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Nuts and Bolts: Our Brains on STEM (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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What if you could change not just how much you know, but your actual intelligence?

Bought by WJCT and KVSC


  • Added: Jan 17, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Nuts and Bolts: Our Brains on STEM (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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What if you could change not just how much you know, but your actual intelligence?

Bought by WCNY and WTJU


  • Added: Jan 17, 2014
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 2
Troublesome Flooring
From: Kazuki Arakaki
Series: The Stolendroids Podcast
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This podcast we have news on just how Edward Snowden managed to get all those “highly guarded secrets”, how Facebook is trying to protect everyone’...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:13
The Flipped Classroom (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
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It’s an age old question for teachers from elementary school to college: how do you get students to do their homework? Some educators are trying to...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:28
The Future of Higher Education (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In May of 2012, Harvard and MIT announced a partnership to provide free courses to anyone, anywhere, sparking an intense debate about the future of...

Bought by WCNY and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 18, 2013
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 2
Landfill expansion pits Marin environmentalists against nation's largest waste company
From: KALW
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If you drive north from San Francisco and through most of Marin County, you get to the town of Novato. Turn east from Highway 101 and you run into ...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 04:39
Regulating the Google Buses: the SFMTA's plan for private shuttles
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: A Muni bus passes a "Google Bus" in San Franisco, Credit: Sven Eberlein
Private shuttles have been using Muni stops in San Francisco for a while. But they’ve mostly been smaller buses, for hospitals and universities. In...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 05:44
PHONES
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Generational discussion on the impact of phones in society

  • Added: Oct 18, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Grokking Democracy
From: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Advancing Technology for Humanity
Hour long news program examines the democratic process and how technology has played a role. Co-hosted by Jonathan Alter and Lisa Mullins.

Bought by WUFT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WOUB, KQED, West Virginia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Oct 14, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 19
STEM vs. the Humanities? (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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We have a way of talking about STEM fields as the opposite of the humanities–but it’s hard to have one without the other.

Bought by WCNY, WXDU, and WTJU


  • Added: Sep 10, 2013
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 3
Rules of Engagement: Ethics in Warfare [rebroadcast]
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: The Gatling Gun patent drawing (1865). The gun was patented on May 9, 1865, and was officially adopted by the U.S. Army on August 21, 1866. , Credit: National Archives
Reports that chemical weapons have been used in Syria raise important questions about what is—and is not—an appropriate means of waging war. This w...

Bought by XRAY.fm, KBRP Community Radio, KFOK-LPFM, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 30, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Starry-Eyed: A History of the Heavens
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Depiction of the 1833 Leonid meteor storm, in Bible Readings for the Home Circle (1889).
On this episode of BackStory, we’re examining Americans’ ongoing fascination with the skies above us. How have people made sense of comets, eclipse...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WABE, KBRP Community Radio, KREV-LP, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 09, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
EdX President Anant Agarwal’s Plan to Change the World
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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ThoughtCast speaks with Anant Agarwal, formerly the Director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. An entrepreneur and ...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2013
  • Length: 11:32
231: Water, Water Everywhere
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Fresh water as a resource is under constant threat by over-consumption, toxins, pollutants and waste from industrial and agricultural production. I...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2013
  • Length: 05:06
Keeping Tabs: Personal Data Collection in America
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: An enumerator interviews a woman for the 1940 census, Credit: National Archives
In June, Americans learned that the NSA has been collecting data on millions of American’s phone calls, and tapping into data gathered by tech comp...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WUFT, KBRP Community Radio, KREV-LP, WRPI and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Grapefruit Juice - A Dangerous Mixer
From: David Niesel
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Every day, millions of people who take medications also drink grapefruit juice. I do. But most don’t realize the combination can be toxic and even ...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2013
  • Length: 02:00
That Lawless Stream: A History of the Mississippi River
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: The city of New Orleans (detail), c1885, Credit: Library of Congress
The Mississippi River is central to the American landscape and imagination. And for centuries, it has served as a battlefield in which our most com...

Bought by WUFT, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, XRAY.fm, KBRP Community Radio, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Patent Pending: A History of Intellectual Property
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: 1814 wood engraving of two types of locking mechanisms., Credit: (Library of Congress).
Can genes be patented? Are downloaders inhibiting musical creativity – or enhancing it? This week’s BackStory explores how Americans have viewed “i...

Bought by WUFT, XRAY.fm, WSKG, KUOW, WRPI and more


  • Added: May 17, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 12
The Opera Singer
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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John Aler made his operatic debut in 1977 as Ernesto in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale. Since then, he’s performed in some of the greatest opera houses i...

Bought by WCNY, 'The Sea', WCWP, WABE, and WTJU


  • Added: May 17, 2013
  • Length: 53:48
  • Purchases: 5
17 - Mike asks, "How do I protect my computer from these security problems with Java I keep hearing about?"
From: WJCT
Series: Ask Deemable Tech (3:30)
Caption: Disable Java now!
Mike has heard a lot of news recently about companies being hacked by people using security flaws in Java, but isn't sure what Java is. What does h...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and WCWP


  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 2
Apps for Employees with Autism
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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As of January, there were over three quarters of a million apps available for our smartphones and iPods. Thanks to one occupational therapist, some...

Bought by KENW, KFAI Minneapolis, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 29, 2013
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 3
Giddy-up: A Therapy for Autism
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Horses and humans have long had a special relationship, but now therapeutic horse riding is helping children with Autism in some life-changing ways.

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, and KVLU


  • Added: Apr 29, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
WorldCanvass: Genetics and New Technologies
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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An exploration of the many ways in which genetics and new technologies are changing the world we live in and challenging long-held assumptions.

  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:37
Hype Machine Radio - February 2013
From: Dev Sherlock
Series: Hype Machine Radio
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Take a one-hour journey through the world of music blogs. On this episode we look at the most-blogged music of the month, including new tracks from...

Bought by WXPN


  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 57:52
  • Purchases: 1
Brain_Talk_002_HSIAO
From: Brain Talk - Johns Hopkins Brain Science Institute
Series: Brain Talk
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The Science of Touch

Bought by WTJU and Radio Newark


  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 2