Olympic Sound Design

The sound designer for the Olympic games, Dennis Baxter, describes on NPR how the events are miked, or in some cases, synced live to match the action. My personal favorite Olympic   event to hear is the balance beam in gymnastics (minus the commentary) with the rhythmic sounds of feet landing.

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Foot in the Door

NPR's Morning Edition offers a engaging nugget of behavioral psychology with an abbreviated overview of research into manipulation by Shankar Vedantam. The research he alludes to is outlined more specifically in the web story here.


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NPR's Dating Tips

I love how NPR's coverage of social issues or popular culture often makes young people sound like insects. Human female speaks to human male about ownership of human currency. This story by Jennifer Ludden takes a look at how student debt affects dating.
At the very least check out the amazing title of her story and the stock photo.

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Catching Up

  Under a crush of work and schoolwork I haven't had time to record my listening habits here lately. Now that I finally have a brief respite here's a rundown of some recent and not-so-recent notable stories:

Bullseye: Jesse Thorn interviews Moshe Kasher, author of Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16

Radiolab Shorts: A War We Need
A friend is in school to be an ocean virologist and that seemed like a really random career until I heard this.


Radiolab Colors
 The first part of this episode includes a chorus hired to sing different combinations of wavelengths of light.

The Moth Podcast, Tom Herndon & Christine Blackburn: StorySLAM Favorites

The Moth Podcast, Jenny Allen: I Can’t Get It Out of My Mind

This American Life #465: What Happened At Dos Erres

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