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2024-04-26 Building a Better Battery Supply Chain with JB Straubel and Amiee Boulanger

From: Climate One
Series: Climate One

Batteries are a critical part of the transition away from fossil fuels. From electric vehicles to grid scale storage for wind and solar, demand for...

Bought by KSQD Santa Cruz, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KOWS and more

2024-04-19 Artificial Intelligence, Real Climate Impacts

From: Climate One
Series: Climate One

Artificial intelligence can do some pretty amazing things, including for the climate. AI can help optimize the electric grid, make heating and cool...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more

Information Golem

From: Jerry Gaura
Series: #Dragonsbread

Artist Joseph Matheny struggles to manage the chaos unleashed by the world’s first ARG “Ong’s Hat.”

The Big Ponder #44: Ball Bearings

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

Ball bearings — these mechanisms are all around us, inside our wheels and motors. Hidden away, we rarely see them, and most people don’t even know ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City

2021-12-26 The Examined Year: 2021

From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk

Because the un-examined year is not worth reviewing!

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KICI Iowa City, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KSKQ

The Big Ponder #23: Airlines

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

A lot has changed since the first days of aviation, from beverage service to affordable plane tickets. Florenz Gilly and Leon Ginzel recap the hist...

Bought by KICI Iowa City

Wave Function

From: Ears Adrift

Ears Adrift explores quantum technology with interviews from U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's top scientists.

What Do Equations Sound Like on the Piano?

From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast

Caption: A piano image made on the coordinate plane., Credit: Pios Labs

Let’s make equations musical. Instead of visualizing equations on a graph, let’s listen to them on the piano, merging all our math and music knowl...

Seeking and Blundering – The Discovery of Penicillin

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: Fehler (Mistakes)

This episode of the FEHLER podcast is an exploration of mistakes in science and their connection to art. Listen for more!

Present Shock - Tech: Existential Threat or Life Support?

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Days of wonder, days of rage. We're living through an information revolution as profound as any since Gutenberg and the printing press, but are we ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer

Rediscovered Radio: WYSO’s Lost Tapes

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: Fehler (Mistakes)

Listen to this story on how an act of benign neglect transformed Southwest Ohio based WYSO from a small public radio station into a community.

Bought by KICI Iowa City

Alvaro Bedoya: Privacy and Civil Rights in the Age of Facebook, ICE, and the NSA

From: Generation Justice Admin

Caption: Right: U.S. Sen. Dennis Chavez (NM); Right: Professor Alvaro Bedoya

What is the history of surveillance in the US? What are its implications for today's activists, immigrants, and people of color? Professor Alvaro B...

The Mad Military Money Machine

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

There’s something sick about US Military spending. It’s certainly not keeping anyone safe. This week, why we the public spend billions on bad techn...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer

Exploring Alzheimer's

From: Hold That Thought

David Holtzman, professor and chairman of the neurology department at the Washington University School of Medicine, explores Alzheimer's disease an...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Discovering Dark Matter

From: Hold That Thought
Series: Out There: The Science of Exploring the Universe

Astronomer Ramanath Cowsik describes the history of dark matter and how his discovery influenced the way scientists think about dark matter in the ...

Voice Recognition

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Microphone, Credit: Grant https://www.flickr.com/photos/visual_dichotomy/

What do our voices say about us? On this edition we explore voice and identity. We'll hear from someone who nearly lost their voice as well as the ...

Bought by WNJR and XRAY.fm

Futurework

From: Spectrum Radio

IEEE Spectrum Radio explores what the workplace will look like and what the meaning of work will be 30 years into the future.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KHNS, KTSW 89.9, WUFT, KUER and more

Catching Cosmic Rays

From: Hold That Thought
Series: Out There: The Science of Exploring the Universe

In December 2012, a two-ton instrument built to detect cosmic rays ascended into the Antarctic sky, carried by a balloon the size of a football fie...

The Search For Dark Matter

From: Hold That Thought
Series: Out There: The Science of Exploring the Universe

Physics professor James Buckley has spent part of his career hunting for neutralinos, a yet-undiscovered type of particle that may hold the answer ...

Beautifully Bright Black Holes

From: Hold That Thought
Series: Out There: The Science of Exploring the Universe

Physics professor Henric Krawczynski describes how an instrument called X-Calibur will study "beautifully bright" black holes. Krawczynski and his ...

Lunar Mysteries

From: Hold That Thought
Series: Out There: The Science of Exploring the Universe

Dr. Bradley Jolliff describes how lunar samples and orbiters provide insights into the history of Earth's closest neighbor.

Bought by XRAY.fm

Reclaiming the Holidays

From: Humankind

Caption: Annie Leonard - "The Story of Stuff'"

This special profiles people from different backgrounds who seek to get past the consumer frenzy of the December holidays, and to focus more on aut...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Nevada Public Radio, Prairie Public, WRIR, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more