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The biases embedded in technology are more than mere glitches, argues Meredith Broussard in her new book, "More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Ge...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:01
"Tech companies have abused their power and it is time to resist them." Oxford professor Carissa Véliz describes why privacy is so important, and h...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:00
The Flat Earth conspiracy got a huge boost from Facebook and YouTube, as Kelly Weill explains in her book "Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy ...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Many tech employees in Silicon Valley are pressured into joining a new religion, worshiping work and taking spiritual direction from their companie...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Amazon took over books, Spotify and Google took over music, and musicians and authors are struggling as a result. Cory Doctorow talks about what we...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:01
A few years ago, Douglas Rushkoff was invited to speak to a group of billionaires. Rather than asking about current tech trends, the billionaires w...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Alec MacGillis discusses his book "Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America" – about how Amazon has had drastic effects on the economy,...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:01
The tech industry is launching new brain-surveillance devices intended to monitor your mental state and, yes, even read your thoughts. Nita Farahan...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:01
Internet addiction is a growing problem, thanks to the intentional design of Silicon Valley platforms to "hook" users. The ITAA can help: Internet ...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:00
One woman's heartbreaking story of her husband's brain cancer diagnosis, and why cell phone manufacturers warn users never to hold the phone agains...
- Added: Oct 23, 2023
- Length: 28:17
- Purchases: 2
After the news headlines, Dr. Vandenberg talks about her work studying the techniques big companies use to undermine science and create doubt.
- Added: Oct 16, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Jess speaks from her experience conducting deep ocean research to answer questions raised by UCS scientists and staff about the recent disasters of...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 19:00
Fore EPA Region II Administrator Judith Enck tells why we need legislation to make companies like Coca Cola do the right thing.
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 28:32
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: We were so overwhelmed by your emails we could hardly keep your names straight!
- Added: Aug 05, 2022
- Length: 30:00
On the Fresh Air episode, "For Facebook Content Moderators, Traumatizing Material is a Job Hazard", a Silicon Valley journalist plumbed Facebook's ...
- Added: Jul 03, 2019
- Length: 08:21
I have for months tried to figure out the loose association that comes to mind when my voice-activated GPS begins. After Paul Manafort's sentencin...
- Added: Mar 11, 2019
- Length: 05:56
iPhone sales blocked in China, Apple’s getting into the A&R business, pump the breaks on the e-scooter hype, and forget the notch, 2019 might be th...
- Added: Dec 16, 2018
- Length: 20:11
Insurers who raise health care premiums, systematically deflect accountability for increases as necessary to cover rising health care costs. Deduc...
- Added: Nov 02, 2018
- Length: 07:48
Shouldn't Facebook also be held accountable for their moral indifference to the human consequence of Facebook trolling that the platform's anonymi...
- Added: Apr 14, 2018
- Length: 01:35
Internet anonymity now is presented as ‘the standard’ . But being anonymous when online really is optional . If like many other human activities, a...
- Added: Apr 30, 2017
- Length: 06:29
Change is coming to solar stocks and their markets as the solar industry grows and big utilities begin to invest heavily in this alternative energy...
- Added: Aug 14, 2016
- Length: 03:00
A live Groks Science talk show from June 15th, 2016! Various science news topics are discussed.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Jun 19, 2016
- Length: 59:52
- Purchases: 1
Today's Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks 'Since Apple claims they refuse the order to open the San Bernadino murderer's I-phone to respect the ...
- Added: Feb 25, 2016
- Length: 01:14
So we now know that Apple has made the extraordinary contribution called ‘Enter the wrong password 10 times and all the data on your way-too-expens...
- Added: Feb 19, 2016
- Length: 05:07
Episode 110:
Given the exciting development of the FCC opening comment on petitions from Wilson, NC and Chattanooga, TN to restore local authority ...
- Added: Sep 02, 2015
- Length: 24:41
