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In this episode, we talk with a man married to a doll, and we begin the debate over the issue of intimate relationships with synthetic beings.
- Added: Apr 30, 2015
- Length: 19:13
ARM is the Asteroid Redirect Mission, and sometimes it seems that it doesn’t have a friend in the world. But it does, and Jonathan Goff of Altius S...
Bought by KMUD, KFCF FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KRZA, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more
- Added: Feb 23, 2015
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 6
A group of scientists are now trying to bring extinct animals - like the woolly mammoth and passenger pigeon - back to life, in a movement called D...
Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 3
When you live on a computer, every hair on your head is numbered — every click, too, every date and breakup, every want and need. Christian Rudder,...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Oct 13, 2014
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 1
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...
- Added: Jul 25, 2014
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 2
Today on our show, four stories of people who tried to see themselves clearly
Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jun 27, 2014
- Length: 58:53
- Purchases: 3
On August 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at the CERN particle accelerator in Switzerland, announced the debut of the World Wide Web, marking...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
What should consumers do who worry their data is being misused?Whose job is it to educate people about their responsibilities?Does privacy mean any...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
In the past few years medical companies have been producing a range of devices to help aging people keep track of their vital statistics: pulse rat...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Today, corporations and governments are using a vast array of tools to gather information on us. What trails are people leaving and do they even know?
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Today, we hear increasing talk about Big Data, supposedly about to revolutionize everything from the way wars are fought and policies are shaped to...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Diabetes used to be a fatal but very rare disease. Now rates of Type Two diabetes are soaring worldwide. What’s responsible for the spike in cases?
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
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
The year is 2053. Neurosurgeon and scientist, Dr. Hagan Maerici, is to designing "neuromorphic artificial intelligence." This is the setting for Dr...
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- Added: May 23, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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...
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- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
We live in an age where everything we do online can now be tracked, recorded, and analyzed. How has our sense of our own information footprint ! ch...
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
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
The nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011 should provide the United States with lessons learned, however, the carefully nurtured tale that technology w...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 26, 2014
- Length: 28:41
- Purchases: 1
Bestselling author Craig Nelson provides an in depth examination of the history of the Atomic age from x-rays to the 2011 meltdown in Japan.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 20, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
While California is experiencing one of it’s driest seasons, the east and south are having one of the coldest and wettest. Is this climate change, ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Adapting to Climate Change explores the ambitious plans that engineers, scientists, government officials, business leaders, NGOs, and community gro...
Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KRCB 104.9, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KTSW 89.9 and more
- Added: Feb 20, 2014
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 39
The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Dr. Timothy Mousseau, a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the Universit...
- Added: Oct 07, 2013
- Length: 28:33
