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This special broadcast from Aspen Public Radio was recorded live at the 2023 Aspen Psychedelic Symposium earlier this year. The event’s keynote lec...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2023
  • Length: 54:30
Caption: Kathryn Bond Stockton, a dean and English professor at the University of Utah, wrote “Gender(s)” published by MIT Press, 2021.
“Gender is queer for everyone,” says author and professor Kathryn Bond Stockton. She doesn’t mean “queer” only in the LGBTQIA+ sense — she means t...

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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It probably won’t surprise you but boys and girls are not on a par with STEM programs: That’s the shorthand term for science, technology, engineeri...

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  • Added: Aug 02, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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"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...

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  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 12:53
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Hal Niedzviecki
Cultural critic and entrepreneur Hal Niedzviecki poses the question, “What is it like to live in a society utterly focused on what is going to happ...

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  • Added: Oct 21, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Rise of the Robots jacket cover, Credit: Basic Books Jason Gabbert
We’re on the cusp of another revolution: A technology revolution. This one, however, is vastly different from its predecessor: The industrial revol...

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  • Added: Oct 07, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Simon Anderson
We’ve all heard the stories of self-driving cars and 3D printers, but it’s the folks like futurists Simon Anderson and Jack Uldrich who make a care...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Vintage Tomorrow's jacket cover, Credit: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
The late 19th century was an age of rapid technological change. It’s happening again today. Through interviews with experts such as Willaim Gibson,...

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  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Alexandra Horowitz, Credit: Simon & Schuster
In her newest work, cognitive scientist Alexandra Horowitz turns her attention to humans with an investigation into human perception and a look int...

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  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
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Growing meat without killing animals for food.

  • Added: Oct 30, 2006
  • Length: 01:56
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Tiny tornados could make a big, helpful impact.

  • Added: Oct 22, 2006
  • Length: 01:50
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What if weight gain were actually caused by a virus?

  • Added: Oct 16, 2006
  • Length: 01:55