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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
HOUR ONE: "In Your Dreams" - Did you dream last night? Or are you among the millions of Americans who are not only sleep deprived but dream deprive...
- Added: Feb 23, 2024
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Off The Map" - Remember what maps were like when you were a kid? Well, Google Maps now makes finding everything from an obscure coffees...
- Added: Dec 08, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: The Cosmos And Us" - Our lives are so rushed, always on the clock. Counting the minutes and seconds. In the latest episode of...
- Added: Nov 17, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
If you want to cool off in this brutal desert summer, you need to get up someplace higher, around 7,000 feet up — the high-desert plateau around Lo...
- Added: Aug 12, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
Cultivated meat has the potential to disrupt the meat industry, and engineer Dr. Katie Kam joins the podcast to talk about it. Katie founded BioBQ...
- Added: Feb 12, 2023
- Length: 28:20
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: "Up All Night" - On...
- Added: Dec 31, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Our Time Of Mourning" - The pandemic is waning in many places. But before we go back to normal life, let's not forget to mourn our loss...
- Added: Jun 18, 2021
- Length: 01:59:01
HOUR ONE: "Why Do We Have So Much Stuff?" - From baby showers to estate sales, we fill our lives with material possessions. Why do we do it? HOUR...
- Added: May 28, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
There is one working lithium mine in the United States, the Silver Peak brine mine located near Goldfield, Nevada. Last Friday, the US Bureau of La...
- Added: Jan 19, 2021
- Length: 18:40
HOUR ONE: "The Resilient Brain" - In 1848, an explosion drove an iron rod through the skull of a railroad foreman. Find out how it changed science ...
- Added: Oct 09, 2020
- Length: 01:58:58
HOUR ONE: "Outside The Mental Illness Box" - There must be another way to treat mental illness. Exercise? Horror movies? LSD? This hour, think outs...
- Added: Aug 14, 2020
- Length: 01:58:57
HOUR ONE: "Hope: Are We Really Doomed?" - Can hope co-exist with cataclysmic realities like climate change? We conclude our "Hope" series with a lo...
- Added: Jan 31, 2020
- Length: 01:58:58
HOUR ONE: "Wonders Of The Human Body" - What's so wondrous about the human body? An hour on transplants, chronic illnesses and the familiar in ours...
- Added: Oct 04, 2019
- Length: 01:58:58
HOUR ONE: "What Sparks Creativity?" - Nathaniel Mary Quinn channeled his abandonment into art and became a celebrated painter. This hour, we'll exa...
- Added: Feb 08, 2019
- Length: 01:58:58
HOUR ONE: "Could Psychedelic Drugs Save Your Life?" - Psychedelic science is back and the early results are extraordinary. If you knew LSD could he...
- Added: Sep 21, 2017
- Length: 01:58:57
“The age of growth and the age in which growth is going to be considered a good thing is coming to an end.” The late sociologist William R. Catton ...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and KTRL
- Added: Sep 05, 2017
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 4
"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...
Bought by KZYX, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZMU Moab Community Radio, PRX Remix and more
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 12:53
- Purchases: 6
There’s no doubt that the invention of a super battery would shake up the world. Think about it. It would endanger the ruling Saudi Arabian family ...
- Added: Feb 25, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
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...
- Added: Oct 21, 2015
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
We’re on the cusp of another revolution: A technology revolution.
This one, however, is vastly different from its predecessor: The industrial revol...
- Added: Oct 07, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
ARM is the Asteroid Redirect Mission, and sometimes it seems that it doesn’t have a friend in the world. But it does, and Jonathan Goff of Altius S...
Bought by KMUD, KFCF FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KRZA, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more
- Added: Feb 23, 2015
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 6
A group of scientists are now trying to bring extinct animals - like the woolly mammoth and passenger pigeon - back to life, in a movement called D...
Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 3
With hundreds of Earth-like planets discovered over the past few years, it’s fair to say we’re on the verge of finding alien life. Two new programs...
- Added: Jul 25, 2014
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 2
Today on our show, four stories of people who tried to see themselves clearly
Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jun 27, 2014
- Length: 58:53
- Purchases: 3
