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  1. Cow Clicker Founder: If You Can’t Ruin It, Destroy It : NPR

    Zynga, the company behind popular Facebook games such as Farmville and Cityville, is expected to have its initial public offering before the end of the year. Zynga is a phenomenon. More than 200 million people play its games each month. One person who doesn’t feel Zynga’s success is cause for celebration is video game designer Ian Bogost. Bogost thinks Zynga’s games are mindless, designed to suck money out of players’ pockets. To make his point he created a parody game of his own. As On the Media’s P.J. Vogt reports, what Bogost didn’t expect is that his satire would become one of the most popular games he’s ever made.

    http://www.npr.org/2011/11/18/142518949/cow-clicker-founder-if-you-cant-ruin-it-destroy-it

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  2. Tools Never Die. Waddaya Mean, Never? : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR

    Krulwich makes a bet he can find tools that have gone extinct but it turns out old technology doesn’t disappear like you’d think. Tools from centuries ago are still being made and used, by more people than you’d think.

    Kevin Kelly should know better, but boldly, brassily, (and totally incorrectly, I’m sure), he said this on NPR:

    "I say there is no species of technology that have ever gone globally extinct on this planet."

    http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/02/02/133188723/tools-never-die-waddaya-mean-never

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  3. PJ Harvey: On War And The New ‘England’ : NPR

    British singer-songwriter PJ Harvey watched hours of war footage before writing the songs for her eighth album, Let England Shake. Here, she describes how she translated what she saw into a mournful elegy about the bitter brutality of combat.

    http://www.npr.org/2011/02/15/133749985/pj-harvey-on-war-and-the-new-england?&sc=tumblr

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  4. A Very Scary Fireworks Show: Exploding H-Bombs In Space

    Since we’re coming up on the Fourth of July, and towns everywhere are preparing their better-than-ever fireworks spectaculars, we would like to offer this humbling bit of history. Back in the summer of 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb in outer space, some 250 miles above the Pacific Ocean. It was a weapons test, but one that created a man-made light show that has never been equaled — and hopefully never will.

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128170775&ft=1

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  5. ‘Afterlives’: 40 Stories Of What Follows Death : NPR

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100778241

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