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66 - Anna asks, "Are my iCloud photos safe?"
From: WJCT
Series: Ask Deemable Tech (3:30)
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After hackers released private photos from the iCloud accounts of celebrities, Anna is worried about how secure her account is. Ray and Tom help he...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, and WYAP


  • Added: Sep 10, 2014
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 3
Smashing Holes in Mars to Find Life
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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Explore Mars wants to look for life on the Red Planet. Not past life. Life thriving under the Martian surface right now. Chris Carberry will tel...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Sep 01, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Jaydee Hansen Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Consumers may be surprised to learn that nanotechnology is being applied to foods and food related products without labeling, or a full safety revi...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
Alan Stern and a Big Milestone on the Way to Pluto
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of New Horizons passing through the Pluto system., Credit: NASA/Thierry Lombry
New Horizons passed through the orbit of Neptune on August 25th. By cosmic coincidence, it was the 25th anniversary of Voyager 2’s flyby of that b...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
65 - Mara asks, "How can I block calls on my smartphone?"
From: WJCT
Series: Ask Deemable Tech (3:30)
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Mara needs to block unwanted calls to her smartphone, but isn't sure how. Ray and Tom help her out in this week's Ask Deemable Tech.

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 2
Journey to the Center of Jupiter: The World's Largest Lasers Simulate the Cores of Giant Planets
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The interior of the target chamber at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The object entering from the left is the target positioner, on which a millimeter-scale target is mounted. Researchers recently used NIF to stu, Credit: Damien Jemison/LLNL
The most bizarre things happen to matter at pressures millions of times higher than what we feel on Earth’s surface. Physicist Rip Collins of the L...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
Jonathan Trent and the OMEGA Project
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jonathan Trent
When life gives you lemons they say to make lemonade. And what if life gives you sewage released into an enclosed bay, what can you make? Certainly...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Death-Defying Climax for Venus Express
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Venus Express Enters the Venusian Atmosphere, Credit: European Space Agency
Venus Express Project Scientist Håkan Svedhem tells us about the spacecraft’s harrowing descent into the Venusian atmosphere, what it is currently ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Aug 04, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
64 - Eileen asks, "How can I find out where a website is hosted and who the owner is?"
From: WJCT
Series: Ask Deemable Tech (3:30)
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Eileen's phone number is listed on a website for an organization she has nothing to do with. How can she find out who owns the site so she can ask ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, WYAP, and WTIP


  • Added: Aug 02, 2014
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 4
63 - Norman asks, "How can I accept credit card payments using my smartphone?"
From: WJCT
Series: Ask Deemable Tech (3:30)
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Norman is a small business owner wondering how he can take mobile credit card payments. Ray and Tom have the answers in this week's Ask Deemable Tech.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, and WYAP


  • Added: Jul 30, 2014
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 3
Jay Barbree on "Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight"
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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In his 55 years as NBC’s space correspondent, Jay Barbree has won the respect and friendship of many astronauts. Neil Armstrong stands above them a...

Bought by KVSC and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 2
Earth 2.0
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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With hundreds of Earth-like planets discovered over the past few years, it’s fair to say we’re on the verge of finding alien life. Two new programs...

Bought by KTSW 89.9 and WYAP


  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
The Kidney Sellers
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Sigrid Fry-Revere
America has a shortage of organs for transplant. Iran has abundance. That’s the reason many wealthy American’s turn to Iran for help when they’re s...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 23, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
62 - Frank asks, "Are scam artists calling me?"
From: WJCT
Series: Ask Deemable Tech (3:30)
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Frank keeps getting phone calls from someone claiming to be from Microsoft. Could he be the target of scam artists? Ray and Tom have the answers in...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2014
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 2
Keith Cowing and the Outrageous ISEE-3 Rebooters
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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They have generated excitement, enthusiasm and support throughout the world. The ISEE-3 Reboot Project has succeeded in gaining control over the 36...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
Fritz Pleitgen: Lessons from the Stasi
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Fritz Pleitgen is a journalist who covered the Stasi in East Germany during the 1980s. He explains how one lives and acts in a surveillance state.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 1
Ashkan Soltani on NSA surveillance (excerpt)
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Ashkan Soltani is a researcher for The Washington Post, who broke many of the NSA surveillance stories from the Edward Snowden leak. He tells us ab...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 04:06
  • Purchases: 1
Benjamen Walker (Theory of Everything) on 1984 (Excerpt)
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Benjamen Walker, radio producer/host of the Theory of Everything podcast, explains how the book "1984" started in the year 1984.

Bought by XRAY.fm and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 2
61 - Angie asks, "What is Twitter, and why should I use it?"
From: WJCT
Series: Ask Deemable Tech (3:30)
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Should you start using Twitter? What are the basics? Ray and Tom have the answers in this week's Ask Deemable Tech.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, and WCWP


  • Added: Jul 16, 2014
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 3
Picking Up The Pieces: Jeff Kirschner
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jeff Kirschner
Anyone who is on social media knows how often you can be inundated with picayune details of your friends’ daily lives. But what if all that over-sh...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 16, 2014
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 1
Planetary Radio Live: LightSail Countdown Begins!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Bill Nye at the LightSail countdown celebration., Credit: Loren Roberts
LightSail, the Planetary Society’s innovative solar sail cubesat, will ride into space on the huge SpaceX Falcon Heavy, now in development. Bill N...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jul 15, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
Nerdette S02-E04 (06/30/14): Mad houses, Mississippi Goddam and Modernist art
From: WBEZ
Caption: Nellie Bly
Hosts Tricia and Greta bring you the stories of muckraker Nellie Bly, painter Georgia O'Keeffe and jazz singer Nina Simone. We talk to authors, une...

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Jul 14, 2014
  • Length: 27:00
  • Purchases: 1
60 - Trent asks, "How do I wipe my smartphone?"
From: WJCT
Series: Ask Deemable Tech (3:30)
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How can you make sure your person information is off of your smartphone before you trade it in or give it to someone? Ray and Tom have the answers ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and WCWP


  • Added: Jul 09, 2014
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 2
59 - Hector asks, "Do I have to eject USB drives?"
From: WJCT
Series: Ask Deemable Tech (3:30)
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What does it mean when a USB drive is "busy" when you try to eject it? Ray and Tom have the answers in this week's Ask Deemable Tech.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, WTIP, and WCWP


  • Added: Jul 02, 2014
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 4
Food Sleuth Radio, Steve Suppan Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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The size of a nanometer -- one billionth of a meter – is hard to imagine, but a sheet of newspaper is 100,000 nanometers thick. Nanoscale materia...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1

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