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The New Noisy Sky
A decades-long effort to redesign aircraft surveillance systems and some of the good and bad it has created.
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Gordo
Gordon Garcia. Physician, musician, storyteller. A tribute to a remarkable friend.
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Remembering Dana
A 2021 remix of a beautiful recording by the late Dana Rogers.
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Engines Guest Episode
No pressure, but can you, a complete radio novice, write and record a tribute episode for your dad that will air nationally?
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A week in Sayulita
A week-long trip to Sayulita, Mexico in pictures.
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An Unearthed Journal Joins Social Media
A lost journal discovered. The fates of books. The fate of fate.
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Brain Drains
Learn, forget, learn, repeat
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The Orgo Experience
It's Wednesday, 5pm, and I'm nervously awaiting my grade in Organic Chemistry, the class I've been quietly suffering through since January. I've been getting anxious, speculative texts from classmates…
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Percival (Thelonious Ellison) Everett
Write like you talk. Play like you walk. On last night's reading at Brazos Bookstore.
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Welcome to Suckville, A Week in Quarantine
Quality time spent with radioactive iodine.
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Kurstin, Kurstin
About "the guy" from The Bird and The Bee and his knack for writing hit songs for others.
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Skewering the Skeuomorphs
A design trend and an upheaval.
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I Once Had A Bar in Texas
The story of an urban couple's hasty exit to the middle of nowhere...
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The Zachary Breaux Jazz Fest (Jazz Where Least Expected)
Many years ago, guitarist Zachary Breaux took a vacation with his wife and three daughters to the sandy beaches of Florida. As they meandered along the shore the group…
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“The Incredible Sounds of Synclavier II,” and other hits
One of the most expensive synthesizers ever made and arguably one of the most beautiful too. On how the Synclavier captured our imaginations...
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For the Love of You, ARP 2600
It’s my sad confession. I once had a crush on a machine. I was an impressionable teenager and the ARP 2600 was my pinup girl. I loved this thing…
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Roger Ebert: Hero
Roger Ebert’s battle with throat cancer has been an unattended background story for many years. News that the disease cost him his jaw and the ability to speak emerged…
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An Apple for an Apple
A brief history of the Battle of the Beatle, the legendary band's enduring conflicts with Apple Computers, EMI, and their future in the digital musicsphere.
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Blinded by the Douche
“Blinded by the Light” was a perplexing piece of pop music. Despite the song’s surreal refrains, or maybe because of them, it achieved anthem-level notoriety in 1976, popular among both hipster children and…
