Spark from CBC Radio
Summary: Spark on CBC Radio One Nora Young helps you navigate your digital life by connecting you to fresh ideas in surprising ways.
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Podcasts:
Nora Young speaks with Kelly McGonigal about cultivating willpower in the age of endless distraction. Kelly is the author of The Willpower Instinct.
Nora Young speaks with Matt Ratto about Critical Making, the process of understanding abstract ideas by, well, making. Matt is the director of the ThingTank Lab in Toronto.
Nora Young speaks with Alice Marwick about technology refusal and people who opt out from using prevalent technologies. Alice studies social software at Microsoft Research.
Nora Young's full interview with Limor Fried, lead engineer at Adafruit Industries, about making hardware that's open source.
Nora Young's full interview with Abigail Sellen on Spark, about her research into total capture and the need to forget in the digital age.
Nora Young's full interview with Douglas Rushkoff on Spark, about his recent book, Program or be Programmed - Ten Commands for a Digital Age.
Nora Young's full interview with Michael Cook on Spark, all about Angelina - the AI video game designer. He’s programmed Angelina to design video games.
Cynthia Chiong on Kids and E-books, JP Davidson on Talking to the Manager, Edward Birnbaum on Islendingabok, Joanne Harbluk and Oliver Carsten on the Fourth Screen, Eran Ben-Joseph on Parking Lots, and Clifford Nass on autonomous cars.
Andrew Blum on Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet. Claudia Roda on attentive computing. Roel Vertegaal on attentive interfaces. Katrina Sluis on GIFs as art. Jon Kalish on digital fabrication. James Adams on Good Products, Bad Products.
Mills Kelly on his course about lying online. Bryan Pearson on his book "The Loyalty Leap". Carlos Bueno on "Lauren Ipsum", his book about coding for kids. Kyle Gilpin on the self-assembling robot. David Bausola on the next gen of social bots: Weavrs.
Justin Cranshaw on the Livehoods Project. Alexander Furnas on pre-crime screening technology. Brian Gage on the trouble with audio CAPTCHAS. Mark Shermis and Laura Anderson on robo-readers grading essays. Tannis Calder on code in the classroom.
Reid Tatoris on game CAPTCHAs. Cathi Bond on POV Video glasses. Heather Knight on the Robot Film Fest. David Fewer on Bill C-11 and copyright in Canada. Carman Neustaedter on Long-distance relationship tech. Steve Matteson on designing fonts for mobile de
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 forg
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.
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 network
