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May 10, 2012
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2012-05-13 - Spark 182: Descriptive Cameras, Bio-hacking, and Forgiving Bad Design
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Matt Richardson on the Descriptive Camera. Jamie Malcolm and Mark Winter on The Camera Obscura Project. Hendrik Knoche on apps for the illiterate. Sanjay Arora on the search engine Million Short. Sonya Buyting on bio-hacking. Henry Petroski on how to forgive bad design.
May 03, 2012
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2012-05-06 - Spark 181: Robot Comedians, Safety Apps, and Social Learning
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Luke Rendell on the Social Learning Tournament. Dale Dougherty and Mitch Altman on the DARPA grant for makerspaces in schools. Edward Birnbaum on safety apps. Chris Parker on human-robot interaction. Heather Knight on Data, the robot comedian.
April 26, 2012
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2012-04-29 - Spark 180: Selfsurfing, Open Government, and Data Hunters
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Jonas Lund on the browser extension Selfsurfing. Brad Crawford on his film 100 Yen. Denis Grignon on comedians hosting podcasts. David Kattenburg on data-gathering Inuit hunters. Jonathan Brun on Open North and government transparency. Jennifer Pahlka on coding for a better government.
April 19, 2012
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2012-04-22 - Spark 179: Meditation, Willpower, and the Algorithmic Economy
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Kevin Slavin on the algorithmic economy. Rohan Gunatillake on combining our tech-filled lives with meditation. Sonya Buyting on designer organs that could communicate via Twitter. Ben Lang, Nir Kouris, Stephen Sills, and Carmi Levy on niche social networks. Kelly McGonigal on The Willpower Instinct.
March 29, 2012
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2012-04-01 - Spark 178: 17th C Info Overload, Prince Songs as Proto-texts, and Ham Radio as the Original Social Media
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Jordan Hermant on the movie Pump Up the Volume as proto-file sharing and blogging. Jo Guldi on the 18th century Open Roads Movement as proto-net neutrality. Michelle Parise on Prince song titles as proto-texts. Colin Newell and Kristin Haring on CB radio/HAM radio as proto-social media. Richard Sennett on class behavior in London coffee houses as proto-status updates. Anaïs Saint-Jude on 17th C information overload as proto-present day information overload.
March 22, 2012
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2012-03-25 - Spark 177: Humans Hurting Robots, Loveable User Interfaces, and the Robot Social Network.
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Michael Cook on Angelina, the AI game designer. Cathi Bond on the latest trend in buying art online. Julia Ringler on whether humans would destroy a robot if they could. Matt Jones on designing user interfaces with artificial empathy. Carlos Asmat on his social network for robots.
March 15, 2012
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2012-03-18 - Spark 176: HR Algorithms, Hospital Surveillance, and Anonymous
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Lindsay Michael on the top trends at SXSWi. Sean Carruthers on why algorithms are used more than people in the hiring process. Dr. Michael Gardam on hand washing in hospitals. Corey Takahashi on new innovations out of the Game Developers Conference. Gabriella Coleman on the online movement Anonymous.
March 08, 2012
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2012-03-11 - Spark 175: Nature Hacks, Cyber Magic, and Body Interfaces
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Chris Harrison on "on-body interfaces". Tema Frank on the future of magic and cyber magician Marco Tempest. Bartholomaus Traubeck on his tree-ring record player. Kate Hartman on her tweeting plant and the relationship between nature and tech. Matt Ratto on "critical making" - understanding technology by making it ourselves.
March 01, 2012
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2012-03-04 - Spark 174: Electric Powwows, Speaking Indigenously, and Claiming Cyberspace
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Dustin Rivers on using blogs and podcasts to teach Squamish. Jason Lewis on helping Aboriginal kids imagine their place in the future through web videos. Candis Callison on how First Nations people use social media. Susan O’Donnell on Facebook surveillance. Don Bain on using Twitter to bypass the mainstream media. Angie Morris on Aboriginal-owned social networks. Candice Hopkins on indigenous aesthetics on YouTube.
February 16, 2012
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2012-02-19 - Spark 173: Open Source Objects, Visual Language, and Beautiful Information
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David McCandless on The Information Is Beautiful Awards. Edward Boatman on The Noun Project. Angel Gambino on urban renewal through digital thinking. Jon Kalish on the Open Source Ecology farm. Limor Fried on having fun with open source hardware.

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