At-home 3D printing has gotten cheaper, technically simpler and has garnered a ton of media coverage. It can be hard though, to get your head around what exactly 3D printing something actually looks like. Well, here's OTM's first swing at original video production - a look at a 3D printer in action and an idea of how easy they've become to use. How easy is it? Easy enough for a determined 11-year-old.  Nathan Fitch shot and edited the film. OTM's Chris Neary produced it.

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Nathan Fitch is a New York City based photographer and visual storyteller.

Over the past year Brooke Gladstone has become a committed Brooklyn Nets fan. Last week the Nets fired their head coach P.J. Carlesimo. That's what you call serendipity people. Brooke should, nay, must, be the next coach of the Nets. She wants it, the OTM blog wants it, and after this campaign gets going the people of Brooklyn will want it.

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This week's OTM will dedicate the top of the show to cybersecurity after the President took a moment in the State of the Union to address the topic.

A few of our favorite things. We do this every week.

Our favorite things for the first week of February.

For a moment in time, these were our favorite things.

On a streaming cable station that aims to cover the whole autism world, some of the channel's hosts are on the autistic spectrum.

Our favorite things for the week.

A few of our favorite things this week.

A few of our favorite things.

Some people believe the world will end tomorrow. After talking with a NASA scientist who has investigated doomsday claims, we beg to differ. 

Happy Holidays, people.

A few of our favorite things this week. It's like opening up a few doors of an advent calendar all at once.

In this weird muddle between Thanksgiving and New Year's, we give you a few of our favorite things.

A list of our second most important selections today.

A few weeks back, producer PJ Vogt and I did a story about how campaigns work these days. In it, I talked about direct mail that campaigns use to, subtly or not subtly, guilt you into voting. It's very effective in getting more people to vote. The examples came from Sasha Issenberg's book The Victory Lab. One particular experiment, Don Green (who we spoke with) and two other researchers sent out a series of letters, each of which turned the screws tighter and tighter on voters.

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The way campaigns are run is changing rapidly and it's up to reporters to catch up. OTM producers PJ Vogt and Chris Neary talk about what the modern campaign looks like from the inside with Sasha Issenberg, author of the book Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns. You'll also hear from political consultant Hal Malchow and Columbia Professor Don Green - each of whom helped change the way campaigns are run.

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