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Hans Raffauf and Bill St. Arnaud talk social solar-power gadget chargers. Marie-Jose Monpetit on the present and future of social TV. Nora Young visits a telepresence art exhibit. Amanda Lenhart on a new study about teens and social media. And Jon Kalish

Cathi Bond on the personal 3D viewer, Rob Cruickshank on the history of 3D tech, Nancy Baym on Personal Connections In The Digital World, David Plotz on fake Facebook birthdays, Kaj Hasselriis on Skype Sleeping, Louis Marrone on blogging for no one, and M

Kalina Christoff on whether digital devices are keeping us from being creative. Jeana Lee Tahnk on kids and tech gadgets, Mark Jeffrey on a resurgence in real-time environments, Jillian York on account deactivation and content removal, and Brooke Gladston

Rob Spence on the Eyeborg Project. Ayesha Khanna on living in the hybrid age. Mark Allemang and David Ticoll on the dearth of young people interested in Computer Science and IT. Corey Takahashi shows us all is not lost, with a group of teens who have deve

Jason Kottke and Chris Wilson on Robottke, Ted Striphas on the algorithmization of culture, Marjorie Skubic on sensors and the elderly, Farhad Manjoo on robots replacing humans in high skill professions, Sonya Buyting on solar storms and digital destructi

Jennifer Steeves and Alessandro Acquisti on facial recognition, Jonathan Koomey on why efficiency is the new power, Jure Leskovec on predicting the future through behaviour mining, and Ayesha Khanna on the future of smart cities

David Fewer and Murray Stooke with both sides of the controversial "lawful access" legislation expected to be unveiled by Canada's federal government in the near future. Kaj Hasselriis on provincial election data collection. Leonard Paul on the art of Chi

Alice Marwick on the cost of opting out of tech and social media. Zeynep Tufekci and scientist blogger "Scicurious" on the need for pseudonymity online. Robert Scoble in defence of the Google+ real name policy. Sue Gardner on gender imbalance on Wikipedia

Summer is over and Spark is back for our 5th season! This week we give education a reboot, debunk the myth of the digital native, and look at the intersection of art, memory, and math in a memorial for September 11th.

This summer on the Spark podcast, we're playing extended versions of some of our favourite interviews from the past season. This week, Nora's full interview with Siva Vaidhyanathan. Siva is a professor of Media Studies and Law at the University of Virgini

This summer on the Spark podcast, we're playing extended versions of some of our favourite interviews from the past season. This week, Nora's interview with Anders Samberg from the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University in England. Anders and N

This summer on the Spark podcast, we're playing extended versions of some of our favourite interviews from the past season. This week, Nora's full interview with Adam Greenfield. Adam is the founder and managing director of the urban-systems design practi

This summer on the Spark podcast, we're playing extended versions of some of our favourite interviews from the past season. This week, Nora's full interview with Ilana Gershon, author of The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting over New Media.

This summer on the Spark podcast, we're playing extended versions of some of our favourite interviews from the past season. This week, Nora's full interview with Brian Christian, author of The Most Human Human. It's all about Brian's experience taking par

This summer on the Spark podcast, we're playing extended versions of some of our favourite interviews from the past season. This week, Nora's full interview with Isabel Pedersen. Isabel is a Communications professor at Ryerson University who studies "real