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Hacking your hearing aid to implanting NFC tags into your hands -- we are now in the age of DIY Bio. We dive into the growing underworld of body mo...
- Added: Apr 07, 2016
- Length: 18:22
Marco Tempest is not your average magician. He uses robots to do magic tricks on stage -- but the real trick is in how easily he can get an audienc...
- Added: Apr 06, 2016
- Length: 16:56
How tuna became the queen of the buffet; a safe bet, a 'go to' fish. Should I also worry about buying eggs? And setting the seminary free from foss...
- Added: Mar 25, 2016
- Length: 16:14
Fracking is popping up everywhere and we look at various responses. In Newfoundland (Canada), they create art. In the UK, they (pretend to) frack t...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Mar 25, 2016
- Length: 18:01
- Purchases: 1
Green Design: Why revolving doors rule. They give buildings the LEED badge when they are environmentally friendly. Why is a bldg a LEED bldg? A gr...
- Added: Mar 18, 2016
- Length: 14:57
Why nuclear energy is a main source of energy for Ontario and who is using renewables?. And how lawsuits silence environmentalists.
- Added: Mar 13, 2016
- Length: 12:18
The RW comes home to Vancouver. Is this ship iconic in the city where Greenpeace began?
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Mar 13, 2016
- Length: 08:47
- Purchases: 1
David Holtzman, professor and chairman of the neurology department at the Washington University School of Medicine, explores Alzheimer's disease an...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 11:09
- Purchases: 1
Capt of more than one Greenpeace ship Capt Peter Wilcox tells us what a RHIB is. (like a life boat, but not.)
- Added: Mar 03, 2016
- Length: 01:36
The Rainbow Warrior comes home to Vancouver. Is this ship iconic in the city where Greenpeace began?
What is a FAD or Fish Aggregating Device?
We ...
- Added: Feb 18, 2016
- Length: 15:05
In this first episode of Upstream, a radio documentary series, we look at the darker side of the "sharing economy" and explore the conditions that ...
- Added: Feb 13, 2016
- Length: 59:44
- Purchases: 2
The work of composer and sound artist Olivia Block has been described as "distinctive and individual" by The New York Times. She is happy enough wr...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WUNC, and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 01, 2016
- Length: 04:20
- Purchases: 3
Maisy is a shop dog in Toronto, but she had to take time off -- a sick leave. To battle her cancer, her humans traveled with Maisy to seek treatmen...
- Added: Jan 26, 2016
- Length: 27:43
Science magazine named it as their Breakthrough of the Year for 2015. It's a game-changing new gene editing tool, called CRISPR. And it has the pot...
- Added: Jan 06, 2016
- Length: 30:18
- Added: Dec 10, 2015
- Length: 07:28
- Purchases: 1
Cloud seeding -- intervening in clouds to squeeze out precipitation -- is done all over the world. But it's not an exact science; we still have muc...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 20, 2015
- Length: 09:38
- Purchases: 3
Airplanes in department stores? There was a time in U.S. History when people experienced this reality. But are we any closer today to realizing the...
- Added: Nov 14, 2015
- Length: 13:22
Imagine electronic music onstage without being welded to a keyboard. Imagine if a gesture could trigger a string section, a melody, a drum riff. No...
- Added: Oct 16, 2015
- Length: 58:55
Rendered follows up with Etsy about some of the concerns sellers brought up about the company on our April episode and get an update on how the com...
- Added: Aug 23, 2015
- Length: 18:09
The Bonfires of Social Enterprise with Romy Gingras of Gingras Global visits Ford Field in Detroit, the home of mentorship technology program, Tech...
- Added: Jul 28, 2015
- Length: 29:44
Latest research from the frontier of neuroscience.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WBEZ, WRVO Public Media, Spokane Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more
- Added: Jun 11, 2015
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 20
We'll find out why people love to capture pets in photos, even though they don't behave for the camera.
Bought by North State Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 13, 2015
- Length: 14:35
- Purchases: 3
Looking at how video games are being used by game developers and researchers in exploring mental illnesses.
- Added: May 10, 2015
- Length: 26:12
Producer Michael May discovers prototype designs for washing machines from the 1800s, which not only scrubbed clothes, but churned butter and made ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 04, 2015
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 1
Mining in Minnesota has been going on for decades, but today, economic and environmental issues are raising important questions about the industry....
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 26, 2015
- Length: 06:16
- Purchases: 1
