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217: Estrangement Online, Unexpected Friend Suggestions, Communication Tech and Identity, 3D Scanning and Printing, Piracy and Copyright Law

Becca Bland on estrangement online. Michelle Parise on unexpected friend suggestions. Caro Rolando on communication tech and identity. Dan Misener on 3D scanning. Paul Banwatt on 3D scanning, printing and the law. Matt Mason on 3D piracy.

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216: Texting, Over-the-top Messaging, Race and Online Dating, Preserving Virtual Worlds, Emulation and Preservation of Video Games

Dan Misener on texting and over-the-top messaging. Kaj Hasselriis and Christian Grov on racism and online dating. Patrick Moran on the history of video games. Jason Scott on video game emulation. Jerome McDonough on preserving virtual worlds.

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Viktor Mayer-Schönberger on Big Data

Nora Young interviews Viktor Mayer-Schönberger about his new book, Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think.

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215: Limits of Crowdsourcing, E-Library Letdown, The Story of Noise, What Modern Noise Annoys You?

Zeynep Tufekci on the limits of crowdsourcing. Peter Rukavina, Jane Pyper, Carolyn Wood, and David O'Brien on the challenges of e-book lending. Michelle Parise on what noise annoys listeners most. Mike Goldsmith on his book Discord: The Story of Noise.

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Mike Goldsmith on the History of Noise

Mike Goldsmith, in his book "Discord: The Story of Noise", paints an historical picture of how and why external noise annoys us so MUCH. Mike argues that noise has been tied to technology and also to class because it’s tied up with ideas about progress.

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Rick Smolan on The Human Face of Big Data

Rick Smolan says that Big Data is like "watching the world come alive and develop a nervous system. It's unlike anything we've ever seen before." Nora Young interviews Rick about his book, The Human Face of Big Data

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214: Listen, Touch, Command

Veronica Simmonds on sound online. Martin Howard, Bill Buxton, Stan Liebowitz, Philip Steadman and Jared Spool on the QWERTY keyboard. Jonty Sharples and Dan Vogel on gestural computing.

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Jay Frank on Twitter #music

Earlier today, Twitter launched its new #music service, which aims to help you find and listen to music, based on artists you follow, and what other Twitter users are listening to. Music writer and record company CEO Jay Frank weighs in.

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213: Longevity, Integration, Disposal

Cliff Hacking on e-waste disposal in Canada. David Fleming on real estate and virtual staging. Julia Pagel on the Integrative Thinking technique in schools. Phil Gyford, Jason Scott, and Meg Ambrose on data longevity and web ephemerality.

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Panel: e-books, public libraries, and artificial scarcity

Peter Rukavina, Jane Pyper, Carolyn Wood, and David O'Brien discuss e-book lending in public libraries.

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212: Get it, Keep it, Fix it

Brian Lam on getting good gadgets. Gina Trapani and Anil Dash on keeping your tech gadgets. Ian Urbina on what happens to our unwanted gadgets. Kyle Wiens on learning to fix your tech.

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211: Smart Elevators, Design Fiction, Internet Centrism

Riding in smart, responsive elevators. Getting skeptical about the internet as a single, abstract force. And designing technologies that don't even exist yet!

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210: Surveillance, Sharing, Colour

David Murakami Wood on surveillance and tech. Roz Kavander on colour forecasting. Alice Marwick, Gary Flake, Stephanie Nolen, and Maciej Ceglowski on social sharing and the divide between public and private online.

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Brian Lam on The Wirecutter

A feature interview with Brian Lam about his website The Wirecutter, why he left Gizmodo, and what's wrong with tech writing in 2013.

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209: Distraction, Willpower, Creative Coding

Elah Feder on outsourcing willpower. Francesca Gino on decision making and getting sidetracked. Diana Kimball and Seb Lee-Delisle on creative coding. Jeff Atwood on creating civil discourse online.

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208: Collaboration, Crowdwork, Wearable Computing

Kate Hartman on wearable computing. JP Davidson on crowdworking. Rachel Botsman, Will Johnston, Lili Carvalho, and April Rinne on collaborative consumption.

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Getting Sidetracked

Think you're good at making decisions? Able to come up with a goal, and make the choices to realize that goal? It can be tricky, and often we get derailed along the way. Francesca Gino specializes in decision-making and judgment and talks about her new bo

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Discourse Online

Jeff Atwood was one of the people behind the influential Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange question and answer sites. He has a new project in the works called Discourse aimed at re-inventing the online forum to make way for better conversation.

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207: Implants, Cyborgs, Cellphones

amir Israel on the CRTC's proposed wireless code for cellphone contracts. David Kattenburg on the use of simulated birthing moms in Canada's far north. Chris Hables Gray on our cyborg present and future. Karen Sandler, Kevin Fu, and Mike Liebhold on hacka

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206: Dating in the 21st C

Michelle Parise, Kim Fox, and Mark Ainsley on being divorced and dating again. Sam Yagan on dating data and trends from OKCupid. Laura Anderson on shopping for love online. Kaj Hasselriis on Grindr and geosocial dating. Beth Bailey on the history of datin

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Coding as a Liberal Art

What if learning to code was more like taking a creative writing class? Nora Young interviews Diana Kimball, who recently gave a talk called "Coding as a Liberal Art."

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Divorced and Dating

A candid conversation about the experiences of three people in their late 30s/early 40s, all divorced and thrust headlong into the exciting and often confounding world of online dating.

