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Soundings

Soundings

By: Xavier Roy
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Short audio fragments exploring ideas, words, and observations that catch my attention. Two to three minute soundings of whatever makes me pause and think.© 2025 Xavier Roy Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Soundings 02: Transclude This

    Soundings 02: Transclude This
    Sep 3 2025

    A simple question about embedding Word documents led me to use the word transclude - and taught me a lesson about the curse of knowledge.
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    1 min
  • Soundings 01: Making Sense of Chaos

    Soundings 01: Making Sense of Chaos
    Sep 2 2025

    A line from Brandon Sanderson's Oathbringer about finding meaning in random elements gets me thinking about Brownian motion and how humans can't help looking for patterns in chaos.
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    2 mins
  • Soundings 00: The Experiment Begins

    Soundings 00: The Experiment Begins
    Sep 1 2025

    Welcome to Soundings - an introduction to this tiny experiment in short audio fragments.

    In this episode zero, I talk about why I chose the name, what to expect, and how Anne-Laure Le Cunff's Tiny Experiments book inspired this microcast.
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    1 min
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