Up and Down the Stairs

Engineered and mixed by Mark Rains at Station House Studios
Mastered by Ed Brooks at RFI Mastering
Miya- guitar, vocals, casio
Josh Grondin- guitar, piano
Jon Engelhard- bass
Cassidy Turbin- drums

Talking with Strangers

replicant blues

Ed Crawford had never been to a protest until he heard about the
shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Robert Cohen, a staff photographer with the St. Louis Post Dispatch, ended up taking a photograph of Ed that would be seen around the world, and change both of their lives.

Episode 32:  It Looked Like Fire

originally recorded 2008 los angeles ca 
remixed 3.26.2016 los angeles ca
all instruments etc etokle

thurston moore

ot to, not to - Mamama

A young patient, Andrew Salter, responds to "what if" questions, reinventing his experience of hospital through imagination and empathy. 

Sherre DeLys concept, composition, direction and arrangement
John Jacobs sound editing, design and engineering
With musician Ion Pearce (voice and cello) and Hannah Peters.  

Image by Cassie Tatum Hart, who sent it to Sherre after hearing IF. 

If won a Silver Award at the 2002 Third Coast International Audio Festival.

Private Eyes (and Ears)

A farewell message from Sift and the first episode of our new show called Qualia. 

You've probably wondered what had happened to the show, right??? 
Listeners to Sift will surely love the new show even more.

You can subscribe to Qualia through Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-913130677

Or through any podcast app. I like Radiopublic: https://radiopublic.com/qualia-6rOPlK

Qualia's website: qualiapod.com


Here are the show notes for Ep 1, Risk: 
In this IMMERSIVE episode, “Risk,” our goal is to immerse you in a soundscape that pulled and pushed you to alternatively feel risk-seeking and risk-averse. To preserve this immersive experience, we stripped out a lot of the reporting we did on the science of risk. Here, you can find out more about the science of risk perception. We’ll walk you through the episode, and point out materials – interviews we did with researchers, journal articles we dug up, books we read – that let you dig deeper into the research.


SCENE: You finally make it to the top after a long climb (after a strenuous skinning up).

WHAT THIS ILLUSTRATES: This should make you feel like you’ve invested a lot of resources and effort into an activity. Later, when you make a decision, this investment of resources can color your choice even though it shouldn’t if you’re objectively evaluating a risk. 

FIND OUT MORE: Read Heuristic Traps in Recreational Avalanche Accidents.


NARRATION: You’re imagining this environment because it is the perfect environment because it’s the perfect setting to explore your feelings towards risk. 

FIND OUT MORE: Listen to our interview with Leaf VanBoven (starting at 03:40).


SCENE: You’re very close to skiing down the mountain. You feel the powder under your skis. The wind pushes on your cheeks.

WHAT THIS ILLUSTRATES: Proximity to something (especially something you find somewhat addictive) makes you perceive it as more rewarding than if you would be considering it from a distance.

FIND OUT MORE: Listen to our interview with Fernbach (starting at 39:00).


SCENE: CINDY’S AVALANCHE STORY

WHAT THIS ILLUSTRATES: Hearing a distastrous result from an expert, which occurs from a similar situation to your own will decreases your confidence in taking the risk and makes you more risk averse. Of course, this is assumming you are not brimming with overconfidence.

FIND OUT MORE: By reading SEVERAL(most) of the articles here.


SCENE: My intuition is telling me something’s off. Come on, Jake, what are you afraid of?

WHAT THIS ILLUSTRATES: Groups heavily influence decision making during risky situations. Males are particularly good at evoking risky decisions. However, there is a lot of nuance in this dynamic.

FIND OUT MORE: Listen to our interview with VanBoven (starting at 13:00 and 30:00)


SCENE: You’re normally cautious, so if you think it’s fine then I’m sure it’ll be OK.

WHAT THIS ILLUSTRATES: Contagious understanding. You can get a house of cards effect, where your knowledge in something rests on the belief that someone else in the community has done the intellectual heavy-lifting and have a solid knowledge of something. However, this is not always the case and many people can believe they have knowledge of something even though nobody does.

FIND OUT MORE: Listen to our interview with Fernbach (starting at 48:20)

SCENE: Question! Why is one type of snow better for avalanches? How do you know? You just guessing?

WHAT THIS ILLUSTRATES: In our lives, we often do not notice complexity because it’s cumbersome and doesn’t actually change our decisions. We have an illustion of knowledge. But in risky situations, complexity really matters and one way to poke holes in our normal knowledge illusion is by asking very simple questions, which will (hopefully) give you more pause and consider more factors.

FIND OUT MORE: Read Phillip Fernbach’s book “The Knowledge Illusion”. Listen to our interview with Fernbach (starting at 9:30).

SIFT farewell Qualia Ep 1: Risk

Nautilus takes a story from the magazine and explores it in sound. There are often lovely turns, interludes, and broader abstractions--characteristic of our innovative science media.

This story was originally written by Ansel Payne.

Taxonomists featured in this episode:
Frank Krell
Daniel Leo Gustafsson
Ansel Payne
Sarah Spaulding
Bill Weber

This episode was produced and hosted by Bishop Sand from Goat Rodeo, a new kind of audio network.

Why Do Taxonomists Write the Meanest Obituaries?

Each episode we tackle a topic that influences the way we view ourselves and the world. We hear from a variety of people: from scientists and philosophers to everyday people who are impacted by the topic. 

SIFT farewell Qualia Ep 1: Risk

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