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Do you hold your cell phone against your ear? Your user manual probably warns against it.
Bret Bocook knew how to use a cell phone. So he didn’t b...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Nov 03, 2014
- Length: 06:07
- Purchases: 1
California entrepreneurs saw potential in the gusty winds that blew out at the Altamont Pass, between the Central Valley and Bay Area. By the mid-’...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 07:09
“The goal is Zero Waste by 2020, and we think that is an achievable goal.”
Those words from former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom back in 2009 p...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 06:04
When Deborah Bevilacqua lost her leg in a motorcycle accident ten years ago, she had to get a prosthetic leg. It’s been functional she says, but it...
- Added: Oct 21, 2014
- Length: 11:41
At the corner of Sanchez and Market, Jason Dorn pulls out an iPhone. He’s at one end point of the access area for San Francisco Free WiFi, a free w...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 05:30
Around 20 students are standing in a circle in a big open office space. There are both men and women, mostly in their 20s or 30s.
One-by-one, they...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 07:15
When you’re trying to figure out a piece of information online, your search will typically bring you to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia about pr...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 10:56
Throughout film history, the Golden Gate Bridge has been leveled in earthquakes, ripped apart by apes, melted, and even bitten in half by a mega-sh...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 07:31
- Purchases: 1
Students and faculty from U.S. universities have teamed with the Liberian Ministry of Information and an American tech company to help fight Ebola....
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and Accessible Media Inc.
- Added: Sep 16, 2014
- Length: 03:55
- Purchases: 2
It currently costs $10,000 a pound to transport material from Earth into space. If humans want to live in space someday, those transport costs alon...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, KUOW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 26, 2014
- Length: 06:14
- Purchases: 4
Walking into ‘Vinyl: The Sound and Culture of Records,’ one of the newest exhibits at the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA), feels like hanging o...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Jul 14, 2014
- Length: 09:09
- Purchases: 1
The San Francisco Mixtape Society hosts mix exchanges at the Make Out Room in the Mission District. Music lovers meet, mingle and exchange mixes th...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 05:54
It can be hard to donate your old things to a thrift store, but the idea is that your stuff will get a second life. Once it is donated, it will mak...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 05:08
Movies, television, video games and music are central to pop culture, and none of that would be possible without the work of audio engineers. Audi...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 07:34
The Bay Area is home to one of the world’s most famous animated film production companies: Pixar. They’ve taken us into the worlds of rebellious to...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 18, 2014
- Length: 08:05
- Purchases: 1
The sharing economy in San Francisco is humming. Companies like Airbnb have figured out how to make a lot of money by using existing housing stock ...
- Added: May 18, 2014
- Length: 08:40
Picture a scientist in a white lab coat holding a test tube up to the light. Or a brilliant computer geek hunched over a keyboard. These are stereo...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 18, 2014
- Length: 07:34
- Purchases: 1
Del Seymour makes sure to take everybody on his walking tours of the Tenderloin to the corner of Turk and Taylor...
- Added: May 18, 2014
- Length: 12:11
In the Oscar-nominated film "Her," director Spike Jonze imagines a world where computers are so human-like they have their own feelings. Whether th...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 08:00
It’s a Tuesday evening in Oakland’s City Hall. A group of people ranging in age from their 20s to 50s are sitting, many in front of their laptops. ...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 04:54
- Added: May 02, 2014
- Length: 05:12
Aristotle said there are three kinds of friendships—those of utility, pleasure, and virtue. But what about Facebook friendships? One scholar is stu...
- Added: Sep 30, 2013
- Length: 02:39
- Purchases: 2
Learning with a personal tutor is one of the best ways to learn. But hiring a tutor for every student was never a realistic option, until now. Can ...
- Added: Sep 03, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 6
In an age of big data, even police departments are getting in on the action. In Los Angeles, the LAPD are using software for what they call “predic...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, Hark!, WTIP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KQED
- Added: Jul 29, 2013
- Length: 06:37
- Purchases: 5
90% of the world's goods are carried by cargo ships. And the oceans they sail on are streaming with wind: High tech wing sails used on America's Cu...
Bought by Hark!, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTIP, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 15, 2013
- Length: 06:41
- Purchases: 5
