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EPISODE 250. JASON CONCEPCION. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. THE GREATEST LETTERS SEGMENT IN THE HISTORY OF PODCASTS. MAY THE 4TH BE WITH YOU. https://podbay.fm/p/escape-hatch-formerly-dune-pod/e/1746364475
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Developers are constantly testing how online users react to their designs. Will they stay longer on the site because of this shade of blue? Will they get depressed if we show them depressing social media posts? What happens if we intentionally mismatch people on our dating website? When it comes to shades of blue, perhaps that’s not a big deal. But when it comes to mental health and deceiving people? Now we’re in ethically choppy waters. My discussion today is with Cennydd Bowles, Managing Director of NowNext, where he helps organizations develop ethically sound products. He’s also the author of a book called “Future Ethics.” He argues that A/B testing on people is often ethically wrong and creates a culture among developers of a willingness to manipulate people. Great conversation ranging from the ethics of experimentation to marketing and even to capitalism. https://podcastaddict.com/ethical-machines/episode/196738491…
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We return to speaking to Joseph Haughney about his recollections of the Arpanet and its long-term impact. We ask other founders how they feel about what the internet has become. We also speak to internet early founder Hans-Werner Braun’s daughters about how they reconcile themselves to the world their father helped create. https://www.inc.com/computerfreaks#episode-6…
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It is the late 1970s and early 1980s and the Arpanet is in decline. NSFnet is on the rise in its place. Why did the Arpanet get eclipsed by other networks, and is that OK? https://www.inc.com/computerfreaks#episode-5
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Louis Pouzin is a French academic who some experts say deserves more credit for his contributions to the internet. But is that true, and should any one person be give all the credit? https://www.inc.com/computerfreaks#episode-4
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It’s the 1970s and both the government and academia are doing everything they can to spread the word of the Arpanet. But as the Arpanet gains popularity everywhere after its 1972 coming-out ball in Washington, D.C., through its new phone book, it also faces detractors who don’t want it to be available to all. https://www.inc.com/computerfreaks#episode-3…
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Many historians say the Arpanet (and ultimately the internet) was born on October 29, 1969. But is that really when the Arpanet began, and who should be given credit for this key moment in internet history? https://www.inc.com/computerfreaks#episode-2
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After World War II, the U.S. had to change the way it communicated if it was going to keep up with the Soviets in the Cold War, especially once Sputnik was launched. It was the vision of a Missouri boy called Lick that would solve those communication issues and spark the creation of the internet. https://www.inc.com/computerfreaks#episode-1…
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It’s back to the Oscars stage for Jon and Andy, to talk about this year’s nominees for Best Original Score, and it’s back to some age old questions: Do we want our music made out of notes or blobs? Does reading up about these scores get in the way of our curmudgeonly opinions? And, how much music should a musical’s music music? https://www.settlingthescorepodcast.com/68-2025-oscars-special/…
To start 2025, we’ve chosen another selection from Tony MacMahon’s and Tom Davis collections, featuring among others sessions from the 1973 Fleadh Ceoil in Listowel. In 1973, Tom was in Listowel and managed to record a variety of well-known musicians, including Joe Burke (1939-2021, this time on tin whistle) playing a haunting air An Droighnean Donn. A young Paddy Glackin teamed up with brothers Paddy and Michael Gavin for two lively reels. Likewise, a young John Regan was in great form playing a couple of classic tunes on the box. We are fortunate also that Tom was on hand to record the distinctive voice of Mairéad Ni Mhaonaigh (of Altan fame), only a teenager at the time. https://www.itma.ie/playlists/padraics-picks-february2025/…
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In this special live episode, recorded at the Hay Festival, Greg Jenner is joined by Dr Gillian Kenny and comedian Seán Burke to learn about medieval Irish folklore. We’re focusing on the lore and stories from Gaelic Irish culture. Gaelic culture remained the dominant set of cultural and societal beliefs on the island of Ireland well into the 17th century until it was destroyed by a succession of English invasions. But what were these beliefs and how did the Christianisation of Ireland from the 5th century onwards amalgamate pre-Christian stories into it? From fairy darts to banshees, through some unusual ways of warding off the evil eye, this is a jovial jaunt across some ancient myths and legends. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0frndnq…
In this episode, Greg Jenner is joined in 15th-Century England by Dr Lydia Zeldenrust and comedian Robin Ince to learn all about the early history of book printing. 2024 marks the 550th anniversary of the first book printed in English: a history of Troy, produced in 1474 by William Caxton. In the decades that followed, numerous printing shops would be set up across the country, and a huge variety of texts printed, including those that carried potentially dangerous ideas. Starting with the origins of printing in East Asia, this episode explores the first century of printing in England, looking at how books were produced and by whom, what sorts of texts were being printed, who was reading them, and how the state reacted to this new industry. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0020xhm…
Greg Jenner is joined in medieval Europe by Dr Mary Bateman and comedian Mike Wozniak to learn all about the legends of King Arthur. Most of us have heard of Arthur, Guinevere, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table. But where do these legends come from? Arthur first appears in the writings of a 9th-Century monk, but he’s not the king we know today: no Merlin or Lancelot, no Excalibur, and no Camelot. These elements were added later, as the legends were retold and rewritten across Europe. This episode traces the stories of Arthur and his knights from their early medieval origins, exploring the changes made as they were adapted over the centuries by everyone from French romance authors to Victorian poets, and taking in some famous medieval texts, including the Welsh Mabinogion and Malory’s Morte d’Arthur, as well as some lesser-known tales. Along the way, we also look at the places in modern Britain that still bear Arthurian names and the wacky artefacts that have been associated with the legendary king, and ask the crucial question: did King Arthur really exist? If you’re a fan of heroic quests, knights in shining armour and fantastical medieval stories, you’ll love our episode on the legends of King Arthur. If you want more from Mike Wozniak, check out our episode on Charles Dickens at Christmas. And for more lovely legends, listen to our episodes on Atlantis and Norse Literature. You’re Dead To Me is the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Every episode, Greg Jenner brings together the best names in history and comedy to learn and laugh about the past. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0027sx8…
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Julian Gough sums up his career as follows: “I just sit in my room and write.” Well, I think being an acclaimed children’s author, novelist, stage playwright, poet and top-ten Irish musician is a little more impressive than he’s letting on…... https://www.infiniteloopspodcast.com/julian-gough-the-egg-and-the-rock-ep249/…
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She's the woman of the moment: after a sequence of acclaimed and award-winning poetry collections in both Irish and English, Clare poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa has delivered a sensational non-fiction book, "A Ghost In The Throat", nominated in two categories in the Irish Book Awards. In today's episode, Doireann joins Darach and Peadar to talk about her career. She chats about her first poems and the writers who inspire her, including her collaboration with Choctaw poet LeAnne Howe. She tells of the journey to publication and the delicate business of translation. And she talks about her love of Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire which led to the book which has readers enthralled. https://podbay.fm/p/motherfocloir/e/1605830400…
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We've spoken about fairy forts before. However, in the context of our recent discussion of placenames and bearing in mind the widespread incidences of Ráth and Lios in towns across Ireland, we decided to bring an expert in. Sinéad Mercier, co-author of "The Men Who Eat Ringforts", drops in to tell Darach and Peadar all about these structures which link Ireland to its past. Is the word "fort" unnecessarily militaristic? If the deference for "fairies" has contributed positively to the preservation of archaeological and ecological phenomena, then why can't we just say "because fairies" in a planning permission objection? https://podbay.fm/p/motherfocloir/e/1613088000…
Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire is a lecturer in TU Dublin and a well-travelled chef and TV presenter. He's the world's leading expert in Irish food history, so why he agreed to appear on our podcast, we'll never know. Gearóidín and Peadar chat with Máirtín about the history of Irish ingredients, ancient cooking methods, and an absolute heap of cheese. Why is Irish food not held in the same regard as French, Spanish or even Danish grub? What did we eat before the noble spud arrived on our shores? Why do we eat so little seafood for an island nation? Why does Darach hate coddle? Is it because he's weird? It is, isn't it? Find out all this and more, as Máirtín takes us on a culinary journey a thousand years or more in the making. https://podbay.fm/p/motherfocloir/e/1550793900…
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Some people out there wouldn’t see a rabbinical calling and a love of Irish dancing and sean-nós singing as a likely pairing. Those people have not met Darach’s guest this week. Saoirse Cecelia Beyer is a New Jersey-based rabbi with a passion for traditional Irish singing and dancing styles which has taken her to fleadhs all over. In this week’s episode, she tells Darach about being a “purveyor of joyful Judaism”, learning conversational Connacht Irish but Donegal Irish songs, PG-13 humour in religious education and the significance of the chosen name Saoirse. She also offers an informed interpretation of controversial passages of Genesis and Leviticus which might surprise you. https://podbay.fm/p/motherfocloir/e/1562893605…
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When we in Ireland think of Irish-America, our minds tend to rush towards rivers died green, New York cops and maybe even a Massachusetts political dynasty. But there’s a lot more to the story than that. In particular, the Appalachian region, crossing multiple states, has its own culture and identity distinct from its neighbours in the South and Midwest, of which Irish music and language have made a significant contribution. In this week’s episode, Darach and Peadar chat to Rebecca Wells, a singer in Nashville, Tennessee. She tells the lads about her Appalachian roots, the influence of Irish music on bluegrass and other musical traditions, the overlap between accents and dialects and the way what you call a can of carbonated drink is an indicator of where you are from. She also tells the story behind her Twitter handle @faoiltighearna and her favourite Irish word. https://podbay.fm/p/motherfocloir/e/1578009600…
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Taylor Swift broke the Irish Internet today when she wore a geansaí. It launched a thousand versions of the same joke - she looked a bit like one of the Clancy Brothers. In today's BONUS episode we look at the history of the Aran sweater, what knitters know that the others don't, diddly-eye erasure and much more. https://podbay.fm/p/motherfocloir/e/1595627400…
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"Hamlet has been performed in Klingon" Aisling Carolan. For a poet, the fact that the Irish word tír (country) and the English word tear (a sad drop of water) sound the same is profoundly significant. For a linguist, however, this is a coincidence and a cursed one at that. How much weight should we attribute to similar sounding words with similar meanings in different languages? In this week's episode, we consider the theory, popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, that Hebrew and Gaelic languages are linked… and that the source of this link is that the Gaels were a lost tribe of Israel. Some of this is down to soundalikes, but do grammatical parallels prove a deeper link? Darach and Clodagh are assisted in their work by crafty classicist/linguist/artist Aisling Carolan, who is determined to prove a link between Pokemon and Púca. Today's episode is swear-free. https://podbay.fm/p/motherfocloir/e/1538733632…
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Are you here for an affair? Ah yes, an episode of Settling the Score, very good sir – this one’s about Simon and Garfunkel’s song score to Mike Nichol’s classic 1967 satire The Graduate. How was this movie pioneering in its use of music? Do these famous songs engender sympathy or skepticism for the characters, or both? And, it’s okay to ask: do these lyrics actually mean anything? https://www.settlingthescorepodcast.com/67-the-graduate/…
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t’s all been leading to this: Episode 200. We turned to our Top Men to celebrate the milestone, the showrunner of House of the Dragon Ryan Condal and the writer showrunner of Veep Dave Mandel! Their movie props collecting podcast The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of just wrapped S7, so they were ready to go DEEP into all the incredible props, artwork, and writing that made Raiders of the Lost Ark one of the greatest films ever made. WHAT A PICTURE! https://podbay.fm/p/escape-hatch-formerly-dune-pod/e/1717977600…
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TOMORROW is the season finale of Presumed Innocent. TODAY we have the director of FIVE of Presumed Innocent’s amazing episodes, Greg Yaitanes. Greg gives us behind the scenes details of working with Jake Gyllenhaal and the rest of the incredible cast, and then he joins the Escape Hatch Five Timers’ Club as we cover another entry in the Dad Movie Mt. Rushmore canon, Peter Weir’s 2003 nautical masterpiece, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World! Do not miss Greg’s insights as a director into this epic film. https://podbay.fm/p/escape-hatch-formerly-dune-pod/e/1721606400…
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In this episode, Dara and Isy are joined by the astronaut Helen Sharman to learn about how humans learned to survive in space - with some diverting conversations about glitter, cat statues, hibernation, and shell suits. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0026mrk
BWWWWAAAAHHHH! It’s finally time to talk about Inception. M.G. Sieger returns for his 3rd Nolan on the pod. https://podbay.fm/p/escape-hatch-formerly-dune-pod/e/1710115200
HEY! Did you watch Civil War? Wanna talk about it? We did, so we recorded a very special bonus episode on it. We invited our dear pal and media tech journalist Peter Kafka because he had thoughts! Plus, Jason completely takes over the pod for this ep, so don’t miss it! https://podbay.fm/p/escape-hatch-formerly-dune-pod/e/1713370797…
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This is the One. We tackle one of the all time greatest works of art and the cornerstone of a beloved holiday tradition, as we watch Peter Jackson’s unmatchable translation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. And joining us is the greatest genre podcaster in the game, and Maiar level Tolkien expert, the co-host of the House of R podcast, Joanna Robinson. We simply walk into the deep details of the production that make this film a true one of a kind.. https://podbay.fm/p/escape-hatch-formerly-dune-pod/e/1734310800…
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Laurie Taylor hears how post war pioneers re-imagined the playground, moving beyond slides, swings and roundabouts and re-imagining our cities and communities.
