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We’re use to hearing about how much humans have impacted the earth. Scientists have given a name for this period to recognize human dominance over ...
- Added: Jul 16, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
We have entered a brand new era of persuasion. This is completely untested water’s. In a world of everything computer, a world where our household ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 24, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Science deniers and attacks on science are more prevalent today. Interestingly, America leads the world in the sheer number of people who have cont...
- Added: May 03, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
America is set to lose tens of millions of job in the next 15 years. Some of the best research today estimates that one half of all U.S. jobs will ...
- Added: Apr 22, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
On the next all-NEW Snap… “This Is Not A Drill”. For 38 minutes in 2018, Hawaiians thought their world was about to end.
- Added: Jan 11, 2019
- Length: 53:57
Long-time presidential adviser Richard Clarke talks about his latest book, "Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes" with retired diploma...
Bought by WCMU Michigan, Michigan Radio, WKAR, and WDET Detroit Public Radio
- Added: Dec 07, 2018
- Length: 54:30
- Purchases: 4
Twenty-five years before Fukushima the worst nuclear disaster occurred in the Soviet Union.
- Added: Jul 20, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Very few realize the significance of Virtual Reality. Yet, VR will change how we work, how we experience entertainment, how we feel emotions, and h...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
According to a 2016 report by Business Insider magazine, three of the world’s largest employers are now replacing their workers with robots.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 19, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
If we were on a ship at sea, and learned of the impending tsunami, we’d do everything we could to prepare for the collision.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jul 03, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
If you want to know about a creative spirit, take the case of Zack Baltich. Zack synthesizes his informal and formal music experiences to create so...
- Added: Feb 21, 2017
- Length: 08:20
Technology veteran and now author, Antonio García Martínez, discusses his new book, Chaos Monkeys. Imagine a chimpanzee rampaging through a datacen...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 01:00:01
- Purchases: 1
John Berendt, recorded at HEAR/NOW: The Audio Fiction and Arts Festival in Kansas City, discusses his best-selling MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD A...
- Added: Jun 16, 2016
- Length: 29:00
WorldCanvass tackles informatics—also known as big data—on its final program of the 2015-2016 season. Guests from the diverse fields of computer sc...
- Added: May 02, 2016
- Length: 25:15
The climate crisis is a crisis of governance and leadership. Will we move rapidly enough to realign our policies, politics and economy to stabilize...
- Added: Mar 25, 2016
- Length: 28:30
In his book, Dr. Steven Hatch cuts to the chase. Readers get a sense of the challenges in all areas of modern medicine.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 23, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
There’s no doubt that the invention of a super battery would shake up the world. Think about it. It would endanger the ruling Saudi Arabian family ...
- Added: Feb 25, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Host Bob Kustra talks with Ford about his new book, which looks at how new technologies could soon make many jobs obsolete.
- Added: Jan 22, 2016
- Length: 30:37
We are surrounded by chemicals every day. They’re in our clothing, cosmetics, household products, electronics, and even our children’s toys.
Bought by KVSC, KCBX, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Dec 09, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
In this episode we discuss the benefits and consequences of relationships and sex with synthetic beings.
- Added: Sep 25, 2015
- Length: 17:47
As early as the 1940s, Admiral Hyman Rickover saw the need for radical change in America’s submarine serice. Without his perseverance the Cold War ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 10, 2015
- Length: 21:31
- Purchases: 1
Most of us can’t throw away our smartphone or cut ourselves off from the Internet. But we can rethink our relationship with the digital world.
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
ARM is the Asteroid Redirect Mission, and sometimes it seems that it doesn’t have a friend in the world. But it does, and Jonathan Goff of Altius S...
Bought by KMUD, KFCF FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KRZA, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more
- Added: Feb 23, 2015
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 6
In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy smashed into the Eastern seaboard. A monster nobody was prepared to deal with.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 19, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
What are the failed promises and real risks of GMO crops? Is the “co-existence” of genetically engineered (GMO) and non-GMO crops really possible?...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Oct 02, 2014
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
