Who is the host of the science and Tech podcast?
Hear the untold stories of mind-blowing achievements in science and tech. Host David Pogue, six-time Emmy winner and “CBS Sunday Morning” correspondent, takes you behind the scenes into the worlds of the people who’ve built the best in transportation, entertainment, food, internet, and health.
Is unsung a true story?
UNSUNG is a scripted comedy podcast loosely based on the real life of a sober rock ‘n’ roll guitar legend, Kasim Sulton. The fictional Alec Sulton suffers a heart attack on stage and is forced to re-engage with his three older children and navigate their unique brand of dysfunctionality… and in the process, form a family rock band.
Who is behind unsung?
Kasim Sulton, one of rock music's most renowned talents, serves as an executive producer and co-creator of UNSUNG.
Episodes
People talk about greenhouse-gas emissions from cars, planes, and factories, but one source out-pollutes them all: Cows. Raising meat animals like cows generates more methane than the entire fossil-fuel industry. So Pat Brown left his job as a Stanford biochemistry professor to dedicate his life to fixing the problem.
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Hear the untold stories of mind-blowing achievements in science and tech. Host David Pogue, six-time Emmy winner and “CBS Sunday Morning” correspondent, takes you behind the scenes into the worlds of the people who’ve built the best in transportation, entertainment, food, internet, and health.
How Impossible Meats Might Save the Earth
People talk about greenhouse-gas emissions from cars, planes, and factories, but one source out-pollutes them all: Cows. Raising meat animals like cows generates more methane than the entire fossil-fuel industry. So Pat Brown left his job as a Stanford biochemistry professor to dedicate his life to fixing the problem.
The Man Who Stopped the Spammers
By the year 2000, the internet was already becoming a cesspool. The bad guys used software bots to sign up for millions of fake email accounts—for sending out spam. PhD student Luis Von Ahn stopped them. He invented the CAPTCHA, that website login test where you have to decipher the distorted image of a word.
Where Emoji Come From
Each year, the powers that be endow our phones with about 70 new emoji. For 2022, you’ll be getting a mirror ball, a crutch, an X-ray, coral, a ring buoy, and a bird’s nest—with or without eggs in it.
How the Fitbit Knows You're Dreaming
Over the last decade, a group of California scientists has quietly amassed the biggest sleep database ever assembled. It includes every dozing off, every wakeup, every REM-cycle, every chunk of deep sleep, from 15 billion nights of human slumber.
Subtitles for the Blind
You already knew that you can turn on subtitles for your TV show or movie—handy if you’re hearing impaired, or just want to understand the dialogue better. But there’s a corresponding feature for people with low vision: audio description tracks, where an unseen narrator tells you, in real time, what’s happening on the screen.
Chainsaws, Women, and the Cape Town Drought
In 2018, following a historic three-year drought, the water sources in Cape Town, South Africa ran dry. It was the first major city to face Day Zero: when you’d turn on the faucet—and nothing would come out. The town leaders discussed expensive, environmentally disruptive projects like pipelines and desalination plants.
Listen to Unsung now
Legendary Rock ‘n’ Roll sideman Alec Sulton suffers a heart attack on-stage and is forced to return home to Staten Island and deal with his three now adult children… much to their chagrin.
CAST
Jeff Bennett is one of the most prolific and steadiest working voiceover actors in the last 30 years.
The Production Team
Kasim Sulton, one of rock music's most renowned talents, serves as an executive producer and co-creator of UNSUNG.
