February 2012
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WatchDisease Sleuths Surf For Outbreaks Online
When you’re feeling crummy do you turn to the internet before calling your doctor? Our friends at NPR’s Science Desk explore how scientists are using “webidemiology” to track disease outbreaks.
WatchSome people cringe at the sound; others see it as an opportunity for orchestration. From our friends at KPCC in Los Angeles:
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What does a 1,000-car-horn symphony sound like? On Wednesday, performance artist Zefrey Throwell led the latest movement in his Entropy Symphony. We rode shotgun. Radio piece is here.
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WatchNPR’s Cokie Roberts and her husband talk about falling in love on Capitol Hill in this delightful video about finding love in the nation’s capital by our buddy AJ Chavar/The Washington Post.
-Becky
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WatchAn intense and personal story about the life of an Iraq vet dealing with PTSD. A big congrats to Craig Walker, POYi’s newspaper photographer of the year, and the rest of the multimedia staff at The Denver Post.
- Becky
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“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.”
– Robert Capa (via life)
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Watch“There’s a risk of not understanding an environment if you spend too much time disconnected from it.”
Check out artist Alex Braidwood, who explores LA’s “sonic topography” with noisolation headphones — from member station KPCC!
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LA is loud. Cars roar, helicopters buzz, waves crash and (occasionally) subways rumble. Instead of muffling the...
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