Studying Cancer, Flourecent Cells and the Life of a Research Tech

July 15, 2009 3 comments

Zach’s job involves the tiny tiny proteins that move human cells.  He stops by North and Clark to tell us about his work, and why its important to make proteins glow in the dark. – [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download here “You shine this infrared light on the whole body and the (cancer cells) [...]

The Power of the $150 Computer

July 11, 2009 4 comments

Willie Cade and the people who work at PCRR are looking to bridge the digital divide, save the environment and get your old computer out of you attic. Just how they plan on doing that is explained in the interview below. Interview with Willie Cade Part 1 [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download [...]

Money, Hitmen, Brazil, Explosives and Emeralds (Part 2)

July 1, 2009 2 comments
Money, Hitmen, Brazil, Explosives and Emeralds (Part 2)

The second half of our interview with anthropologist and University of Chicago Alum Professor Brian Brazeal.  This part of the interview concerns Brian’s own personal experience of the emerald trade and his method for studying the sellers, the buyers, and a place called the Rat Market. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download Here “Even the [...]

Money, Hitmen, Brazil, Explosives and Emeralds

July 1, 2009 4 comments
Money, Hitmen, Brazil, Explosives and Emeralds

Emerald mining is a business fraught with international intrigue and explosions as professor and anthropologist Brian Brazeal explains. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] “If anybody tries to take my mine I’ll shoot em’.” See part 2 tomorrow

Wednesday Podcast: Joi Podgorny

June 24, 2009 No comments yet

If you’re lonely it’s not the internet’s fault. Joi is a kids online communities specialist, and digital socialite extrodinare. – [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download here “My bread and butter is community, I make people be friends with each other and talk to each other and have those kinds of relationships” For [...]

Wednesday Podcast: Jesse Alexander

June 17, 2009 7 comments

Jesse is a transgender guy who recently changed his name and pronoun. I know Jesse because he plays drums with Tom Fort in a Chicago band I love called Cobalt and the Hired Guns. We talk about identity, changing names and the gender as a continuum. – [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download [...]

“She Loved” or Musical Orgasm

June 4, 2009 2 comments

In his interview Peter Terry talks about hoosier pride, but to me he sounds like Chicago blues. Peter speaks in a low voice, but when the man sings it’s hide your daughters time.  I went to see the him at work and he stopped a minute to sing us a song.  It takes a minute for [...]

Managing Musicians: "I Just Want to See People Make it to the Next Level"

June 3, 2009 1 comment

Mike Pallen talks about the three Chicago artist and what he does to promote them. – - – - – - – - – - [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download here Mike Manages Grimm Taylor, and Peter Terry. He also does development work for former America’s Top Model contestant Sarah VonderHaar. Tomorrow [...]

Bonus! Metal! Exclamation!

May 23, 2009 No comments yet

Last week we interviewed Tom Fort, but some of that interview got left on the cutting room floor, and in honor of his big show at Shuba’s Sunday we are giving you guys a little bit of what got left out last Wednesday. Bonus! Metal! Exclamation! (Tom Fort on the metalheads)

Wednesday Podcast: Teaching in Japan

May 20, 2009 2 comments

Every highschool student in Japan has a rank, a number and a home room. Some of them have to clean their school bathroom. Former Japanese-High-School teacher Amanda McClintock explains. – [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download here



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