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In this episode, Jake goes through some of the newer features of the View Transition API, along with some vaguer ideas that are planned for the future. https://offthemainthread.tech/episode/new-view-transition-stuff/
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1 From the archive: The evolution of Steve Albini: ‘If the dumbest person is on your side, you’re on the wrong side’ – podcast | Steve Albini | The Guardian
This week, from 2023: Steve Albini was long synonymous with the indie underground, playing in revered bands and recording albums by the Pixies, PJ Harvey and Nirvana. He also often seemed determined to offend as many people as possible. What led him to reassess his past? By Jeremy Gordon https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/may/15/from-the-archive-the-evolution-of-steve-albini-if-the-dumbest-person-is-on-your-side-youre-on-the-wrong-side-podcast…
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1 From the archive: Cold comfort: how cold water swimming cured my broken heart – podcast | Swimming | The Guardian
This week, from 2021: After a painful breakup and the death of her father, one writer retreated to the coast of Brittany in winter where she tested the powerful effects of a daily swim in the icy sea. By Wendell Steavenson https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2025/jan/08/from-the-archive-cold-comfort-how-cold-water-swimming-cured-my-broken-heart-podcast…
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John welcomes writer and director Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Inception) to discuss experimentation, subjectivity and adaptation as they take an in-depth look at his screenplay, Oppenheimer. They explore Chris’ writing process, how to make non-linear structures work, finding the story in real-life events, being kinetic on the page, the importance of embracing editing, and why theme can be a tricky thing. In our bonus segment for premium members, Chris and John muse about the difficulties of dream sequences — and what makes them work. https://johnaugust.com/2024/scriptnotes-episode-622-the-one-with-christopher-nolan-transcript…
BREWSTER KAHLE: Boy, it's - everything digital is just completely ephemeral, whether it's formats that go out of date, like those floppies - just try to run it - or a CD. Find somebody that has a DVD player. I mean, it's just - it's starting to get such that things that are really recent are just going away. MANOUSH ZOMORODI, HOST: This is Brewster Kahle. KAHLE: The average life of a webpage before it's either changed or deleted is a hundred days. That's it. I think it was kind of a cruel joke to call webpages pages because you would think of them as lasting a long time, you know, Gutenberg Bibles and all of that kind of thing, and nope. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) ZOMORODI: Brewster knew this was going to be a problem - disappearing websites, missing chapters of the internet. He knew this way back in 1996, and that is why he created the Internet Archive. As we heard, it's where Caper In The Castro can still be found, and over the years, the archives mission has expanded, saving old books and movies, TV shows and music. KAHLE: The idea is to try to build the library of everything - the Library of Alexandria for the digital age. We can make all the books, music, video, webpages, software, everything ever published by people available to anybody curious enough to want to have access to it. That was the dream of the internet, and the Internet Archive is a part of making that dream come true. ZOMORODI: Which is a lofty goal and a huge endeavor because, how does someone even begin to back up the internet? Brewster started by building something he called the Wayback Machine. KAHLE: Yes, the - probably the most used and important part of the Internet Archive right now is the Wayback Machine, where we have collected webpages by going and basically clicking every web link on every webpage every two months. So if you go to archive.org and type in a URL, we'll show you different versions of that URL over time. We collect about a billion URLs every day, and we're finding that it's really important to journalists that are trying to find what actually happened. Lawyers love it because they can use it to say, hey. You said this before, and now you're not saying that. It's the only record often. ZOMORODI: Yeah. And you can dig up information that someone's deleted. KAHLE: Yes. Take Donald Trump's tweets. A large part of the policy of the impact on our country while Donald Trump was president was through his Twitter feed, and then they turned it off. So it all just kind of disappeared. So we have a copy that we have made available through the Wayback Machine that makes it so we can see what it is. Or when a company goes under Geocities and just everybody's sites go away - there are endless of these sites that go away or make different business decisions, and so people say, gosh, I'm glad that I can get a hold of that. ZOMORODI: Right. KAHLE: But we run into things like locked files, databases you can't get through to. Some of those are - make things real challenges. We're working back and forth with the different websites to try to make things available. And the web also has parts that go obsolete so that the old websites - you can't replay them anymore. So there's challenges every day. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) ZOMORODI: Do you ever worry about things being lost to the past? I mean, I can imagine that this would make you neurotic... KAHLE: Oh... ZOMORODI: ...Like, oh, we missed something. KAHLE: Oh, yes. We missed Napster. ZOMORODI: Oh, really? KAHLE: So Napster was maybe the best, biggest music library ever built by people, and it was shut down. We didn't get it. And if you just take the libraries in Ukraine that are being purposefully targeted, just the same way the Nazis targeted the library in Belgrade, it's a way of erasing a culture. You go after their libraries. So, yes, we're worried about this all the time. ZOMORODI: Right. So what do you do? Do you try to go back and fix things that you missed? Do you have an example, maybe? KAHLE: Well, on Wikipedia, we've tried to take all of the footnotes, all the citations and turn them blue - turn them into little links. So we went and worked to fix the broken links in Wikipedia. We've now fixed over 15 million broken links. We've prioritized the books that are referenced in Wikipedia and acquired those books - bought them or got them donated - and we digitize them and then put them back in such that if there's a page number, you can click and turn right to that right page. We did a big project on the Ukrainian Wikipedia to try to collect all of the books that are referenced and make those clickable. ZOMORODI: So how much harder is it to collect everything that's on the web now compared to, say, a decade ago or 15 years ago, simply because it is behind paywalls, or it's - you can't access it without a login? KAHLE: Yes. So we have robots that are going around and collecting a million URLs, and fortunately, there are over a hundred people that work for the Internet Archive that are trying to work on keeping it all alive. We don't collect every YouTube video. It's just too big. But we try to collect ones that are referenced a lot or that are linked to from Twitter pages, say. So we can't collect everything, but we collect a lot. And if we're not collecting the right things, go to archive.org. There's a save-page-now feature, and you can put in a URL, and people do this all the time. It's used at about 80 times a second. So even - anybody can go and participate in making things permanently available. I just did this for the obituary for my aunt. I went to the webpage, made sure that that obituary from that funeral home service was archived. So I did that this morning. So you, too, can go and participate in building the web archives. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) ZOMORODI: In a minute, a new challenge that Brewster and the Internet Archive are facing - a legal battle between them and some of the biggest book publishers. At issue, whether archiving e-books is digital piracy or preserving the best of humanity for everyone to enjoy. I'm Manoush Zomorodi, and you're listening to the TED Radio Hour from NPR. Stay with us. It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Manoush Zomorodi. Today on the show, for all eternity. And we were talking to Brewster Kahle, the founder of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit that is trying to digitize everything that we humans create, from websites to music, old movies and, of course, books. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) KAHLE: The Library of Congress has about 28 million books. We've digitized maybe 6 or 7 million. We physically own, probably, on that order, so we still have a long way to go. ZOMORODI: And it's getting harder to proceed because e-books present very particular problems. For example, that e-book you downloaded, you don't actually own it. KAHLE: So it turns out the big publishers don't sell e-books. They license them. So your e-book that's on your Kindle or whatever, you don't actually have that, not in the same sense you had a physical book. You can't pass it down to your kid. And anytime they want to change it, they can change it at any time or make it go away. ZOMORODI: It's a licensing issue. And Brewster and the Internet Archive started trying to get around it by buying physical copies of books, scanning them and making their own e-books to lend out. KAHLE: So we started that in 2011. And in the beginning of the pandemic, four of the largest publishers decided to sue the Internet Archive to say that you aren't allowed to digitize and lend. ZOMORODI: What the archive calls equal access, those publishers say is digital piracy. KAHLE: And that suit is ongoing. We'll hear, probably next year, from the district court, and it'll probably be appealed, but we'll see. The big concept that I never really would've imagined would be at play is digital ownership. When you buy a digital file, do you own it in the same sense that you owned a physical thing? You can't just go and post it and give it to everybody. That's understood. Fine. But do you get to keep it? And what the big publishers are saying is, no, there's no such thing as digital ownership anymore, ever. So that's the absolute opposite of what we were doing with the internet in the earliest days when we're trying to democratize access, democratize creation. ZOMORODI: I actually went back into the TED archives and watched your talk from 2007, where you laid out your vision. And you knew then that there would be conflicts, even if you didn't know what they were. (SOUNDBITE OF TED TALK) KAHLE: There's a political and social question out of this is all of this - as we go digital, is it going to be public or private? There are some large companies that have seen this vision that are doing large-scale digitization, but they're locking up the public domain. The question is, is that the world that we really want to live in? What's the role of the public and versus the private, as things go forward? How do we go and have a world where we both have libraries and publishing in the future, just as we basically benefited as we were growing up? So universal access to all knowledge - I think it can be one of the greatest achievements of humankind, like the man on the Moon or the Gutenberg or the Library of Alexandria. It could be something that we're remembered for, for millennia for having achieved. I think people have no idea of the heroics that not only the staff of the Internet Archive but now a thousand other organizations we work with on the web collection, about 500 libraries, and the book collections of how much goes on to try to make it so that the web that we sort of take for granted works, that you can get to past versions, that you can get - a lot of the links that you link to, I guarantee, if you've never heard of the Internet Archive, you've used it because it's just woven into everything. ZOMORODI: That brings me to a final sort of existential question, Brewster. If everything digital eventually becomes obsolete, how do you archive the archive so it doesn't become obsolete, too? KAHLE: Boy, libraries are - you know, they're destroyed all the time, so - and the question is how? And it's often governments or large powerful entities like corporations that seek to destroy them. So you want more than one copy in more than one place. Then you also want to make it so that it's still used, so that it's cared for. Our collections are almost completely on spinning disk, so we have to replace those every 5 to 10 years or they will go away. So we need people to want it to stay around. Fortunately, there are many, many, many people and many younger people that are seeing this as a path forward. ZOMORODI: Not an easy path. KAHLE: No. ZOMORODI: (Laughter). KAHLE: Building a library of everything is a challenge, but it starts one webpage at a time, one book at a time. And if we see ourselves as preserving history collectively, we'll all make it come true. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) ZOMORODI: Brewster Kahle. He's the founder of the Internet Archive, and you can see his full talk at ted.com. Thanks so much also to C.M. Ralph, the artist and maker of the video game Caper In The Castro, and Adrienne Shaw, professor of media studies and production at Temple University.…
For those who haven’t heard the announcement I just posted , songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the fourth and final part of a four-episode look at the Byrds in 1966-69 and the birth of country rock, this time mostly focused on what Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman did after leaving the band. https://500songs.com/podcast/song-172-hickory-wind-by-the-byrds-part-4-hour-of-darkness/…
For those who haven’t heard the announcement I just posted , songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the third part of a four-episode look at the Byrds in 1966-69 and the birth of country rock. https://500songs.com/podcast/song-172-hickory-wind-by-the-byrds-part-3-the-parsons-tale/…
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For those who haven’t heard the announcement I just posted , songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the second part of a multi-episode look at the Byrds in 1966-69 and the birth of country rock. https://500songs.com/podcast/song-172-hickory-wind-by-the-byrds-part-two-of-submarines-and-second-generations/…
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For those who haven’t heard the announcement I just posted , songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the first part of a multi-episode look at the Byrds in 1966-69 and the birth of country rock. https://500songs.com/podcast/song-172-hickory-wind-by-the-byrds-part-one-ushering-in-a-new-dimension/…
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Episode one hundred and forty-seven of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Hey Joe” by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and is the longest episode to date, at over two hours. https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-147-hey-joe-by-the-jimi-hendrix-experience/#more-1124
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This week’s episode looks at “All You Need is Love”, the Our World TV special, and the career of the Beatles from April 1966 through August 1967. https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-150-all-you-need-is-love-by-the-beatles/
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Episode one hundred and fifty-five of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Waterloo Sunset” by the Kinks, and the self-inflicted damage the group did to their career between 1965 and 1967. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also… https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-155-waterloo-sunset-by-the-kinks/…
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For those who haven’t heard the announcement I posted , songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the second part of a two-episode look at the song “All Along the Watchtower”. Part one was on the original version by Bob Dylan, while this part is on Jimi Hendrix’s cover version. https://500songs.com/podcast/song-173-all-along-the-watchtower-part-two-the-hour-is-getting-late/…
Greetings peoples of the internets! And welcome to part five, the last part of this series looking at the history of Shoegaze. https://hicks.design/troika/troika-53-shoegazin-part-5-black-artists
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Greetings peoples of the internets! And welcome to part four of this series looking at the history of shoegaze. https://hicks.design/troika/troika-52-shoegazin-part-4-2020s
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Part 3: 2000s: Greetings peoples of the internets! And welcome to part three of this series looking at the history of Shoegaze. https://hicks.design/troika/troika-51-shoegazin-part-3-2000s
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Greetings peoples of the internets! And welcome to part two of this series looking at the history of Shoegaze. https://hicks.design/troika/troika-50-shoegazin-part-2-1990s
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Shoegaze. Once a derisory term invented by music journalists to describe how the bands barely moved, staring at their vast array of effects pedals. Now the term is embraced positively, and thanks to platforms like TikTok, is more popular than ever before with a new younger audience. https://hicks.design/troika/troika-49-shoegazin-part-1-origins…
Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, and it’s hard to imagine a world more alien and different from Earth. It’s known as a Gas Giant, and its diameter is eleven times the size of Earth’s: our planet would fit inside it one thousand three hundred times. But its mass is only three hundred and twenty times greater, suggesting that although Jupiter is much bigger than Earth, the stuff it’s made of is much, much lighter. When you look at it through a powerful telescope you see a mass of colourful bands and stripes: these are the tops of ferocious weather systems that tear around the planet, including the great Red Spot, probably the longest-lasting storm in the solar system. Jupiter is so enormous that it’s thought to have played an essential role in the distribution of matter as the solar system formed – and it plays an important role in hoovering up astral debris that might otherwise rain down on Earth. It’s almost a mini solar system in its own right, with 95 moons orbiting around it. At least two of these are places life might possibly be found. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001n8mv…
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the man who, in 1905, produced several papers that were to change the world of physics and whose name went on to become a byword for genius. This was Albert Einstein, then still a technical expert at a Swiss patent office, and that year of 1905 became known as his annus mirabilis ('miraculous year'). While Einstein came from outside the academic world, some such as Max Planck championed his theory of special relativity, his principle of mass-energy equivalence that followed, and his explanations of Brownian Motion and the photoelectric effect. Yet it was not until 1919, when a solar eclipse proved his theory that gravity would bend light, that Einstein became an international celebrity and developed into an almost mythical figure. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qdx1…
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss megaliths - huge stones placed in the landscape, often visually striking and highly prominent. Such stone monuments in Britain and Ireland mostly date from the Neolithic period, and the most ancient are up to 6,000 years old. In recent decades, scientific advances have enabled archaeologists to learn a large amount about megalithic structures and the people who built them, but much about these stones remains unknown and mysterious. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jkzg…
Paul Erdős (1913 – 1996) is one of the most celebrated mathematicians of the 20th century. During his long career, he made a number of impressive advances in our understanding of maths and developed whole new fields in the subject. He was born into a Jewish family in Hungary just before the outbreak of World War I, and his life was shaped by the rise of fascism in Europe, anti-Semitism and the Cold War. His reputation for mathematical problem solving is unrivalled and he was extraordinarily prolific. He produced more than 1,500 papers and collaborated with around 500 other academics. He also had an unconventional lifestyle. Instead of having a long-term post at one university, he spent much of his life travelling around visiting other mathematicians, often staying for just a few days. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jc68…
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) and his role in the development of electrical systems towards the end of the nineteenth century. He made his name in New York in the contest over which current should flow into homes and factories in America. Some such as Edison backed direct current or DC while others such as Westinghouse backed alternating current or AC and Nikola Tesla’s invention of a motor that worked on AC swung it for the alternating system that went on to power the modern age. He ensured his reputation and ideas burnt brightly for the next decades, making him synonymous with the lone, genius inventor of the new science fiction. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xvhb…
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet which is closest to our Sun. We see it as an evening or a morning star, close to where the Sun has just set or is about to rise, and observations of Mercury helped Copernicus understand that Earth and the other planets orbit the Sun, so displacing Earth from the centre of our system. In the 20th century, further observations of Mercury helped Einstein prove his general theory of relativity. For the last 50 years we have been sending missions there to reveal something of Mercury's secrets and how those relate to the wider universe, and he latest, BepiColombo, is out there in space now. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001yqp3…
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the tantalising idea that there are shortcuts between distant galaxies, somewhere out there in the universe. The idea emerged in the context of Einstein's theories and the challenge has been not so much to prove their unlikely existence as to show why they ought to be impossible. The universe would have to folded back on itself in places, and there would have to be something to make the wormholes and then to keep them open. But is there anywhere in the vast universe like that? Could there be holes that we or more advanced civilisations might travel through, from one galaxy to another and, if not, why not? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00237yt…
