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College students are hitting the road back to school this month. There’s no doubt it can be a wonderful experience. But for some, college will be ...
- Added: Sep 03, 2014
- Length: 02:30
As of the latest national elections, it costs approximately $1 billion to become president, $10 million to become a Senator, and $1 million to beco...
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- Added: Aug 21, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
We’re talking the causes and consequences of what MIT professor Stephen van Evera calls “the war that poisoned a century.” We’re still putting out ...
- Added: Aug 18, 2014
- Length: 58:29
- Purchases: 2
How suite it is
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 13
Unspun discusses the dangers to both our economy and freedoms in the age of unfettered, predatory capitalism with Paul Craig Roberts.
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- Added: Aug 11, 2014
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 1
Two and one half minute commentary on corporate awards from magazines -- not always what they seem.
- Added: Jul 15, 2014
- Length: 02:30
On August 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at the CERN particle accelerator in Switzerland, announced the debut of the World Wide Web, marking...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
What should consumers do who worry their data is being misused?Whose job is it to educate people about their responsibilities?Does privacy mean any...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
In the past few years medical companies have been producing a range of devices to help aging people keep track of their vital statistics: pulse rat...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Today, corporations and governments are using a vast array of tools to gather information on us. What trails are people leaving and do they even know?
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Back in 1958 Popular Science published an article about General Motor’s plan to build self-driving cars guided by electrical cables in roadways. Gi...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
By the middle of the 20th century electromagnets were common and engineers had begun experimenting with using them to levitate vehicles, including...
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Taking the listeners back into the early history of the universe, this introductory episode explains what fusion is, how it powers stars, and how i...
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- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
We live in an age where everything we do online can now be tracked, recorded, and analyzed. How has our sense of our own information footprint ! ch...
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Diabetes is one of the first recorded diseases. When was it first treated by physicians and how prevalent was it?
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
In 2010, the US Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting political donations. That is, so long as the...
- Added: Apr 27, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
Two and one half minute commentary on forced arbitration agreements.
- Added: Apr 18, 2014
- Length: 02:30
Which is the better way to “feed the world” – with organic or “conventional” agriculture? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Mel...
- Added: Apr 18, 2014
- Length: 28:00
“Natural” gas may sound like a clean alternative to foreign oil, but natural gas extraction utilizing hydraulic fracturing (fracking) increases the...
- Added: Apr 04, 2014
- Length: 28:00
A unique kind of Final Four bracket was created this year by the American Association of University Women. They ranked schools on how big the head ...
- Added: Apr 01, 2014
- Length: 02:30
The nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011 should provide the United States with lessons learned, however, the carefully nurtured tale that technology w...
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- Added: Mar 26, 2014
- Length: 28:41
- Purchases: 1
Ever have those moments when you just can’t find the right words to express your thoughts? They happen. Articulation isn’t always easy.
Sometimes,...
- Added: Mar 21, 2014
- Length: 07:20
Bestselling author Craig Nelson provides an in depth examination of the history of the Atomic age from x-rays to the 2011 meltdown in Japan.
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- Added: Mar 20, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
While California is experiencing one of it’s driest seasons, the east and south are having one of the coldest and wettest. Is this climate change, ...
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- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The end of the First Gulf War saw a vast increase in the number of combat soldiers filing claims for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Over the past ...
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- Added: Feb 19, 2014
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
