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2024-04-19 Artificial Intelligence, Real Climate Impacts

From: Climate One
Series: Climate One

Artificial intelligence can do some pretty amazing things, including for the climate. AI can help optimize the electric grid, make heating and cool...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more

The Big Ponder #44: Ball Bearings

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

Ball bearings — these mechanisms are all around us, inside our wheels and motors. Hidden away, we rarely see them, and most people don’t even know ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City

Alvaro Bedoya: Privacy and Civil Rights in the Age of Facebook, ICE, and the NSA

From: Generation Justice Admin

Caption: Right: U.S. Sen. Dennis Chavez (NM); Right: Professor Alvaro Bedoya

What is the history of surveillance in the US? What are its implications for today's activists, immigrants, and people of color? Professor Alvaro B...

The Mad Military Money Machine

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

There’s something sick about US Military spending. It’s certainly not keeping anyone safe. This week, why we the public spend billions on bad techn...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer

Exploring Alzheimer's

From: Hold That Thought

David Holtzman, professor and chairman of the neurology department at the Washington University School of Medicine, explores Alzheimer's disease an...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Discovering Dark Matter

From: Hold That Thought
Series: Out There: The Science of Exploring the Universe

Astronomer Ramanath Cowsik describes the history of dark matter and how his discovery influenced the way scientists think about dark matter in the ...

Futurework

From: Spectrum Radio

IEEE Spectrum Radio explores what the workplace will look like and what the meaning of work will be 30 years into the future.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KHNS, KTSW 89.9, WUFT, KUER and more

Beautifully Bright Black Holes

From: Hold That Thought
Series: Out There: The Science of Exploring the Universe

Physics professor Henric Krawczynski describes how an instrument called X-Calibur will study "beautifully bright" black holes. Krawczynski and his ...

Lunar Mysteries

From: Hold That Thought
Series: Out There: The Science of Exploring the Universe

Dr. Bradley Jolliff describes how lunar samples and orbiters provide insights into the history of Earth's closest neighbor.

Bought by XRAY.fm

Reclaiming the Holidays

From: Humankind

Caption: Annie Leonard - "The Story of Stuff'"

This special profiles people from different backgrounds who seek to get past the consumer frenzy of the December holidays, and to focus more on aut...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Nevada Public Radio, Prairie Public, WRIR, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more