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This week we begin the story of Artificial Intelligence. Since the launch of Chat-GPT in late 2022, we have been more excited, and anxious, about AI than ever before. It’s become a daily obsession. But the key question we are grappling with is the same as ever: can machines really ever develop human-style intelligence or merely imitate it? And what is human intelligence anyway? In part two we’ll be exploring the possible ramifications of AI, from the utopian to the dystopian and all points in between. But first, we explain how humanity’s long, ambivalent fascination with artificial life has brought us here. We start with premonitions of AI, from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, and Ada Lovelace, the original AI sceptic, to Alan Turing and his famous test. Artificial Intelligence itself — the term and the field of study — began in 1956, at a summer school at Dartmouth University. While most computer scientists were working on ways for machines to partner with human intelligence — the personal computer, the internet — AI researchers dreamt of replacing it. For decades, AI development was a cycle of boom and bust. Extravagant claims attracted funding, talent and media attention, then their failure to materialise caused all three to collapse. AI became tarnished by its broken promises. But in the 21st century, the availability of vast troves of data and powerful new processors finally solved such stubborn challenges as image recognition and automatic translation, leading to the current AI gold rush. Along the way, we meet gamechanging scientists like Marvin Minsky and Geoffrey Hinton as well as landmark machines like ELIZA, the first chatbot, Shakey the robot and AlexNet, deep learning’s great leap forward. Why does the prospect of machine intelligence enthral and unnerve us? Why has AI proved so much more difficult than its pioneers imagined? How have fictional AIs like HAL and Skynet shaped the mythology of AI? And are Large Language Models like Chat-GPT just glorified autocomplete or a historic turning point in our relationship with machines? https://pod.link/1624704966/episode/c7ca68b5cf4f76defa69d14520ccc646…
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek myths from Achilles to Zeus. Are you a touch narcissistic? Do you have the body of an Adonis? Are you willing to undertake Herculean tasks or Promethean ventures? Perhaps you have an Oedipus complex? If you answer to any or perhaps all of these you owe something to the Greek myths, a collection of weird and wonderful stories that, like Penelope’s shroud or the needlework of Arachne, were constantly woven and unpicked across centuries of Greek and Roman civilisation. The myths have a cast of thousands including mighty Zeus, Jason and the Argonauts, wily Odysseus, beautiful Aphrodite and Cerberus, the three-headed dog. They are funny, shocking, quirky and epic and have retained their power and their wisdom from the ancient world to the modern. With Nick Lowe, Senior Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London; Richard Buxton, Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Bristol; Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at Cambridge University https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0093z1k…
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Celts. Around 400 BC a great swathe of Western Europe from Ireland to Southern Russia was dominated by one civilisation. Perched on the North Western fringe of this vast Iron Age culture were the British who shared many of the religious, artistic and social customs of their European neighbours. These customs were Celtic and this civilisation was the Celts.The Greek historians who studied and recorded the Celts' way of life deemed them to be one of the four great Barbarian peoples of the world. The Romans wrote vivid accounts of Celtic rituals including the practice of human sacrifice - presided over by Druids - and the tradition of decapitating their enemies and turning their heads into drinking vessels.But what were the Celts in Britain really like? Was their apparent lust for violence tempered by a love of poetry and beautiful art? How far should we trust the classical historians in their writings on the Celts? And what can we learn from the archaeological remains that have been discovered in this country? With Barry Cunliffe, Professor of European Archaeology at Oxford University; Alistair Moffat, Historian and author of The Sea Kingdoms - The Story of Celtic Britain and Ireland; Miranda Aldhouse Green, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Wales. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0054894…
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the epic poem on the wrath of Achilles in the Trojan War. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bh5x1y
Riffing off a Dave Rupert blog post, Chris and Dave talk through the pros and cons of web components, when to use them, when it's a bad idea to use them, what would it take to make the Next.js of web components, and how long until we don't need anymore frameworks? https://shoptalkshow.com/640/
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1 Song 173: “All Along the Watchtower”, Part One: “He’s Not the Messiah” – A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
For those who haven’t heard the announcement I posted , songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the first of a two-episode look at the song "All Along the Watchtower". This one is on the original version by Bob Dylan, while part two will be on Jimi Hendrix's… https://500songs.com/podcast/song-173-all-along-the-watchtower-part-one-hes-not-the-messiah/…
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Episode 171 looks at "Hey Jude", the White Album, and the career of the Beatles from August 1967 through November 1968. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-171-hey-jude-by-the-beatles/
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1 Episode 164: “White Light/White Heat” by the Velvet Underground – A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
Episode 164 of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at "White Light/White Heat" and the career of the Velvet Underground. This is a long one, lasting three hours and twenty minutes. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-164-white-light-white-heat-by-the-velvet-underground/…
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Episode one hundred and fifty-seven of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “See Emily Play", the birth of the UK underground, and the career of Roger Barrett, known as Syd. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-157-see-emily-play-by-the-pink-floyd/…
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Episode thirty-seven of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “I Walk The Line” by Johnny Cash, and is part two of a trilogy on the aftermath of Elvis leaving Sun, and the birth of rockabilly. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-37-i-walk-the-line-by-johnny-cash/…
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“I love this score.” “I know.” Jon and Andy search their feelings about John Williams’ score for the 1980 hit sci-fi fantasy sequel The Empire Strikes Back. How important has this score been to our hosts? How does its mastery show itself on different scales? And, what are the odds of successfully navigating this show’s longest episode ever? https://www.settlingthescorepodcast.com/66-the-empire-strikes-back/…
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1 Marcus Chown - A Crack In Everything : How black holes came in from the cold – The Author Archive Podcast – Podcast – Podtail
This glorious popular science books tells the story of how black holes that were thought to be too ridiculous to exist in 1916 had by 1971been proved to exist. Einstein thought they were impossible... – Listen to Marcus Chown - A Crack In Everything : How black holes came in from the cold https://podtail.com/en/podcast/the-author-archive-podcast/marcus-chown-a-crack-in-everything-how-black-holes/…
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Our guest on this episode of the Tunes From Doolin Podcast is Alan Reid, banjo player from Leitrim now based in North Clare and member of Goitse. Alan is a great multi-instrumentalist and composer and on this episode we talk about his formative years, his compositions, his project #TunebookTuesday, the band Goitse’s new album and much, much more. https://tunesfromdoolin.buzzsprout.com/1841055/episodes/11321074-episode-06-alan-reid-banjo…
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Listen to this episode from Dive Club 🤿 on Spotify. I remember the exact moment where I first explored MercuryOS. It was clear Jason Yuan was one of the most skilled design thinkers I'd ever encountered. No wonder he landed a role designing AI products at Apple shortly after.But the main reason I wanted to interview him was to learn more about his new product called Dot. It's by far my favorite personal AI and a beautifully designed experience. So this conversation is a behind-the-scenes of his latest journey and a fun glimpse at what the future might hold for software products. We go deep into:What it looks like to design with soulWhat makes Jason’s design process uniqueWhy Jason left Apple to build New ComputerHow Dot is the spiritual successor to MercuryOSHow more designers need to become AI engineersWhy Jason thinks dynamic interfaces are over-hypedHow to design a product based on one magical interactionWhat Jason learned about storytelling from his background in theatrea lot moreDownload Dot or check out the websiteJason's original MercuryOS projectThe original Dot website featuring Mei’s story (from the Wayback machine so give it a minute to load)Jason references Shigeru Miyamoto (the creator of Super Mario Bros) https://open.spotify.com/episode/4FoLmWDLJulAQQdY8vhq2f?si=7a0985030693476e&nd=1&dlsi=30a6d9c7f1384220…
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1 The Mandolins and Beer Podcast Episode #109 Eva Holbrook (SHEL, Lady Moon) – Mandolins and Beer Podcast
My guest this week is Eva Holbrook. You may be familiar with her from her incredible band with her sisters called SHEL. You may also be familiar with her as her solo project Lady Moon. However you know her, you know she is an extremely talented musician! https://podcast.mandolinsandbeer.com/the-mandolins-and-beer-podcast-episode-109-eva-holbrook-shel-lady-moon/…
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My guest this week on the podcast is Irish musician Sean Keegan. Seán was born in London; his parents emigrating from Longford and Leitrim in the late ’70s. A pupil of the renowned traditional music teacher Brendan Mulkere from a young age, Seán grew up within the vibrant Irish music scene in London. https://podcast.mandolinsandbeer.com/the-mandolins-and-beer-podcast-episode-142-sean-keegan/…
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My Guest this week on the podcast is Laura-Beth Salter. A well kent face on the Glasgow Folk and Roots scene, mandolinist, tutor, singer and composer Laura-Beth is a founding member of award winning folk bands The Shee & Kinnaris Quintet. She was nominated for the MG Alba Composer of the year award in 2013 after the success of her Celtic Connections commission and debut album ‘Breathe.’ She is an active tutor of mandolin and youth projects all over the UK. She has a camp coming up in September with past guest Ethan Setiwan. https://podcast.mandolinsandbeer.com/the-mandolins-and-beer-podcast-230-laura-beth-salter/…
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We're getting some feelings out about WordPress and Matt Mullenweg vs WP Engine drama, as well as the Web Components conversation that happened this past week. https://shoptalkshow.com/636/
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And 10 other features we got along the way https://offthemainthread.tech/episode/stylable-select-element/
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The Moon and Earth are drifting gradually further apart. Every year the gap between them increases by a few centimetres. We know that the Moon’s gravity has an important effect on Earth - from controlling the tides to affecting the planet’s rotation - but slowly, imperceptibly, over billions of years, that influence will diminish as the Moon moves away. For CrowdScience listener Tony in the UK that idea poses another question. What if we were to look back in time? What effects did the Moon have when it was closer to Earth? Would it counteract the planet’s gravity more so that, at the time of the dinosaurs, a Brontosaurus would weigh a little less that it would if it existed now? It’s an intriguing question. And, given that it involves both the Moon AND dinosaurs, it’s one that’s got presenter Anand Jagatia really excited! Anand begins his journey on Brighton beach on the South coast of the UK. He’s there to watch the full Moon rise - and get a few insights on Tony’s question - from astronomer Darren Baskill and astrophotographer (and cellist) Ivana Perenic. Anand talks to Darren about the influence of the Moon’s gravity on Earth today. As they stand on the beach, with the sea lapping at their feet, they can certainly see its effect on the ocean tides. But did you know that the Moon also causes tides on the land as well? Every time it’s overhead the ground you’re standing on is higher by a few centimetres. Professor Neil Comins, author of the book What If the Moon Didn’t Exist, explains why the tides are the reason the Moon is moving away from Earth – and it has been ever since it was first formed. And how was it formed anyhow? We turn back time with Prof. Sara Russell from the Natural History Museum in London to discover one of the most dramatic events in the early history of our solar system... when two worlds collided. And, of course, it helps to know what a dinosaur weighed in the first place. Anand turns to paleontologist Nicolas Campione, who’s been puzzling over the most accurate way to calculate the bulk of a Brontosaurus. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct5rhn…
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Listen to The "Big 3" of Bluegrass from At the Crossroads. Over the next 90 minutes, I will dive into the music of the three major acts who laid the groundwork for the emerging genre of bluegrass in the 1940s. I begin with the "Father of Bluegrass", Bill Monroe, whose seminal 1946 recording session with Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and others split the old-time string-band atom. From there, I delve into Flatt & Scruggs own group which formed upon departing from Monroe in 1948. Finally, I take in brothers Ralph & Carter Stanley whom formed their band in 1947. If you are new to bluegrass, there is also an introduction episode from June 2020 which could be used as a supplement to this one.As always, please feel free to get in touch via email: paahtomusic@protonmail.com https://shows.acast.com/at-the-crossroads/episodes/the-big-3-of-bluegrass…
A documentary about the travelling musicians in Connemara.
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Today our guest is Matt Webb, a virtuoso tinkerer and creative whose experiments with interaction design and technology have led to such apps as the Galaxy Compass (an app that features an arrow pointing to the center of the universe) and Poem/1, a hardware clock that offers a rhyming poem devised by AI. He’s also a regular essayist on his blog Interconnected. We latched onto Matt’s recent essay about a vibe shift that’s underway in the tech world from the utopian model of progress presented in Star Trek to the absurd whimsy of Douglas Adams and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Along the way, we also discuss Neal Stephenson, the genre known as “design fiction,” Stafford Beer and management cybernetics, the 90s sci-fi show Wild Palms, and how artificial intelligence is adding depth to the already multitalented.…
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How did the Internet first begin? Why was it developed at the Advanced Research Projects Agency? Where was it initially launched at the end of the 1960s? Is it pronounced r-OO-ter or r-OW-ter?? These and other hard-hitting questions are answered as Jared & Ayush take a deep dive into the birth of humanity’s global computer network…with a dash of 90s nostalgia thrown in for good measure. https://justaspec.buzzsprout.com/1863126/15589860-and-lo-there-was-arpanet-baby-internet…
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In today's podcast I am looking at the rest of Finbarr Dwyer's compositions. These are lesser-known and lesser-recorded tunes and, as well as the expected collection of reels, will also include some jigs, waltzes and a polka. Towards the end of the programme I will also detail some commonly mis-attributed tunes that Finbarr did not compose as well as a brief "maybe" pile on which the jury is still out til further notice. https://shows.acast.com/at-the-crossroads/episodes/the-compositions-of-finbarr-dwyer-part-2…
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In this special series from Sideways, called A New Frontier, Matthew Syed explores the most out of this world ethical questions posed by the evolution of human space exploration. He takes us into the cosmos with stories from astronauts who’ve been there and those who can only dream of going, to explore the moral debates that have permeated space exploration since before the moon landings, and are evolving dramatically today in a new era of commercial space flight, of asteroid mining and almost daily satellite launches. Matthew begins the series by diving into the ethics of humanity’s search for extra-terrestrial life. In 1974, Richard Isaacman was a young graduate, studying to become an astronomer, from some of the field's biggest names - like Carl Sagan and Frank Drake. At just 21-years-old, he’s asked to contribute to humankind's first ever deliberate attempt to send a targeted radio transmission to a cluster of stars in the outer reaches of the galaxy. A rudimentary picture, designed to be intercepted and decoded by aliens. Delving into our obsession with aliens, science fiction and the vastness of space, Matthew discovers how asking questions about space ethics can often lead us to answers that tell us much more about the ways we treat our own environment, other animals, and each other, than it does about little green men. With former NASA astronaut John Herrington, York University astronomer Sarah Rugheimer and space ethicist, podcaster and author Erika Nesvold. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0020y2h…
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Brian Fletcher of Huge at SXSW | Join us for a talk on the next evolution of user interfaces. Traditional static interfaces fall short of meeting the diverse needs of users and dynamic contexts. Discover how you can enable interfaces to adapt in real-time, tailoring presentation, functionality, and content. Explore advancements in AI, NLP, edge computing, & data analytics, empowering interfaces to truly anticipate user needs. We'll address the challenges and opportunities of incorporating adaptivity into software develop... https://schedule.sxsw.com/2024/events/PP142627…
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My Guest this week is David Surette! https://mandolinsandbeer.com/the-mandolins-and-beer-podcast-episode-79-david-surette/
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1 The Mandolins and Beer Podcast Episode #120 Martin Howley (We Banjo 3) – Mandolins and Beer Podcast
My guest this week on the podcast is Martin Howley from We Banjo 3. While the band name has banjo in it, what you may not realize is Martin is an incredible mandolin player! We have a great chat and it was fantastic talking with him! https://mandolinsandbeer.com/the-mandolins-and-beer-podcast-episode-120-martin-howley-we-banjo-3/…
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By 2030 we’ll only work 15 hours a week, predicted the legendary economist John Maynard Keynes back in 1930. He thought advances in technology and wealth would let us earn enough money to live in a day or two – leaving the rest of the week for leisure and community service. How wrong he was. We seem to be working more than ever – with technology adding extra tasks to our workdays (like answering emails and monitoring Slack). Dr Laurie longs for more leisure time, but how can she tame her fear of being “unproductive”? Computer scientist Cal Newport explains how we all got into this mess – and why we still treat modern employees as if they were farm laborers or assembly line workers. Reformed “productivity junkie” Oliver Burkeman also offers tips on how to concentrate our minds on fulfilling and important work – and not little tasks that chew up so much of our days. https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/the-happiness-lab-with-dr-laurie-santos/why-dont-we-have-a-15-hour-work-week…
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What does a pilot sound like? Malcolm and Ben Naddaff-Hafrey take off on a long, strange investigation that takes them from Las Vegas to Family Guy to the airspace over the Mojave desert and the cold waters of the Hudson river. https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/this-is-your-captain-speaking…
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Gary Goldman was a writer on “Total Recall”, a Philip K. Dick adaptation directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Arnold Schwarzeneger. It was a big hit. So why do Gary and his writing partner, Angus Fletcher, have so much trouble selling another Philip K. Dick adaptation? They tell Malcolm that it all came down to a roller coaster ride of plot twists that even A-List action actors couldn’t stomach, and an early attempt at AI that was too dumb to pick a smart script. https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/the-variable-man-with-gary-goldman-and-angus-fletcher-development-hell…
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1812. A band of "Luddites" is laying siege to a textile mill in the North of England, under cover of night. They plan to destroy the machines that are replacing their jobs. But mill owner William Cartwright is prepared: he's fortified his factory with skilled marksmen, fearsome eighteen-inch metal spikes and barrels of sulphuric acid. Today "Luddite" is a term of mockery — a description for someone who's scared of technology. But in 1812, Luddism was no laughing matter for the likes of Cartwright. And he plans to teach the intruders a lesson. For a full list of sources for this episode, please visit timharford.com. https://omny.fm/shows/cautionary-tales-with-tim-harford/general-ludds-rage-against-the-machines…
Madeline Miller received critical acclaim for her novels The Song of Achilles and Circe – which reimagine The Iliad and The Odyssey told from the perspective of minor characters in the original texts by Homer. As someone who grew up loving Greek myths, she wanted to capture the sense of wonder she felt about them, and the raw emotional truth inside those very human tales of immortal beings. But she struggled for years to find a modern voice for these classical characters, and rewriting Homer was daunting task. https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/reimagining-the-gods…
