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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill discusses a recent report entitled "The State of Sustainability Initiatives Review: Standard...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Jun 28, 2016
- Length: 05:17
- Purchases: 1
Students and teachers are doing real science by measuring the shadows cast by distant objects in our solar system.
Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark and more
- Added: Jun 23, 2016
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 7
Elected officials or politicians aspiring to be elected officials say things that would register on our Hackle o’ meters and our Politically Unfit...
- Added: Mar 19, 2016
- Length: 03:19
Angie explores ad blockers, ad technology, privacy, and the overall ad industry with a diverse panel of experts.
- Added: Feb 15, 2016
- Length: 54:50
Dr. Mark Jacobson, distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, is on-air with us to explain the economic...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Jan 13, 2016
- Length: 59:24
- Purchases: 1
Generational discussion on the changes we have seen from the older generation doctor visit down to our future telemedicine.
- Added: Nov 10, 2015
- Length: 57:00
In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill continues discussion of the global water crisis. This week he talks about water audits conduc...
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 05:31
Clean air is as valuable as clean water: both are essential requirements for human health and survival. Statistics and data on emissions from burni...
- Added: Sep 22, 2014
- Length: 05:10
The National Research Council released its long-awaited report June 4th. Distinguished space policy analyst John Logsdon returns to Planetary Radi...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WESM 91.3 FM
- Added: Jun 17, 2014
- Length: 28:51
- Purchases: 2
Fresh water as a resource is under constant threat by over-consumption, toxins, pollutants and waste from industrial and agricultural production. I...
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 05:06
The working conditions of those who manufacture the products of technological innovator Apple are brutal.
- Added: Mar 01, 2012
- Length: 04:53
Eric Singley, Yelp’s Product Manager who has been working on Yelp’s iPhone app, walks us through the augmented reality (AR) experience they’re brin...
- Added: Dec 11, 2009
- Length: 10:37
The chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board discusses controversies at her agency.
- Added: Nov 24, 2009
- Length: 54:00
The Firefox browser represents the pinnacle of open source software, this commentary explains the open source movement.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:27
Most power plants waste much energy because they are so inefficient. Moving them closer to where their power is used would waste much less energy
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:21
While VOIP is popular it is a difficult problem to make it work with 9-1-1.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:44
Jack Kilby invented the microchip, and thus, indirectly, helped me to learn to dance.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:15
A pothole is a uniquely American phenomenon. Drive the highways of South Africa, Germany or France and you'll find few ruts and divots. Why pothole...
Bought by Delta College Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:47
- Purchases: 3
Adam Osborne marketed the first successful a compact computer: A 24-pound portable computer!
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:43
- Purchases: 1
Commentary that argues that to be environmentally friendly we want products designed so that the high value materials can be removed - reserving re...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:48
The story of Barbara McClintock's Nobel Prize winning work
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:24
The story of Willard Gibbs who revolutionized chemistry
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:49
The story of John von Neumann whose work laid the foundations for digital computing
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:53
The story of Richard Feynman who physics revealed a new world
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:56
Moore's Law postulates that computing power will double every 18 months, what if it fails?
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:25
