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Is an entertaining and enlightening podcast! It’s produced by a sound design company as a portfolio project, and they do great work—-listen with headphones if you can. Each episode page has an audio player, credits for all the music, and a transcription (thank you for this excellent design!) 20k.org has almost 200 episodes.

https://www.20k.org/episodes/domesticsymphony explores ambient noises — audio feedback and alarms from appliances like dishwashers and ovens — as well as a firm advocating quieter tools:

100 word taster )

https://www.20k.org/episodes/videolessgames features two blind gamers.

130 words )

jesse_the_k: Those words with glammed-up Alan Cummings (Drama queen)

The short-run series Articles of Interest by Avery Trufleman just dropped a fascinating episode about how dress suits became the Western uniform for "men."

Trufleman respectfully explores the gendered connotations head on. The 17th century influencer Beau Brummell used clothing to advance an anti-monarchist political statement. Then Oscar Wilde’s imprisonment for homosexuality terrified straight men away from his fabulous dress sense and into suit conformity. The history is wrapped in the story of Ray (gender not specified because it’s not relevant to the story) wondering how to dress up for their partner’s wedding.

185-word taste )

podcast audio to stream or download or read the transcript

jesse_the_k: iPod nestles in hollowed-out print book (Alt format reader)

In eight 50-minute episodes, the CONTAINERS podcast producer Alexis Madrigal explores how global transport changed from humans putting individual things in ships and airplanes to putting things into train-car size containers, which are loaded via huge cranes onto huge boats. Containerization is why cheaply-made goods have flooded the world. The series examines how this change, started almost by accident during the Vietnam war, has affected billions of people in small and large ways. The series is sponsored by Flexport, who are in the container business—and it is definitely not a puff piece.

I’m pleased that Madrigal has posted transcripts at medium.com/containers and you can listen from there or from CONTAINERS’ audio on Soundcloud

Containerization is why my supermarket stocks frozen, peeled and boiled Vietnamese soybeans, even though I live in Wisconsin, a soybean producing state. Alexis Madrigal (a writer for The Atlantic) asks what happens to the dock workers and the handful of sailors who move these huge container ships around the globe. He tells how Oakland residents fought back against the concentration of diesel fumes from the new container ports where thousands of trucks idle daily.

Episode 6 begins:

This is a story about heroes in West Oakland like Margaret Gordon. This is a story about people who stood up and said, “No, not on my watch.” This is not a story about the health department. And this is not a story even about the port. This is a story about people coming together to fight for justice. And they won. And they won big. And they won in a way that had influence on what’s happening in ports all over this country. And in fact ports all around the world. I think those are the true heroes, the Margaret Gordons … They drove this change and they deserve the credit.

The series digs in to the origins and beginnings of containerized shipping.

For a beautiful and informative demonstration of containerized shipping 2012, visit ShipMap.org. There’s an autoplay audio overview, and an animated interactive map showing all the container ships on the planet and what they’re carrying.

jesse_the_k: BBC John Watson wearing coat full of plastique (JW hates semtex)
On my sidebar you'll find more than 140 fanfic recs for BBC's Sherlock fanfic. I loved ACD Sherlock Holmes growing up, and I clearly like Sherlock fic now. It's the perfect show in that regard: it's often called the first fandom to be ficced, and the showrunners excel at episodes that need fixing.

The most recent example is the New Year Special: The Abominable Bride. You can read the entire show thanks to [livejournal.com profile] arianedevere's loving transcripts:
http://arianedevere.livejournal.com/81144.html

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