We all know that something is always lost in translation, but what is gained when a story transitions from one language and culture to another? Chen Malul tells the story of Israeli pilots who translated The Hobbit while in captivity. Olga Zilberbourg remembers the Soviet version of The Wizard of Oz – which was very different from the original story. Emily Jin discusses the nuances of translating Chinese science fiction at a time when everyday life in China feels like sci-fi. And translators Gord Sellar and Jihyun Park explain how feminism revitalized science fiction literature in South Korea. https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/fantasy-in-translation…
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It’s a future we’re all very familiar with. The rainy streets are full of neon dragons, noodle shops, and other Asian iconography mixed up and decontextualized amid sci-fi flourishes, but something is often missing: Asian people. In her video presentation “Asian futures, without Asians,” the artist and writer Astria Suparak breaks down dozens of films and TV shows, showing that there’s a shadow genre across different sci-fi franchises which presents a future that taps into old anti-Asian stereotypes at subtle levels of designing sets, costumes and even props. I also talk with University of Utah Professor David S. Roh about his book Techno-Orientalism, which looks at the psychology behind these kinds of futures, and what they have to say about current day anxieties in America. And Jason Concepcion, host of the podcast X-Ray Vision, discusses how he tries to engage with these types of worlds as a fan and as an Asian American. https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/asian-futures-without-asians…
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For the last 30 years, the real world has been catching up to Neal Stephenson’s vision of the future in his 1992 novel Snow Crash, which influenced the creators of Google Earth, Second Life, Oculus Rift and more. Now the centerpiece of the novel, the virtual world called The Metaverse, may become a daily part of our lives thanks to Facebook (renamed Meta) and other big tech companies. I talk with Meta’s director of A.I. policy Kevin Bankston, Silicon Valley engineer Stephen Pimentel, Australian National University School of Cybernetics director Genevieve Bell, Yale professor Lisa Messeri, and Grace Ng of the DAO Crash Punks about whether it’s a good idea to use a satirical cyberpunk novel as a blueprint for the future. Plus, actor Varick Boyd reads from Snow Crash. https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/snow-crashing-into-the-metaverse…
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John Roesch is a legend in the field of foley sound effects. He mastered the art of creating bespoke sound effects using props or just his body on films like Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., Back to the Future, Frozen, Toy Story, The Matrix, The Dark Knight, Inception, and much of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And John was at the forefront of a revolution in foley sound effects starting with his work on classic Lucas and Spielberg films. We talk about the art of acting with props, the challenge of building upon sounds in an established universe like Star Wars, how they found the sound of Thor’s hammer, the grind of playing Batman’s body double in a video game, and the famous sci-fi film he wished he had worked on. https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/making-the-sounds-of-make-believe…
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Becky Chambers’ latest novel, “The Galaxy and The Ground Within,” is the final book in her Wayfarer series, which is about aliens, humans and AI trying to make their way through the galaxy and find common ground. Some of the characters in her books may seem fantastical and strange, but the conversations between them often revolve around familiar issues like identity, gender, family structure, and politics. We talk about why she’s closing this chapter in her writing career, even though the Wayfarer series could’ve gone on indefinitely, and what she has planned next. https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/becky-chambers-goes-wayfaring…
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2016 marks the ten-year anniversary of Octavia Butler's passing. Commemorative events are happening across Southern California, where she spent most of her life, from conferences to panels to walking tours. Recently, I've become obsessed with her writing -- which can be so powerfully disturbing it keeps me up at night, while at the same time, I can't get enough of it. Nisi Shawl, Ayana Jamieson and Cauleen Smith explain how Butler came to tell stories about power imbalances between humans and other worldly beings, and what her work means to them. You can hear an updated version of this episode from 2022. https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/the-legacy-of-octavia-butler…
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J.R.R. Tolkien wanted his work to be taken seriously. But his magnum opus The Lord of the Rings was unlike most literature of the mid-20th century, which was modern. And wasn't The Hobbit a children's book? Critics mused, is this sequel supposed to be serious literature for adults? https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/the-hobbits-and-the-hippies…
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In 1911, a Native American man, the only member of his community to survive a genocide, encountered the new Anthropology department at Berkeley University. https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/the-last-archive/the-word-for-man-is-ishi
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William the Conqueror undertook a remarkably modern project. In 1086, he began compiling and storing a detailed record of his realm: of where everyone lived, what they did and where they came from. 900 years later, the BBC began its own Domesday project, sending school children out to conduct a community survey and collect facts about Britain. This was a people’s database, two decades before Wikipedia. But just a few years later, that interactive digital database was totally unreadable, the information lost. We tend to take archives for granted — but preservation doesn't happen by accident; digitisation doesn’t mean that something will last forever. And the erasure of the historical record can have disastrous consequences for humanity... For a full list of sources, please see the show notes at timharford.com. https://omny.fm/shows/cautionary-tales-with-tim-harford/laser-versus-parchment-doomsday-for-the-disc…
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1 Run, Switzer, Run: The Women Who Broke the Marathon Taboo - Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford - Omny.fm
Until the 1960s, it was deemed too "dangerous" for women athletes to run distances longer than 200m - and a marathon would kill them, or leave them unable to have children. Rubbish, of course. But when Kathrine Switzer signed up for the 1967 Boston Marathon, it wasn't the distance that bothered her - it was the enraged race director trying to assault her. Thanks to pioneers like Kathrine, women have made huge strides in long distance running - and are now challenging the times of men in the very races they were banned from for so very long. For a full list of sources, see the show notes at timharford.com. https://omny.fm/shows/cautionary-tales-with-tim-harford/run-switzer-run-the-women-who-broke-the-marathon-t…
Undersea fibre-optic cables help keep us online - but what happens when they break ? We dive the ocean depths to find out how you fix undersea cables that keep us online. Also this week, the documentary that's programmed to have fifty two quintillion different versions. If you're planning to watch all of them you'll possibly need a coffee, so we look at the tech behind coffee bean roasters. And how do you enrich the tech lives of lemurs and parrots ? We speak to an expert. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct5wlz…
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Academic Kate Crawford details the global environmental toll of the AI revolution. This week, the academic Kate Crawford tells us how she travelled the world to find the true cost of AI. Reporter Chris Vallance updates us on a watermark system - developed by Deepmind, Google's AI arm - which aims to show whether an image was generated by a machine or designed by a human. Mansoor Hamayun, Co-Founder and CEO of Bboxx tells us about the company's smart cooking valve, designed to protect lives - and trees - in Rwanda. We speak to Fu’ad Lawal, the founder of Archivi.ng,and archivist Grace Abraham, about why the key to Nigeria's tech future may lie in digitsing newspapers from its past. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct4tq9…
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In this episode, Jake and Surma chat about web components. Why they were invented, what they're useful for, and how they would improve. https://offthemainthread.tech/episode/are-web-components-worth-it/
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Musician and composer Charlie Lennon very sadly passed away last week and tonight we're rebroadcasting our interview with him recorded in Stiúideó Cuan in October 2023. https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/11636834/
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On today's programme I analyse a variety of Finbarr Dwyer's compositions - the ones most commonly played and recorded over the years. https://shows.acast.com/at-the-crossroads/episodes/the-compositions-of-finbarr-dwyer-part-1
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In this episode, I'm chatting to Eugene Lambe from Dublin who moved to County Clare in the early 1970s. Over the years, he has met, played with and befriended all of the local musicians and characters and, back in the 1980s, he decided to video some of them for archival purposes. Over five hours of footage is available for viewing at the ITMA in Dublin and I present a selection of it throughout the programme. Timestamps are listed below. 0:00:00 - 0:02:07 | Joe Byrne's, reel ; Gus Jordan's, reel / John Killoughry, tin whistle 0:02:08 - 0:07:30 | Introduction to the episode 0:07:30 - 0:09:19 | Strike the Gay Harp, jig ; A Thousand Farewells, jig [comp. Seán Ryan] / Paddy Mullins, flute 0:09:20 | Interview starts 0:20:19 - 0:20:54 | The Priest in His Boots, jig / Eugene Lambe, tin whistle 0:21:02 - 0:23:00 | The Old Wheels of the World, reel ; Paddy Marshall's, reel / John Killoughry, tin whistle ; Paddy Killoughry, fiddle 0:32:10 - 0:36:59 | Érin Geall Mo Chroí, song / Pat Kane, singing in English 0:44:55 - 0:47:15 | The Fisher's Hornpipe ; The Sunshine Hornpipe / Mickaleen Conlon, accordion 0:53:51 - 0:57:00 | The Lilting Fisherman, jig ; Come Along With Me, jig ; A Visit to Ireland, jig / John Killoughry, tin whistle 1:06:23 - 1:08:49 | Martin Killoughry's, polka ; The Lisdoonvarna Polka / John Killoughry, tin whistle ; Paddy Killoughry, fiddle 1:18:41 - 1:22:46 | Unidentified, march ; Old Torn Petticoat, reel ; The Mills are Grinding, reel / Gussie Russell, flute 1:23:04 - 1:23:48 | Sporting Nell, reel / Eugene Lambe, tin whistle 1:25:02 - 1:28:36 | Bridgie McGrath's No. 1 & 2, slides; Come into the town my fair lady, slide / John Killoughry, tin whistle ; Paddy Killoughry, fiddle 1:28:36 - 1:30.22 | The Green Fields of Rossbeigh, reel ; / Ms. Curtin, concertina ; Micho Russell, tin whistle https://shows.acast.com/at-the-crossroads/episodes/talkin-old-day-in-north-clare-with-eugene-lambe…
D'Arcy invites her pals on to fall down a WikiHole that begins with one of her favorite movies of all time. But how does this epic war film connect to Studio 54? Listen to find out! https://wondery.com/shows/wikihole-with-darcy-carden/episode/15031-saving-private-ryan-with-jason-mantzoukas-and-paul-scheer/…
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Saint Patrick's Day vibes (and hangovers) are in the air so D'Arcy invites everyone's favorite band MUNA on to talk about Leprechauns! How do they connect to lawn ornaments? Listen to find out! https://wondery.com/shows/wikihole-with-darcy-carden/episode/15031-leprechauns-with-muna/
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Listen to 187 - Master Of Change from FAREWELL. Today marks the release of Brad’s new book Master of Change. Join Clay Skipper for a special deep dive into the book; how it ties into Growth Equation principles, personal changes within Brad’s own life, and an in-depth timeline of Brad’s writing process. Get your copy of Master of Change in all formats here: https://www.amazon.com/Master-Change-Everything-Changing-Including/dp/006325316XYou can find this episode on:iTunes and Apple PodcastsSpotifyAndroidStitcher Get Do Hard Things and The Practice of Groundedness on audible (Or in hard copy: Hard Things here and Groundedness here). Please write a review on Apple Podcasts and help new listeners discover the show! Find Brad and Steve on Twitter: @Bstulberg and @stevemagness Check out our exclusive community offers on Patreon here. https://shows.acast.com/farewell/episodes/187-master-of-change…
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“If you don’t know how to describe something, it’s difficult to describe how to change it.” https://theinformed.life/2024/05/19/episode-140-emily-campbell/
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Includes: introductions; the list of great players Tommy has played with including Jacqueline McCarthy, Pádraic Keane, Siobhán Keane and Maisie-Kate Keane; getting the recording gig for Rum, Sodomy & The Lash; Phil Chevron; Elvis Costello; Red Roses For Me vs Rum, Sodomy & The Lash vs If I Should Fall From Grace From God; the arrangement of Dirty Old Town; Old Grey Whistle Test performance; vari-speeding; the three parts of the uilleann pipes; the chanter; the range of uilleann pipes vs bagpipes; overblowing and octave notes; the three drones; the three regulators; Dirty Old Town; breaking down the solo; the use of colour and vibrato; Paddy Moloney’s vibrato; Liam O’Flynn’s vibrato; who Tommy likes to listen to; the different levels of familiarisation of Irish music; having pipes in different keys; Na Píobairí Uilleann; the renewed popularity of the uilleann pipes; The Old Main Drag; the ending of the Dirty Old Town solo; the Blues; Henry Benagh’s fiddle part; Poguetry In Motion EP; Body Of An American; Planxty Noel Hill; playing live gigs with The Pogues; A Pair Of Brown Eyes; the overblow; tunes which are not pipe-friendly; the recording environment for Rum, Sodomy & The Lash; Elvis Costello witnessing the uilleann pipes; Davy Spillane; Tommy Carney; starting out on the uilleann pipes; Colm Broderick & Liam O’Flynn’s pipes; Pádraic Keane; Páraic Mac Donnchadha, as well as other topics. Tommy has played with Pádraic Keane, Siobhán Keane, Maisie-Kate Keane, Marion McCarthy, Tommy McCarthy, Tommy Kearney, Pat Mitchell, Liam O’Flynn, Tommy Reck, Bobby Casey, Roger Sherlock, National Theatre Co., Rambert Ballet Co., The Pogues, Clannad, Ralph McTell, Thatch Céilí Band, Druid Theatre Co., Liam Clancy, Shaskeen, Sergeant Early Band, Alec Finn, Iarla Ó Lionáird, The Irish Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, De Dannan as well as other artists. https://shows.acast.com/the-ireland-podcast/episodes/29-tommy-keane-uilleann-pipe-player…
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A zen-like conversation between Liam Ó Maonlaí and Fender Jackson which provides no beginning nor end. Bookended with live piano performances Liam shares his performing and recording insights as well as his inspiration when it comes to performing. Other topics include cheap and free pianos, tuning pianos, identity, the gun makers of the world, reforging a world identity, Tuatha Dé Danann, Irish geography, Inisheer, Irish architecture, Irish people being cracked, bombed, nomadic people, Danny Sheehy, Shane Howard, long haul flights vs tractoring, sean-nós and the blues, the tin whistle, music being an alchemy, Gospel music, the flow state, taking a leap, Patti Smith, the connection between the Spanish War and jazz, rock music vs folk music, The Bothy Band, the music Liam listened to as a teenager, RTÉ2, John Lydon, the lasting effects of punk rock as an art movement for the world and for humanity, U2, a mad day in Niall Carey's Colony, Melody Maker, Rolling Stone Magazine, Bono’s assistance, Pat Scott, walking to Blackrock and arranging ‘Love Don’t Work This Way’, soul music, Maria McKee, The Undertones, Liam’s love for the gaeilgeoir and water campaigner Feargal Sharkey, Maria McKee, Fela Kuti’s 27 wives, PiL’s Metal Box, aboriginal people, their culture and the dreamtime, using middle eastern music instruments, middle eastern and malian modes, Justin Adams, the Tuareg people, John Reynolds, Max, Liam’s recording techniques of his ‘Rian’ album, Jah Wobble, Seán Ó Riada, Bob Dylan, the beauty of sean-nós singing, half notes and quarter tones, the Sanskrit connection with Irish music, the youth of scoring music, Ó Ghlúin go Glúin agus Ó Bhéal go Béal (from knee to knee and from mouth to mouth), the impact of first encounters and his mixed relationships with rehearsals, jazz having a creation myth. https://shows.acast.com/the-ireland-podcast/episodes/23-liam-o-maonlai-ceoltoir-musician…
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Episode 13. Dr JP McMahon discusses his early life, his education, Marina Carr, Tom Murphy Brian Friel, the three Lady Gregory plays, Brendan Kennelly poet, Samuel Beckett, Dadaism, Hugo Ball, bringing art into the restaurant, choosing music to match the restaurant, using photography in the restaurant, Food On The Edge, staging a performance with food, Hugo Ball, his Cava and Aniar restaurants, the seriousness of Michelin starred restaurants, how Michelin stars are awarded, how Aniar is a process, Irish brown flour, the black Irish bee, farmers market vs supermarkets, the state of farming in Ireland today and the challenges it faces, a message to the policy makers when it comes to farming as well as other topics. https://shows.acast.com/the-ireland-podcast/episodes/13-dr-jp-mcmahon-michelin-starred-chef-playwright-and-more…
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Kevin takes us deep into his early years when he trained as a fiddle player as well as a violin player. He discusses moving to American in 1980, Alan’s Irish Fiddler Book, Sligo Fiddle Player Paddy Killoran, Kevin’s way of playing, BB King, adapting the way one talks in certain scenarios, the music being on display vs. the musician, the semantics of music, Jackie Daly the great accordion player, playing with cajun influences, playing with open strings, Brendan Behan’s “The Hostage”, playing in awkward keys, how certain keys sound "violiny" and others sound "fiddley", playing with Andy Irvine and Paul Brady, Yehudi Menuhin, Mendelssohn’s Concerto in E minor, Gilles Apap, Motown, Jimi Hendrix, Peter Green, Pete Townsend, The Who, John Brennan the guitar player, Poco, Jethro Tull’s Serenade To A Cuckoo’, ‘Blue Room Blues’, working the blues into Irish tunes, Miles Davis, Nile Rodgers, playing two notes effectively, genetic vs. environment, advice to parents with children who are beginning to play music, his videos “Music From An Irish Cottage”, Sharon Shannon & Sean Smyth, Seamie O’Dowd & Rick Epping, John Carty & Rosaleen Stenson Ward, Leonard Barry (pipes) & Mick McAuley, Josephine Marsh & Mick Kinsella, Nuala Kennedy & A.J. Roach, prioritising personalities over instrumentation whern curating such events and other topics. https://shows.acast.com/the-ireland-podcast/episodes/11-kevin-burke-irish-master-fiddler…
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First half of a conversation with Sharon Shannon covering her early life on the farm, life in Doolin, Susan O'Neill, how to control eight dogs, Marina Fiddler and Madra, why she makes music, competitive showjumping, being shy as a kid, being vegan, window shopping in her own home, being an ambassador for Madra, resetting herself when at home, learning how to perform, the difference in playing in sessions and playing on stage, life on the road vs. life at home, developing the skills of talking in public, the respect Sharon receives, B/C vs C#/D accordions, her first accordion, music classes in Corofin, what music inspires her currently, Tommy Peoples, Matt Molloy, De Dannan, Stockton’s Wing, Donal Lunny, The Bothy Band, Donegal Fiddlers, Donegal fiddlers vs Clare fiddlers, Altan, fiddle weeks in Glencolumbkille, the recording process, recording with a click track, meeting famous people and being starstruck, her top three favourite performances, megastardom, Seamus Begley, her favourite memory of Sinéad O’Connor and her son Shane, watching Finbar Furey, the times when The Beatles were alone, the times when U2 were alone and other topics. https://shows.acast.com/the-ireland-podcast/episodes/4-sharon-shannon-musician…
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In this special episode, we celebrate the unforgettable 'Thank You, Johnny' concert held at the Town Hall Theatre in Galway on Tuesday, April 30th, 2024. Host Fender Jackson takes listeners on a journey through this extraordinary evening, where legendary musicians gathered to honour the pioneering artist Johnny Moynihan: the man who introduced the bouzouki to Irish music! Joined by Johnny's old friends Andy Irvine, Terry Woods, Frankie Gavin, and Catherine McHugh, along with esteemed guests Rick Epping, Paul Brady, and other special performers, the concert was a heartfelt tribute to Johnny's remarkable legacy in the world of music. Through captivating storytelling and exclusive interviews, Fender provides listeners with an insider's perspective on the magic of the evening, sharing highlights from performances and intimate moments shared backstage. From Andy Irvine's soul-stirring melodies to Paul Brady's infectious energy, and Frankie Gavin's virtuoso fiddling, each artist paid homage to Johnny Moynihan's enduring influence on Irish music. Join us as we relive the magic of the 'Thank You, Johnny' concert, celebrating the life, music, and legacy of a true Irish music legend. All profits from the evening went directly to Focus Ireland. https://shows.acast.com/the-ireland-podcast/episodes/51-thank-you-johnny-a-tribute-to-johnny-moynihan…
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There’s nothing in human DNA that makes the 40-hour workweek a biological necessity. In fact, for much of human history, 15 hours of work a week was the standard, followed by leisure time with family and fellow tribe members, telling stories, painting, dancing, and everything else. Work was a means to an end, and nothing else. So what happened? Why does work today define who we are? It determines our status, and dictates how, where, and with whom we spend most of our time. It mediates our self-worth and molds our values. But are we hard-wired to work as hard as we do? Did our Stone Age ancestors also live to work and work to live? And what might a world where work plays a far less important role look like? To answer these questions, today’s guest James Suzman, author of Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots charts a grand history of "work" from the origins of life on Earth to our ever more automated present, challenging some of our deepest assumptions about who we are. Drawing insights from anthropology, archaeology, evolutionary biology, zoology, physics, and economics, he shows that while we have evolved to find joy meaning and purpose in work, for most of human history our ancestors worked far less and thought very differently about work than we do now. He demonstrates how our contemporary culture of work has its roots in the agricultural revolution ten thousand years ago. Our sense of what it is to be human was transformed by the transition from foraging to food production, and, later, our migration to cities. Since then, our relationships with one another and with our environments, and even our sense of the passage of time, have not been the same. Arguing that we are in the midst of a similarly transformative point in history, Suzman argues that automation might revolutionize our relationship with work and in doing so usher in a more sustainable and equitable future for our world. https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/history-unplugged/the-15-hour-work-week-was-Pc1xnyK9pq2/…
