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Several automotive companies are currently working to perfect autonomous vehicles. Their promises for high-tech driving includes crash free mobilit...
- Added: Dec 08, 2021
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
Our rising awareness that we have destroyed our planet has simultaneously provided us not with remorse or resolve but with a new fantasy: that the ...
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- Added: Nov 23, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Our show is Three Little Words and our guest is Holly Buck, author of Ending Fossil Fuels - Why Net Zero Is Not Enough just out from Verso. We’re ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
HOUR ONE: "Generation Witch" - We’ve always been fascinated by witches, even when they’ve been hunted and silenced. This hour, we'll take you throu...
- Added: Oct 29, 2021
- Length: 01:58:59
The adage: If one does not learn from the past, one is doomed to repeat it. Although that doesn’t mean people or their governments are going to rep...
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- Added: Jul 27, 2021
- Length: 29:01
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Coronavirus concerns forced many universities to close their campuses this fall. The mix of fewer students on campus, canceled athletics, and onlin...
- Added: Jul 16, 2021
- Length: 04:12
HOUR ONE: "Our Time Of Mourning" - The pandemic is waning in many places. But before we go back to normal life, let's not forget to mourn our loss...
- Added: Jun 18, 2021
- Length: 01:59:01
Max, a data whiz at the social media company Wren, has gotten a firsthand glimpse of the dark side of big tech. When he questions what his company ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2021
- Length: 12:52
HOUR ONE: "Why Do We Have So Much Stuff?" - From baby showers to estate sales, we fill our lives with material possessions. Why do we do it? HOUR...
- Added: May 28, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
Around the world populist leaders or on the rise. The higher the poverty rate, the more likely a “benevolent autocrat” holds power. The problem is ...
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- Added: Apr 27, 2021
- Length: 29:01
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Free, usable energy is found, and harnessed, in regular city utility operations.
- Added: Feb 10, 2021
- Length: 02:32
There is one working lithium mine in the United States, the Silver Peak brine mine located near Goldfield, Nevada. Last Friday, the US Bureau of La...
- Added: Jan 19, 2021
- Length: 18:40
In March of 2020, after months of downplaying of COVID by officials, the death rate could no longer be ignored. By late fall, as many Americans wer...
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- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 29:00
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Most of us spend a good part of our time in the future. That is, we ponder what tomorrow brings. Or, even later today. Though we only have a snapsh...
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- Added: Nov 23, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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Recent events around the globe clearly demonstrates the interconnectedness of human health and the health of our planet. Heat waves in California, ...
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- Added: Nov 10, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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HOUR ONE: "The Resilient Brain" - In 1848, an explosion drove an iron rod through the skull of a railroad foreman. Find out how it changed science ...
- Added: Oct 09, 2020
- Length: 01:58:58
There is a litany of names for what is understood to be substitutes for jail or prison. Electronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment facilitie...
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- Added: Sep 15, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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Featuring Tony Shalhoub ("The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," The Band's Visit) and Kristine Nielsen (Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus), YOU NEED THERAPY...
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- Added: Aug 26, 2020
- Length: 53:00
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Feudalism. Now that’s a word you don’t hear very often. It’s been a long time since we’ve had a structured society of that nature. But, even more c...
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- Added: Aug 25, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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HOUR ONE: "Outside The Mental Illness Box" - There must be another way to treat mental illness. Exercise? Horror movies? LSD? This hour, think outs...
- Added: Aug 14, 2020
- Length: 01:58:57
Days of wonder, days of rage. We're living through an information revolution as profound as any since Gutenberg and the printing press, but are we ...
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- Added: Aug 05, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
HOUR ONE: "Jazz Migration" - Jazz is an American cornerstone, but its roots are in Africa. We'll follow the migration this hour. HOUR TWO: "Is th...
- Added: Jul 03, 2020
- Length: 01:58:58
There is a lot we don’t know about the human body. We’re always learning. But, what about the part that is allowing us to learn: the brain? After u...
- Added: Jun 30, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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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
As the pandemic inspires U.S. corporations to expand health monitoring of employees and contract workers, it raises a variety of important question...
- Added: May 26, 2020
- Length: 03:57
