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California Sounds
Remembering life in Lexington, KY in the 1970s and how it shaped music tastes for better or worse.
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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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How To Count Isomers
Organic chemistry, unlike physical chemistry, is not a natural breeding ground for mathematics. Yet math has a way of lurking in unexpected places.
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Irrational Composition (Happy Pi Day!)
Irrational numbers collide with composition. Plus, a new app to generate music.
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The Many Minis
The Google Arts and Culture website put together this wonderful history of the Moog MiniMoog showing the various prototypes that led to the Model D.
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The Avinger Projects
I call him the Avenger because he's a guitar super hero. A collection of tracks from Erich Avinger.
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Hemingway App
The Flesch-Kincaid readability score is a metric that helps writers identify cluttered language. For example, a score of Grade 9 means it would take a ninth grade education to understand…
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Linda Perhacs
File under lost artists from the early ’70s. Parallelograms, the 1970 debut release by Singer-songwriter Linda Perhacs, is an album steeped in the tradition of CSNY and Joni Mitchell…
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Prevalence and the Base Rate Fallacy
A deep dive into the theory of PPVs using Bayes' Theorem. Or, how diagnostic test calculators work, the hidden gotcha with blind testing and as a bonus: extraterrestrials.
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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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Quarantine World
Mid May. The world has shutdown. We’re locked in our pods. Got a text from my friend, singer Danielle Reich, about doing a remote duet. We settled on the…
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Green’s Functions Illustrated
There's no shame in admitting this: Green's functions can be a tad bit confusing. The purpose of this post is to provide an overview that will hopefully help you…
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Harmonic Functions: Why They’re Nifty
Harmonic functions arise in countless engineering and physics applications. Here's an overview of these mathematical marvels.
