Really good interview. "Maddow’s new book Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power traces how U.S. national intelligence agencies have taken over duties that were once assigned to the military, and how this shift has increased the public disconnect from the consequences of war."
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Rachel Maddow Interview on Fresh Air
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99% Invisible: The Bathtubs or the Boiler Room
Great story.
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Fresh Air: One Year Later, ‘Inside Japan’s Nuclear Meltdown’
Wow. "In the days after a tsunami crippled Japan’s Fukushima power plant almost one year ago, a small group of engineers, soldiers and firemen risked their own lives to prevent a complete nuclear meltdown."
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This American Life Poultry Slam
Third Act is a really good: "In order to make foie gras - goose liver - the birds have to be treated inhumanely, strapped down and force-fed huge amounts of food. So when a chef named Dan Barber heard about Eduardo Sousa, a Spaniard who had supposedly found a way to make foie gras without mistreating the animals, Dan didn’t believe it… until he went to Spain to investigate. Dan runs the New York restaurant"
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The Sound of Young America: George R.R. Martin interview
John Hodgman interviews George R.R. Martin: The Sound of Young America
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Long Now: Viral Time
Long Now Foundation podcast: What’s time to a virus?
" The number of viruses on Earth is estimated to be 1 followed by 31 zeroes. Small as they are, if you stacked them all up, the stack would reach 100 million light years. They are the planet’s most abundant organism by far. They’re fast. We take decades to reproduce. A flu virus can generate billions of itself in us within hours. And they evolve 10,000 times faster than us, because they’re creatively sloppy about making copies of their genomes, and they readily combine genes among varieties when jointly infecting a cell. Each of us has four trillion viruses on board, in 1,500 all-too-fungible varieties."
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On Point: David Deutsch And The Beginning of Infinity
WBUR: "Quantum computing genius and Oxford don David Deutsch is a thinker of such scale and audaciousness he can take your breath away. His bottom line is simple and breathtaking all at once.
It’s this: human beings are the most important entities in the universe. Or as Deutsch might have it, in the “multiverse.” For eons, little changed on this planet, he says. Progress was a joke. But once we got the Enlightenment and the scientific revolution, our powers of inquiry and discovery became infinite. Without limit.
This hour On Point: David Deutsch and the beginning of infinity."
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The Unified Field Theory of Google
Great overview, insight into the thinking behind Google+ …. ‘A Techwise Conversation with Google+ designer Joseph Smarr’ — IEEE Spectrum podcast
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When Patents Attack! - This American Life
"Why would a company rent an office in a tiny town in East Texas, put a nameplate on the door, and leave it completely empty for a year? The answer involves a controversial billionaire physicist in Seattle, a 40 pound cookbook, and a war waging right now, all across the software and tech industries."
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The Personal Data Revolution
"It’s possible for the average person to collect and analyze unprecedented amounts of data about themselves. What was once the province of extreme athletes and dieters has been democratized and the resulting movement is called ‘The Quantified Self.’ Brooke speaks with Gary Wolf, who coined the term, a number of self-quantifiers, and MIT professor Deb Roy about what all this personal data really tells us about ourselves."
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