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Beer On Your Shoes? Grime On Your Headphones? Get Your Music Cleaning...
Here at Soundcheck, we're not exactly what you'd call "neat." Our desks -- particularly host John Schaefer's -- are often barely viewable under piles of CDs, books, papers, promotional materials,...
View ArticleHow To Wash Your Ancient Concert T-Shirts, And Other Helpful Spring Cleaning...
We're joined again by cleaning expert Jolie Kerr -- creator of the Ask A Clean Person column for websites like Deadspin and Jezebel, and author of the recent New York Times bestseller My Boyfriend...
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How To Be Smarter About... Brian Lehrer's Home Audio
Let's face it: as much as we all know and love about music, everyone has at least some blind spots. In our new series, "How To Be Smarter About…" Soundcheck aims to help you become a more impressive...
View ArticleGet Smart! The Next Generation of Smartphones Is Here
The iPhone is getting cheaper. Yesterday Apple announced it was slashing the price of the current iPhone in half just as it launches a new version, which is the third new model since 2007. This comes...
View ArticleFollowing the Trail of E-Waste
What really happens to the mountains of computers at recycling centers throughout the U.S.? In the upcoming documentary “Digital Dumping Ground,” Frontline World Producer Peter Klein and a team of...
View ArticleIran's Election Was Fair. So Says the Guardian Council.
It’s been another tumultuous week in Iran, following the disputed June 12 election. Today, the top political body in the country, the Guardian Council, says the election was the fairest ever held in...
View ArticleDangers of 'Car Phones' Known Early
We've talked a lot about research on the dangers of texting and even talking on the phone while driving. But a new report out by our partner The New York Timesshows evidence of a cell phone industry...
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An Ode (or is it Anode?) to the Battery
Today, we pay tribute to something that's in almost every piece of portable technology today: the humble battery. Henry Schlesinger is the author of a new book called "The Battery: How Portable Power...
View Article#2923: Voice As Instrument
Hear small ensembles that use the voice as an instrument (often an electronic one) on this New Sounds program. We'll listen to the Scandinavian-Belgian trio of Mikkel Ploug , Sissel Vera Pettersen ,...
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Niche Market | Radio Electronics, Pre-1965
New York is a city of specialists from foodies to academics, laborers to shopkeepers. Every Wednesday, Niche Market takes a peek inside a different specialty store and showcases the city's purists who...
View Article#3355: Piano Plus...
For this New Sounds, hear music from the duo Moon Ate the Dark, which is Anna Rose Carter (piano) and Christopher Brett Bailey (treatments.) Carter provides soft peals of piano and Bailey weaves them...
View ArticleUnwanted Electronic Gear Piles Up
Lauren Roman, managing director of Transparent Planet LLC, discusses the problem of how to dispose of and recycle flat screen televisions, computer monitors, and other electronic trash. Broken monitors...
View ArticleA 12-Year-Old Tech Prodigy's Mission
Quin Etnyre wanted to make tech education more fun. So he became a teacher and he started his own company called Qtechknow, which sells DIY electronic starter kits.He has plenty of his own experience...
View Article#3355: Piano Plus...
For this New Sounds, hear music from the duo Moon Ate the Dark, which is Anna Rose Carter (piano) and Christopher Brett Bailey (treatments.) Carter provides soft peals of piano and Bailey weaves them...
View ArticleCould LG and Its Opponents Compromise in the Palisades?
Electronics giant LG plans to build its new US headquarters near the Palisades in New Jersey, which opponents say will destroy the beautiful view. Local officials are now calling for a compromise...
View ArticleHere's how to keep that old cell phone you're about to toss from becoming...
You've seen the new iPhone 6. You want one. You buy one. So what do you do with your old iPhone to make sure it doesn't end up in some e-waste toxic pile in West Africa? We've got a few recommendations...
View Article#3355: Piano Plus...
For this New Sounds, hear music from the duo Moon Ate the Dark, which is Anna Rose Carter (piano) and Christopher Brett Bailey (treatments.) Carter provides soft peals of piano and Bailey weaves them...
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Electronic Sculptures Need the Human Touch
Nam Jun Paik was one of the first artists to engage seriously with electronic technology as both a subject and a creative medium, and he’s considered the father of new media art. Born in Seoul in 1932,...
View ArticleToxic tech in America
In 1975, when she was 18 years old, Yvette Flores got her first job. She helped assemble delicate parts to make some of the first supermarket checkout scanners. When her son Mark was born five years...
View ArticleDisposable workers in Asia
Today, there are millions of electronics workers around the world – especially in places where labor laws are even less strict than those in the U.S. Since the 1980s, the electronics industry largely...
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