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There are no crystal balls. No one really knows the direction technology is going to take us. But, there are always those best guesses.
- Added: Jan 08, 2013
- Length: 28:55
- Purchases: 2
In his new book, Gar Smith dismantles the core arguments behind the nuclear industrial complex’s “Nuclear renaissance.” While some critiques are fa...
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- Added: Nov 27, 2012
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
The debate around evolution is often misrepresented as a simple choice between science and creationism. A primary question posed by philosopher St...
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- Added: Nov 07, 2012
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 1
In the last five years the world has seen two devastating spikes in the price of food, and according to journalist and professor Frederick Kaufman,...
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
According to a recent Gallup Poll, 46 percent of Americans believe in creationism. Is this belief hurting our planet? In his new book, professor, ...
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- Added: Oct 27, 2012
- Length: 28:57
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This dramatic soundscape uses interviews, narration, sound effects, and music to explain the emerging neuroscience of tinnitus - a ringing, buzzing...
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- Added: Oct 19, 2012
- Length: 09:40
- Purchases: 1
For more than a decade, Washington University anthropologist Crickette Sanz and Lincoln Park Zoo research conservationist David Morgan have lived a...
- Added: Oct 15, 2012
- Length: 03:50
The CIGARETTE is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. Few discoveries have been so consequential. So begins the work by his...
- Added: Aug 19, 2012
- Length: 28:54
A conversation with Washington University law professor Rebecca Dresser, about an article she recently published in the journal Science about the e...
- Added: Aug 10, 2012
- Length: 06:11
Across the country, a renaissance of local food, local farming and place based culinary traditions is taking hold. Yet, something small, critically...
- Added: Aug 07, 2012
- Length: 28:57
Pharmaceutical companies, according to Dr. David Healy, have hijacked healthcare in America, and the results are life threatening. Healy looks at t...
- Added: May 01, 2012
- Length: 29:00
This is a 3:40 Q&A I did with renowned evolutionary ecologist E.O. Wilson, who developed the theory of island biogeography (one of the founding pri...
- Added: Apr 27, 2012
- Length: 03:40
In its 2001 report on global climate, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations prominently featured the “Hockey Stick,” ...
- Added: Apr 17, 2012
- Length: 28:59
Into the national conversation about climate change and our planet's natural resources comes The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing About ...
- Added: Apr 10, 2012
- Length: 28:40
Today, we measure the body temperature of something that's been dead for 170 million years. Our guest is Dr. Robert Eagle, a researcher at UCLA.
- Added: Feb 16, 2012
- Length: 12:16
Why is death such a difficult subject to talk about?
From hospital mortuary to the grave, The D-Word explores our complex relationship with death...
- Added: Jan 23, 2012
- Length: 30:30
Temple Grandin is considered one of the 100 most influential people in the country. SQ Radio presents an interview with Temple Grandin at her home ...
- Added: Dec 20, 2011
- Length: 24:56
Reports of the health of our planet appear dim. Our conditions are becoming worse as hunger increases, and the variety of species disappear. Autho...
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- Added: Dec 19, 2011
- Length: 28:57
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My guest this hour is Steven Pinker, who has written a game-changer on the little matter of how quickly humanity is headed for hell or redemption. ...
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- Added: Dec 13, 2011
- Length: 58:59
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A conversation with science blogger Danielle Lee about the ways she’s using hip hop songs and backyard wildlife to reach out to young people in und...
- Added: Aug 03, 2011
- Length: 09:46
A conversation with science blogger Danielle Lee about the ways she’s using hip hop songs and backyard wildlife to reach out to young people in und...
- Added: Aug 03, 2011
- Length: 03:41
There are places in Antarctica so thick with meteorites that you can find them like a child would shells on the beach. Others plunge into the ice ...
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- Added: Aug 31, 2010
- Length: 08:50
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Jahan Marcu is one of the few cannabinoid scientists in America. Chris Goldstein interviews him on the substances containing synthetic cannabinoids.
- Added: Feb 25, 2010
- Length: 14:13
Viagra, a drug with infinite name recognition and touted benefits is, as we know, pervasively advertised on television and the Internet. But what i...
- Added: Nov 10, 2009
- Length: 29:01
- Added: Sep 20, 2009
- Length: 27:59
