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Techtonic Season 1 Episode 7: Meredith Broussard, Author of "More than a Glitch"

From: WFMU
Series: Techtonic with Mark Hurst

The biases embedded in technology are more than mere glitches, argues Meredith Broussard in her new book, "More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Ge...

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Techtonic Season 1 Episode 5: Carissa Véliz, Author of "Privacy is Power" and Jon Fasman, Author of "We See It All"

From: WFMU
Series: Techtonic with Mark Hurst

"Tech companies have abused their power and it is time to resist them." Oxford professor Carissa Véliz describes why privacy is so important, and h...

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Techtonic Season 1 Episode 3: Kelly Weill, Author of "Off the Edge"

From: WFMU
Series: Techtonic with Mark Hurst

The Flat Earth conspiracy got a huge boost from Facebook and YouTube, as Kelly Weill explains in her book "Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy ...

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Techtonic Season 1 Episode 1: Carolyn Chen, Author of "Work Pray Code"

From: WFMU
Series: Techtonic with Mark Hurst

Many tech employees in Silicon Valley are pressured into joining a new religion, worshiping work and taking spiritual direction from their companie...

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Techtonic Season 1 Episode 6: Cory Doctorow, Author of "Chokepoint Capitalism"

From: WFMU
Series: Techtonic with Mark Hurst

Amazon took over books, Spotify and Google took over music, and musicians and authors are struggling as a result. Cory Doctorow talks about what we...

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Techtonic Season 1 Episode 4: Douglas Rushkoff, Author of "Survival of the Richest"

From: WFMU
Series: Techtonic with Mark Hurst

A few years ago, Douglas Rushkoff was invited to speak to a group of billionaires. Rather than asking about current tech trends, the billionaires w...

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Techtonic Season 1 Episode 2: Alec MacGillis, Author of "Fulfillment"

From: WFMU
Series: Techtonic with Mark Hurst

Alec MacGillis discusses his book "Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America" – about how Amazon has had drastic effects on the economy,...

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Techtonic Season 1 Episode 8: Nita Farahany, Author of "The Battle for Your Brain"

From: WFMU
Series: Techtonic with Mark Hurst

The tech industry is launching new brain-surveillance devices intended to monitor your mental state and, yes, even read your thoughts. Nita Farahan...

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Techtonic Season 1 Episode 9: Internet Addiction and the ITAA: Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous

From: WFMU
Series: Techtonic with Mark Hurst

Internet addiction is a growing problem, thanks to the intentional design of Silicon Valley platforms to "hook" users. The ITAA can help: Internet ...

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The Neuroscience of Psychedelics

From: Aspen Public Radio
Series: Aspen Psychedelic Symposium 2023

This special broadcast from Aspen Public Radio was recorded live at the 2023 Aspen Psychedelic Symposium earlier this year. “The Neuroscience of Ps...

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Number 9 Shortcut

From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts

An extended reworking of the Beatles track "Number 9" which serves as the introduction to Shortcuts and it's influences with additional music from ...

Engineering Meat Cruelty-Free, with Dr. Katie Kam

From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast

Cultivated meat has the potential to disrupt the meat industry, and engineer Dr. Katie Kam joins the podcast to talk about it. Katie founded BioBQ...

How will states use money from the Inflation Reduction Act to address climate change?

From: Possibly
Series: The Inflation Reduction Act and Climate Change

For the past few weeks, we’ve been talking about the Inflation Reduction Act, a law that puts hundreds of billions of dollars in federal money towa...

Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP

Space Oddities: Episode 1-Moon Dust In Your Lungs, Stars In Your Eyes

From: Joe Cuhaj
Series: Space Oddities: Forgotten Stories of Mankind's Exploration of Space

Caption: Terry Slezak accidentally came in contact with moon dust during the Apollo 11 quarantine period., Credit: NASA

Episode 1 of Space Oddities discusses NASA's plans to keep the Earth from being contaminated with lunar germs during the Apollo missions. Unfortuna...

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How to Detect a Disinformation Campaign

From: Michael Sugarman
Series: Viral Networks

Groups have been running disinformation campaigns on Facebook and Twitter for almost as long as those platforms have been popular. In this episode,...

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Welcome to the Disinfo Industry

From: Michael Sugarman
Series: Viral Networks

Are you contributing to a disinformation campaign without even knowing it? This week, we talk to Kate Starbird about unwillingly contributing to th...

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How Disease Conspiracy Theories Are Born

From: Michael Sugarman
Series: Viral Networks

This week, we focus on COVID-19 misinformation, talking to Kolina Koltai, ethnographer of vaccine conspiracy theory communities; Jon Lee, a folklor...

Bought by WHFR

What Are Mis- and Disinformation?

From: Michael Sugarman
Series: Viral Networks

In our first episode, Camille François to tells us how researchers identify mis- and disinformation, and Joan Donovan from the Harvard Shorenstein ...

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Teaching Coding to the Community with a Small Business, with Amy Pirzada

From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast

Caption: Photo of Amy Pirzada inside her business My Coding Place in Austin, Texas., Credit: Pios Labs

Amy Pirzada started My Coding Place as an educational business focused on teaching coding to kids in Austin. But she soon expanded to teach chess, ...

Part 5: The Entrepreneur

From: Wyoming Public Radio

It's the summer of 2019. Two more coal companies have filed for bankruptcy, and hundreds of workers are left in the lurch. Meanwhile, Jason Salfi i...

Part 4: On Grief

From: Wyoming Public Radio

Cooper must abruptly leave Wyoming for an unexpected trip home. But there's no break in reporting on coal country: another coal-fired power plant h...

debounce

From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day

To shrink the number of our faulty counts, you have to learn how to debounce. This is Episode 105 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show...

Part 3: Money And Time

From: Wyoming Public Radio

The finalists' confidence begins to crack as they're faced with the reality of setting up demonstrations in just a few months. How do their challen...

Part 2: The Finalists

From: Wyoming Public Radio

We take a drive north across the Wyoming prairie to visit the research center that’s been dubbed a “glimmer of hope” for coal country. There, we me...

Part 1: The Silver Bullet

From: Wyoming Public Radio

Coal is on its last legs. In the coal capital of the country, in the least-populated state in the union, leaders had to make a move. So, they turne...

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