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205: MOOCs, Crowdsourcing, Crisis Mapping

Armando Fox and George Siemens on Moocs. Heather Leson on Ushahidi and crisis mapping. Rebecca Chiao on Harassmap. Daudi Were on Uchaguzi and the Kenyan Elections.

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The History of Dating and Tech

A look back at the history of dating and new technology with cultural historian Beth Bailey. Is our digital era particularly confusing when it comes to rules around dating, or is this something that's long been a feature of courtship?

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Crowdsourcing for Safe Elections

Ushahidi is a platform that allows users to create web-based crisis maps. It began in response to violence after the last Kenyan elections, and in light of upcoming elections in Kenya, we speak to Daudi Were, director of projects at Ushahidi about crowdso

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Online Dating Data

We'll speak to Sam Yagan, the co-founder of OKCupid about recent trends in online dating and what the data shows about gender differences in the way we interact in online dating spaces.

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204: Timekeeping, Testbeds, Speed

Om Malik on the evolution of the wrist watch. Cyrus Farivar on Google Fiber and a 100 times faster internet. John Reid, Matt Crider, and Jason Shwartz on how Canada could become a testbed for technology.

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203: Carnivals, Court Tweets, Supermechanical

Patrick Cormier on tweeting in the courtroom. Katy Balfour and Michelle Parise on the immersive play Sleep No More. Tom Robinson on how mobile tech has transformed carnival life. Pete Nowak on the tech it takes to put on a Cirque du Soleil production. Dav

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Spark 202: Selling, Thriving, Developing

Daniel Pink on his book "To Sell Is Human". Tiffany Shlain on her TED Book and film "Brain Power: From Neurons to Networks". Howard Rheingold with tips from his book "Net Smart".

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201: Eye Contact, Unboxing, Raspberry Pi

Rob Bishop on Raspberry Pi, a small inexpensive computer. Matthew Braga on the trend of "unboxing". David Carr on Twine, a product that makes every day objects internet enabled. Elah Feder on eye contact and online aggression. Chris Venour on computationa

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200: Eye Contact, Cell Storage, Individualism

Mary DeMarle on women and videogames. Britt Wray on living cells as digital storage spaces. Ivan Owen and Richard Van As on creating affordable prosthetic fingers for amputees. Denis Grignon on the merits of the neighbourhood video store in the digital ag

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Bonus: Videogame Narratives

Mary DeMarle speaks with Nora Young about the challenges of writing fiction in a deeply interactive medium.

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199: Scouts, Apps, Maps

Aaron Brindle on mapping the Canadian Arctic. Jerry Brotton on his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps. Jon Kalish on scout troops for the digital age. Michelle Parise in defense of paper maps. Andrew Turner on the future of maps.

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Bonus: The History of Maps

Jerry Brotton speaks with Nora Young about his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps

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Bonus: Future of Digital Mapmaking

Nora Young speaks with Andrew Turner about the future of digital mapmaking. Andrew is CTO of the Esri Research and Development Center in Washington, D.C. where he's involved with open tools for mapmaking.

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198: Brontobytes, Babysitters, Gamification

Shantanu Gupta on big, big data. Caitlin Fisher gives a tour of York U's Augmented Reality Lab. Bonnie Stewart on online babysitters. Diane Zorn on turning a philosophy course into a game. Elizabeth Lawley on the gameful design of university life.

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Bonus: Role Playing Courses

Diane Zorn speaks with Nora Young about how she turned her course into a role playing game.

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Bonus: Gamification of University Life

Nora Young speaks with Elizabeth Lawley. She's a professor of interactive games and media, and head of "Just Press Play" at the Rochester Institute of Technology. They talk about adding a "game layer" to education.

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197: Password, Capital, Heavy Metal

Hristo Bojinov on subconscious passwords. Ariel Garten on thought-controlled computing. Howard Rheingold on how to maximize your social capital. Henrik Moltke on QR-coded gravestones. Vivek Venkatesh on heavy metal forums as a model for online learning.

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Bonus: Heavy Metal Forums and Online Learning

Vivek Venkatesh explains what online educators can learn from heavy metal forums.

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196: Sound, Security, Sleep

Daniel Kammen on solutions for better power security. Ivan Owen on open-source design plans for prosthetic fingers. Hannu Toivonen on sleep musicalization. Dr. Diane Boivan on turning off tech for better sleep. Karmen Franinovic on sonic interaction desig

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Bonus: Power Security and Sustainabililty

Nora speaks with Daniel Kammen, member of the UN's Sustainable Energy for All task force. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, we wanted to talk with him about access to power.

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195: Pagination, Education, Participation

Farhad Manjoo wants death to pagination. John Seely Brown, Michael Fullan, Donna Fry and Jaime Casap on the digital classroom. JP Davidson explores the evolution of therapy tech. Howard Rheingold argues for participation and collaboration online. Robin Sl

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Mr. Penumbras 24 Hour Bookstore

Nora Young speaks with thinker, technologist, and newly-minted author Robin Sloan about his debut novel.

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194: Dyslexia, Documentia, Domains

Tory Woolcott, Todd Cunningham, and Abelardo Gonzalez on dyslexic web fonts. Greg Lee on AI sports commentators. Andrew Kaufman on the modern disease of "Documentia". Howard Rheingold on internet Crap Detection 101. Fadi Chehadé on ICANN and domain names.

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