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Are new ideas and new inventions inevitable? Are they driven by us or by a larger force of nature? In this episode, we look at the things we make—from spoons to microwaves to computers—as an extension of the same evolutionary processes that made us. And we may need to adapt to the idea that our technology could someday truly have a mind of its own.

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The band Dropkick Murphys formed in Boston in 1996. For over twenty years, they’ve made music that’s reflected the culture and community they’ve come from, including their platinum single "Shipping Up to Boston." In January 2017, they released the album "11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory," which includes the song Blood. In this episode, guitarist Tim Brennan breaks down how the music for Blood was made, and the band founder Ken Casey explains the inspiration behind the lyrics.

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• iPhone 7 long-term review, waffling about sizes
  • Marco's review of spam-call blockers
  • Nomorobo, the one you should get
• Follow up: Casey is un-American
• Upgrading your iOS device from HFS+ to APFS
  • Will APFS be open-source?
• Apple earnings results
• What's up with iPad sales?
  • The Future of Computing
  • PC use dies on the weekends (via @asymco)
  • Upgrade #126: Spinny Propellery Guy
• Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
• Post-show: ARM chip doing more in future MacBooks

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The film Moonlight tells the story of its main character, Chiron, in three chapters: when Chiron is a young boy, nicknamed Little, when he's a teenager, and when he's an adult, nicknamed Black. For each chapter of the film, composer Nicholas Britell created a theme, and in this episode, Nicholas takes those themes apart. The score for Moonlight was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe, and the film itself won the Golden Globe for Best Drama.

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Back in 1911, a box with a dead raccoon in it showed up in Washington D.C., at the office of Gerrit S. Miller. After pulling it out and inspecting it, he realized this raccoon was from the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe, and unlike anything he’d ever seen before.  He c...

Pre-show: Casey needs his morning coffee Follow up: Consumer Reports does an about-face Microsoft Surface Ergonomic Keyboard Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard Apple Magic Keyboard WebKit's new Garbage Collector: Riptide APFS is in iOS 10.3 Developers will be able ...

Transcript of this episode

• Follow up: MacRumors talks with Lattner
• LLVM
  • LLVM Bytecode vs. LLVM Bitcode
  • Bitcode
  • Slicing
• Clang
• OpenGL
• Swift
• ARC
• Swift Open Source
• Casey's love letter to Swift enums
• Swift Evolution "Commonly Rejected Changes" list
• asm.js, WebAssembly & TypeScript
• RxSwift
  • Casey's primer series
• Garbage collection vs. ARC
  • libauto
  • Singularity
  • Finalizer
  • Go's garbage collection
  • Java Native Interface
• Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
• Post-show Neutral

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We love to share great radio, even if we didn’t make it. Today, On the Media’s Brooke Gladstone tells Jad and Robert about a mammoth project they launched to take a critical look at the tales we tell ourselves when we talk about poverty. In a 5-part series called "Busted: Am...

Solange Knowles released her first album in 2002, at the age of 16. Her third album, A Seat at the Table, came out in September 2016, and debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts. It’s gotten widespread critical acclaim, including being named album of the year by Pitchfork and by Vibe. In this episode, Solange takes apart the song "Cranes in the Sky," which began back in 2008.

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• Follow up: Marco and AirDrop
• Mac Progress Quandary 1 2 3
  • Tripmode.Helvetica
• Consumer Reports test results
• Chris Lattner leaves Apple for Tesla
  • LLVM, GCC, Clang
  • Apple → Tesla defections
  • Chris' woodworking (and making of)
  • Benevolent dictator for life
  • Self-driving car challenges and techniques
• Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
• Post-show: Blog CMS languages
  • Regular expression Denial of Service

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Metallica formed in 1981. They were teenagers. Since then, they’ve gone on to become one of the most successful bands of all time, selling over 110 million records worldwide. In November 2016, they released their tenth album, Hardwired…to Self-Destruct. In this episode, the song “Moth into Flame" gets taken apart by singer and guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich.

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Naked robotic MacBook Pro core MacRumors post (Hands-on video from after we recorded that answers some of our questions) VGA passthrough coupler Powerbook G5 Faux Mockup On pros leaving the Mac Sam Abuelsamid of Wheel Bearings on CarPlay Mac users are grumpy Apple's 2016 Year in Review Chris Adamson buys a Mac Pro he didn't want Finding an Alternative to macOS John's tweet John's Google Home Dan Moren's early impressions Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: Marco goes for a drive Sponsored by: Squarespace: Build it beautiful. Use code ATP for 10% off your first order. Casper: An obsessively engineered mattress at a shockingly fair price. Use code ATP for $50 toward your mattress. Betterment: Investing made better.

No matter what sport you play, the object of the game is to win. And that’s hard enough to do. But we found a match where four top athletes had to do the opposite in one of the most high profile matches of their careers. Thanks to a quirk in the tournament rules, their best ...

• Pre-show: Back Channel
• Follow up: Ryan Jones on the AirPods charging port
• Gurman on Mac Malaise
• Q&A
  • Siracusa toaster reviews
  • Dovenote
  • Weather Line
  • Casey's photo management workflow
  • Casey's standing desk and mat
  • Casey's laptop bag

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• Windows and Tabs of Siracusa County (Overcast)
  • 10.1 tabs
  • 10.2 tabs 1 2 3 4
  • 10.3 tabs
  • 10.3 nested tabs
• Follow up:
  • Android Battery burn-down chart
• Our reviews of Super Mario Run launches
  • Updated numbers
  • Angry reviewers
• Apple extends accessory discount
  • LG UltraFine 5K Display
• Our reviews of AirPods
  • Replacement singles
  • iFixit Teardown
• Tim Cook's comment on Mac desktops
  • Marco makes the case for a Mac Pro
• Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
• Post-show:
  • Marco discovers gasoline
  • A new member of the Siracusa family

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The film LA LA LAND tells the story of Mia, an aspiring actress played by Emma Stone, and Sebastian, a jazz pianist played by Ryan Gosling, both of them struggling artists in Los Angeles. The musical was written and directed by Damien Chazelle in collaboration with composer Justin Hurwitz. It’s the third film they’ve made together, the follow-up to the Oscar-winning film Whiplash. In this episode, Justin Hurwitz breaks down a song from the film sung by Emma Stone; it’s called Audition (The Fools Who Dream). Plus, some thoughts from Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, who wrote the lyrics.

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It’s the end of the year, and the entire Radiolab team is starting to take stock and come up for air. We're excited about how much ground we've covered - stories about college debaters and figure skaters, meat allergies and salmon-eating trees, deathwatch beetles mating and ...

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• Coughing and machining
  • Video: Machining a crankshaft (thanks, Greg Koenig of Luma Labs)
  • Fisherman's Friend cough drops
• Follow-up: The future of the Nintendo 3DS
• John's Keychain woes
• John's headphone woes
• Amazon Go
  • Humans Need Not Apply
  • Clockwise #166: Walk-In Vending Machine
• Windows on ARM
  • Upgrade #118: Missed That by 100% (Relevant section Overcast link)
• Apple's Machine Learning
  • Summary by Oliver Cameron
• Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
• Post-show: Not complaining about the Apple TV
  • Aerial

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In 1996, Josh Davis, aka DJ Shadow, released his first album, Endtroducing. It’s been hailed pretty much universally as one of the best albums of the 90s, and Time Magazine included in its top 100 Albums of all time. It changed hip-hop and electronic music, and helped define the trip-hop genre. Now, for the 20th anniversary of the release, DJ Shadow breaks down the song "Mutual Slump."

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