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- A 33-Year-Old NPR Story Convinced Me Google Glass Will Stop Looking So Dorky http://www.onthemedia.org/story/google-glass-dorky/ 200 comments
- Yesterday, the Internet Solved a 20-year-old Mystery http://www.onthemedia.org/story/yesterday-internet-solved-20-year-old-mystery/ 58 comments
- The bomb-hoaxing Harvard student was using Tor, but they caught him anyway http://www.onthemedia.org/story/harvard-bomb-threat/ 70 comments
- How I learned to Stop Feeling Safe in My Own Country and Hate Border Agents http://www.onthemedia.org/story/my-detainment-story-or-how-i-learned-stop-feeling-safe-my-own-country-and-hate-border-patrol/transcript/ 9 comments
- Journalist detained at US/Canadian Border http://www.onthemedia.org/story/my-detainment-story-or-how-i-learned-stop-feeling-safe-my-own-country-and-hate-border-patrol/?utm_media=treatment 8 comments
- The man who won the right to discuss his National Security Letter (2011) http://www.onthemedia.org/2013/jan/04/national-security-letters-and-gag-orders/ 14 comments
- The Gentleman Hacker of 1903 http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/jan/13/gentleman-hacker-1903/ 4 comments
- Consumer's Handbook: Election Polls Edition - how you can identify accurate polls and stay away from dicey ones. http://www.onthemedia.org/story/breaking-news-consumers-handbook-election-polls-edition/ 6 comments politics
- NPR's TLD podcast withdraws episode criticizing Vivek Wadhwa for speaking for women in technology http://www.onthemedia.org/story/episode-45/ 5 comments technology
- Facebook Will Now Let You Block All Articles from Any Website http://www.onthemedia.org/story/facebook-will-now-let-you-block-all-articles-any-website/ 18 comments technology
- A Stranger Can Find Out Where You Are By Getting You To Open An Email http://www.onthemedia.org/story/stranger-can-find-out-where-you-are-just-getting-you-open-email/?t=32t352 2 comments technology
- Nice and easy way for burglars to tell when you are not at home: Tracking you via email when you open their mail. http://www.onthemedia.org/story/stranger-can-find-out-where-you-are-just-getting-you-open-email/ 15 comments technology
- I'm a public radio journalist, and I'd like to interview a former army recruiter. http://www.onthemedia.org/ 5 comments army
- Israel considers criminalizing the use of the word "Nazi" http://www.onthemedia.org/story/banning-other-n-word/ 59 comments linguistics
- That Bomb-Hoaxing Harvard Student Was Using Tor, But They Caught Him Anyway http://www.onthemedia.org/story/harvard-bomb-threat/ 275 comments technology
- JFK and Self-Absorbed Baby Boomers - On The Media http://www.onthemedia.org/story/jfk-and-self-absorbed-baby-boomers/ 5 comments politics
- What It's Like When Redditors Ban Your Interview About Redditors' Content Bans - The politics behind /r/politics. http://www.onthemedia.org/story/what-its-when-redditors-ban-your-interview-about-reddits-content-bans/ 8 comments politics
- What It's Like When Redditors Ban Your Interview About Redditors' Content Bans http://www.onthemedia.org/story/what-its-when-redditors-ban-your-interview-about-reddits-content-bans/ 16 comments politics
- On Monday, the moderators of r/Politics added a bunch of websites to their banned list: Alternet, Drudge, The Huffington Post, Mother Jones, National Review, Reason, Salon, Vice, and Twitter (!). http://www.onthemedia.org/story/what-its-when-redditors-ban-your-website/?p=1 3 comments politics
- On Monday, the moderators of r/Politics added a bunch of websites to their banned list: Alternet, Drudge, The Huffington Post, Mother Jones, National Review, Reason, Salon, Vice, and Twitter (!). http://www.onthemedia.org/story/what-its-when-redditors-ban-your-website/?p=1 13 comments politics
- What It's Like When Redditors Ban Your Website http://www.onthemedia.org/story/what-its-when-redditors-ban-your-website/ 4 comments politics
- My Detainment Story or: How I learned to Stop Feeling Safe in my own country and Hate Border Patrol http://www.onthemedia.org/story/my-detainment-story-or-how-i-learned-stop-feeling-safe-my-own-country-and-hate-border-patrol/ 12 comments politics
- Are there Antitrust / Competition Law concerns for B&N refusing to sell Amazon books? Thoughts? Discussion? http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/nov/23/ 5 comments law
