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The biases embedded in technology are more than mere glitches, argues Meredith Broussard in her new book, "More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Ge...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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A few years ago, Douglas Rushkoff was invited to speak to a group of billionaires. Rather than asking about current tech trends, the billionaires w...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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The Flat Earth conspiracy got a huge boost from Facebook and YouTube, as Kelly Weill explains in her book "Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy ...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Many tech employees in Silicon Valley are pressured into joining a new religion, worshiping work and taking spiritual direction from their companie...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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"Tech companies have abused their power and it is time to resist them." Oxford professor Carissa Véliz describes why privacy is so important, and h...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Amazon took over books, Spotify and Google took over music, and musicians and authors are struggling as a result. Cory Doctorow talks about what we...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
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Alec MacGillis discusses his book "Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America" – about how Amazon has had drastic effects on the economy,...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
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The tech industry is launching new brain-surveillance devices intended to monitor your mental state and, yes, even read your thoughts. Nita Farahan...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
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Internet addiction is a growing problem, thanks to the intentional design of Silicon Valley platforms to "hook" users. The ITAA can help: Internet ...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Cultivated meat has the potential to disrupt the meat industry, and engineer Dr. Katie Kam joins the podcast to talk about it. Katie founded BioBQ...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2023
  • Length: 28:20
Caption: Photo of Amy Pirzada inside her business My Coding Place in Austin, Texas., Credit: Pios Labs
Amy Pirzada started My Coding Place as an educational business focused on teaching coding to kids in Austin. But she soon expanded to teach chess, ...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2022
  • Length: 39:26
Caption: Cover of the book "Can You Hear Me Now?" by Suzanne DeMallie.
The education system can change top-down, or bottom-up. Author Suzanne DeMallie wrote “Can You Hear Me Now?” – a book about how parents and teache...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2021
  • Length: 59:36
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Hugo Fruehauf, one of the co-inventors of GPS, explains the nitty-gritty of what GPS is. He also details his critical engineering work on the GPS s...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2020
  • Length: 32:27
Caption: The cover art for this episode comes from Gilbert Toyne’s 1925 Australian patent on the rotary clothesline., Credit: Australian Government patent system.
Like much of the world, Australian educators are increasingly embracing STEM education for younger students. Chris Perkins is one such teacher at K...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2019
  • Length: 55:37
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The theme of this episode is "Fertility."

  • Added: Nov 08, 2019
  • Length: 52:00
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The theme of this episode is the, "Future of medicine".

  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 52:00
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What does a chemical engineer do? What makes a good one? What should young people know about the field? Chemical engineer Will Mullen helps us ans...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 54:38
Caption: Photo of the robot from Every Kid Gets a Robot., Credit: Danielle Boyer, The STEAM Connection.
What do young people think about STEM fields today? Michigan STEM educator Danielle Boyer talks about her perspective as a recent high school grad...

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  • Added: Sep 02, 2019
  • Length: 36:03
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Distributed systems rule much of new technology today, as software programs exist across multiple computers, servers, phones, and smart devices. Ho...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2019
  • Length: 27:55
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In this age of growing internet technology and connected computers, cybersecurity engineers and computer scientists will be more critical. Softwar...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2019
  • Length: 53:19
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Problem-solving, technology, and public service all combine when you work as an engineer for the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Dr. Michael St...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2019
  • Length: 19:56
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What are the trends in educational kids’ toys today? How can programming kits be improved? How does an education business start and succeed? Entrep...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2018
  • Length: 39:09
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we have Part one of our story on electric vehicles and charging stations in Winona, MN. Today we talk to John Ho...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2018
  • Length: 19:03
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The focus of this episode is suicide.

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  • Added: Oct 01, 2018
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The theme of this episode is "breaking barriers".

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  • Added: Aug 22, 2018
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1