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Annie Minoff

Annie co-hosts and produces the podcast Undiscovered along with Elah Feder. Sometimes, this entails visiting labs to look at tiny, glowing worm brains. Or digging through archives in search of 50-year-old chain letters. Or spending WAY too much time in a foam-padded closet (the “recording booth”).Prior to Undiscovered, Annie produced stories about science and the arts for the Friday radio show. (Like this story, about guitar playing robots, and this one, where astronauts review “Gravity” à la Siskel and Ebert.) Annie’s first run-in with radio was as an undergrad at Columbia University, where she covered the New York arts scene for the universe’s best radio station, WKCR-FM (“Sit Back and Dig the Shellac”). Since she couldn’t major in radio, she earned a B.A. in American Studies. She’s also been an assistant producer for the world’s only rock ‘n’ roll talk show, WBEZ’s “Sound Opinions,” where she had the honor of meeting the Jesus of Cool, Nick Lowe. Rock on. 
Arts, Culture & Media
Satisfying Your Regina Fix
Arts, Culture & Media
Infinite Summer
Arts, Culture & Media
Chimamanda!
Arts, Culture & Media
They Might Be Puppets
Arts, Culture & Media
Snapshots from the Muslim-Punk Underground
Arts, Culture & Media
Goodbye, John Hughes
Arts, Culture & Media
The Sound of SLOrk
Arts, Culture & Media
Off to See the Wizard
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Culture
Here are the people who make Google Doodles
rchers planted this camera trap (complete with robotic toy cat) in order to study what local species prey on cats. Here, a great horned owl takes the bait. The cat was found not far away, mostly intact, suggesting that the owl probably discovered the ruse
Environment
The secret life of animals, captured on camera
A screenshot from “That Dragon, Cancer"
Technology
A new generation of video games play on your emotions — like empathy, complicity and grief
Mobile Quarantine Facility
Arts
This art installation pokes fun at NASA, space exploration and sculpture
Woman looks through a phoropter in 1945.
Health
Six things you believe about your eyes that are totally wrong
On the left, The Bedroom as seen in real life. On the right, a digital recolorized visualization.
Arts
The walls in Van Gogh’s iconic ‘The Bedroom’ were never meant to be blue
White Sands Beach Park in Kailua-Kona
Health
Did you know Hawaii has a dengue fever outbreak? Neither did Congress.
The Indian military enforcing a quarantine of Surat’s hospital in 1994, during an outbreak of plague in that city. Photo by Laurie Garrett
Health
Is the US ready for the next big pandemic?
Antarctica
Science
Want to find a meteorite? Antarctica might be the best place to look.
Vulcan
Science
Why the long-lost planet Vulcan holds lessons for Planet Nine
Macbook Air. Photo by Björn Olsson/flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Technology
Is Apple’s design getting worse without Steve Jobs?
“Scientists proposed that male lions’ skill at ambushing prey in dense vegetation was previously unknown because of scientists’ fear of being ambushed by male lions in dense vegetation.”
Books
A series of cartoons that capture science’s ‘rich diversity of weirdness’
Science books
Books
These are the science books of 2015 that you should be reading
Excerpted from “Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words” © 2015 by Randall Munroe. Reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
Books
Is it possible to explain the universe of science in just 1,000 easy-to-understand words?
The New York City subway map (L) alongside a peripheral vision visualization (R) with a focus on the Times Square subway stop. Courtesy of Ruth Rosenholtz
Culture
A researcher is trying to make those confusing transit maps easier to understand
In this engraving by Martin Joachim Schmidt, a devil sits on a sleeping woman’s stomach. Historically, sufferers of sleep paralysis often claimed it felt like a demon or witch was perched on their chest. Image courtesy of the Wellcome Library, London
Science
Alien abduction and the walking dead: can science explain the world’s creepiest phenomena?
Environment
This new museum explores the effect humans are having on the natural world
Matt Damon in The Martian. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Fox
Media
What happened when a roomful of engineers watched ‘The Martian’
Don Pettit’s space sunflower in full bloom. Photo by Don Pettit/NASA
Environment
Here’s what happens when you grow sunflowers in outer space
Drawings of Atropa belladonna and Digitalis purpurea. Via Köhler's Medicinal Plants/Wikimedia
Books
Agatha Christie’s murders are enmeshed with real chemistry
Informed consent
Arts
A new play explores science, faith and medical ethics
Join the SciFri Book Club This Summer
Geek road map
Lifestyle
Are you ready for the ultimate geek road trip? 12 suggestions.
Beyond the Pie Chart
Moon explosion
Books
Sci-Fi novelist Neal Stephenson blows up the moon — and reshapes humanity
DJ Jazzy Jeff speaks at an event where hip-hop DJs Grandwizzard Theodore, Grandmixer DXT and Grandmaster Flash are inducted into Guitar Center's RockWalk in Los Angeles on March 6, 2014.
Science
Science crunched Billboard’s charts to determine music’s most revolutionary year. It was 1991.
Spot the REAL Hypothesis
Jean Jennings Bartik (left) and Frances Bilas Spence (right)  were part of a team of six women who programmed the ENIAC.
Technology
Finding the forgotten women who programmed the world’s first electronic computer
Eggs
Health
At brunch next time, pass on the coffee cake and have an omelette
Kivalina, AK
Environment
Will these Alaska villagers be America’s first climate change refugees?
SciFri Book Club: David Grann Answers Your Questions
Spare parts team
Arts
How undocumented high-schoolers from Arizona beat MIT at the nation’s top robotics competition
Join the SciFri Book Club LIVE in NYC
The marquee at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York, where "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" is playing.
Arts
How to play an autistic math whiz — for an audience of autistic kids
The SciFri Book Club Searches for Lost Cities
Lemon battery
Science
Here are six science experiments for cold winter days you should definitely try at home
MoMA video game display
Arts
The Museum of Modern Art embraces all aspects of digital culture and design
DNA sequences like the one pictured in this image can help predict diseases for patients and their families, but the ethics and legality of sharing that information among family members are still unformed.
Science
When should your genetic information trump your right to privacy?
A mechanically modified butterfly
Arts
The collision of art and science will produce an entirely new art form, a new book says
#ObserveEverything…Including the Cat
Chimp moss sponge
Science
Chimps can learn behavior from one another, a new study shows
Art Bots and Talking Blenders: A Stroll Through Ars Electronica
Crossword puzzle
Technology
‘Dr. Fill’ vies for crossword solving supremacy, but still comes up short
Actor Stephen Lang performing in an "amp suit," with director James Cameron by his side
Arts
Digital doubles become star players in Hollywood
Dune Discussion Question: Week #4
Share Your Favorite ‘Dune’ Quote
Share Your Favorite ‘Dune’ Quote
Dune Discussion Question: Week #3
Dune Discussion Question: Week #3
Alive Inside still
Science
The secret weapon in the fight against Alzheimer’s might just be an iPod
Meet the ‘Dune’ Readers: Kim Stanley Robinson and Sara Imari Walker
‘Dune’ Discussion Question: Week #2