Video Games Meet Middle Age Emotions
The first crop of video gamers are facing middle age with no plans to put down the controller. So the games have to grow up too. Expect less blood splatter, more reflection. (This is part 1 of 2 about...
12 Nov 201420min
Pajama Volunteers: The Digital Front of Disaster Response
Cries for help are hidden by the chatter of chaos. Vital updates are lost in the noise. In the crucial days after a natural disaster, information is not organized. But if it were, lives would be saved...
5 Nov 201417min
The Other Ed Snowdens: Inside the Mind of Two Privacy Whistleblowers
Ed Snowden is not alone. And we're not talking about how his girlfriend has moved in with him in Russia. There have been a handful of other technologists who've taken a bold stand and faced off with t...
29 Okt 201421min
EXTRA: Bill Binney and Ladar Levison Talk Cryptography
This is the raw interview used in our episode "The Other Ed Snowdens" with William Binney and Ladar Levison. In that podcast episode we said the conversation got wonky and in the weeds so we cut out s...
29 Okt 201426min
Containing Ebola Like They Did in This Video Game
Public health officials need to be able to predict how outbreaks like Ebola spread and grow. But that's not so easy. Mainly because it requires knowing how real people will react. Human behavior ain't...
22 Okt 201422min
Space Tourism Gets Sweetly Personal for These Two Strong Lady Travelers
One woman mortgaged her home to buy a ticket to space. Another decided never to have children so she could accept an opportunity for space travel at a moment's notice, even a one way ticket. These two...
15 Okt 201435min
BONUS TRACK: How Twitter Has Changed Nonfiction
Fluffly and indulgent as they might be the tiny dispatches and status updates of social media are a narrative gold mine for writers. Nonfiction writing will never be the same again. This came up, odd...
12 Okt 20146min
Screens and Kids: Do Techies Have Different Rules than the Rest of Us?
In a world of screens, parents face some tough questions: To limit or not to limit? By how much and when? How different is Candy Crush from Codeacademy? And what is all the new tech doing to our child...
8 Okt 201421min
