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We’re obsessed with predicting the future. Most of the time, though, we get it wrong. On the other hand, we can predict a specific event with near ...
- Added: Sep 10, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
How we deal with the possibilities of tomorrow are very dependent on how we handle those possibilities today. Sounds simple, however, even when we ...
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
We think we know a lot. Perhaps we do. On the other hand, an ongoing study at Yale University finds that today’s society thinks it knows more than ...
- Added: Aug 27, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
We’re use to hearing about how much humans have impacted the earth. Scientists have given a name for this period to recognize human dominance over ...
- Added: Jul 16, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
We have entered a brand new era of persuasion. This is completely untested water’s. In a world of everything computer, a world where our household ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 24, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Science deniers and attacks on science are more prevalent today. Interestingly, America leads the world in the sheer number of people who have cont...
- Added: May 03, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
America is set to lose tens of millions of job in the next 15 years. Some of the best research today estimates that one half of all U.S. jobs will ...
- Added: Apr 22, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
A talk with the folks who are turning the Minneapolis Institute for Art into a Puzzle Room
- Added: Aug 10, 2018
- Length: 27:09
Twenty-five years before Fukushima the worst nuclear disaster occurred in the Soviet Union.
- Added: Jul 20, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Artificial Intelligence will drastically change our lives. The technology is expected to advance cyber security, finance, energy, military applicat...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jul 04, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Very few realize the significance of Virtual Reality. Yet, VR will change how we work, how we experience entertainment, how we feel emotions, and h...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Curator Nora Atkinson takes us behind the scenes of the wildly successful exhibit "No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man" in Washington DC.'s Renwi...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: May 25, 2018
- Length: 29:58
- Purchases: 1
Population growth is causing us to rethink our urban and suburban lifestyles, and with that, redesigning cities is a new fad.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
According to a 2016 report by Business Insider magazine, three of the world’s largest employers are now replacing their workers with robots.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 19, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Think about the many stories you’ve heard or read over the years. Some of those stories may have had a major impact on your life, or maybe even the...
- Added: Jan 04, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The world of technology is male driven. Very few women are represented in leadership roles. For decades now, there’s been a major gender diversity ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 06, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
If we were on a ship at sea, and learned of the impending tsunami, we’d do everything we could to prepare for the collision.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jul 03, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The award-winning novelist, blogger, and advocate talks about science fiction and technology.
- Added: May 11, 2017
- Length: 26:59
- Purchases: 2
At some point in our lives, most of us will begin to question how our universe began. Depending on whom you ask, you’re going to get a variety of r...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 15, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Dr. Gary Griggs, Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz and director of the Institute of Marine Sciences talks abo...
Bought by KFOI Radio and WGRN-LP 94.1
- Added: Feb 04, 2017
- Length: 54:01
- Purchases: 2
We think that with today’s technology, we’re better informed. Therefore it follows we have more knowledge. Not so fast.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 27, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
My friend Jimmy Fingerbutton invented a perpetual motion machine. I was the first person he showed it to. I guess he figured I had the right qual...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 11:38
In his book, Dr. Steven Hatch cuts to the chase. Readers get a sense of the challenges in all areas of modern medicine.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 23, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Researchers are changing the way we experience our world. They’re engineering scents that stimulate lost memories, they’re searching for the elusiv...
- Added: Jan 06, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Danny Barnes recently won the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass. The innovative musician fuses electronics and folk instrum...
Bought by Prairie Public, KRPS, and Prairie Public
- Added: Dec 20, 2015
- Length: 01:56:04
- Purchases: 3
