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Vibrators have been around since the 19th century. Before they were marketed primarily as sex toys, they were sold as general health devices … and ...
- Added: Apr 03, 2024
- Length: 58:23
If you could speak again with a loved one who has passed away, would you? With recent advances in artificially intelligent grief tech, this questio...
Bought by KWGS
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 1
If you could speak again with a loved one who has passed away, would you? With recent advances in artificially intelligent grief tech, this questio...
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Sex robots have been a sci-fi staple since the genre’s birth. Now that more advancements in technology are bringing early generation bots to life, ...
Bought by KWGS and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 16, 2024
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 2
AI chatbots garner millions of daily users, filling a variety of roles from customer support to text generator. But what about their romantic poten...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WHRV, KWGS, RadioFreePalmer, and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Feb 09, 2024
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 5
AI chatbots garner millions of daily users, filling a variety of roles from customer support to text generator. But what about their romantic pote...
- Added: Feb 08, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Between the ages of 40 and 70, more than half of all people with penises will deal with some form of erectile dysfunction. While that experience ca...
- Added: Jan 10, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Self-help has existed in some form since the dawn of human civilization and has grown into a robust industrial complex. But does self-help really m...
- Added: Jan 04, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Jess speaks from her experience conducting deep ocean research to answer questions raised by UCS scientists and staff about the recent disasters of...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 19:00
What does the cave art of 30,000 years ago have to do with the new Solar Orbiter we sent from Planet Earth to explore our star? Quite a lot, it tur...
- Added: Apr 02, 2021
- Length: 28:00
Let’s make equations musical. Instead of visualizing equations on a graph, let’s listen to them on the piano, merging all our math and music knowl...
- Added: Dec 29, 2020
- Length: 49:30
A piece by Mya Torres. I made my piece about how social media ruined not only MY relationship with self-love, but many others.
- Added: Aug 18, 2020
- Length: 05:59
Marcus Bullock is the founder of the tech app Flikshop—which allows families to communicate digitally with their loved ones in prison. In this clip...
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 05:56
Nola asks her classmates about their internet personas--what they're like, why they have them, and how they feel about them--in this engaging vox p...
- Added: Apr 09, 2019
- Length: 07:22
Cool as a cucumber curved with quite the camber. This is Episode 61 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or f...
- Added: Apr 12, 2018
- Length: 05:14
Picture this: a lightning bolt shoots out about 10 gigawatts of power. This is Episode 58 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favor...
- Added: Mar 18, 2018
- Length: 03:44
Quarter for your thoughts about quaternions?
This is Episode 57 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny...
- Added: Mar 11, 2018
- Length: 05:01
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
Saved AOL chats from the 90s of Tyler, a self-professed nerd and Janelle, his high school crush. Together, they re-hash them, in all their comedic...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 18, 2015
- Length: 21:46
- Purchases: 1
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
At the beginning of the 19th century women in the United States had an average of seven or eight children. By 1900 they had only three or four, and...
- Added: Dec 03, 2014
- Length: 40:27
What do our voices say about us? On this edition we explore voice and identity. We'll hear from someone who nearly lost their voice as well as the ...
- Added: Oct 03, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Since he was three years old, Obasi Onuoha has been in love with computers. really. To him, they're way more than just machines....
- Added: Apr 03, 2014
- Length: 02:30
It is late, and things are not going well
- Added: Jan 23, 2014
- Length: 04:21
How do you slow down your life to spend more quality time with your family?
Can family traditions and religious beliefs help to ground you and your...
- Added: Dec 17, 2013
- Length: 04:54
