PRX - Pieces for Topic: Science
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Most of us don’t spend a lot of time thinking about how much time we spend online. We might even ask if it really matters. The digital world is so ...
- Added: Oct 23, 2019
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
We’re obsessed with predicting the future. Most of the time, though, we get it wrong. On the other hand, we can predict a specific event with near ...
- Added: Sep 10, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
How we deal with the possibilities of tomorrow are very dependent on how we handle those possibilities today. Sounds simple, however, even when we ...
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
We’re use to hearing about how much humans have impacted the earth. Scientists have given a name for this period to recognize human dominance over ...
- Added: Jul 16, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
We have entered a brand new era of persuasion. This is completely untested water’s. In a world of everything computer, a world where our household ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 24, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Science deniers and attacks on science are more prevalent today. Interestingly, America leads the world in the sheer number of people who have cont...
- Added: May 03, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Artificial Intelligence will drastically change our lives. The technology is expected to advance cyber security, finance, energy, military applicat...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jul 04, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Very few realize the significance of Virtual Reality. Yet, VR will change how we work, how we experience entertainment, how we feel emotions, and h...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
If we were on a ship at sea, and learned of the impending tsunami, we’d do everything we could to prepare for the collision.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jul 03, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
At some point in our lives, most of us will begin to question how our universe began. Depending on whom you ask, you’re going to get a variety of r...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 15, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Dr. Gary Griggs, Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz and director of the Institute of Marine Sciences talks abo...
Bought by KFOI Radio and WGRN-LP 94.1
- Added: Feb 04, 2017
- Length: 54:01
- Purchases: 2
My friend Jimmy Fingerbutton invented a perpetual motion machine. I was the first person he showed it to. I guess he figured I had the right qual...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 11:38
In his book, Dr. Steven Hatch cuts to the chase. Readers get a sense of the challenges in all areas of modern medicine.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 23, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Researchers are changing the way we experience our world. They’re engineering scents that stimulate lost memories, they’re searching for the elusiv...
- Added: Jan 06, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
We are surrounded by chemicals every day. They’re in our clothing, cosmetics, household products, electronics, and even our children’s toys.
Bought by KVSC, KCBX, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Dec 09, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
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
Those who are shaping the future have a pretty good idea of how it is going to look. One of those is David Rose. He’s an award winning entrepreneur...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
One of the most frustrating medical complaints for patients and doctors is back pain. Professionals and patients expect the usual medical diagnosis...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 04, 2014
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
America has a shortage of organs for transplant. Iran has abundance. That’s the reason many wealthy American’s turn to Iran for help when they’re s...
- Added: Jul 23, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
The year is 2053. Neurosurgeon and scientist, Dr. Hagan Maerici, is to designing "neuromorphic artificial intelligence." This is the setting for Dr...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 23, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011 should provide the United States with lessons learned, however, the carefully nurtured tale that technology w...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 26, 2014
- Length: 28:41
- Purchases: 1
Bestselling author Craig Nelson provides an in depth examination of the history of the Atomic age from x-rays to the 2011 meltdown in Japan.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 20, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
While California is experiencing one of it’s driest seasons, the east and south are having one of the coldest and wettest. Is this climate change, ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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...
- Added: Jul 16, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
