Dong Won, who’s 24, has made over $160,000 in prize money by playing in tournaments, sometimes for tens...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 10:02
Owning The Clouds
From: Steven Jackson
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Cloud seeding -- intervening in clouds to squeeze out precipitation -- is done all over the world. But it's not an exact science; we still have muc...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 09:38
  • Purchases: 3
It's Thin, It's Plastic, It's Back: Flexi Discs Find New Fans
From: Allyson McCabe
Caption: "In the metal community, there's a fascination with the tangible aspect of things," says Albert Mudrian, editor of metal magazine Decibel., Credit: Bruno Guerreiro /Courtesy of Decibel
In the digital era, brick-and-mortar record stores' stock in trade has increasingly become vinyl sales. But within that niche of an increasingly fr...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Nov 13, 2015
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
Open Source Song Writing
From: Fil Corbitt
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Billy Mack got a house, and then got 95 people to play a song about it.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2015
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 1
In an old church, the Internet Archive stores our digital history
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: The Internet Archive, San Francisco., Credit: Under CC license from Flickr user Beatrice Murch
In San Francisco’s Richmond District, where Geary Boulevard meets Park Presidio, there stands a bright, white, defunct Christian Science church. Th...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 06:37
  • Purchases: 2
Call Your Mother!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip Roy tries to call his mother, but it proves to be more challenging than one would expect.

  • Added: Feb 02, 2015
  • Length: 04:30
The Fog Harvester
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: John Lovell checking his fog harvest, Credit: Leila Day
Lovell is a fog harvester. He’s obsessed with the fog, and the water resources that are floating right over our heads. He points at a little white ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 08:45
  • Purchases: 1
The Glass Sho: Episode 27 (Molly Herron/Molly Thompson)
From: Chris McGovern
Series: The Glass Sho
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Molly Herron discusses New Music For New Instruments; Molly Thompson talks about her program featuring music from her song cycles at Spectrum.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2014
  • Length: 01:17:04
The sounds of Pixar
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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The Bay Area is home to one of the world’s most famous animated film production companies: Pixar. They’ve taken us into the worlds of rebellious to...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 18, 2014
  • Length: 08:05
  • Purchases: 1
A technologist's house finds its voice on Twitter
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Tom Coates in his tweeting house., Credit: Liz Pfeffer
In the Oscar-nominated film "Her," director Spike Jonze imagines a world where computers are so human-like they have their own feelings. Whether th...

  • Added: May 17, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
West Texas Kids Get into GEAR
From: Lana Straub
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Story about GEAR - Get Excited About Robotics

  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 05:12
Will we be safe when our cars drive themselves?
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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You may have already seen some of these driverless cars zipping around Bay Area roads. Automotive scientists predict similar cars will be available...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 1
Wearing Technology
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Your watch is your personal trainer. Your headband is making an action documentary of your life. Your bracelet congratulates you on your daily wate...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 3
Hitchhiking a Tech Shuttle
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: On board the Facebook bus, Credit: Kristina Loring
Real talk: I’m not the biggest fan of San Francisco public transportation. So when I first heard of the alternative transportation network of priva...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 05:59
Sky cowboys: The ironworkers who built the new Bay Bridge
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Ironworkers on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge. Matthew Cochran is fourth from left., Credit: Matthew Cochran
The first thing you should know about ironworkers is that they don’t make things out of iron, like horseshoes. They’re builders. Ironworkers from L...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 07:30
A telegram for you...
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Central Telegraph Office in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
The telegram was 163 years old in India, and only recently has the reliable old machine been put away.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 16, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Digital Detox
From: John L Myers
Caption: Digital Detox, Credit: http://thedigitaldetox.org/
Spending too much time on Facebook or compulsively checking your smartphone might seem innocuous. But, as more people find it difficult to put the...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 05:55
  • Purchases: 2
Facebook Unconscious
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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Facebook has taken another giant step in expanding its brand with what may be its most far-reaching innovation yet: Facebook Unconscious.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 02:56
Social Media Midlife Crisis
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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A reflection on a generation's obsession with Facebook and how it might be affecting our emotional lives. Sound rich. Features an interview with a ...

Bought by KSFR and WTIP


  • Added: Jan 21, 2011
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 2
Tibetan monk, computer genius
From: The Tibet Connection
Caption: Venerable Lobsang Monlam, computer genius monk, Credit: www.lobsangmonlam.org
This Buddhist monk from Tibet went from learning how to switch a computer on to programming sophisticated, innovative software all on his own in ju...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2011
  • Length: 05:52
Middle School students train on professional animation software
From: Lillian Mongeau
Caption: The beginnings of an animation project by Claremont student Amir Rashid., Credit: Peter Heckel
At Claremont Middle School in Oakland, Calif., students learn the ropes of computer animation at a young age. Their teacher hopes this will qualify...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2010
  • Length: 04:15
Winter Amusements
From: Jim Cosco
Series: The Tippingpoint
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The snow has started to fall. What does the internet offer for amusement in the winter? Matisyahu, Charlie Brown, and curling in the same audio pla...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2010
  • Length: 19:42
Who's Driving that Car?
From: Philip Graitcer
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Building a Robotic Car

  • Added: Jul 09, 2007
  • Length: 03:28
Self-Cleaning Fabric
From: Jacob Adelman
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A Hong Kong researcher creates a fabric that cleans itself in sunlight.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 01, 2005
  • Length: 03:22
  • Purchases: 2