Posted in Audio, Ideas, iPad, iPhone, People, Social Software on Feb 1st, 2012 No Comments »
Marco Arment on Planet Money This is a great interview. The Planet Money guys are brilliant and Marco gets right in sync with their style. Marco made and sells one of my all time favorite utilities: Instapaper. In a nutshell, if I start reading an article on my computer and want to finish it or [...]
Posted in Audio, NPR, Process, Stories on Jan 24th, 2012 2 Comments »
How The Glock Became America’s Weapon Of Choice fresh Air had a fascinating show today about the plastic Austrian pistol, it’s history and evolution. I’m not into guns but this was a fascinating listen for me nonetheless.
Posted in Audio, NPR, Places on Jan 13th, 2012 No Comments »
India Marks a Year Free of Polio A polio-free India means that there are just three nations where polio is considered endemic: Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria. Incredible. As a polio survivor this is particularly meaningful to me. It’s an enormous job to do this in a huge, developing country like India and the Gates Foundation [...]
Posted in Architecture, Audio, Ideas, NPR, Process on Nov 14th, 2011 No Comments »
Terry Gross (Fresh Air) recently interviewed Kate Ascher on the topic of How The World’s Tallest Skyscrapers Work. Fascinating stuff. Kate’s book The Heights looks good. What struck me in this interview is that the world’s tallest building (at the moment), The Burj Khalifa, built in Dubai is a very modern building built in a [...]
Posted in Audio, iPad, Stories on Oct 19th, 2011 No Comments »
The excellent radio show This American Life is available as an excellent iPad app for browsing and listening to shows both online and off: This American Life iPad app.
Posted in Animation, Audio, People, Stories on Sep 18th, 2011 2 Comments »
This piece is part of StoryCorps. After discovering it a week ago I’ve listened to it numerous times and it makes me smile and laugh every time. [via wimp.com]
Posted in Audio, Ideas, Learning Disabilities, NPR, Process on Aug 29th, 2011 2 Comments »
Think You’re An Auditory Or Visual Learner? Scientists Say It’s Unlikely This is really interesting. Not sure I’m willing to toss out the concept just yet but this piece is worth taking seriously. More on Learning Styles and Howard Gardner and multiple intelligences.
Posted in Audio, Music, NPR, People on Aug 28th, 2011 No Comments »
First Watch: Norah Jones And Tony Bennett ‘Speak Low’ Together Listen to this on good speakers, it’s killer good. This tips me to buying Bennett’s new album when it comes out: Duets II. Bennett is 85. They’re both musical geniuses.
Posted in Audio, Ideas, NPR, Social Software on Aug 24th, 2011 1 Comment »
What is Bitcoin? Jacob Goldstein and David Kestenbaum at NPR’s Planet Money have a new piece on Bitcoin a digital virtual currency that’s fascinating. I posted about another piece All Things Considered ran on this and related topics earlier in the summer: Silk Road: Not Your Father’s Amazon.com.
Posted in Audio, Gadgets, Ideas, NPR, People, Process, Tech Stuff on Aug 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
Young Entrepreneur Has A Better Idea. Now What? Meredith Perry turned 22 this month. She just graduated from college and started a new company built around a technology she recently invented. There’s plenty of bad economic news these days, but Perry and her company, called UBeam, are trying to defy it — she’s hiring and [...]
Posted in Audio, NPR, Politics on Aug 19th, 2011 No Comments »
A Big Bridge In The Wrong Place Fascinating piece by David Kestenbaum on how the Tappan Zee Bridge got built where it is.
Posted in Audio, Disability, NPR on Jul 18th, 2011 3 Comments »
Tinnitus: Why Won’t My Ears Stop Ringing? NPR’s Nancy Shute describes tinnitus and the current state of work on getting rid of it. For the past eight months I’ve had ear problems that are similar although more vexing because various doctors can’t figure out what it is. One morning I woke up with an allergy-caused [...]
Posted in Audio, Creativity, NPR, Social Software on Jun 14th, 2011 No Comments »
Silk Road: Not Your Father’s Amazon.com Silk Road (anonymous marketplace), Tor (anonymity network), Bitcoin. If you’ve never heard of this stuff listen to this NPR: All Things Considered piece on Silk Road, an e-commerce site that sells cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and marijuana, among other illegal drugs. Rachel Martin interviews Adrian Chen, a Gawker staff writer. [...]
Posted in Audio, Ideas, NPR on Jun 12th, 2011 No Comments »
A Curious Case Of Foreign Accent Syndrome This is quite amazing. Listen to the piece, it will blow your mind. Karen Butler, an American with a “neutral” American accent had dental surgery and came out of it with a Scottish brogue. Listen to her answering machine message and her current accent. I heard this a [...]
Posted in Audio, NPR, Tech Stuff, Travel on Jun 8th, 2011 No Comments »
Leading The Charge To Make Better Electric Cars Fresh Air interviews science writer Seth Fletcher on electric cars, battery technology, lithium mining, and more. This is one of the best pieces on the electric vehicle movement I’ve ever heard. Seth is knowledgeable and articulate. Great stuff.
Posted in Audio, iPad, iPhone, Learning Disabilities, Reading on Jun 7th, 2011 1 Comment »
Apple updates iBooks app with ‘read aloud’ feature Help your children learn to read with the new read-aloud feature included in select children’s books from the iBookstore. The read-aloud feature uses a real narrator to read the book to you, and in some books, it will even highlight the words as you read along. This [...]
Posted in Apple, Audio, Creativity, Macintosh, NPR on May 17th, 2011 No Comments »
Malcolm Gladwell Looks at Technology Innovations Robert Siegel (All Things Considered) and Malcolm Gladwell look at the mythic story of how Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC in 1979 and came away with the basic ingredients of the Macintosh computer. This is a brief discussion of a piece Gladwell has in the May 16th issue of [...]
Posted in Audio, Ideas, NPR, People on May 16th, 2011 No Comments »
Homeboy Industries Give gang members a way out of trouble and into a job. Brilliant. NPR’s OnPoint is doing a show on the story of Homeboy Industries today at 11:00 am EST (audio posted later today). No doubt this model isn’t perfect but what model is? Father Greg Boyle is doing the hard work of [...]
Posted in Audio, NPR, People, Photography, Social Software on May 12th, 2011 2 Comments »
Separated By War, Reunited By The Web: Photo Project Links Holocaust Survivors A few days ago All Things Considered ran this piece by Claire O’Neill on how the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is using scanned images and social networking to connect children who survived the camps and have been attempting to find members of their [...]
Posted in Audio, NPR, Photographers, Photojournalism, Places, Stories on Apr 21st, 2011 No Comments »
Two War Photographers On Their Injuries, Ethics Fresh Air: Terry Gross interviews Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva, both seriously injured on assignment as combat photographers. This was a fascinating interview and an excellent update on Joao Silva who we’ve been following here since his injury.
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