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WorldCanvass guests join host Joan Kjaer to discuss the controversial method of energy production known as fracking and its impact on the environm...
- Added: Oct 07, 2016
- Length: 23:41
We think that with today’s technology, we’re better informed. Therefore it follows we have more knowledge. Not so fast.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 27, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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
There are few enduring truths, but one is that no one gets out of life alive. What’s less certain is what comes next. Does everything stop with d...
Bought by KTSW 89.9, KREV-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer, and WRGY
- Added: Aug 08, 2016
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 5
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: 27:43
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: 27:10
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
With all the digital text trails we're creating these days, what can we learn about our inner psychology, mental health, and well-being?
- Added: Apr 15, 2016
- Length: 28:32
- Purchases: 2
What happens to our data when we die?
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 27:21
How do you get your news – and how do you think your news gets to you? The pathway of information flow involves layers of decisions that in many wa...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 35:48
Environmental issues are mounting, and the stakes are huge. So how might big data be used to tackle the issues of sustainability, climate change, h...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 34:51
Are we addicted to the Internet? Is it even appropriate to use the language of addiction about smartphones and other digital devices?
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 24:30
Elections and political messaging are changing in the new media landscape. Campaigns are using big data to target voters with better precision, and...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 32:12
Cryptocurrencies could revolutionize money and finance. But even more than that, they symbolize how trust is changing as we increasingly rely on te...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 25:24
Big data is revolutionizing health and medicine, from genomics to wearable technologies to precision health. But is our medical care system prepare...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 26:51
What is the future of work? Today, all of our careers are being transformed by big data, from how we find it, to how we collaborate with others, to...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 22:15
Your normal, everyday digital footprints can reveal surprisingly intimate facts – like whether your parents are divorced, and whether you own a gun.
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 22:03
"That’s inevitable that humans would project their hopes and fears upon the cosmos" - Carl Sagan on October 4, 1985, as told to Studs Terkel. The p...
Bought by KZYX, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZMU Moab Community Radio, PRX Remix and more
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 12:53
- Purchases: 6
Urinary incontinence is more common than you think, but it's tough to talk about. Learn about all the treatments and technologies that can treat it.
Bought by KALW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 04, 2016
- Length: 08:40
- Purchases: 4
Host Bob Kustra talks with Julia Angwin about her book, "Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Survei...
- Added: Apr 01, 2016
- Length: 30:11
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
Capt of more than one Greenpeace ship Capt Peter Wilcox tells us what a RHIB is. (like a life boat, but not.)
- Added: Mar 03, 2016
- Length: 01:36
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