- fMRI Study: No matter how well informed you are, you will utilize a reward (dopamine - releasing) system in your brain to deflect yourself from feeling conflicted when your political views are marred by incriminating data or hypocrisy. http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/oct/12/your-brain-politics/ 6 comments politics
- Privacy concerns: e-readers transmit data about both WHAT and HOW you read http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/jul/13/ebooks-read-you/ 7 comments privacy
- Public radio journalists and political expression - An interview with Caitlin Curran, who was dismissed from her WNYC position last month for participating in OWS http://www.onthemedia.org/2011/nov/04/public-radio-journalists-and-political-expression/ 4 comments politics
- You want to know what Bin Laden was saying on those tapes released without audio? According to Flagg Miller, who has translated hundreds of these recordings, Bin Laden is reciting poetry most of the time. http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2011/05/06/03 105 comments worldnews
- James Bridle documented all changes made to the Iraq War's Wikipedia entry for 5 yrs. Ended up being the size of a set of encyclopedias. Awesome audio interview. http://www.onthemedia.org/episodes/2011/04/22/segments/159178?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=%24%7Bfeed%7D&utm_campaign=feed%3A+%24%7Botm%7D+%28%24%7Bon+the+media%7D%29 3 comments politics
- Small town reporter heard a joke about buying gones from the sheriff's office, so she sent an intern to ask for the evidence logs. When the Sheriff's office resisted every attempt to get information, the newspaper kept digging... (audio, NPR's "On the Media") http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2011/04/01/02 3 comments reddit.com
- Ira Glass (of This American Life) challenges NPR to stop being pussies and stand up against FOX News! http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2011/03/11/04 25 comments politics
- NPR's On The Media asks (basically): Is the Internet turning us into douchebags? http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2011/02/18/01 4 comments technology
- Fox employees Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, and Mike Huckabee are all possible 2012 Pres. candidates. They get paychecks that could cover campaigns, and they signed exclusivity deals with Fox. What are the implications of this? http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2010/10/01/04 217 comments politics
- On March 18th, a public auction will be held in Midtown Manhattan for one of the most coveted pieces of internet real estate, ever: sex.com http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2010/02/26/06 7 comments business
- Global conspiracy to change a key trade agreement will empowers ISPs to cut off service to "accused" internet file sharers. This is bad. http://www.onthemedia.org/episodes/2010/02/19/segments/150452 14 comments technology
- "When you give people the option between 1 star and 5 star, most things average out to about 4.3, and some particular categories of products tend to average even higher. Like if you look at the average ratings for dog food, that’s like a 4.8." http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2009/10/09/08 11 comments science
- It's not the medical industry or lobbyist that are holding up health-care reform. It is a purely political battle. The Republicans want to stop it just to make Obama look bad. Again, we see the Republicans put party before country. http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2009/08/21/01 4 comments politics
- up until a few weeks before Food Inc. came to interview, Tyson and Purdue defended the practice of feeding arsenic to chickens... http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2009/07/17/07 3 comments reddit.com
- Harvard study: kids who exclusively play violent video games have the same risk of violent and bullying behavior as kids who do not play games *at all* http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2008/05/02/06 2 comments reddit.com
- Most of America knows Rudy Giuliani as the sainted hero of 9/11. But the New York press, had a very different take on him, at least through September 10th, 2001. http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2007/02/09/05 3 comments politics
- South America's Largest City Bans All Outdoor Advertising http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2007/04/20/04 2 comments reddit.com