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Nuclear Fusion
From: Casey Walker
Series: Energy Switch
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Fusion, the fusing together of atoms, powers the stars, including our sun -- which means that fusion already powers Earth, just not in a way that w...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and KMXT


  • Added: Sep 17, 2024
  • Length: 25:00
  • Purchases: 2
How Could Artificial Intelligence Change Energy?
From: Casey Walker
Series: Energy Switch
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Pamela Isom, Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Technology Office for the US Department of Energy, and Anima Anandkumar, Director of Machi...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and KMXT


  • Added: Sep 06, 2024
  • Length: 25:00
  • Purchases: 2
Environmental Impacts of Energy on Air
From: Casey Walker
Series: Energy Switch
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Angel Hsu from the University of North Carolina, and Amod Pokhrel, UC Berkeley health sciences researcher discuss air pollution.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 25:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Good News About Climate Change
From: Casey Walker
Series: Energy Switch
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Leia Guccione and Robert Bryce continue the conversation about whether or not solar and wind could one day power the world.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Aug 25, 2024
  • Length: 24:58
  • Purchases: 1
Bright Ideas Toward a Sustainable Future
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week: two technological innovations—both bright ideas, that could have huge impacts for useful, sustainable change for the future. The first i...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Jul 24, 2024
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
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 WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Boise State Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
2024-04-07 Could Robots Be Persons?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What would it mean to assign legal or moral responsibility to algorithms in human form?

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


  • Added: Apr 08, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 12
2415: Could Robots Be Persons?, 4/9/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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What would it mean to assign legal or moral responsibility to algorithms in human form?

  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
Should the U.S. Ban TikTok?
From: Open to Debate
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The House of Representatives recently passed a bill that could ban TikTok in the U.S. if its parent company, Bytedance, does not divest from it. Th...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KICI Iowa City, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Mar 21, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
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?

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  • 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?

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  • 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
Marine Biomimetics, part two
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In these three episodes of World Ocean Radio we are exploring a recent publication entitled “A Forgotten Element in the Blue Economy: Marine Biomim...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2023
  • Length: 05:07
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
Marine Biomimetics, part one
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Over the next few editions of World Ocean Radio we will be discussing a recent publication entitled “A Forgotten Element in the Blue Economy: Marin...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 05:05
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
2023-09-08 Rethinking Economic Growth, Wealth, and Health
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Since the industrial revolution, the global north has seen massive economic growth. Yet that growth has been linked to increasing greenhouse gas em...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Nevada Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
230908: Rethinking Economic Growth, Wealth, and Health, 9/8/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Since the industrial revolution, the global north has seen massive economic growth. Yet that growth has been linked to increasing greenhouse gas em...

  • Added: Sep 07, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
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
Should We Erase Bad Memories?
From: Open to Debate
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Similar to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, neurotechnology techniques like decoded neurofeedback open the possibility of modifying or erasin...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
2023-08-13 Making a Better World
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Can moral philosophy make us better people?

Bought by KSKQ, KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
2333: Making a Better World, 8/15/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Can moral philosophy make us better people?

  • Added: Aug 10, 2023
  • Length: 54:00