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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
This week on the show: From a risk/reward standpoint, does it make sense to fly to another country to get vaccinated there? Also, is it OK to brea...
- Added: May 06, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: An invisible enemy -
Invisible, oderless, and it could be anywhere — the novel coronavirus has the perfect "ingredients" ...
- Added: Mar 12, 2020
- Length: 30:00
There are over 2,000 cryptocurrencies! Experts explain what fiduciaries and trust and estate practitioners need to know.
- Added: May 07, 2019
- Length: 11:52
Many patients arrive in the emergency room as a result of violence or car crashes—events in which police have an investigative interest. Sometimes,...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Feb 22, 2019
- Length: 17:30
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: Drive into a child, or swerve and hit two grandparents? Such horrendously difficult choices will soon be programmed into our...
- Added: Nov 01, 2018
- Length: 30:00
Spectrum: Go for launch -
On this week's special show: Some of you may have heard that there's a certain 'European of German descent' floati...
- Added: Jun 12, 2018
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
It seems like the only tech headlines we have are about disasters. But what about the original promise of tech to innovate and empower? Bex Hong Hu...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: May 24, 2018
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
This week in The Onco’Zine Brief: Peter Hofland, Ph.D and Sonia Portillo talk with Otis Brawley, MD, MACP the Chief Medical and Scientific Officer ...
- Added: May 12, 2018
- Length: 39:38
In this Edition of the OncoZine Brief, recorded during the 59th annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology, held December 9 to 12, 2017 i...
- Added: Dec 25, 2017
- Length: 43:18
Last week, Wilson’s City Council voted to halt Greenlight Internet service to the community of Pinetops, North Carolina. City leaders, faced with t...
- Added: Sep 19, 2016
- Length: 03:28
Episode 119: Earlier, this year, the Minnesota Legislature established a "Border to Border" Broadband fund to expand Internet access to the least c...
- Added: Jul 29, 2015
- Length: 23:25
Randall Coleman and I talk about the impact video game communities have on the development of new titles.
- Added: Mar 22, 2014
- Length: 08:35
With the help of Don Maue, a sound designer and Duquesne University professor, we examine the role of sound in video games.
- Added: Mar 17, 2014
- Length: 09:19
Drones, or unmanned aircraft, are making headlines for their controversial attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan…and for how they could be used for s...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 07:01
- Purchases: 1
Security experts have concluded that attacks on Iran will serve neither US nor Israeli goals. That’s also the position of Greg Thielmann of the Arm...
- Added: Sep 25, 2012
- Length: 28:44
Americans are used to hearing about drones being used in Pakistan and Yemen, but they are increasingly being deployed domestically. With organizati...
- Added: Jul 12, 2012
- Length: 01:56
