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A transistor that is driven by heat instead of electricity; stomach acid as a means of powering ingestible smart devices; a standby switch that con...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2017
  • Length: 06:25
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Diagnosing disease from speech samples; LinkedIn employees reduce stress with wearable, in Stanford study; infant monitors may cause more problems ...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2017
  • Length: 06:35
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In this edition of Audio Revolution! Youth Media Project interns explore their place within Santa Fe today. Amid growing concern in the Santa Fe co...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 25:58
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How a smartwatch may be able to sense your mood; the shortcomings of optical sensors for wearables and how radio frequency (RF) sensors may solve t...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2017
  • Length: 07:00
Caption: Alfred Poor, Editor, Health Tech Insider
Two stories about vision: a $30 device for smartphones that performs eye exams, and glasses with lenses that change as needed. Also a story about h...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2017
  • Length: 06:40
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More highlights from CES 2017, including a smart mouthguard for athletes that detects head impacts, and a device that see through walls to track pe...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2017
  • Length: 06:49
Caption: Alfred Poor, Editor, Health Tech Insider
Highlights of the CES 2017 consumer electronics show in Las Vegas, covering wearables for health and medical applications.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2017
  • Length: 05:41
Caption: Alfred Poor, Editor, Health Tech Insider
Highlights of the CES 2017 consumer electronics show in Las Vegas, covering wearables for health and medical applications.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2017
  • Length: 06:01
Caption: Alfred Poor, Editor, Health Tech Insider
An analysis of the likely developments in 2017 for wearable technology for health and medical applications.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2017
  • Length: 07:53
Caption: Alfred Poor, Editor, Health Tech Insider
An analysis of the major developments in 2016 for wearable technology for health and medical applications.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2017
  • Length: 07:35
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A conversation with horror, sci-fi author Roy C. Booth.

  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 12:56
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Charlie Daniels is partly Western and partly Southern. His signature “bullrider” hat and belt buckle, his lifestyle on the Twin Pines Ranch (a boyh...

Bought by KMXT, WTIP, KALH, KPIP-LP, WDSE and more


  • Added: Apr 25, 2016
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 9
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With all the digital text trails we're creating these days, what can we learn about our inner psychology, mental health, and well-being?

Bought by WXDU and KRZA


  • Added: Apr 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:32
  • Purchases: 2
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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
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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
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Elections and political messaging are changing in the new media landscape. Campaigns are using big data to target voters with better precision, and...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 32:12
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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
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Michael Eric Dyson's new book, "The Black Presidency Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America", explores the powerful, surprising way the p...

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  • Length: 01:00:50
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Simon Clydesdale of GPUK describes fugitive emissions and the prank GPUK pulled trying to frack the PM's house

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 01:47
  • Purchases: 1
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Design Editor at Treehugger.com, Llloyd Alter tells us what makes a building a LEED building. (Hint: bike racks help.)

  • Added: Mar 24, 2016
  • Length: 01:38
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Gill Deacon hosts a CBC radio program and decided to write a book about toxins in makeup.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2016
  • Length: 02:17
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Detox - getting toxins out of your life, your home. It's pretty darn hard because chemicals are being invented at a rate of thousands a year and fr...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2016
  • Length: 05:28
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Seventy thousand Google responses to ''Republicans Refuse'' or 37000 responses to ''Democrats Refuse'' say Donald Trump is not the first to bring ...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2016
  • Length: 04:04
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It's hard to let go of owning a car. What passes through those pipelines we hear so much about?

  • Added: Mar 13, 2016
  • Length: 14:05
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Is there an invisible thread that connects humans to all life around us? Novelist Kathryn Davis explores how the fantastical world in her novel, Du...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 20:51