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November 2nd, 2009
The message of Fahrenheit 451 in the age of DVD and electronic books: We run the risk that the literary and intellectual canon of the coming centur...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 03:34
As terrorist uses more sophisticated technology we face a Faustian bargain in using technology to track them.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:45
Tivo changes the financial model for televsion
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:44
Boeing's 7E7 jet - now the 787 - uses high tech to use less fuel
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:51
A Nobel Prize winner called the disappearance of Erector sets a "disaster of modern life." He considered their replacement by Legos to herald the "...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:44
Vaseline was first sold as a cure-all for all types of ills.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:38
Cruise control was invited by a blind engineer.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:31
The story of the global positioning system
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:50
The story of the invention of the Geiger Counter.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 03:07
The story of the invention of the phillips screw.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:43
The cleverness and ingenuity of engineering in designing objects for mass production.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:27
It seems like we live in a time where things become obsolete quickly, but for every eight-track tape that has gone by the way side, there are age-o...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:47
The escapment - the essential part of a mechanical clock that makes to go tick, tock - changed the world by allowing humans to move away from the c...
Bought by Radio Catskill
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:43
- Purchases: 1
The lessons from the August 14, 2003 blackout of the United States and Canada.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 03:01
Tunneling through the ground has a long and important history in human affairs.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:45
What risks do we run from living in a high tech society. They likely different that you'd expect.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:51
The story of engineer Saul Griffith and his machine that instantly makes lenses for developing countries.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:29
American Idol shows the future of text messaging
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:40
On June 21st, 2004 the first private space flight took off, even through it hearalded a new age, it harked back to the showmen of the 19th century.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:35
We associate the saxophone with the mellowness of jazz, but it roots are very hotheaded. The saxophone evolved from a bass clarinet built by the Be...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:38
- Purchases: 1
