Meditative Sounds Listen to the sounds of someone just standing silently Claudia Dawson

germany Hornets vs. ants: a battle for water in slo-mo Rusty Blazenhoff

music Swell Season, from the lovely film Once, reuniting for US tour (video) David Pescovitz

Disgraced LA city council member Kevin de León gets into a fight at a toy give-away Jason Weisberger

Spoken Word with Electronics How to Make Sound Waves from Moonlight Ethan Persoff

single-serve websites Website changes your voice Rob Beschizza

Spoken Word with Electronics The Role of Analog Shift Registers in Electronic Music Ethan Persoff

Spoken Word with Electronics The Music of Stranger Things and "Universal Event Generators" Ethan Persoff

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accessibility The Stranger Things closed caption team explains the art of (tentacles undulating moistly) Thom Dunn

tabloids "Humiliated Meghan" in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

learning to fly on demand Passenger with no flying experience lands a plane when pilot becomes incapacitated (audio) Carla Sinclair

Space Listen to audio recorded on Mars, where the speed of sound is slower than on Earth David Pescovitz

cats How to potty train your cat, according to jazz musician Charles Mingus Thom Dunn

Audio A bat detector made with a Raspberry Pi Rob Beschizza

music "What Happens When We Die?" is an extremely creepy childrens' audiobook from 1964 Popkin

books Please enjoy "Goodnight Moon," the vintage filmstrip David Pescovitz

youtube YouTube threatens to close Aquachigger's channel after he reports "reaction" YouTuber who swiped his videos (UPDATE: heat's off) Rob Beschizza

Rosemary Leary describes her life as a psychedelic pioneer and her decades as a fugitive Mark Frauenfelder

airlines Pilot recorded delivering a crazy, curse-filled rant against the Bay Area David Pescovitz