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An interview by Eoin O'Neill of David Sanders on the release of his Debut Album with Alan Wallace === Original video: https://soundcloud.com/david-357139634/interview-with-eoin-oneill Downloaded by http://huffduff-video.snarfed.org/ on Sat May 18 08:39:43 2024 Available for 30 days after download
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Gourdon seamanAlex Ritchie’s adventures with the Inuit people after being shipwrecked and marooned in Greenland in 1908 and his struggles to reach a point at which rescue was possible are told in great detail by Alex himself in a BBC recording made in the 1950s. Further information can be found at http://www.maggielaw.co.uk/ === Original video: https://soundcloud.com/maggie-law-209325060/the-snowdrop-the-exploits-of-alex-ritchie Downloaded by http://huffduff-video.snarfed.org/ on Fri May 3 10:41:48 2024 Available for 30 days after download…
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Black holes are inescapable traps for most of what falls into them — but there can be exceptions. The theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind speaks with co-host Janna Levin about the black hole information paradox and how it has propelled modern physics. https://www.quantamagazine.org/can-information-escape-a-black-hole-20240411/…
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Tom Mulligan, owner of famed Dublin pub The Cobblestone joins us for a chat as he recounts the history of the pub, his own musical background and we listen to some tracks from the 2 CDs recorded live in the pub. https://siamsa.ie/podcasts/
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Tom Mulligan, owner of famed Dublin pub The Cobblestone joins us for a chat as he recounts the history of the pub, his own musical background and we listen to some tracks from the 2 CDs recorded live in the pub. https://siamsa.ie/podcasts/
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Tom Mulligan, owner of famed Dublin pub The Cobblestone joins us for a chat as he recounts the history of the pub, his own musical background and we listen to some tracks from the 2 CDs recorded live in the pub. https://siamsa.ie/podcasts/
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In this episode, Jake and Surma chat about the complexities of adding common framework patterns into the web platform, and work that has been done on that so far. https://offthemainthread.tech/episode/putting-react-in-the-browser/
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George Orwell's (1903-1950) final novel, published in 1949, set in a dystopian London which is now found in Airstrip One, part of the totalitarian superstate of Oceania which is always at war and where the protagonist, Winston Smith, works at the Ministry of Truth as a rewriter of history: 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' The influence of Orwell's novel is immeasurable, highlighting threats to personal freedom with concepts he named such as doublespeak, thoughtcrime, Room 101, Big Brother, memory hole and thought police. With David Dwan Professor of English Literature and Intellectual History at the University of Oxford Lisa Mullen Teaching Associate in Modern Contemporary Literature at the University of Cambridge And John Bowen Professor of English Literature at the University of York https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001bz77…
Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode discuss how restaurants are portrayed throughout cinema and the small screen, from Big Night to Ratatouille. Mark is joined by film and TV journalist Roxana Hadadi to discuss an overview of the best depictions of restaurants on the silver screen and to define which ingredients make for a good restaurant movie. And Ellen talks to Philip Barantini, the director of one-take restaurant film Boiling Point, about how his experience as a head chef has made him the director he is today. Ellen also speaks to restaurant critic Jimi Famurewa about how and why restaurants are the perfect setting for TV and film. This week’s viewing note is courtesy of food critic and broadcaster Jay Rayner. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001l2kl…
Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode look to the silver screen to finally answer a big question. Cats or dogs - which are best? In the cat camp, Ellen enlists the help of film critic and author of the definitive book Cats On Film, Anne Billson. They discuss their favourite film felines, from Alien to Catwoman. Ellen also speaks to director Ceyda Torun and cinematographer Charlie Wuppermann, who are the married couple behind Kedi, an acclaimed documentary looking at street cats in Istanbul from the cats' own perspective. And in the canine corner, Mark talks to second generation animal trainer and co-ordinator Teresa Ann Miller about her career and unique upbringing surrounded by some of Hollywood's most famous animals. They discuss Teresa's work on 2014 Hungarian drama White God, which included a memorable and moving scene featuring 200 real dogs, as well as what it's like to grow up with Cujo in your backyard. Mark also speaks to Toby Rose, who is the creator of the Palm Dog - an award given every year to the best dog performance in a film at the Cannes film festival. They discuss why dogs deserve more acclaim and what exactly makes for a Palm Dog-winning performance. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qmnz…
Forty years on from 1984 and the release of the John Hurt-starring big screen adaptation of George Orwell’s novel, Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode explore dystopian visions from British film and TV. Mark speaks to film critic Kim Newman about the literary roots of the dystopia, from 1984 to A Clockwork Orange. And he talks to actor Brian Cox about how, in a career that has included roles as Dr Hannibal Lecter and Logan Roy, the prophetic 1968 TV play The Year of The Sex Olympics remains one of the projects he is most proud of. Meanwhile, Ellen talks to Ngozi Onwurah, the director of landmark film Welcome II The Terrordome. Released in 1995, the radical British dystopian tale was the first feature directed by a black woman to get a UK cinema release. Ellen and Ngozi discuss why Welcome II The Terrordome was so prescient. And Ellen also speaks to Kibwe Tavares, who co-directed new film The Kitchen, about a dilapidated housing estate in a near-future London, with Get Out star Daniel Kaluuya. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vbyy…
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Listen to 2024:24 The Dehumanisation of Curiosity from The David McWilliams Podcast. The US House of Representatives has just approved a bill with the potential to ban Tiktok from America. But this story is about much more than corporate America's jealousy over its Chinese rival's more profitable and addictive business? Its about the direction of social media and an increasingly docile, addicted citizen, out-foxed and out-thought by an algorithm. What we are witnessing is an internal power-play within the tech cartel. With its personalised algorithm, TikTok means human curiosity now takes a backseat to endless scrolling. Curiosity is no longer an active endeavour but a preordained path. In this episode, we dissect the shift in our inquisitive nature, as algorithms dictate the content we consume, rendering Google search a relics of the past. Curiosity has been commodified as we enter a digital algorithm world. https://shows.acast.com/the-david-mcwilliams-podcast/episodes/202424-the-dehumanisation-of-curiosity…
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Analysing a 9th century Irish poem about a white cat . https://play.acast.com/s/blindboy/analysing-a-9th-century-irish-poem-about-a-white-cat
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I chat with legendary songwriter and musician Johnny Marr https://play.acast.com/s/blindboy/johnny-marr
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A look at Greek mythology through the lens of humility and emotional intelligence https://play.acast.com/s/blindboy/the-psychology-of-greek-mythology
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Ossians Ride is an unintentionally hilarious paranoid English novel written in 1959 about a futuristic Ireland that can obtain nuclear weapons from Turf. I pick it apart and contrast it with other Dystopian fiction. Long Hot Takes https://play.acast.com/s/blindboy/the-strange-english-dystopian-sci-fi-novel-about-ireland…
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Exploring the striking similarities between North African Berber singing and Irish Sean nós singing. Discussing an 1859 archaeological journal that claimed the Irish language was understood in North Africa. Revisiting Bob Quinns boiling controversial work on the subject. https://play.acast.com/s/blindboy/doesirishmusichavenorthafricanorigins-…
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On Travels Through a Kingdom with Kaya Flynn, we mark 50 years since the sudden passing of Denis Murphy. On April 7th 1974, the Sliabh Luachra community lost one of the biggest inflencial fiddle players. Denis 'The Weaver' Murphy was born in Lisheen in 1910. The Murphy family were known as 'The Weavers" as so many people in the area shared the same surname. The Waiver has come from Denis' fathers people in the 1800's as they were weavers of flex in olden times, but in 1890, moved to small scale farming. Denis' father Bill played in the local fife and drum band, and all of his children were taught how to play the fiddle in turn. Music was always asscoaited with Denis life and it was no surprise he became so hugely admired for his style of playing. Denis released The Star Above the Garter and other albums along side his sister Julia Clifford, Pádraig O'Keeffe and Johnny O'Leary. The community of Sliabh Luachra still remember him to this very day and unveiled a plaque at his grave to mark his 50th anniversary of his death. Kaya spoke to Pj Teahan, Con Moynihan, Donal Hickey, Bryan O'Leary, Pat O'Sullivan, Christy Cronin, Mick Culloty and Denis O'Connor. They shared their memories of Denis, and the connections he had with the people of Sliabh Luachra. Pat O'Sullivan wrote and composed a song in memory of Denis. Christy Cronin sang The Waiver from Lisheen, which was written by Mike Cremin. Archive of Denis from 1956 interviewed by Ciarán MacMathúna from the Handed Down Sliabh Luachra Archives. https://www.radiokerry.ie/podcasts/travels-through-a-kingdom/remember-sliabh-luachra-muscian-denis-murphy-travels-through-a-kingdom-378037…
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We give you the latest breaking news on ZENDAYA’S ROBOT SUIT and the HUGE CASTING NEWS from the World Premiere in London. Then, we finally cover Cilian Murphy, Danny Boyle, and Alex Garland’s science fiction masterpiece, Sunshine. The co-host of The Engadget Podcast and The Filmcast, Devindra Hardawar brings his insights and gives us his first hand dispatches from the Vision Pro Spatial Computing Wars. https://podbay.fm/p/dune-pod/e/1708909200…
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It’s all been leading to this. Our 4 year journey from Dune Pod to Escape Hatch was born from our excitement about Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, and now he’s completed it. Hear our reactions to the incredible IMAX Premiere Screening we held last night, and the LIVE episode recording that happened right after. Then we go all the way into this instant masterpiece, Dune: Part Two. PS: be sure to stick around after the closing credits to see just how far we’ve come! https://podbay.fm/p/dune-pod/e/1709418409…
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It’s time again for Jon and Andy to strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and find the real tinsel underneath, as they consider this year’s Oscar nominees for Best Original Score. Is it possible that our hosts are feeling less cranky this year? What are some different ideas these movies have for using music to fill time? And, did you notice that this episode is still shorter than two of these five nominated films? https://www.settlingthescorepodcast.com/64-2024-oscars-special/…
Cillian Murphy has received global acclaim for his performance in the title role of Christopher Nolan’s epic film Oppenheimer. He has been nominated for an Oscar, which follows the best actor award he picked up at this year’s Golden Globes. On the small screen he played the Birmingham gangster Thomas Shelby for a decade in the BAFTA-winning Peaky Blinders, which made him a household name. Cillian was born in Cork in 1976 and initially music was his creative outlet. His band Sons of Mr Green Genes, which he formed with his younger brother, was offered a five album record deal, but the boys’ parents thought his brother was too young and vetoed a career in music. Cillian changed tack and in 1996 was cast as Pig in Enda Walsh’s play Disco Pigs, reprising the role in a film version in 2001. His breakthrough film role came playing Jim the bicycle courier in Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later in 2002 which he followed up with a starring role in Ken Loach’s the Wind that Shakes the Barley. In 2005 he played Dr Jonathan Crane - Scarecrow - in Christopher Nolan’s film Batman Begins, which was the start of their continuing creative collaboration. Cillian lives in Ireland with his wife, the artist Yvonne McGuinness, and their two sons. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001w72b…
Time is all around us: in the language we use, in the memories we revisit and in our predictions of the future. But what exactly is it? The physicist and Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek joins Steve Strogatz to discuss the fundamental hallmarks of time. https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-the-nature-of-time-20240229/…
If you were a bird who would you shit on? Sa chéad eagrán de How To Gael, get to know Doireann, Louise & Síomha as they attempt to define a Gael, learn not just one but two ways of saying "ick" as Gaeilge, and discuss if basketball is a dead sport…? https://shows.acast.com/how-to-gael/episodes/1-how-to-gael-1…
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We met with Bruce Lawson and Ben Francis to discuss the issues Apple's plan to not fully support PWAs on iOS in the EU brings. For more information check out https://open-web-advocacy.org/apple-attempts-killing-webapps/ === Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr9f64B6Lao Downloaded by http://huffduff-video.snarfed.org/ on Fri Feb 23 08:27:09 2024 Available for 30 days after download…
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Author of The One Device and Blood In The Machine:: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech Brian Merchant shares the lessons learned by the luddites, not an anti-technology movement, but a worker’s rebellion against the way automation was used to crush the underclass. https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/283-brian-merchant…
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From the rubble of the dot com crash, an ambitious young Harvard student with a passion for hacking and love of Roman emperors, sets up an exciting new website. Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook is an instant hit on college campuses. Soon it attracts the attention of Silicon Valley’s most successful - but controversial - venture capitalist, Peter Thiel. The company starts to scale up. But there’s one problem - how is it going to make money? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001w6vc…
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Surprise! It’s time for a break from the bucket: Jon and Andy look back at all the scores they’ve talked about since the end of the AFI list, and Andy puzzles Jon with another needle-drop quiz. Can Jon remember all this music? Can you remember it better than Jon? And, like, what have our hosts even been talking about this whole time? https://www.settlingthescorepodcast.com/62-name-the-score-2/…
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Martin Hayes is an internationally renowned ☘️ Irish fiddler beloved for his expressive playing and his collaborations with many great musicians in different genres including Bill Frisell, Sting, Paul Simon and more recently Yo Yo Ma with the Silk Road Project. During this episode we speak about his wonderful book "Shared Notes", and he plays some beautiful 🎵music live (you can always use the timestamps if you’re curious to jump to some music right away), but I encourage you to listen through the whole episode. 🦉Martin speaks eloquently about life, culture, friendship, identity, and staying true to what you value, and I hope this episode will thrill lovers of Irish music and bring new listeners to many of Martin’s projects including The Common Ground Ensemble, The Gloaming, and many more. We talked about the loss and legacy of Dennis Cahill, how he met Thomas Bartlett, the rich depths of traditional music that Martin learned from the older generation, and the rhythm of life growing up on the farm in County Clare: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/martin-hayes http://www.martinhayes.com/ During the episode we talked about the tribute to Dennis Cahill, which I hoped to link directly but can't find now. It's called: Litir ó do Chara === Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOS3o2oEPBI Downloaded by http://huffduff-video.snarfed.org/ on Sun Feb 11 08:10:12 2024 Available for 30 days after download…
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Prominent crypto venture capitalist Chris Dixon provides an unconvincing bible for blockchain solutionists. https://www.citationneeded.news/review-read-write-own-by-chris-dixon/
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For years something strange has been happening online, but most of us have no idea what’s really going on. Ethnic conflict in Myanmar. A chemistry professor is killed in Ethiopia. A teenager dies in her bedroom in London. A mob storms the Capitol in Washington DC. And that’s the moment that catches Jamie Bartlett’s eye. A few days after the riot, on January 9th 2021, the outgoing leader of the United States is suspended on social media. First Twitter, (renamed X), and then Facebook. A President silenced. It’s a glimpse behind the curtain. For the first time millions of us can see the power of technology companies. They can delete you. They can amplify you. They can change your life. Social media has conquered the world. Jamie Bartlett follows the roots of this story back to San Francisco : the home of Big Tech, where he meets one of the early pioneers of social media who tells him about a strange hand bound book, passed around hippy communes in the summer of love, and how it turned the world upside down. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001w206…
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Brad Frost has got design systems on his mind—at a global scale. What is a global design system? Are two design systems ever the same? How would this slot inside atomic design? What has been the response from the web community to global design system as an idea? And what's Frostapalooza? https://shoptalkshow.com/601/…
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1 htmx: a new old way to build the web with Carson Gross & Alex Russell (JS Party #307) |> Changelog
Carson Gross (creator of htmx) & Alex Russell (Mr. Web Platform 3000) join Amal for an EPIC discussion on web architectures, the evolution of rendering patterns & the advantages of hypermedia and htmx. We dive deep on why modern web app best practices are falling short & explore how htmx gives devs an HTML-first approach to use tech that’s over 20 years old. Tune in to learn a new way to do something old, so you can simplify your code & use JavaScript when/where it’s uniquely able to shine ✨ https://changelog.com/jsparty/307…
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We've got your feedback as well as our thoughts on where we all think the web will be in 2036 - as we celebrate 12 years of ShopTalk Show history, we're looking forward to what's to come with ideas around cookie banners, undo, no more passwords, React, Deno, Node, and Mozilla's future, ChatGPT's thoughts, accessibility, blockchain, VR / AR, hoverboards, P3 color space, indie web, JS bundle sizes, and more! https://shoptalkshow.com/600/…
Stanley Tucci is an actor, director and writer who is known for his roles in a broad range of feature films including the Devil Wears Prada, Julie and Julia and the Hunger Games. More recently he has whetted the appetites of television viewers with his food and travel series Searching for Italy. Stanley’s grandparents left Calabria in southern Italy for a new life in America, where his parents were born. Stanley himself was born in Peekskill, New York, and grew up in the nearby hamlet of Katonah. He studied drama at the State University of New York and in 1985 made his debut in John Huston’s film Prizzi’s Honour. In 1996 he co-wrote, co-directed and starred in Big Night about two brothers who run a struggling Italian restaurant. The film was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance film Festival. In 2002 he starred in Sam Mendes’s Road to Perdition and he played a serial killer in Peter Jackson’s film the Lovely Bones. He published his first cookbook in 2012. Stanley lives in London with his wife, the literary agent Felicity Blunt, and their family. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001nfz9…
Simon Pegg is an actor and screenwriter who became a household name after appearing in two of Hollywood’s most successful film franchises – Mission: Impossible and Star Trek. He also won many fans for co-creating the so-called Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy of films – Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and the World’s End. Simon was born in Gloucester and studied theatre, film and television at the University of Bristol. As a student he started performing stand-up routines with his pet goldfish called Roger who was a Marxist poet – albeit a silent one. Simon first appeared on television in the mid-1990s and made a name for himself by co-creating the sitcom Spaced with the actor Jessica Hynes and the director Edgar Wright. He is one of the few performers to have achieved what Radio Times calls the “Holy Grail of Nerdom” – playing roles in Doctor Who, Star Trek – as Montgomery ‘Scotty’ Scott – and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He also co-wrote the screenplay for Star Trek Beyond. In 2006 Simon played the British technician Benji Dunn in Mission: Impossible III and has appeared in every Mission: Impossible film since. He is currently filming the eighth instalment alongside Tom Cruise. Simon lives in Hertfordshire with his wife Maureen, daughter Tilly and their dogs. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ly7j…
