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HOUR ONE: "Does AI dream?" - Say you're an artist and you want to paint something you can't see. What if AI can? Are you dreaming together? HOUR ...
- Added: Mar 29, 2024
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Off The Map" - Remember what maps were like when you were a kid? Well, Google Maps now makes finding everything from an obscure coffees...
- Added: Dec 08, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
The life of a whistleblower is not easy. Just ask Dallas lawyer Ashley Yablon. In 2011 he landed what he thought was an ideal job: General Council ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 29, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: "Breaking The Chains" - You can trace a direct line from slavery to the mass incarceration of Black men. Should we defund the police? How...
- Added: Jun 19, 2020
- Length: 01:58:58
HOUR ONE: "Hope: Are We Really Doomed?" - Can hope co-exist with cataclysmic realities like climate change? We conclude our "Hope" series with a lo...
- Added: Jan 31, 2020
- Length: 01:58:58
HOUR ONE: "Wonders Of The Human Body" - What's so wondrous about the human body? An hour on transplants, chronic illnesses and the familiar in ours...
- Added: Oct 04, 2019
- Length: 01:58:58
Can hope co-exist with cataclysmic realities like climate change? We conclude our "Hope" series with a look at the future.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KTRT RADIO INC, KICI Iowa City, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KBIA
- Added: May 07, 2019
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 5
HOUR ONE: "Is the Internet Built for Everyone?" - They say "don't feed the trolls" — but why should racist and sexist trolls get to own the web? Wa...
- Added: Mar 22, 2019
- Length: 01:58:58
HOUR ONE: "What Sparks Creativity?" - Nathaniel Mary Quinn channeled his abandonment into art and became a celebrated painter. This hour, we'll exa...
- Added: Feb 08, 2019
- Length: 01:58:58
Artificial Intelligence will drastically change our lives. The technology is expected to advance cyber security, finance, energy, military applicat...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jul 04, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The world of technology is male driven. Very few women are represented in leadership roles. For decades now, there’s been a major gender diversity ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 06, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Alberta citizen/researcher Jessica Ernst takes on Big Frac
- Added: Nov 02, 2015
- Length: 29:52
Investigative reporter Judy Bachrach talks about her new book Glimpsing Heaven. Scientists may have underestimated green energy's potential for fi...
- Added: Jun 17, 2015
- Length: 57:53
Back in 1958 Popular Science published an article about General Motor’s plan to build self-driving cars guided by electrical cables in roadways. Gi...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Imagine waiting to catch a train. You show up at the station and wait for the familiar clanking of wheels and squealing of brakes. This time, howev...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
It was early morning, November first, nineteen fifty-two. The scientists who had gathered on the beautiful Enewetak (A-ne-we-tak) Atoll in the Sout...
- Added: Jun 03, 2014
- Length: 02:00
By the middle of the 20th century electromagnets were common and engineers had begun experimenting with using them to levitate vehicles, including...
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Taking the listeners back into the early history of the universe, this introductory episode explains what fusion is, how it powers stars, and how i...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
Diabetes is one of the first recorded diseases. When was it first treated by physicians and how prevalent was it?
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
We’re told that genetically engineered Golden Rice is the answer to third world Vitamin A-related blindness, but is it? Join Food Sleuth Radio host...
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 28:00
The late 19th century was an age of rapid technological change. It’s happening again today. Through interviews with experts such as Willaim Gibson,...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
Bestselling author Joel Garreau shows in his book, Radical Evolution, that we are at a turning point in history. At this moment we are engineering...
- Added: Nov 16, 2011
- Length: 28:58
Lars Klüver of the Danish Board of Technology talks about the World Wide Views on Global Warming project he directs that will gather opinions of ev...
- Added: Apr 08, 2009
- Length: 29:30
BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 11, 2009
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
The Prometheus Project helps develop community low-powered radio stations
- Added: Aug 24, 2007
- Length: 09:12
