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Electric Cars - Pros and Cons, Part 1
From: Casey Walker
Series: Energy Switch
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Dr. David Rapson, Economic Policy Advisor for the Federal Reserve Bank and Professor of Economics, University of California, and Dr. Beia Spiller, ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 25:00
  • Purchases: 1
2024-03-17 What Can Virtual Reality (Actually) Do?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Can VR really put you in someone else’s shoes?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KICI Iowa City, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KTSW 89.9, KMUN and more


  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
2412: What Can Virtual Reality (Actually) Do?, 3/19/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Can VR really put you in someone else’s shoes?

  • Added: Mar 09, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
2024-02-18 The Social Lives of Robots
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Can social intelligence be taught to non-social beings?

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, KTSW 89.9, KICI Iowa City, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN and more


  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 12
2024-02-04 Can A.I. Help Us Understand Babies?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Could large language models show us how human babies learn to speak?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 05, 2024
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 3
2406: Can A.I. Help Us Understand Babies?, 2/6/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Could large language models show us how human babies learn to speak?

  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 53:58
Is Engineering Solar Radiation A Crazy Idea?
From: Open to Debate
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Right now, climate engineers are working on new technologies, called solar geoengineering, that would reflect the sun’s rays away from Earth as a w...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Will AI Kill the Future of the Creative Arts?
From: Open to Debate
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From AI-generated paintings to writing scripts and novels, AI is challenging our endeavor to create, innovate, and connect. Will the human touch be...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 07, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
2338: Are We Living in a Simulation?, 9/19/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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How would we even tell the real world from a simulated one?

  • Added: Sep 18, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
2023-09-17 Are We Living in a Simulation?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How would we even tell the real world from a simulated one?

Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 18, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
2337: Adorno and the Culture Industry, 9/12/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Theodor Adorno was born September 11, 1903.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 53:58
2324: The Rhetoric of Big Tech, 6/13/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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What do Ayn Rand, Martin Heidegger, and Samuel Beckett have to do with Silicon Valley?

  • Added: Jun 07, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
2023-04-14 Bitcoin Uses a Ton of Energy – On Purpose. Is it Worth It?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Studies estimate that global bitcoin mining uses more electricity than most countries, and that bitcoin mining may be responsible for about 65 mega...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KGUA and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
230414: Bitcoin Uses a Ton of Energy – On Purpose. Is it Worth It?, 4/14/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Studies estimate that global bitcoin mining uses more electricity than most countries, and that bitcoin mining may be responsible for about 65 mega...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
2022-01-23 Hacking the Brain: Beyond the Five Senses
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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If you could have another sense beyond the normal five, what would it be?

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KTSW 89.9, KMUN, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KSKQ and more


  • Added: Jan 24, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
211105: Geoengineering: Who Should Control Our Atmosphere?, 11/5/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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According to the latest IPCC Assessment Report, we’re currently on course for at least 3°C (5.4°F) of warming by 2100 even if all of the voluntary ...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 58:57
2021-11-05 Geoengineering: Who Should Control Our Atmosphere?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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According to the latest IPCC Assessment Report, we’re currently on course for at least 3°C (5.4°F) of warming by 2100 even if all of the voluntary ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA, WLPR , Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 10
2021-07-02 Clearing the Air on Carbon Offsets
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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For over two decades, carbon offset programs have promised individuals and businesses that they can reduce their overall carbon footprint by paying...

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, Maine Public Radio, KMXT and more


  • Added: Jul 01, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
210702: Clearing the Air on Carbon Offsets, 7/2/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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For over two decades, carbon offset programs have promised individuals and businesses that they can reduce their overall carbon footprint by paying...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
2021-01-24 Trolling, Bullying, and Flame Wars: Humility and Online Discourse
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Does the internet necessarily make people nastier and more arrogant?

Bought by KMUN, KSKQ, KICI Iowa City, KTSW 89.9, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2021
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 12
Tell It Slant: The Truth of the Bombs Bursting in Air
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: B-24J Liberators of the 579th Bomb Squadron drop incendiary bombs made from fighter plane drop tanks filled with napalm on targets near Royan, France, Apr 15 1945.
H. Bruce Franklin (Crash Course) returns to help us connect lots of dots. He’ll argue, among other things, that we need to learn what three particu...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Dec 18, 2019
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 1
190913: From Wheels to Wings: Our Flying Car Future, 9/13/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Can we beat the traffic by taking to the skies? Sailing over freeways in a flying car, getting to work in minutes instead of hours, has long been t...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
190816: Superpower: How Renewables are Transforming America’s Energy Future, 8/16/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Nearly 25 percent of America’s electricity now comes from renewables, surpassing coal for the first time. Ten states, and Puerto Rico and Washingto...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
2019-08-16 Superpower: How Renewables are Transforming America’s Energy Future
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Nearly 25 percent of America’s electricity now comes from renewables, surpassing coal for the first time. Ten states, and Puerto Rico and Washingto...

Bought by WJCT, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, Northwest Public Broadcasting, WLPR , Maine Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 14, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 7
190503: 2019-05-03 How Climate Broke California’s Biggest Utility, 5/3/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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PG&E has had a bad few years. A series of record-breaking wildfires culminating with 2018’s devastating Camp Fire propelled the California utility ...

  • Added: May 02, 2019
  • Length: 58:56