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  1. David Rooney: Navigating experimental invention, survival and destruction: the Royal Observatory and GMT

    Curator and historian David Rooney talked about the long-term experiment of Greenwich Mean Time.

    > On reaching the corner of Greenwich Park, a quiet suburban district, the police had found, amid a motley debris of trees, bushes and railings, the charred and shattered remains of a man.

    Newspaper report, 1894.

    > Wait till they start on the Greenwich Observatory. London without time will cause them to wake up.

    Suffragette conversation, 1913.

    David Rooney is currently a curator at the Science Museum and formerly curator of timekeeping at the Royal Observatory, and was involved in the installation of Longplayer listening posts at both museums. He is interested in the roles played by material artefacts in long-term institutional survival strategies, and the ways people can seek to destabilise experiments in normalisation.

    http://longplayer.org/what/whatelse/events.php

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  2. Spark 109: Extreme crowdsourcing, the slow web, and motivation 3.0

    • Joanne McNeil of Tomorrow Museum explains her take on the iPad’s lack of multitasking
    • Apple announces multtiasking in iPhone OS 4
    • Nora mentions the Spark slow web toolkit and her full interview with Jeff MacIntyre
    • Tom Lucier‘s social media baby moratorium
    • Swiss Miss Tina Roth Eisenberg tries some extreme crowdsourcing (full interview)
    • Mayor Nicolai Wammen considers changing the name of Århus, Denmark, to Aarhus, Denmark
    • CBC Radio 3‘s Grant Lawrence uses failin.gs to ask, “What’s wrong with me?”
    • Daniel Pink on motivation 3.0
    • Daniel’s book is Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

    Music and sound effects used in this episode:

    • Countdown by Corsica_S “oneSidedConversation” by airtone
    • “Slow Down” (1941) by King Cole Trio
    • “Humming” by fLako Music from “Music for Underwater Listening” by Podington Bear
    • “I’ll Never Fail You” (1938) by Teddy Wilson And His Orchestra
    • “Backed Vibes (clean)” by Kevin MacLeod

    For more information (and instructions) visit http://cbc.ca/podcasting

    http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2010/04/spark-109-april-11-13-2010/

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  3. A 19th-Century Mathematician Finally Proves Himself

    Charles Babbage, the man whom many consider to be the father of modern computing, never got to complete any of his life’s work. The Victorian gentleman was a brilliant mathematician, but he wasn’t very good at politics and fundraising, so he never got the financial backing to finish any of his elaborate machine designs. For decades, even his fans weren’t certain whether his computing machines would have worked.

    From http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121206408

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  4. I like things to be numbered

    A 3 minute extract from Radio 4’s show The Museum Of Curiosity. It’s Chris Donald talking about a bridge plate.

    From: http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/

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  5. The Science Behind Star Wars

    A travelling exhibition visiting the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney looks at the science of the popular film series, and how it relates to science in the real world.

    From: http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2008/s2437066.htm

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