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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
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The old saying "necessity is the mother of invention" may be true, but it leaves out an important component -- the real "mothers" and "aunts" and "...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 03:00

  • Added: Sep 20, 2023
  • Length: 52:48
  • Purchases: 2
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Connective labor is disappearing. Professions that rely on connecting humans -- like teaching or therapists -- are being automated.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KHEN-LP, and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 09, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Connective labor is disappearing. Professions that rely on connecting humans -- like teaching or therapists -- are being automated.

Bought by WXDU, Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, KXCV, KVSC and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
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Connective labor is disappearing. Professions that rely on connecting humans -- like teaching or therapists -- are being automated.

Bought by WTJU, WMUU-LP, KXCV, KEDT, WRGY and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
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Connective labor is disappearing. Professions that rely on connecting humans -- like teaching or therapists -- are being automated.

Bought by KXCV and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jun 09, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Aerial view of the High Sierra snowpack in 2023, Credit: Airborne Snow Observatories Inc.
Dave visits with author Patrick Dean about his new book, Nature's Messenger: Mark Catesby and his adventures in a new world. Dean's book reveals th...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Jun 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Cal Tech reproduction of Leonardo's gravity experiment  Courtesy of CalTech
Dave visits with California Institute of Technology Professor of Aeronautics and Medical Engineering, Mory Gharib and Chris Roh from Cornell Univer...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Mar 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Mt. Trashmore has the distinction of being the first landfill converted into a park. And for many years, it was a popular spot for locals to hangou...

Bought by KHEN-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRST-FM Oshkosh, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Mt. Trashmore has the distinction of being the first landfill converted into a park. And for many years, it was a popular spot for locals to hangou...

Bought by WKSU, Kansas Public Radio, WRMU, KRDP, WFHB and more


  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Mt. Trashmore has the distinction of being the first landfill converted into a park. And for many years, it was a popular spot for locals to hangou...

Bought by WTJU, WMUU-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KEDT, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
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Mt. Trashmore has the distinction of being the first landfill converted into a park. And for many years, it was a popular spot for locals to hangou...

Bought by WKSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
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LONGPATH by futurist Ari Wallach is about a mindset that looks at a future where new ways aren’t quite here yet and the old ways don’t work anymor...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 10:13
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In the mid-20th century, American women were bombarded with tips, tricks, and goods to help them become the perfect housewife.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, and KCHW


  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
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In the mid-20th century, American women were bombarded with tips, tricks, and goods to help them become the perfect housewife.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTJU, WMUU-LP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
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In the mid-20th century, American women were bombarded with tips, tricks, and goods to help them become the perfect housewife.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, CHSR-FM 97.9, WJCU, WFHB and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
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In the mid-20th century, American women were bombarded with tips, tricks, and goods to help them become the perfect housewife.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRST-FM Oshkosh, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
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HOUR ONE: "Time Beyond The Clock" - What's wrong with the way we tell time? What if we lived with no clocks at all? HOUR TWO: "Living With Loneli...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
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In the early 1960s, just a few years before we had actually landed men on the moon, the U.S. based Pan American Airlines began “taking names” and w...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 20, 2022
  • Length: 08:19
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Apollo 15 mission patch, Credit: NASA
Episode 6 of Space Oddities takes a look at several of the lawsuits filed against NASA and its astronauts. Most were trivial, some very serious inc...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 19, 2022
  • Length: 10:53
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ed Stone
Blue Dot spotlights the amazing career of one of America's greatest space scientists, Ed Stone. Stone was the Project Scientist for the Voyager mis...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Nov 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Apollo 10's "Snoopy"., Credit: NASA
Only one of the nine lunar modules flown during the Apollo moon missions is still flying in space today. Author Joe Cuhaj tells us the story of Apo...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 10, 2022
  • Length: 11:27
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Fuhgeddaboudit, Credit: Seth Shostak
A thousand years ago, most people didn’t own a single book. The only way to access knowledge was to consult their memory. But technology – from pap...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRGY, KMUN, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14