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Hosts Tricia and Greta bring you the stories of muckraker Nellie Bly, painter Georgia O'Keeffe and jazz singer Nina Simone. We talk to authors, une...
Bought by KUAC
- Added: Jul 14, 2014
- Length: 27:00
- Purchases: 1
The final episode of the series looks at the future of Irish experimental music. We find out how techniques like ‘Live Coding’ (where computer prog...
- Added: Jul 08, 2014
- Length: 30:01
From: WBEZ
Pop science author Mary Roach tells Nerdette hosts Tricia and Greta about answering gross questions most of us are too afraid to ask. Plus a conver...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 26:59
- Purchases: 3
The San Francisco Mixtape Society hosts mix exchanges at the Make Out Room in the Mission District. Music lovers meet, mingle and exchange mixes th...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 05:54
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
Since he was three years old, Obasi Onuoha has been in love with computers. really. To him, they're way more than just machines....
- Added: Apr 03, 2014
- Length: 02:30
Twitter is hemorrhaging self-aggrandizement and hucksterism.
- Added: Mar 28, 2014
- Length: 02:27
Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...
- Added: Jan 20, 2014
- Length: 03:54
One could argue that the introduction of the modern typewriter just a tad over 110 years ago did more to change the way that humans communicate tha...
- Added: Nov 09, 2013
- Length: 10:19
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
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The seed idea for [freespace] came from a 48-hour hackathon called the National Day of Civic Hacking. A hackathon is when people get together for a...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 08:36
For nearly a hundred years, Morse Code was the official language of international communication for ships in distress. Then, at the end of the twen...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 06:45
- Purchases: 1
When we think of garage scientists, the eccentric, gray-haired Dr. Emmett Brown from Back to the Future might come to mind. But these days, garages...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 08:47
- Purchases: 1
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
Bobby speaks, on location, from Columbus Circle (the literal epicenter of New York City) with Nicole Raymondi, creator of Quotiful, an iPhone app, ...
- Added: Sep 29, 2013
- Length: 36:58
Explore the hypothetical solutions to real issues caused by technology.
- Added: Sep 19, 2013
- Length: 13:20
Ham radio hobbyists have been DIY since day one. They build their own equipment and create their own communities.
Bought by KWMR, PRX Remix, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 06:03
- Purchases: 3
The MEEP! Show reviews gear from Source Audio.
- Added: Aug 19, 2013
- Length: 28:35
In this episode, we look at how civic scientists can gather useful data on their surroundings. We go to the Bay Area where a series of rooftop carb...
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 15:35
- Purchases: 2
When does trash talk in online gaming cross a line?
- Added: Jul 11, 2013
- Length: 18:31
In 1997, three men created the 'most wanted' and 'most unwanted' songs from completed surveys. Technically, they should be the best and worst songs...
- Added: Jun 06, 2013
- Length: 18:45
In this episode we look at the modern power grid, which is on the brink of important changes. First, why the smart grid matters. Then, the critical...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 17:06
- Purchases: 1
Singer and early vocal recordings champion Meredith Axelrod chats about the vocalists who pioneered recorded sound technologies in the early twenti...
- Added: Apr 30, 2013
- Length: 58:59
- Added: Apr 28, 2013
- Length: 29:00
A look at the trend of developing rapidly-aged whiskeys.
Bought by Marfa Public Radio, KLCC, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 04:07
- Purchases: 3