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Dara Ó Briain has toured the world as a stand-up comedian, and hosted the BBC’s satirical series Mock the Week for 17 years. A science graduate with a love of astronomy, he co-presented the BBC series Stargazing Live with Professor Brian Cox, and is a regular guest on television quizzes and panel shows. Dara grew up in Bray, County Wicklow and attended Irish language schools, playing for the Gaelic football and hurling teams. He studied mathematical physics at University College Dublin where he took part in debating competitions and discovered a flair for getting laughs from an audience. In 2001 he moved to the UK and, alongside performing at comedy gigs, he started appearing on television shows including Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Have I Got News For You. His love of mathematics came to the fore when he presented the game show School of Hard Sums and he has gone on to write popular science books for children. Dara continues to perform stand-up and, when he’s not touring what he calls his conversational and whimsical style of comedy, he lives in London with his wife and three children. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001kgn0…
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WITNESS HIM! For his SIXTH appearance on the pod, we welcome the showrunner of Max’s House of the Dragon and co-host of The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of, Ryan Condal. He tells us all about buying Captain Kirk’s away team jacket from Wrath of Khan, interviewing Anthony Daniels(!), and gives us the latest BTS details on House of the Dragon’s Season 2 production. Then we tackle the first truly holy action art film of the 21st century, Mad Max: Fury Road. https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/escape-hatch/mad-max-fury-road-2015-EsQ0MVjR_mn/…
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It’s all been leading to this: the very first ever episode of Escape Hatch (the podcast previously known as Dune Pod!) We kick off our new era with one of the greatest films ever made, Michael J. Fox in Robert Zemeckis’ time travel classic, Back to the Future! Joining us is dear friend of the show, Internet luminary Tom Coates. Also, Haitch gets absolutely roasted for being completely wrong about what actually happened in the movie. Don’t miss it. https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/escape-hatch/back-to-the-future-1985-056bzBdGLDI/…
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Jen Simmons, Apple Evangelist on the Web Developer Experience team for Safari & WebKit, stops by to talk about what Interop is, and a look ahead at new CSS features in Webkit and Safari such as JPEG XL, masks, a round function, JavaScript improvements, styling form controls, content unblocks, masonry, and more! http://shoptalkshow.com/598/…
On 2nd March 1959, Miles Davis and his sextet began recording a new album: "Kind of Blue". The first track was "So What" and the album became the best selling Jazz album of all time. This programme tells the stories of people whose lives have been changed by this piece of music. Featuring: Clemency Burton-Hill Jonathan Eno Estelle Kokot Ashley Kahn Dr Richard Niles https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dnjrn…
The story behind Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and the impact it has had on audiences. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00djtj8
Witchita Lineman is the ultimate country/pop crossover track - written by Jimmy Webb for the Country star Glen Campbell. Released in 1968, it tells the story of a lonely lineman in the American Midwest, travelling vast distances to mend power and telephone lines. The song has been covered many times, but Glen’s version remains the best-loved and most played. Johnny Cash also recorded an extraordinary and very raw version. Peter Lewry, a lifelong Cash fan, describes how it came about. David Crary is a lineman from Oklahoma, who recalls his reaction to the first time he heard the song. Meggean Ward's father was a lineman in Rhode Island. As a child she always felt it was written for him. Glen Campbell is also interviewed. Shortly after it was recorded, he went public about his diagnosis of Alzheimer's. His contribution is brief, but it includes an acoustic performance of the song. It was a privilege to record ‘down the line’. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b013f96w…
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The Irish traditional song She Moved Through The Fair is well loved and well recorded by many. To some it is a ghost story that tells of unfulfilled longings and of hopes and aspirations cut short. Sinead O' Connor and other fans talk about the haunting beauty of this ancient song and of why its imagery is carved into their souls. Featuring: Sinead O'Connor Catriona Crowe Bernie Warren David Johnston. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qm2fw…
Written by Elvis Costello and Clive Langer for Robert Wyatt, Shipbuilding was recorded in several versions by Elvis Costello himself, Suede, June Tabor, Hue and Cry, Tamsin Archer and The Unthanks. The blend of subtle lyrics and extraordinary music makes this a political song like no other. It transcends the particular circumstances of its writing: the Falklands War and the decline of British heavy industry, especially ship-building. Clive and Elvis describe how the song was written in 1982 and how legendary jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player, Chet Baker, came to perform on Costello's version. Philosopher Richard Ashcroft wants the song, which he sees as a kind of secular hymn, played at his funeral because it gives a perfect expression of how he believes we should think about life. Not being able to feel the emotion of the song would, he feels, be like being morally tone-deaf. If you don't like this song, he'd find it hard to be your friend. The song's achingly beautiful final couplet about "diving for pearls" makes former MP Alan Johnson cry. It's also inspired an oral history and migrant integration project in Glasgow. Chris Gourley describes how the participants found a way to overcome their lack of English and communicate through a shared understanding of ship-building practice. Other contributors include Hopi Sen, a political blogger who was an unusually political child, and the Mercury Prize winning folk group The Unthanks. They toured their version to towns with ship-building connections as part of a live performance of a film tracing the history of British ship-building using archive footage. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r0g4h…
Waterloo Sunset by The Kinks was released in 1967. Soul Music hears the poignant, thoughtful and life-changing memories of those who love it. Childhood holidays were an escape from bullying for John Harvey. He describes the unforgettable moment when he heard Waterloo Sunset for the first time, on the radio, in 1967. Getting to know the music of The Kinks, and finding out about the character of its lead singer, Ray Davies, shaped and coloured his life from then on. Allison Moore Adams is an American who married Vernon, a Brit. Waterloo Sunset was sung at his bedside following a terrible road accident. The painting used to illustrate this edition of Soul Music is of Vernon and Allison on Waterloo Bridge. It's by Allison's friend, Isabelle Logie, who also sang to Vernon in hospital. Christopher Young used to work in mental health. For him, the lyrics of Waterloo Sunset symbolise the isolation that many people feel. Professor Allan Moore, a musicologist, discusses why this beautiful pop song works so well. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08q6181…
Soul Music with stories of the lasting impact of Joni Mitchell's song 'River', from her iconic 1971 album Blue. A song about the breakdown of a relationship and of a longing to be elsewhere that has become a melancholy Christmas anthem. It's coming on Christmas They're cutting down trees They're putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on.... Emotional true stories of what the song means to different people, including: * Comedian Chris Forbes, who lost his father on Christmas Day * Isobel, who fell sick far from home and understands the longing to be elsewhere captured in the song * Laura, who heard the song while pregnant at Christmastime * Writer Rob Crossan, who will forever associate the song with his first love * Canadian poet Lorna Crozier who describes the frozen rivers of her and Joni's Saskatchewan childhood Plus thoughts from Joni Mitchell's biographer, David Yaffe. Includes a rare live recording of 'River' from a BBC Concert in 1970, hosted by John Peel. The other versions of the song are by (in order of appearance): Joni Mitchell (Blue, 1971) Scott Matthews (Live Session for BBC 6 Music, 2011) Béla Fleck and the Flecktones (Jingle All the Way, 2008) The Belgian indie choir Scala & Kolacny Brothers (Live Session for BBC 6 Music, 2011). https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001l70…
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Shine On You Crazy Diamond discussed by voices including David Gilmour of Pink Floyd. Understood to have been written about Syd Barrett, their former band member, it’s both a tribute, and a call for him to ‘shine on’ despite suffering serious mental health issues. David Gilmour of Pink Floyd recalls the legendary day that Syd Barrett unexpectedly appeared in the studio where they were recording Wish You Were Here, the album bookended by Shine On. Nobody recognised Syd at first; once handsome and slender, he'd gained weight and shaved his head and eyebrows. Another contributor to the programme, Anna Gascoigne, talks about the pain of losing her son, Jay. He was a gentle boy, a talented musician, who eventually succumbed to the multiple mental health problems he had battled for years. Shine On You Crazy Diamond, for Anna, speaks directly to her of Jay; he loved Pink Floyd and Shine On was played at his memorial service. Anna, herself, was driven to the brink of suicide by her son’s death. It was the support of her family – including her brother, Paul Gascoigne - that helped her to carry on. Ed Steelefox, a DJ based in Worcester, describes a New Year’s Eve house-party of a few years ago: as the guests gradually fell asleep he chose to slip out the door leaving a non-stop playlist of different, live, versions of Shine On You Crazy Diamond to penetrate their dreams. And Professor Allan Moore, a regular Soul Music contributor, takes to the grand piano to play and talk about what it is in the track that is so directly reminiscent of Syd Barrett. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001r7h…
Stories from people about how ‘Once In A Lifetime’, Talking Heads' existential hit from 1980, touched their lives. Talking Heads emerged out of the post punk scene of the late 1970s. 'Once In A Lifetime' is the iconic single taken from their album Remain In Light. With its looped synthesizer and Afrobeat inspired by Fela Kuti it seemed to pre-empt the consumerism and ennui of the 1980s. Writer Ian Gittins interviewed David Byrne and later wrote his book Once In A Lifetime. He says David Byrne had in mind people of a certain middle class existence who seemingly breeze through life with ease when he wrote the lyrics. They may get to middle age or reach a crisis point and ask "How did I get here?" For a song that invites us to question our lives it has a surprisingly emotional core that encourages people to be grateful and make positive changes in their lives where necessary. For Glaswegian Gerry Murphy that meant becoming more present for his family after serious illness forced him to reconsider the amount of time he devoted to his career. He went on to write a book about his experience - And You May Find Yourself: A Guided Practice To Never Fearing Death Again. Ian Peddie was inspired by the song to leave his dead end existence in Wolverhampton in the mid 1980s to 'find himself in another part of the world' following his dreams. Kelly Waterhouse says the song symbolises gratitude for all the things she takes for granted and sometimes struggles with in her life as a busy working mother. And singer Angelique Kidjo recorded her own version of Once In A Lifetime in 2018 after coming full circle with the song from her arrival in Paris in 1983 after fleeing the dictatorship in her home country of Benin. She heard the song at a student party and recognised the Afrobeats adopted by David Byrne and Brian Eno that made her feel both joyful and homesick at the same time. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qlwg…
"Long afloat in shipless oceans": So begins Song To The Siren whose lyrics were inspired by Homer's Odyssey and the story of the Sirens who lured unwitting sailors to their deaths on the rocks. There is something so ancient and enchanting about the Siren that appeals to us. For the wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson listening to the song reinforced his belief that the eerie calls of seals at night were in fact the original siren voices whose sound and shape convinced sailors that they were being called by strange mer-creatures. His collaboration with poet Alec Finlay led to Chris recording two singers singing to each other across a bay in the North East of England "Here I am waiting to enfold you". Song To The Siren fills him with melancholy. The image of lives lost at sea is one that Meg Bignell strongly associates with the song and when a family friend drowned in the ocean surrounding her native Tasmania she was comforted by the version by This Mortal Coil and Elizabeth Fraser's haunting vocals. Larry Beckett regrets the song's association with death as he intended the lyrics to tell a more hopeful story about love. However Tim Buckley's death at 28 and the tragedy of his son Jeff's drowning in 1997 weigh Song To The Siren with a heavy sorrow that comforts those who have lost a loved one. Former Olympic runner Anthony Famiglietti lost his childhood friend Rob in an accident when they were both 21. Rob introduced Anthony to the music of John Frusciante whose version of Song To The Siren astounded him when he first heard it. It has a profound effect on him and it speaks to him of fathers and sons communicating across time and space, when one has passed on as in the case of Tim and Jeff Buckley, and Anthony's friend Rob and his father, the man who inspired Anthony's career as a runner. When director Zack Snyder lost his daughter he stopped working on his Justice League film but when he completed it four years on he wanted to include Song To The Siren. Singer Rose Betts who recorded it for him explains how she immersed herself in the song to express the love, longing, grief and loss that it evokes. Musician and singer Dominic Stichbury sets out the musical elements that make this such a simple yet devastatingly powerful song. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00127bz…
"I never meant to cause you any sorrow, I never meant to cause you any pain..." True stories of what Prince's epic ballad means to different people around the world, from the very first jam in 1983 to the global hit that reigns over us today. Bobby Z, the drummer from Prince and The Revolution, remembers the buzz of the first ever performance of Purple Rain, and how the recording from that night lives on. Susan Rogers, Prince's recording engineer, tells stories from the Purple Rain tour, when the crew took bets on how long Prince's guitar solos would last. Comedian Sindhu Vee first heard the song as a teenager growing up in India and was knocked sideways by it. Weather reporter Judith Ralston describes the beautiful and rare weather phenomenon of purple rain. Social historian Zaheer Ali sees the song as a cry out for change, bringing audiences from different backgrounds together in cross-genre harmony. And finally, an intensive care hospital nurse played Purple Rain to Kevin Clarke while he was in a coma, because his sister knew he loved the song and hoped it might pull him through. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017k0j…
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"I don't believe in an interventionist God" has to be one of the most original opening lines to a song. It's one that resonates with the people in this programme who take comfort from Nick Cave's love song. Els from Belgium was introduced to Cave's music through her partner Guido and Into My Arms became their song. After Guido died in a road accident Els carried on going to concerts and took great comfort from hearing that song. When she later wrote to Nick Cave's blog The Red Hand Files to tell him her story about Into My Arms she was overwhelmed when Nick Cave responded. The Reverend John Walker feels a strong connection to the song as it's one his musician son Jonny performed just for him one evening on a rainy street in Leeds City Centre as Jonny was about to pack up and leave his busking spot. That special father-son moment has become even more cherished since Jonny's untimely death in 2018. Many different artists have recorded their versions of Into My Arms including the Norwegian singer Ane Brun who performed it as a way of dealing with the heartache of a lost relationship. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fvgj…
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John welcomes writer and director Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Inception) to discuss experimentation, subjectivity and adaptation as they take an in-depth look at his screenplay, Oppenheimer. They explore Chris’ writing process, how to make non-linear structures work, finding the story in real-life events, being kinetic on the page, the importance of embracing editing, and why theme can be a tricky thing. In our bonus segment for premium members, Chris and John muse about the difficulties of dream sequences — and what makes them work. https://johnaugust.com/2023/the-one-with-christopher-nolan…
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The noisy Victorian world annoyed the mathematician, philosopher and inventor Charles Babbage, who came up with the idea of a programmable computer. He wrote letters complaining about it and a pamphlet which explored ideas about whether the sea could record its own sound, had a memory and could broadcast sound. New Generation Thinker Joan Passey, from the University of Bristol, sets these ideas alongside the work done by engineers cabling the sea-bed to allow communication via telegraph and Rudyard Kipling's images of these "sea monsters." https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001khj5…
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Second half of a conversation with Sharon Shannon covering all manners of things, most of which centre around Galway including performing for ‘The Hostage’ by Brendan Behan in the Druid Theatre in Galway and beyond, Alec Finn, Frankie Gavin, Seán Smyth, The Quays, Brendan Regan, Kevin Hough, composing, Steve Earle, Gerry Hanley, life in Doolin, life in Cork, Páraic Mac Donnchadha, Andrew McNamara, The Tulla Céilí Band, sessions in Tigh Neachtain's, the difference in sessions in Doolin and Galway, Arcady, The Waterboys, her daily routine at home, her manager John Dunford, The Purty Loft, Dún Laoghaire, Mike Scott, BP Fallon, her favourite cities in the world (apart from Galway), the excesses on the road, the success of Galway Girl, Director James Clenaghan and her work with him, Top Dog Gaffo video, O’Connors pub in Doolin, driving through Salthill as a kid, favourite place in Galway, Bruce Du Ve, Tom Giblin, her sister Mary and her brother Garry, her tribute to Gerard ‘Gerry’ Mulholland (Jarír al-Majar) as well as other topics. https://www.salthillmedia.com/thegalwaypodcast/episode/b07c293c/31-sharon-shannon-musician…
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First half of a conversation with Sharon Shannon covering her early life on the farm, life in Doolin, Susan O'Neill, how to control eight dogs, Marina Fiddler and Madra, why she makes music, competitive showjumping, being shy as a kid, being vegan, window shopping in her own home, being an ambassador for Madra, resetting herself when at home, learning how to perform, the difference in playing in sessions and playing on stage, life on the road vs. life at home, developing the skills of talking in public, the respect Sharon receives, B/C vs C#/D accordions, her first accordion, music classes in Corofin, what music inspires her currently, Tommy Peoples, Matt Molloy, De Dannan, Stockton’s Wing, Donal Lunny, The Bothy Band, Donegal Fiddlers, Donegal fiddlers vs Clare fiddlers, Altan, fiddle weeks in Glencolumbkille, the recording process, recording with a click track, meeting famous people and being starstruck, her top three favourite performances, megastardom, Seamus Begley, her favourite memory of Sinéad O’Connor and her son Shane, watching Finbar Furey, the times when The Beatles were alone, the times when U2 were alone and other topics. https://www.salthillmedia.com/theirelandpodcast/episode/6dac2242/4-sharon-shannon-musician…
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Listen to this episode from For The Wild on Spotify. What is intelligence beyond, preceding, and following human intelligence? This week, Ayana is joined by guest James Bridle in a conversation that considers multiple forms of intelligence and ways of being. Bringing a rich background of research on forms of intelligence, from artificial to mycelial, James posits that it is a critical failure to use human intelligence as the benchmark for all forms of knowing. Seeing intelligence as both relational and embodied, James points out that knowing has never been an independent or alienated act. Rather, it is our specific set of modern conditions which primes us for alienation and separation – both from ourselves and from the earth. James encourages listeners to move from helplessness and fear to agency. In the same way that human agency created these systems and methodologies, we can also harness our agency to change the way they are used, to rethink our relationships to technology itself. How we heal our relationships is how we heal the world. James Bridle is a writer, artist and technologist. Their artworks have been commissioned by galleries and institutions and exhibited worldwide and on the internet. Their writing on literature, culture and networks has appeared in magazines and newspapers including Wired, the Atlantic, the New Statesman, the Guardian, and the Financial Times. They are the author of 'New Dark Age' (2018) and 'Ways of Being' (2022), and they wrote and presented "New Ways of Seeing" for BBC Radio 4 in 2019. Their work can be found at http://jamesbridle.com.Music by Memotone. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references, and action points.Support the show https://open.spotify.com/episode/1gnZKpSIlh6h7aigLsUDKY?si=RnRekw8KRS6XyEH_Ou81dA&nd=1&_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA72N3wqCMByFn2ZeKmqYBBKCSWEQKEF1I2ubbri2H%2FtD%2BPZp0CsE5%2BJwPj4Odw7sLoosaCeGOcQAoRRqivZgNPXEFRqYClCyGbyUvTey4KuC0hIl9ZIVhz%2Bb6NcyMRBWU7a0eFSPBrqT5BnfYjGe7bVq7iitrUBp1aqWTe%2B8abvsNh%2BO%2FcXnMS2%2FX1jKJybTP%2F5Qkim60DgYGHbesEKbEStBPqY3x%2BYbAQAA&product=open&%24full_url=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.spotify.com%2Fepisode%2F1gnZKpSIlh6h7aigLsUDKY%3Fsi%3DRnRekw8KRS6XyEH_Ou81dA&feature=organic&_branch_match_id=1246827200354981262…
