Are Our Old Computers Posioning Africans?
Laura Lynch reports from Ghana for PRI's "The World."
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Billboards that See You?
Maketplace reports that billboards that see you are in the works. Yah! That is wonderful news.
Did you know? Billboards are illegal in the state of Vermont? Hence, its reputation for beautiful scenery.
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Billboards That See You?
On The Media reports that billboards that see you are in the works.
Did you know? Billboards are illegal in the state of Vermont? Hence, its reputation for beautiful scenery.
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Program: On the Media
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Using Cotton Candy to Save Lives?
Dr. Jason Spector joins All Things Considered to talk about how cotton candy is being used to make complex vascular architecture - a web of tissue for transplants and other medical uses.
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Program: All Things Considered
Date: February, 2009
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RADIO NEWS -- Behind the Scenes: NPR to Revamp Web Presence?
The Current reports that NPR is looking to the web for its future.
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Subversive Ring Tones
NPR story about banned ring tones in Tibet.
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Producer: Anthony Kuhn
Program: All Things Considered
Playtime: 4 minutes 32 seconds
Date: February, 2009
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Vintage: Hoberman Sphere
Studio 360 story from 2007 about the inventor of the Hoberman Sphere.
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Producer: Lu Olkowski
Program: Studio 360
Playtime: 8 minutes 29 seconds
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Vintage: Hoberman Sphere
Studio 360 story from 2007 about the inevtor of the Hoberman Sphere.
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Playtime: 8 minutes 29 seconds
Date: August, 2007
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Audio Search
It's easy enough to search for video or products on Google. But it can be hard to search for audio files. This search engine (called SkreemR), while not perfect, yields some pretty good results.
A search engine for audio files(philes).
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Phonautograph: Recorded Sound Before Edison
This is really pretty amazing. In March of 2008, some reseachers at Berkeley found some "recordings" by a French inventor that predated Edison. Sounds like the guy made a device, called a phonautograph, that recorded detailed visual representation of sound. These researchers figured out a way to turn those visual recordings into actual sounds. They've just released a number of new audio. It's not the best sounding stuff in the world but it's an amazing concept.
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Cheap Diamonds
Marketplace talks to a 89 year old inventor who is making diamonds bigger and cheaper.
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Date: June, 2009
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Internet to Uganda
I happened upon this doc from an organization called Project Focus that has the specific (yet expansive) mission "to educate, inspire, and empower local communities in Southwestern Uganda and the United States."
Interesting to think about what it must be like to have never used the internet. I especially like the sound of a Ugandan seeing the internet for the first time toward the end of the piece.
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New NPR Website
In case you haven't been over to see it. New NPR website launched a couple days ago. This video has NPR's Scott Simon explaining the new features. One commenter on YouTube says "This is a beautiful web site! Will this help avoid layoffs?"
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Auto Tune News
Studio 360 brings the Barret Golding Story about the YouTube sensation "Auto Tune the News." Awesome!
UPDATE: Producer Barrett Golding posted the full piece on Hearing Voices -- longer than what aired on Studio 360. Click on "Auto Tune News" above for a link.
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Soundprint: Teaching in the Digital Age
Soundprint looks at the burgeoning realm of high tech teaching.
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How to Disappear in the Digital Age
On the Media reports on a Wired story that tries to find out. And if you can find who they disappeared, you could win $5000.
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Pychograph!
Did you know there is a podcast called This Week in the History of Psychology? Well there is. It's out of York Univsersity. This episode is about the psychograph (pictutred). The psychograph was based on the idea of phrenology.
You'll have to get past the intro and the overview of the weeks psychology history to get to the discussion of the psychograph.
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Two from BBC: Saving in China -- New Media in Kashmir
#1 "Average savings rates in China stand at around 30% and, as Chris Hogg discovers, most of that money is spent on health care."
#2 Citizen Journalism: The wide availablity of cell phone video has changed the face of conflict and communication in Kashmir
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Soundprint: Cheating in College
From the site: "Producer Jean Snedegar visits faculty and students at Duke, the University of Virginia, and other colleges to discover the underside of higher learning."
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The World's Most Powerful Island
The Danish island of Samso creates more renewable power than it uses.
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BBC Environmental Road Trip
The BBC's weekly environmental programme, One Planet, goes on an American road-trip. The Englishmen see big cars, generous people, and the inventor of lithium-ion batteries. All on the road to Copenhagen.
- Audio Documentary London Bureau
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Playtime: 27 minutes 2 seconds
Date: November, 2009
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Technology, Science, Interview, Environment, Education, American Issues
Sculpting Music with the Ondes Martenot
Unusual music production, plus a French accent: Winner! Radio France International looks at a predecessor to the synthesiser keyboard.
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Music on the Brain
Elizabeth Hauke's documentary 'The Sound of Disease "examines the use of sound in the diagnosis of disease, and features the ground-breaking work of Prof Dan Lloyd, who converts the data in brain scans into music to identify otherwise 'invisible' diseases."
Elizabeth Hauke is an independent radio presenter and producer of Short Science (www.shortscience.co.uk), a weekly science radio show and podcast. She also makes freelance packages and documentaries.