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Heroes Of Podcasting #3: Leo Laporte, This Week In Tech | Curious Minds Podcast

August 28, 2016History, Information Technology, Podcast_Episodespodcastingranlevi

Leo Laporte & Ran Levi | Curious Minds Podcast — Leo Laporte & Ran Levi

This series explores the history and future of podcasting, and each episode will feature a single guest who is a pioneer of podcasting. This time, we’re interviewing Leo Laporte, from This Week In Tech.

Leo Laporte is one of the very first podcasters. In 2005 Leo left – or almost left – traditional radio to start his own podcasting network, centered around cutting edge technology news, called TWIT. TWIT quickly became one of the most successful podcast networks with millions of downloads and award winning show such as This Week In Tech, Security Now and the New Screen Savers.

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Heroes Of Podcasting #2: Jay Soderberg (The PodVader), VP of BlogTalkRadio | Curious Minds Podcast

August 16, 2016Arts, History, Information Technology, Podcast_Episodespodcastingranlevi

This series explores the history and future of podcasting, and each episode will feature a single guest who is a pioneer of podcasting. This time, we’re interviewing Jay Soderberg – AKA The Pod Vader. Head of Content at BlogTalkRadio and Host of the Next Fan Up show.

Jay Soderberg started in podcasting back in 2006. Jay’s story is rather unique, since his first steps in podcasting were in the corporate world, whereas the vast majority of podcasters back then were independent creators. We talked about the advantages and disadvantages of podcasting in a corporate environment, Jay’s vision as Head of Content and, of course, the origins of his nickname – the Pod Vader.

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Heroes Of Podcasting #1: Inventor of MP3, Prof. Karlheinz Brandenburg | Curious Minds Podcast

August 4, 2016Arts, History, Podcast_Episodes, Technologypodcastingranlevi

This series explores the history and future of podcasting, and each episode will feature a single guest who is a pioneer of podcasting. This time, we’re interviewing Prof. Karlheinz Brandenburg – inventor of the popular MP3 format which a critical innovation in Podcasting history.

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Cloud Of Sense by Everknew
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The History of Open Source & Free Software, Pt. 2 | Curious Minds Podcast

June 27, 2016Information Technology, Podcast_EpisodesSoftwareranlevi

With Special Guests: Richard Stallman & Tim O’Reilly!

In 1998, a group of people broke away from the Free Software Foundation and created instead the Open Source Initiative. What were their motives? Richard Stallman, the founder of the FSF, and Tim O’Reilly who helped popularize the term ‘Open Source’ discuss the history of Open Source & Free Software.

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A big Thank You to Richard Stallman & Tim O’Reilly for appearing in the episode.
Beer & Coffee lovers – Check out The Drips & Draughts Podcast, With BRENDAN HANSON!
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The Solar System’s Little Known Members – Astronomy Shorts 4 | Curious Minds Podcast

June 14, 2016Astronomy & Space, Podcast_EpisodesSolar Systemranlevi

What’s Astronomy Shorts? It’s a series of short episodes that will give you a taste of the very diverse field of astronomy. Try listening to the episode with your kids!

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The Solar System’s Little-Known Members

This episode will focus on a few of the lesser-known children of the Solar System neighborhood: The Oort Cloud, Kuiper’s Belt & Dwarf Planets.

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The Planet’s, Op.32 – Gustav Holst

The History of Open Source & Free Software, Pt. 1, w/ Special Guest: Richard Stallman| Curious Minds Podcast

June 3, 2016Information Technology, Podcast_Episodes, TechnologySoftwareranlevi

In the early 1980’s Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation (FSF): a socio-technological movement that revolutionized the software world. In this episode, we’ll hear Stallman himself talking about the roots of the movement, and learn of its early struggles.

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A big Thank You to Richard Stallman for appearing in the episode. If you support Free Software, please donate to the Free Software Foundation.
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Astronomy Shorts 3: Crazy Weather On Other Planets| Curious Minds

May 23, 2016Astronomy & Space, Podcast_EpisodesSolar Systemranlevi

What’s Astronomy Shorts? It’s a series of short episodes that will give you a taste of the very diverse field of astronomy. Try listening to the episode with your kids!

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Crazy Weather On Other Planets

Humans have yet to have set foot on a different planet, but today, from their limited vantage point on Earth, astronomers are able to notice a few breathtaking phenomena that are beyond human imagination. This episode reveals some of the greatest, most amazing, violent and impressive meteorological phenomena seen on other planets in the Solar System.

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The Planet’s, Op.32 – Gustav Holst

The Indo-European Language, Pt. 2: Linguistics & Genetics| Curious Minds Podcast

May 9, 2016Biology and Genetics, History, Medicine and Physiology, Podcast_EpisodesLinguisticsranlevi

Yamna Indo-European Langugue - Curious Minds Podcast In the previous part of the episode, we learned how linguists were able to reconstruct bits of the ancient & long lost Indo-European language. In this episode, we’ll discover what can these words tell us about life in the Bronze Age, family ties, and nomadic relationships. We’ll also learn about the links between Genetics & Linguistics: a recent genetic finding that explains the unprecedented success of that language: a single lucky mutation that enabled the Yamna People, as they are called today, to digest milk.

Link To The Indo-European Language, Pt. 1

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A big Thank You to Kevin Stroud, from The History of English podcast – for his help with research and appearing in the episode.
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Ancient Cavern II By Carlos Carty
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The Indo-European Language, Pt. 1 | Curious Minds

April 15, 2016History, Podcast_EpisodesLinguisticsranlevi

William Jones - Curious Minds Podcast Join authors Ran Levi & Kelly O’Laughlin as they explore a surprising discovery in the field of linguistics. William Jones, a British judge in India, uncovered the existence of an ancient language, the ancestor of an amazing variety of modern languages – from English and French to the Persian Farsi and Indian Sanskrit.

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Link To ‘The Indo-European Language Part II’ Episode

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A big Thank You to Kevin Stroud, from The History of English podcast – for his help with research and appearing in the episode.
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Film Noir Pre-Show By Josh Stovall
Kanmonyo By Miguel Mendez
Raag Misra Khamaj Sitar By Auburnsangeet
Four Experiments for Piano: II, Presto By Steven O’Brien

Astronomy Shorts 2: Three Breathtaking Views within the Solar System | Curious Minds

March 31, 2016Astronomy & Space, Podcast_EpisodesSolar Systemranlevi

What’s Astronomy Shorts? It’s a series of short episodes that will give you a taste of the very diverse field of astronomy, hopefully enough to stir your curiosity. Each episode will reveal fascinating details and facts about celestial objects, space, and our universe as a whole. This is a shorter, perhaps lighter, version of Curious Minds, meant to satisfy your curiosity in between our regular Curious Minds episodes.

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Three Breathtaking Views within the Solar System

A journey to outer space has many dangers and challenges; but for those courageous astronauts, the trip might be worthwhile. Some of the planets and moons in the Solar System have views that are really, but really, out of this world: The Caloris Basin, Iapetus, and Miranda.