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Episode 170 of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at "Astral Weeks", the early solo career of Van Morrison, and the death of Bert Berns. https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-170-astral-weeks-by-van-morrison/
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Episode one hundred and sixty-seven of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “The Weight" by the Band, the Basement Tapes, and the continuing controversy over Dylan going electric https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-167-the-weight-by-the-band/
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How do GPUs even work? And are browsers like political parties? In this episode, Surma talks about the “GPU” in “WebGPU” and how this new web standard makes programming for the GPU more accessible. Jake talks about how different browsers approach standards and their perceived ideologies around what they prioritize. https://offthemainthread.tech/episode/webgpu-and-browser-ideologies/…
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The mysterious hold supers have on their buildings, or that their buildings have on them. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/323/the-super
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Talking web components, progressive enhancement, style-able components, having to pay before you get to see a demo, being annoyed at the business of SEO, and subscriptions vs ads. https://shoptalkshow.com/592/
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Our Book Club reconvenes to discuss R.F. Kuang’s “Babel.” It’s a story about magic and empire and revolution, and our feelings about it are similarly complicated. Plus: A whole bunch of book suggestions! Our next Book Club selection: “Sea of Tranquility” by Emily St. John Mandel. https://www.theincomparable.com/theincomparable/652/…
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In this episode Jon and Andy drink up Jonny Greenwood’s score for Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 period drama There Will Be Blood. How does Greenwood’s music seem to get so deeply inside your head? What lines can be drawn between it and his work for Radiohead? And, is either of us even close to getting the Daniel Plainview voice right? https://www.settlingthescorepodcast.com/60-there-will-be-blood/…
In our latest episode, we discuss Dune (2020) Cinematographer Greig Fraser’s previous sci-fi visual masterpiece, Rogue One. Regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by co-host of the 70mm podcast and famous Star Wars artist, Danny Haas. We consider the meaning of sacrifice, how reshoots can sometimes change a movie for the better, and why the Empire has so damn many OSHA compliance issues. https://player.fm/series/escape-hatch-formerly-dune-pod/rogue-one-2016…
In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by digital set designer, Tim Croshaw. We discuss the *definitive* big budget serious sci-fi masterpiece from 2020: no, not Denis’ Dune, Nolan’s TENET. We cover international film finance, how much it costs to rent a 300’ yacht, and try to sort out the grandfather paradox. https://player.fm/series/escape-hatch-formerly-dune-pod/tenet-2020…
In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by Internet thought leader and General Partner at Google Ventures, M.G. Siegler. We tackle Paul Muad’dib himself, Timothee Chalamet’s very first film, Christopher Nolan’s 2014 epic, Interstellar. We discuss the dangers and responsibilities of being a parent, Jason gives a 4 part symposium on the Physics of Interstellar, and we consider just how alike Chris Nolan and Denis Villeneuve truly are. https://player.fm/series/escape-hatch-formerly-dune-pod/interstellar-2014…
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In this special episode of ON DECK from TAPEDECK Podcasts, regular Dune Pod hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by the co-host of the Cinenauts podcast and Dune Pod’s graphic designer, Ctcher, and by the co-host and producer of Film Hags, Sophie Shin. We talk one of the greatest TV shows ever made, STATION ELEVEN. https://player.fm/series/escape-hatch-formerly-dune-pod/on-deck-station-eleven-2021…
In the latest installment of Dune Pod, Haitch and Jason are joined by co-host of the Ammonite Movie Night and Austin Danger Podcast, and the star of Dune Pod’s own letter’s segment Kev’s Questions, Kev. We cover Richard Kelly’s absolutely perfect(?) follow up to Donnie Darko, featuring the Rock, Stiffler, Justin Timberlake, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Cheri Oteri! Southland Tales. https://player.fm/series/escape-hatch-formerly-dune-pod/southland-tales-2006…
The. Final. Episode. of Dune Pod. After 150 episodes, the pod ends this week, and next week, on this very same feed, Escape Hatch will be born! To see us out, we welcome back the Emmy winning director of Children of Dune and House of the Dragon, Greg Yaitanes to cover one of the greatest films ever made, Terry Gilliam’s science fiction and paperwork masterpiece, Brazil. https://player.fm/series/escape-hatch-formerly-dune-pod/brazil-1985…
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We welcome Supervising Sound Editor from Skywalker Sound, Mac Smith (veteran of Ponyo, Up, Tron Legacy, Avengers: Endgame, and Star Wars: Visions) to teach a clinic about how sound design works in movies. And to demonstrate it, Mac walks us thru the perfect showcase of Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi! Experience Star Wars thru the ears of an expert and hear details you never noticed that subconsciously enhance the story. We were blown away and you will be too. https://player.fm/series/escape-hatch-formerly-dune-pod/star-wars-episode-viii-the-last-jedi-2017…
This week Haitch and Jason are joined by tech product visionary Tom Coates! After our first 2 attempts failed due to power outages, sickness, and the vagaries of booking, and because you DEMANDED IT, we FINALLY tackle the 1997 science fiction social classic, GATTACA! https://player.fm/series/escape-hatch-formerly-dune-pod/gattaca-1997…
Instead of posting individually to X, Threads, TikTok, Instagram, and everywhere else, a few internet believers see a better way to post everywhere — and make it yours. https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/23/23928550/posse-posting-activitypub-standard-twitter-tumblr-mastodon
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1 55. What is happening at the intersection of creativity, innovation and AI in the design space? - UX Brighton Part 2: The Speakers @ UX Brighton 2023 | Understanding Users: The UX Podcast
"Something that's colliding is definitely that sense of artificial intelligence and particularly generative AI, and what that means for creativity... I'm much more in the kind of William Morris view of the world, I think we need more thinkers and crafts people. And my positive view of AI is that it will get rid of some of the drudge work we do and it will free up time for people to be more imaginative and more creative. As a result of that we can spend more time with the people we're trying to solve problems for, coming up with more imaginative ideas.." This time I'm chatting with some of the speakers at UX Brighton 2023 in advance of the event. They talk to me about what insights they plan to share, what they hope the audience will take away and share their views how creativity, innovation and artificial intelligence are starting to intersect. My thanks to: Elizabeth Churchill Alice Helliwell Stefanie Posavec Chris How Tricky Bassett and Tom Kerwin. Thanks for listening. I hope you enjoy the episode and find something thought-provoking here to consider in your own work. Mike Green https://understandingusers.podbean.com/e/55-what-is-happening-at-the-intersection-of-creativity-innovation-and-ai-in-the-design-space-ux-brighton-part-2-the-speakers-ux-brighton-2023/…
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What if there were no coders left who knew how to keep your banking services running? Or your mortgage safe? That’s where we are with COBOL. It is a six-decades-old computer programming language with too few coders left to run it. A challenge that has remained largely invisible to the public. Why have we allowed this antiquated banking system to persist despite our willingness to embrace innovation? What are the cyber security and economic risks associated with COBOL transformation initiatives? I’m your host, Kym Geddes, and in this episode of 1Click2CyberChaos, we investigate the problem and discover modern-day solutions that may save us and our money from Armageddon. Our guests include two former COBOL coders, Michael Cody and Steve Steuart, and New York Times tech journalist Clive Thompson. https://www.spreaker.com/user/16820784/cobol-unearthing-the-legacy-language-tha…
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One of the greatest science fiction shows on TV debuted twenty years ago: the rebooted version of Battlestar Galactica. This show broke new ground in depicting realistic politics — and a nuanced view of a society of artificial people. How does it hold up? To find out, Charlie Jane went back and watched the entire series — here's what she found. https://www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com/shownotes/2023/10/5/episode-138-battlestar-galactica-20-years-later…
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Dancer and choreographer Akram Khan is one of the world’s most acclaimed and influential figures working in contemporary dance today. Born in London to Bangladeshi parents, Akram is renowned for his radical productions in which classical Asian music and movement is fused with modern styles. He’s won many awards, was made an MBE in 2005, and choreographed and performed in the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony. He tells John Wilson about his teenage role in Peter Brook's epic production of The Mahabharata, which toured the world; the importance of collaborating with with leading creative figures from outside the world of dance including Anish Kapoor and Juliette Binoche; and reveals how an extraordinary chance encounter changed his artistic outlook. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0014wng…
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Spanish ballet star Tamara Rojo has enjoyed a 20 year stage career, in which she starred in all the greatest classical ballet roles to both critical and popular acclaim. She became artistic director of the English National Ballet, and recently made her debut as a choreographer with a new version of the 19th century ballet Raymonda. Now, after a decade running the ENB, she is preparing to take on a new job as artistic director of the San Francisco ballet, the first woman to hold the role. She tells John Wilson about the chance introduction to a dance class at school, and her unexpected success winning the Paris International Dance competition in 1994 which led to a role at Scottish Ballet at the age of 17. She reveals how seeing Francis Bacon's studies of the Velazquez portrait of Pope Innocent X made her reassess approaches to classic works of art and inspired a desire to re imagine works from the classical ballet canon. She also explains why she loves the Lars von Trier film Dancer in the Dark and how Bjork's tour de force performance mirrors he own approach to inhabiting a role. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0015tw4…
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Margaret Atwood talks to John Wilson about the formative influences and experiences that shaped her writing. One of the world’s bestselling and critically acclaimed authors, Atwood has published over 60 books including novels, short stories, children’s fiction, non-fiction and poetry. She’s known for stories of human struggle against oppression and brutality, most famously her 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale, a dystopian vision of America in which women are enslaved. She has twice won the Booker Prize For Fiction, in 2000 for The Blind Assassin and again in 2019 for her sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments. Growing up in remote Canadian woodland with her scientist parents, she traces her career as a story-teller back to sagas that she invented with her older brother as a child, and her first ‘novel’ written when she was seven. She recalls an opera about fabrics that she wrote and performed at high school for a home economics project, and how she staged puppet shows for children’s parties. Margaret Atwood also discusses the huge impact that reading George Orwell had on her, and how his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four especially influenced The Handmaid’s Tale. She reveals how that novel - written whilst she was living in Berlin in 1985 - was initially conceived after the 1980 election of President Ronald Reagan and the resurgence of evangelical right-wing politics in America. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001kppn…
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Nick Cave, the Australian born singer-songwriter and author, reveals the formative influences and experiences that have inspired his own creativity. With his band The Bad Seeds, Cave is renowned for the darkness and drama of his narrative based work. His lyrics are often populated by flawed people doing bad things, but seeking redemption in love or God, or both. His musical output is diverse, ranging from rock’n’roll, to piano-based love songs. The tragic death of his 15 year old son Arthur in 2015 has informed recent work, with songs about devastating loss, grief and love explored throughout the albums Ghosteen and Carnage. Nick Cave has also written novels, poetry, a screenplay, and has recently published Faith, Hope and Carnage - a book exploring his ideas about creativity and belief. Nick Cave talks to John Wilson about the influences of his father, an English teacher, and his mother, a school librarian, in encouraging his love of literature from a young age. He recalls seeing The Johnny Cash Show on television at the age of 10 and being spellbound by the country music star, with whom he later worked. He also remembers the life-changing effect of hearing Leonard Cohen’s Songs Of Life and Death album for the first time, and the profound influence the Canadian poet and songwriter had own his own lyrics. He reveals that fellow Australian Barry Humphries was another artist who inspired his own work, having seen a Dame Edna Everage show in Melbourne in the early 1970s. Nick Cave also discusses the impact that the death of his son had on his life, work and marriage. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001m4dh…
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The study of cognition and sentience would be greatly abetted by the discovery of intelligent alien beings, who presumably developed independently of life here on Earth. But we do have more than one data point to consider: certain vertebrates (including humans) are quite intelligent, but so are certain cephalopods (including octopuses), even though the last common ancestor of the two groups was a simple organism hundreds of millions of years ago that didn't have much of a nervous system at all. Peter Godfrey-Smith has put a great amount of effort into trying to figure out what we can learn about the nature of thinking by studying how it is done in these animals with very different brains and nervous systems. https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/09/11/249-peter-godfrey-smith-on-sentience-and-octopus-minds/…
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These two incredible singers won't let great songs die. https://www.talkhouse.com/shirley-collins-talks-with-radie-peat-lankum-on-the-talkhouse-podcast/
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Fiddle player Dave Sheridan has been a highly respected musician on the Irish scene for a number of years, well known for his energetic and warm approach to the traditional repertoire. https://thefolkmusicpodcast.com/episodes/the-raw-bar-with-dave-sheridan
Americian fiddler Liz Knowles has been a prominent member of the Irish music scene worldwide for several decades. In addition to being a performer she is also a sought-after teacher, and it's her thoughts about practicing music that is the theme of this episode’s conversation. https://thefolkmusicpodcast.com/episodes/the-art-of-practice-with-liz-knowles…
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Accordion player Anders Trabjerg and Fiddle player Mayo Yanachi both work as professional musicians in the Galway trad music scene. https://thefolkmusicpodcast.com/episodes/the-galway-scene-with-anders-trabjerg-and-mayo-yanachi
Bouzouki player Eoin Ó Neill has been a vital part of the Clare music scene, in Western Ireland, for more than 40 years. https://thefolkmusicpodcast.com/episodes/the-doolin-sound-with-eoin-neill
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Science fiction and fantasy are full of feasts, from the banquets in Game of Thrones to all those Klingon delicacies. Why is food so important in SF? To find out, we talked to Mary Anne Mohanraj, author of The Stars Change and the cookbook A Feast of Serendib: A Sri Lankan-American Cookbook. https://www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com/shownotes/2020/2/13/episode-51-the-delicious-significance-of-food-in-science-fiction…
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This week, we fight the real enemy with Allyson McCabe. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1112270/12624780
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After decades of producing solo albums, renowned American folk musicians Grey Larsen and Cindy Kallet have released their first collaboration, Cross the Water. Here, they talk about their musical partnership and their influences in traditional Scandinavian and Balkan music. https://www.npr.org/2008/08/02/93130817/kallet-and-larsen-playing-with-a-full-deck…
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1 You Seem Competent (with Andy McMillan) - Did I Do That? A podcast about making graphic design & mistakes
Andy McMillan, in Portland, Oregon (USA), joins host Sean Schumacher on a podcast about making graphic design and making mistakes. This episode posted on Jul 13, 2023. https://www.dididothat.design/episode/you-seem-competent-with-andy-mcmillan
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Today we have part two of our run of interviews with The National in celebration of their new album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein. https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/broken-record/matt-berninger
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Broken Record producer Leah Rose talks to Aaron Dessner about how an invitation to open an arena tour for Bon Iver led to him writing the music that he would eventually share with Taylor Swift. https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/broken-record/aaron-dessner
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Rick Rubin talks to Roger McGuinn about his decades-long career. Roger McGuinn also plays his guitar throughout the interview. https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/broken-record/roger-mcguinn
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Rick Rubin talks to The Edge about his theory behind U2's longevity. https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/broken-record/the-edge
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Sharon Van Etten joins us today—the singer/songwriter who Pitchfork recently crowned an “indie rock institution.” Earlier this month, Van Etten released her sixth and arguably best album, We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong. On today’s episode, Broken Record producer Leah Rose talks to Sharon Van Etten about recording her new album in her L.A.-based home studio during lockdown while attempting to balance domestic life. Sharon also explains how her inner Jersey girl comes out onstage. And why wearing leather pants and heels on stage post-pandemic feels so daunting. Hear a playlist of all of our favorite Sharon Van Etten’s songs HERE. https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/broken-record/sharon-van-etten…
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Rhiannon Giddens is a brilliant fiddle and banjo player who’s one of the few musicians alive today trained in the centuries-old black string band tradition. Giddens is a North Carolina native but now lives in Ireland, not far from her partner Francesco Turrisi. During lockdown, the duo recorded their latest album, They’re Calling Me Home. https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/broken-record/rhiannon-giddens-comes-home…
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Lucinda Williams is defying convention. While most of her peers have settled into a well worn groove, the alt-country icon just released an album that's way more punk than country. https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/broken-record/lucinda-williams
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Malcolm Gladwell talks to Rick Rubin about The Creative Act, and they explore the principles in the book that are applicable to feelings of stagnation beyond artistic life. https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/broken-record/rick-rubin-2
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Join Jon and Andy as they sneak back into the Dolby Theater to discuss this year’s nominees for Best Original Score! Could this be our least impressive slate of contenders yet? What does it mean for music to really speak to the human heart? And, will we succeed in our attempt to keep the episode short? (No.) https://www.settlingthescorepodcast.com/58-2023-oscars-special/…
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Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, gave the BBC's Reith lectures in 1953. Sarah Montague and Professor Brian Cox consider the lessons to be learnt from them today. The Reith Lectures began in 1948 on the Home Service, subsequently moving to Radio 4 and becoming a major national occasion for intellectual debate. As part of the celebrations of Radio 4's 50th anniversary, the network looks back at the first 10 years of the Reith Lectures to explore how they reflect the times in which they were delivered and how well they stand up now. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05hctvq…
Stuart Russell suggests a way forward for human control over super-powerful artificial intelligence. He argues for the abandonment of the current “standard model” of AI, proposing instead a new model based on three principles - chief among them the idea that machines should know that they don’t know what humans’ true objectives are. Echoes of the new model are already found in phenomena as diverse as menus, market research, and democracy. Machines designed according to the new model would be, Russell suggests, deferential to humans, cautious and minimally invasive in their behaviour and, crucially, willing to be switched off. He will conclude by exploring further the consequences of success in AI for our future as a species. Stuart Russell is Professor of Computer Science and founder of the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence at the University of California, Berkeley. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0012q21…
