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National Parks may harbor smog along with their forests and wildlife.
Bought by WNED Buffalo, KRZA, WMMT, WTIP, WLPR and more
- Added: Jul 26, 2018
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 6
What should consumers do who worry their data is being misused?Whose job is it to educate people about their responsibilities?Does privacy mean any...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
In the past few years medical companies have been producing a range of devices to help aging people keep track of their vital statistics: pulse rat...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Today, corporations and governments are using a vast array of tools to gather information on us. What trails are people leaving and do they even know?
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
For most of human history, famine was only a single bad harvest away. Now, thanks to modern agriculture and fertilizers, we’ve almost eliminated hu...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Around the world millions of people suffer from diabetes. The personal and economic costs are enormous. What if we want to do more than treat insul...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
The causes of Type 2 diabetes are well known (obesity, ingesting too many carbohydrates, a sedentary lifestyle). But what about Type 1 diabetes, th...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
One promising new treatment for diabetes is transplanting healthy pancreatic cells into diabetics to restore their ability to digest sugars. What a...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Diabetes has been known to doctors for thousands of years. How was it treated before the discovery of insulin? What new ways are being developed to...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
In May 1975, Popular Mechanics published an article called “Cities In The Sky”, about plans for space colonies by 1995. Flash forward forty years a...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Imagine waiting to catch a train. You show up at the station and wait for the familiar clanking of wheels and squealing of brakes. This time, howev...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
We're getting closer and closer to making fusion power a reality - limitless energy created by fusing hydrogen into helium, the same process that p...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Physicists are approaching closer and closer to one of the Holy Grails of modern science: creating self-sustaining fusion reactions on Earth, and u...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Taking the listeners back into the early history of the universe, this introductory episode explains what fusion is, how it powers stars, and how i...
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- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
We live in an age where everything we do online can now be tracked, recorded, and analyzed. How has our sense of our own information footprint ! ch...
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Diabetes is one of the first recorded diseases. When was it first treated by physicians and how prevalent was it?
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Bloomington has been named “#1 in the Nation among 124 Small Metros for High Tech Employment” by the Milken Institute, “Best Adventure Town” by Nat...
- Added: May 23, 2013
- Length: 07:45
Bloomington is in the running for a year-long partnership with Code for America, a national service organization that assigns "tech" talent to loca...
- Added: Jul 13, 2012
- Length: 09:02
A recent audit of Monroe County’s energy use turned up a variety of ways the County could save money and energy - from replacing lights to institut...
- Added: Apr 24, 2012
- Length: 10:07