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This episode looks at how innovative new ways of making and distributing music are coming into conflict with our legal system. Some argue that copy...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Jul 08, 2014
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
In this episode we meet a variety of sonic artists who've approached the art establishment from different directions.
- Added: Jul 08, 2014
- Length: 30:00
Episode three takes a journey into the underground world of circuit bending.
- Added: Jul 08, 2014
- Length: 30:00
Episode two explores the videogaming backgrounds of a variety of Irish experimental musicians.
- Added: Jul 08, 2014
- Length: 30:00
Episode one explores how circuit benders, hackers and artists are building teaching and education into their practice.
- Added: Jul 08, 2014
- Length: 30:00
Today on our show, four stories of people who tried to see themselves clearly
Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jun 27, 2014
- Length: 58:53
- Purchases: 3
In this week's show, a parakeet, a Spanish-language learner, and a professor help make the human voice weird again.
Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jun 26, 2014
- Length: 58:40
- Purchases: 3
Listening is way more than just paying attention, and this week's show explores how.
Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, and WKCC
- Added: Jun 25, 2014
- Length: 58:53
- Purchases: 3
On August 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at the CERN particle accelerator in Switzerland, announced the debut of the World Wide Web, marking...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Today, we hear increasing talk about Big Data, supposedly about to revolutionize everything from the way wars are fought and policies are shaped to...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
- Added: Jun 11, 2014
- Length: 06:44
For most of human history, famine was only a single bad harvest away. Now, thanks to modern agriculture and fertilizers, we’ve almost eliminated hu...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Back in 1958 Popular Science published an article about General Motor’s plan to build self-driving cars guided by electrical cables in roadways. Gi...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
The most common element in all accidents is the human element. In the quest to eliminate driver error and make our roads safer, we’ve been searchin...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Believe it or not, electric vehicles used to be more popular than gasoline engines. The first practical electric car in 1884, and for decades many ...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
For the past fifty years physicists around the world have been trying to create a fusion power reactor, harnessing the processes deep inside of sta...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
A Norwegian immigrant in Oregon invented the first quick-release ski binding, which made skiing safer and more appealing.
- Added: May 22, 2014
- Length: 16:51
- Purchases: 2
You’re driving your car down a street and as you pass, a camera takes a photo of your license plate. Who is taking the photo and what are they doin...
Bought by WABE, Troy Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 13, 2014
- Length: 04:42
- Purchases: 3
An in-depth exploration of the history and cultural implications of the enigmatic world of Impossible Music and Black MIDI.
- Added: May 08, 2014
- Length: 18:52
You’re driving your car down a street and as you pass, a camera takes a photo of your license plate. Who is taking the photo and what are they doin...
- Added: Apr 29, 2014
- Length: 17:42
- Purchases: 2
In 5 different countries there are audio tours available, which take you to places you don't want to go while getting you lost. And that's the point.
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 04:30
From bells to restaurants, and glasses to songwriting this episode explores the people and sounds of London's East end.
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 04:29
The story of the church bells in England during WWII. (Note: This is the intro to episode 13: The Sounds of East London)
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 04:30
A tender look at two modern photo technologies - Polaroid and digital photography - and the human and visual connections we make with them.
Bought by WYSO, WCBE, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KGOU, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio and more
- Added: Apr 18, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 20
Graphics in video games are undoubtedly one of the most talked topics in gaming. By speaking with Dr. Dennis Woytek, I hope to give the audience a ...
- Added: Mar 29, 2014
- Length: 07:56
