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Dr. Mindy Romero, founder of the Center for Inclusive Democracy at the University of Southern California, talks with Jess about current election sc...
- Added: Feb 06, 2024
- Length: 29:00
Science fictions are widely held dangerous beliefs that are not supported by science. Jess explores a few of these in anticipation of the continued...
- Added: Oct 03, 2023
- Length: 29:00
How the military is preparing space for the next world war.
- Added: Sep 11, 2023
- Length: 28:45
- Purchases: 2
Blue light from device screens can upset your body's internal clock with dangerous consequences.
- Added: Aug 21, 2023
- Length: 28:51
When you drink from a plastic bottle, you're getting much more than you think. An array of toxic chemicals is going down your throat.
- Added: Jul 31, 2023
- Length: 28:11
Jess speaks with Oppenheimer biographer Kai Bird about one of Earth's most influential humans and his scientific and political legacies.
- Added: Jul 25, 2023
- Length: 29:00
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch was just the beginning for author and photographer Erica Cirino.
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 28:25
Jess investigates what connects giant salamanders, community organizing, and fracking via a conversation with journalist Annie Roth and biologist J...
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 58:00
After the news of the week, former Pro Publica food reporter Helena Evich talks about the failure of the FDA to handle food safety, the controversy...
- Added: Jan 15, 2023
- Length: 28:15
"MacArthur 'genius award'winning landscape designer Kate Orff believes that gray infrastructure, like levees and flood gates and sea walls, can on...
- Added: Sep 21, 2021
- Length: 03:30
Environmental issues are mounting, and the stakes are huge. So how might big data be used to tackle the issues of sustainability, climate change, h...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 34:51
Are we addicted to the Internet? Is it even appropriate to use the language of addiction about smartphones and other digital devices?
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 24:30
Big data is revolutionizing health and medicine, from genomics to wearable technologies to precision health. But is our medical care system prepare...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 26:51
What is the future of work? Today, all of our careers are being transformed by big data, from how we find it, to how we collaborate with others, to...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 22:15
Your normal, everyday digital footprints can reveal surprisingly intimate facts – like whether your parents are divorced, and whether you own a gun.
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 22:03
In this episode, Bo interviews Dr. Michael LaSala on the topic of reparative therapy—an attempt on converting primarily gay men and lesbian women t...
Bought by KFOI Radio
- Added: Jun 18, 2014
- Length: 53:24
- Purchases: 1
Are you an auditory learner or a visual learner? If you answered "yes" you would be right. We use all our senses to learn and process information....
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Jan 24, 2014
- Length: 07:20
- Purchases: 1
Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Robert Duke explain more about the ways advertising works, and why it’s important to understand the madness behind the “Mad...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Aug 30, 2013
- Length: 08:00
- Purchases: 1
In "Eaarth, Making a Life on a Tough New Planet", author Bill McKibben analyzes the damage we've done to our terrestrial and marine environment, ou...
- Added: Oct 15, 2012
- Length: 06:22
June 8 is World Oceans Day when we celebrate our relationship with the ocean through global connection. A recent survey conducted by The Ocean Proj...
- Added: Jun 04, 2012
- Length: 05:46
The U.S. House of Representatives voted this week to destroy the program that has enabled the recovery of six endangered species through a successf...
- Added: May 21, 2012
- Length: 05:25
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will have us look no further than New York City and the Green Infrastructure Plan as a real ...
- Added: Apr 02, 2012
- Length: 06:19
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss the invisible impacts of our actions, will argue against the exploitation of Na...
- Added: Feb 06, 2012
- Length: 05:13
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will ask how it's possible to reduce the ocean's health to a single number, and will outline...
- Added: Jan 03, 2012
- Length: 05:52
Historically, the world has been explored and connected by water, linked through the exchange of goods, people, and ideas. The most modern tool of ...
- Added: Oct 16, 2011
- Length: 04:06
