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First Aired - 03/20/2011 04:30PM
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Are libraries dead? Do we need books anymore? Has digital media taken over the printed word? What does the future hold for archiving? Curtis B. Wayne & Jacob Alspector attempt to answer these questions and more on a library themed edition of Burning Down the House. Tune in to learn why more books are being printed today than every before and how libraries are, and always will be, an essential ingredient for a thriving culture. This episode was sponsored by www.WholeFoodsMarket.com
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Burning Down the House: Digitizing the World (14:31)
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Curtis B. Wayne, Burning Down the House, Fairway Market, Jacob Alspector, libraries, digitizing the world, The Six Discourses, digital browsing, simulated browsing, Amazon, nothing can replace the smell and feel of books, random discovery, Brooklyn Public Library, libraries are intertwined with our culture and history, historical data,Digital Preservation and The Rise of.....Book Production? (17:49)
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Richard Thompson, digital preservation, YouTube as a digital archive, what happens if the grid goes down?, life before the internet, why continue to build libraries?, libraries weren't always accessible to the public, private libraries, society libraries, public libraries, they are making more books than ever, book publishing business, production is up, libraries as meeting places, media keeps changing, humans are social animals, the time before slackers, Eddie Haskel,Information Explosion! (15:43)
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Wayback Machine, www.archive.org, book production, one medium does not displace another, no tool has been invented that is not still in use, over production, our brains need to recover, information explosion, e-books, NPR.org/blog/monkeysee, next big pop culture wave might be libraries, are local libraries necessary?, librarians, information exchange,Blinded by Science (13:01)
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Starbucks, people are lonely, technology is getting smaller, open marketplace of ideas, library design, digital publishing, digital readers for digital books, limited format, eBooks are here to stay, are we blinded by our technology?, ancient scrolls, books are not going away, population is booming, blinded by science,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 03/13/2011 04:30PM
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This week on Burning Down the House, host Curtis B. Wayne revisits the German Passivhaus standard for energy efficiency in a building, this time with both Stephanie Bassler & Ryan Enschede. They discuss specifics such as air infiltration, air stream heat reclamation & cost efficiency on a very informative and descriptive episode of BDH. Tune in to learn more about the future of architecture and efficiency. This episode was sponsored by The Museum of Food & Drink.
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Burning Down the House: Thinking of Japan (6:34)
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Curtis B. Wayne, Burning Down the House, Japan Earthquake, tsunami, Sendai, no buildings have collapsed, a new 6.2 earthquake hit today, damaged nuclear reactors, nuclear energy, how can we make our houses energy efficient,Revisiting Passivhaus with Stephanie Bassler & Ryan Enschede (32:40)
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Museum of Food and Drink, Stephanie Bassler, Ryan Enschede, Passivhaus, Austria, Passivhaus standards, energy code, UL standards, Austrian code, small efforts become large efforts, sustainable energy, responsibility vs idealism, when will things change?, a crisis may be what's needed to motivate people, Passivhaus is a great container, Passive House, licensed architects, homey-ness as a perceived notion, insulation, BTU's per hour, leaking energy, heat pumps, Mitsubishi Mr. Slim unit, fireplaces, uphill battle, varying climates in the US, Germany has a particular climate, addressing hot water, air stream heat reclamation, recovering heat from humidity, maintaining a stasis in the building relative to outside, Zehnder, seasonal storage, Omega Institute Rhinebeck,The Nuts & Bolts of Cost and Energy Efficiency (17:43)
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MoFaD, slabs, interior footing, R60, incremental based on what local builders are used to, David Sember, Center for Sustainable Living, R value per inch, air permeable material, cost efficiency, environmental impact, air infiltration, drafty old houses, energy efficiency, energy changes states but is not gained or lost,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 03/06/2011 02:00PM
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This week on Cutting the Curd, Anne returns to the State of Cheese Series - this time exploring all things dairy in the state of Massachusetts. She begins the show with Barbara Hanley of Shy Brothers Farm and later speaks with Susan Sellew of Rawson Brook Farm. Tune in to learn more about goat dairy production, how large cheese and small cheese productions differ greatly and how its always tough to separate offspring from their parents. This episode was sponsored by Whole Foods Market.
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State of Cheese: Massachusetts - Barbara Hanley of Shy Brothers Farm (22:34)
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Anne Saxelby, Cutting the Curd, Heritage Radio Network, Whole Foods Market, State of Cheese, Massachusetts, cheese trivia, Cheshire Mammoth Cheese, rebellion to tyrants is obedience to god, Barbara Hanley, Shy Brothers Farm, Hannahbelles, geotrichum, affinage, large cheese vs tiny cheese, rotating cheese, keeping the right conditions, hand made cheese, packaging, third generation farming, transitioning farmers, every industry has to change, making milk is much different than making cheese,Susan Sellew of Rawson Brook Farm (23:29)
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Susan Sellew, Rawson Brook Farm, goats, goat cheese, homesteading, 85% of the business is local, women in cheese, collective conscious, Susan sold the cheese illegally out of her house to begin with, took 4 years to build a barn, cheese people with background in the arts, farmers making cheese with milk, it's hard to find time to get away from the farm, farm interns, Redwood Hill, Jennifer Bice, kidding season, newborn goats, separating kids from parents, bottles are labeled with the moms name, Susan didn't lose a single kid last year, farmstead cheese, labor and feed, production is all about nutrition, monteray chev, Monterey Chevre,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
