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Brian Dunning separates fact from fiction as he examines the talking points made by the many people who hate electric cars.
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Beyond the effigy that gives Burning Man its name, there’s another wooden structure: The Temple. Arguably, it’s the spiritual center of the event.
- Added: Aug 21, 2023
- Length: 39:07
In this episode, go into the field with a team of scientists working to map the coastal seafloor in detail—and learn how their technologies could r...
- Added: Mar 06, 2023
- Length: 20:11
When it comes to mapping the seafloor, the hardest spots to see are the ones just off the coast. In this episode, find out why that's the case—and ...
- Added: Mar 06, 2023
- Length: 14:52
- Added: Sep 23, 2022
- Length: 49:09
- Purchases: 1
One Sunday afternoon, a man named William Mumler decided to take a self portrait. He said he was alone in the photography studio, but as the photog...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 36:51
In an ambitious “extra-planetary” project, six Israelis entered a small container in the middle of the Negev Desert, and pretended they were on Mar...
- Added: Feb 17, 2021
- Length: 21:07
Forty years after Carl Sagan’s ‘Golden Records’ began their long voyage into the depths of outer space, Eyal Gever - an Israeli high-tech-wunderkin...
- Added: Oct 29, 2020
- Length: 31:11
An experiment in living together, forever.
- Added: Jun 24, 2020
- Length: 23:04
It’s one thing to get into an argument with a stranger on Facebook. It’s another thing to try to ruin that stranger’s life. In 2015, Re/Max realtor...
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 23:08
He built Facebook's business model.....and then realized he was addicted to his phone.
- Added: Aug 14, 2019
- Length: 43:36
Driven by a critical lack of skilled technicians, a group of largely German-owned manufacturers in Chicago have launched a new apprenticeship progr...
- Added: Dec 05, 2018
- Length: 35:03
Using 21st-century medicine to maintain a 300-year-old way of life.
- Added: Aug 16, 2017
- Length: 27:16
Getting seniors comfortable with using technology is the aim of SF Connected, the City initiative that administers the class at 30th Street Senior ...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Mar 17, 2015
- Length: 05:45
- Purchases: 1
Children today have a completely different experience on playgrounds than their parents did -- that's because they've changed as the result of new ...
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 09:24
At the beginning of the 19th century women in the United States had an average of seven or eight children. By 1900 they had only three or four, and...
- Added: Dec 03, 2014
- Length: 40:27
For more than four decades, Radio Row it was the largest collection of radio and electronics stores in the world. Then in 1966 the stores were cond...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 18, 2014
- Length: 13:55
- Purchases: 4
Every system must get an immediate "GO!" response to the mission commander. (From 1990s)
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 15, 2014
- Length: :46
- Purchases: 1
A telescoped version of NASA audio as it tells the public specifics about the shuttle as it glides in for a landing.
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 01:34
- Purchases: 2
Bobby speaks, on location, from Columbus Circle (the literal epicenter of New York City) with Nicole Raymondi, creator of Quotiful, an iPhone app, ...
- Added: Sep 29, 2013
- Length: 36:58
This episode will cover seven different photographic styles and elements that make each of them unique and interesting.
- Added: Apr 02, 2013
- Length: 08:49
A story about endings– of the long, drawn-out, painful variety in particular. Also, boat metaphors.
- Added: Oct 30, 2012
- Length: 18:15
Find out how Europe's largest children's hospital is experimenting with the use of birdsong.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Jan 23, 2012
- Length: 07:09
- Purchases: 1
We use natural gas to heat our homes and generate our power. Can we use it to fuel our cars? Big Gas thinks shale gas is the key to cleaning up our...
- Added: Dec 22, 2011
- Length: 06:57
Me trying to retrieve a voicemail message and failing to remember the password... until I finally get it.
- Added: Jan 21, 2011
- Length: 02:59