Professor Stuart Russell explores the future of work and one of the most concerning issues raised by Artificial Intelligence: the threat to jobs. How will the economy adapt as work is increasingly done by machines? Economists’ forecasts range from rosy scenarios of human-AI teamwork, to dystopian visions in which most people are excluded from the economy altogether. Was the economist Keynes correct when he said that we were born to “strive”? If much of the work in future will be carried out by machines, what does that mean for humans? What will we do? Stuart Russell is Professor of Computer Science and founder of the Centre for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence at the University of California, Berkeley. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0012fnc…
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Sneezes, wheezes, runny noses and red eyes - this episode is all about allergies. An allergic reaction is when your immune system reacts to something harmless – like peanuts or pollen – as if it was a parasitic invader. It’s a case of biological mistaken identity. Professor Judith Holloway from the University of Southampton guides our sleuths through the complex immune pathways that make allergies happen and tells the scary story of when she went into anaphylactic shock from a rogue chocolate bar. Professor Adam Fox, a paediatric allergist at Evelina Children’s Hospital, helps the Drs distinguish intolerances or sensitivities – substantial swelling from a bee sting, for example - from genuine allergies. Hannah’s orange juice ‘allergy’ is exposed as a probable fraud! Hannah and Adam explore why allergies are on the increase, and Professor Rick Maizels from the University of Glasgow shares his surprising research using parasitic worms to develop anti-allergy drugs! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001byym…
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Consciousness, our experience of being in the world, is one of the mind’s greatest mysteries, but as the neuroscientist Anil Seth explains to Steven Strogatz, research is making progress in understanding this elusive phenomenon. https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-the-nature-of-consciousness-20230531/…
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Star Wars gets serious with “Andor,” a show that gives us exactly what we needed (but didn’t know we wanted?) from the venerable franchise. We break down the plots, characters, and storytelling choices, live from John Siracusa’s living room! https://www.theincomparable.com/theincomparable/644/
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In this episode, I discuss the precise nature of space opera, its origins, and its path through the history of sci-fi up to the current resurgence it's had in recent years. Book recommendation: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers https://readershistoryofscifi.libsyn.com/s2e23-space-opera…
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An hour-long programme from Galway's FLIRT FM featuring the finest of Irish Traditional Music and Song presented by David Larkin. Togha agus rogha den ceol agus amhráin traidisiúnta na hÉireann á craolfadh ó cathair na Gaillimhe, á cur i láthair ag Daithí Ó Lorcáin https://archive.org/details/20180829-larkin-about…
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An hour long programme from Galway's FLIRT FM featuring the finest of Irish Traditional Music and Song presented by David Larkin. Togha agus rogha den ceol agus amhráin traidisiúnta na hÉireann á craolfadh ó cathair na Gaillimhe, á cur i láthair ag Daithí Ó Lorcáin. https://archive.org/details/larkin-about-tribute-to-ben-lennon…
Kiana June Weber is a once-in-a-generation musician and public figure that combines her classical training with her love for American and Irish folk music. Kiana graduated early with a BM in violin performance from University of Michigan SMTD, and gave the commencement speech to her graduating class. At only 19, she was scouted by the violin troupe Barrage and toured internationally for three years. In 2012 she made a splash as the fiddler player in Celtic music’s favorite band, Gaelic Storm, with whom she recorded 4 billboard world No.1 albums. In 2017 she left the band to pursue her own career and toured as a special guest with Grammy award winning artist, Carlos Nunez. In 2018 she originated the role of fiddle on the First National tour of Broadway’s hit Come From Away. Kiana is an educator par excellence, with a unique pedagogic philosophy that yields measurable success in all learning styles. She founded her own company to further contemporary violin education. American born and living in the West of Ireland, Kiana tours internationally much of the year and enjoys openly sharing her experience. Martin Howley has been at the forefront of Irish Mandolin and Banjo for over a decade. Martin is a seven-time national champion on Mandolin and Banjo. He was the first Irish Banjo and Mandolinist to play at the hallowed Grand Ole Opry in Nashville Tennessee. Martin is leading the vanguard of Irish mandolin, bringing the instruments to new levels of virtuosity and innovation, and introducing Irish Banjo and Mandolin to new audiences throughout the world. He has performed with The Chieftains, Ricky Skaggs, Eileen Ivers, Carlos Nunez, Steve Earle, Bela Fleck, Altan and Mumford & Sons amongst others. In 2011, Martin founded We Banjo 3, with David Howley and Enda Scahill. We Banjo 3 began their career under the auspices of Music Network, recipients of the Music Network Young Musicwide award. Martin has managed We Banjo 3 and guided them to become the biggest Irish music act in the US. Their 6 albums to date have garnered multiple Album of the Year awards both in Ireland and the US, Billboard Chart World #1, and Songlines Top of the World Award. https://castbox.fm/episode/Kiana-Weber-and-Martin-Howley-|-String-Wizards-|-Episode-One-id5183253-id585877608?country=us…
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This episode explores how to operationalise responsibility in online retail, and how starting today can make a difference in how we interact online in the future. WHO'S OUR ETHICAL ALLY GUEST? Cennydd Bowles is an expert in digital product design and a technology ethicist. He is the author of Future Ethics and a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art. Cennydd’s views have been published in Forbes, Wired and The Wall Street Journal, and he is currently a consultant at the ICO, the British Data Protection Authority. BEING RESPONSIBLE: HOW TO TRANSLATE ETHICS INTO ACTION In this episode, Cennydd and I talk about business ethics in the context of data privacy, the usefulness of cookie banners and transparency in personal data collection. Cennydd emphasises we should work towards a genuine value exchange: data for other values, but in a clear and transparent way. Even though GDPR is a lawful basis, when it comes to legitimate interest it is hard to defend. The interest is only on the business side, and the user does not know what is going on, especially when it is buried in a privacy notice which is not only unethical but difficult to understand with legal jargon. Instead, he reminds us how consent must be freely given, specific and informed, in a clear affirmative act. This is made easier (or more difficult!) through specific designs which are often persuasive in one direction. Instead, it could be made fair, understandable and simple if you don't use cookies at all. The act of implementing GDPR correctly and transparently is an ethical act in itself. Whichever way, cookie banners will probably never be clear enough which is why Cennydd thinks they are not here to stay, but instead browsers will have to offer some built-in consent options, like Do Not Track (DNT). Using zero cookies is not a popular option for many businesses, particularly from a marketers’ perspective, as they gather most insights and analytics from data. But with more people opting to block tracking and reject all cookies, data-driven marketing becomes a more difficult task. LEAVING DATA-DRIVEN TRACKING BEHIND How can we face this dilemma? The answer is not new, sounds very simple and is yet so hard to achieve: It all comes back to trust. Earning trust through transparency (as required by GDPR) in your publishing principles, declaring your values but mostly through your actions. There are plenty of technical options and privacy-enhancing technologies to support this, such as on-device processing or encryption and others. Additionally, companies can turn to guidance from the ICO and other national DP regulators about transparency and design. Another big issue marketers and brands face is that giving up collecting and processing lots of personal data means a reduction in insights and analytics which will eventually result in being less competitive and falling behind your competition. A valid concern, Cennydd acknowledges, but it is just as equally important to recognise the fact that the age of nonconsensual tracking is over. As he explains, many have relied too heavily on data, transforming it into a crutch. Instead, data with more value can be gathered from higher quality data in attitudes and habits, rather than in the sheer quantity. Good old fashioned market research and UX research are examples of more helpful and privacy-friendly alternatives. Having said that, we agree that all industries have responsibility: Are you helping to build an Internet that we trust? Or contributing to worries of exploitation and deception? https://www.ethicalalliance.co/ethical-allies/making-businesses-and-product-designs-ethical…
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In this interview, writer, artist, and technologist James Bridle questions our fundamental assumptions about intelligence and explores how radical technological models can become portals into deeper relationship with the living world. https://emergencemagazine.org/interview/an-ecological-technology/
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The technologist on "more than human" belonging, revelations on binary code and the alphabet — and what it says about us that we call it The Cloud. https://onbeing.org/programs/james-bridle-the-intelligence-singing-all-around-us/
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What albums and songs are getting a lot of play on your Spotify or iTunes app currently? My guest would say that the music you put in heavy rotation comes down to your unique “listener profile.” Her name is Susan Rogers, and she’s a music producer-turned-neuroscientist as well as the co-author of This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You. Today on the show, Susan unpacks the seven dimensions of music and how they show up along a varying spectrum in every song. She explains how everyone has an individualized taste for the configuration of these dimensions, and that how closely a particular song aligns with this pattern of sweet spots accounts for whether you like it or not. Along the way, we discuss artists that exemplify these dimensions, how Frank Sinatra injected virility into his music, how part of your musical taste has to do with the way you prefer to move your body, and much more. https://www.artofmanliness.com/living/entertainment/podcast-876-why-you-like-the-music-you-do/…
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Jason Kottke returns to the show to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Kottke.org. https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2023/03/11/ep-370
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The latest generation of chatbots, powered by their ingestion of huge chunks of writing from the internet, have continued to wow and frighten. ChatGPT and an experimental bot from Microsoft’s Bing are shockingly fluent in English. And being humans, we struggle to imagine anything that could master our language without tremendous intelligence. So, what, then, https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101892368/how-to-wrap-our-heads-around-these-new-shockingly-fluent-chatbots…
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We wanted to have journalist Anne Helen Petersen on the show not only to talk about modern office lunch culture…we wanted to have journalist Anne Helen Peterson on the show to talk about soup! Peterson is the author of the amazing newsletter Culture Study, and she has much to say about the intersection of food and pop culture. She also name checks some of her favorite cookbooks from Ali Slagle, Alison Roman, and Jenny Rosenstrach to name a few. This is such a rich and textured conversation from one of the sharpest observers around. We hope you enjoy it. https://tastecooking.com/taste-podcast-185-anne-helen-petersen/…
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the momentum behind rebellion in Ireland in 1798, the people behind the rebellion and the impact over the next few years and after. Amid wider unrest, the United Irishmen set the rebellion on its way, inspired by the French and American revolutionaries and their pursuit of liberty. When it broke out in May the United Irishmen had an estimated two hundred thousand members, Catholic and Protestant, and the prospect of a French invasion fleet to back them. Crucially for the prospects of success, some of those members were British spies who exposed the plans and the military were largely ready - though not in Wexford where the scale of rebellion was much greater. The fighting was initially fierce and brutal and marked with sectarianism but had largely been suppressed by the time the French arrived in August to declare a short-lived republic. The consequences of the rebellion were to be far reaching, not least in the passing of Acts of Union in 1800. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fwb9…
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“Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society & its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, & even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom—poets, visionaries—realists of a larger reality. . .” Words Are My Matter collects talks, essays, intros to beloved books, & book reviews by Ursula K. Le Guin, one of our foremost public literary intellectuals. It is essential reading, & through the lens of deep considerations of contemporary writing, a way of exploring the world we are all living in. https://tinhouse.com/podcast/ursula-k-le-guin-words-are-my-matter/…
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Ursula K. Le Guin believes we cannot restructure society without restructuring the English language, and thus her book on the craft of writing inevitably engages class, gender, race, capitalism, and morality, all of which are not separate from grammar, punctuation, tense, and point of view for Le Guin. Ursula K. Le Guin is the author of more than sixty books of fiction, fantasy, children’s literature, poetry, drama, criticism, and translation. She talks today about her writing guide, Steering The Craft, newly rewritten and revised for writers of fiction and memoir in the 21st century. https://tinhouse.com/podcast/ursula-k-le-guin-steering-the-craft/…
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A catastrophic event renders the Earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere: in outer space. Only a handful of survivors remain . . . Five thousand years later, their progeny—seven distinct races now three billion strong—embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown, as they voyage to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth. Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is both extraordinary and eerily recognizable. https://tinhouse.com/podcast/neal-stephenson-seveneves/…
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Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran’s benefits, for the neural damage he suffered from implants during his time in the USMC’s elite Haptic Recon force. Then one night Burton has to go out, but there’s a job he’s supposed to do—a job Flynne didn’t know he had. Beta-testing part of a new game, he tells her. The job seems to be simple: work a perimeter around the image of a tower building. Little buglike things turn up. He’s supposed to get in their way, edge them back. That’s all there is to it. He’s offering Flynne a good price to take over for him. What she sees, though, isn’t what Burton told her to expect. It might be a game, but it might also be murder. https://tinhouse.com/podcast/william-gibson-the-peripheral/…
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“Ted Chiang has no contemporary peers when it comes to the short story form. His name deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Carver, Poe, Borges, and Kafka. Every story is a universe. Every story is a diamond. You will inhale Exhalation in a single, stunned sitting, because true genius doesn’t come along nearly as often as advertised. This is the real thing.”—Blake Crouch, author of Dark Matter https://tinhouse.com/podcast/ted-chiang-exhalation/…
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Irish poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa joins us to talk about her latest poetry collection, To Star the Dark, and her prose debut, A Ghost in the Throat, a debut that has captured the imaginations (and all the awards) in Ireland and the UK and is just out now in North America. A Ghost in the Throat is wonderfully hard to categorize: a memoir, a work of historical fiction, an autofiction, a translation, a book about translation, a book about poetry, a book that is poetry. It is all of these things and yet reads less like a work of avant-garde literary experiment and more like a detective or adventure story, an act of literary archaeology, a love letter, and a reclamation against the erasure of women’s lives and women’s art. We talk about the erasure of women, the erasure of motherhood in literature, the erasure of Irish language, Irish culture and the Irish social order under British colonization, and how she conjured the largely erased life of Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill (who wrote the Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire, one of the great laments of keens in Irish literature) in the face of such absence and silence. We also talk about translating the Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire and about self-translation (of Doireann’s own Irish language poetry into English), about oral poetic traditions carried down from one woman’s body to another versus text-based poetry fixed to the page. All this and much more. https://tinhouse.com/podcast/doireann-ni-ghriofa-a-ghost-in-the-throat-to-star-the-dark/…
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The architect Sandra Youkhana takes readers on a tour of the structures of modern digital worlds in Videogame Atlas (co-authored with Luke Caspar Pearson). From Minecraft to Assassin’s Creed Unity she examines the real-world architectural theory that underpins these fantasy worlds, and their influence on concrete designs today. The journalist Louise Blain presents BBC Radio 3’s monthly Sound of Gaming which showcases the latest and best gaming soundtracks. She explores how composers help create not only the atmosphere in a game, immersing players in these invented worlds, but their music is also integral to the game’s structure and design. Adrian Hon spent a decade co-creating the hit game Zombies, Run but has become increasingly disillusioned with the way real world institutions – corporations, governments and schools – are using gamification to monitor and control behaviour. In You’ve Been Played he shows how the elements of game playing have been co-opted as tools for profit and coercion. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hf10…
Tom Hanks is an actor that needs no introduction. He made his film debut in the 80’s and has since cemented himself as a cultural icon. Films like Castaway and Forrest Gump have earned Hanks many accolades. His two consecutive Academy Award wins and many nominations speak for themselves. But, his films have done so much more. They’ve transformed pop culture, earning him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016. Tom Hanks joins the show to talk about the limits of charm, shares driving etiquette tips and tells us about his new role in A Man Called Otto. https://maximumfun.org/episodes/bullseye-with-jesse-thorn/tom-hanks/…
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Today’s guest, Kim Stanley Robinson, is perhaps the living writer most associated with utopian literature today. And as a student of the philosopher, political theorist, and literary critic Fredric Jameson, Robinson has thought deeply about the history of utopias, the history of the novel, and the strange hybrid form that became the utopian novel. In […] https://tinhouse.com/podcast/crafting-with-ursula-kim-stanley-robinson-on-ambiguous-utopias/…
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In this episode, I give an overview of the different ways that religion and religious themes are used in science fiction. Book recommendation: Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny Other works discussed: Riverworld series by Philip Jose Farmer A Case of Conscience by James Blish Terra Ignota series by Ada Palmer https://sciencemeetsfiction.com/2022/12/26/s2e15-religion-in-sci-fi/…
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On a day that shouldn’t exist comes a podcast equally paradoxical. Merlin Mann joins Antony to sit still, garden at night, and talk about the passion of rock band R.E.M.’s early work. https://www.theincomparable.com/ump/48/
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The story of two people connected by a ballet shoe. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cbj5nn
Philippe Sands explores the legacy of the Nuremberg Trials, 75 years after the judgement. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0b06p0w
Poet Paul Farley considers how we warn future generations about our buried nuclear waste. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09vvw40
Peter White explores science fiction's enduring interest in blindness. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0931fvq
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Stanley Tucci tells the story of Silicon Valley's troubled founder, William Shockley. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p087jvzb
How do we prepare for the distant future? Helen Keen meets the people who try to. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05sxgvj
30 years on from its launch, Ian Sansom asks: what's the real point of PowerPoint? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05g2msc
Marie-Louise Muir explores the tradition of keening for the dead in Ireland. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0455jf1
From Pong to Pokémon, what have video games ever done for us? Keza MacDonald finds out. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cqvp5k
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The NEA National Heritage Fellow talks about growing up in East Galway, Ireland, and learning flute playing from his father, as well as coming to America and eventually returning to Irish music in his 50s as both a performer and teacher. https://www.arts.gov/stories/podcast/mike-rafferty
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