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Radio Berkman 162: Lessig & Zittrain Take On… Competition!!
From: The Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Series: Radio Berkman
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Lawrence Lessig and Jonathan Zittrain - two of the greatest minds on the web - talk about how competition works in technology market

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Nov 04, 2010
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 1
Radio Berkman 160: Business, Meet Web
From: The Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Series: Radio Berkman
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How the Limited Liability Corporation is one of the most important inventions of all time

  • Added: Nov 04, 2010
  • Length: 20:27
New Technology for Cheetah Conservation
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Cheetahs are fast, but time is catching up with them. Their numbers are dwindling due to a small gene pool that makes these graceful Big Cats vulne...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Oct 25, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Bale House
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Why build a house when you can grow one? So says sustainable building designers at Britain's University of Bath. They recently created a home from ...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Oct 25, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Fire and Climate Change
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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We live on a flammable planet! Consider our forests: Vegetation that dries out seasonally. And our atmosphere? Oxygen! Add lightening strikes, volc...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Oct 25, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Creating A Better Commute
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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These days, Americans are driving three times as many miles per capita as they did in 1980. Not only are longer commutes driving us crazy, they’re...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Oct 25, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Action Speaks! What's Eating Us? 1998 - The Sonny Bono Act (Copywright Extension)
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Action Speaks! Underappreciated Dates that Changed America and its panelists -- including famed author Shepard Fairey and scholar and attorney Lawr...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, WFSU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Oct 15, 2010
  • Length: 58:50
  • Purchases: 7
Clever Apes: The Shakedown
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
Caption: La Chaire Trepidante: the 19th century vibrating chair invented to relieve Parkinsons's symptoms., Credit: Christopher Goetz
Treating Parkinson's with a vibrating chair; reading the rumblings of the earth; and a hip-hop battle of cosmic proportions.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 05, 2010
  • Length: 13:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mantids -- Groks Science Show 2010-09-22
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Gavin Svenson and Dr. David Yager discussed mantodea.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KMXT


  • Added: Sep 22, 2010
  • Length: 31:37
  • Purchases: 2
Commentator Guido on Inventions
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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Do you take your dog for daily walks? Guido has the perfect invention for you: Basil's Boulevard Boom Boom Burn Stick...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 20, 2010
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 1
The Last Word on Inventions
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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Will there be a world where machines are dreaming up new machines? Are we already there?

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Sep 20, 2010
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 1
XptA1: Nature’s Pesticide
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Mother Nature doesn't fly a crop-duster -- she doesn't need to. A research team at the University of Warwick, England, recently discovered a natura...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
Batteries Powered by Sugar
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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i-Pods powered by Kool-Aid? Yep. They might be just around the corner -- no kidding!

  • Added: Aug 25, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
Number Theory -- Groks Science Show 2010-07-07
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Alex Bellos discussed number theory.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KMXT


  • Added: Jul 07, 2010
  • Length: 26:18
  • Purchases: 2
Algae to the Rescue
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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On top of everything else ailing Mother Earth these days, apparently she’s got gas. Lots of it. Specifically, carbon dioxide.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Green Energy from Plants
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Medieval alchemy -- you’ve seen it in the movies: A wizard-like figure hovers over a glowing vat adding mysterious ingredients in his quest to turn...

Bought by WTIP and KOSU


  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Sizing Up Storms
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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It’s no news to anyone that Hurricanes’ can be devastating. Luckily, hurricane forecasting has improved a lot over the years. We owe much of that i...

Bought by KOSU and WTIP


  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Ants -- Groks Science Show 2010-06-16
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Mark Moffett discussed adventures among ants.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KMXT


  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 28:10
  • Purchases: 2
Trash Zapper
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Here’s a conundrum. What do you do with three thousand tons of smelly garbage a day? Could you just, well, vaporize it?!

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: May 25, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Fresh Water Again
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Okay -- so it sounds pretty disgusting when you first hear about it. But, well, here it goes. We may be able to get drinking water from treated sew...

  • Added: May 25, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
Mapping Elephant DNA
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Over the years, treasure maps have been of such interest that the Library of Congress devoted a volume to them! Now, a new kind of map is proving t...

  • Added: May 25, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
MRSA -- Groks Science Show 2010-05-10
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Maryn McKenna discussed the threat of MRSA.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KMXT


  • Added: May 05, 2010
  • Length: 26:53
  • Purchases: 2
Warlock
From: War News Radio
Caption: An Iraqi holds up his non-functioning phone., Credit: Associated Press
From Signal Interrupted, on April 30, 2010. War News Radio reports on a new device that's interrupting communications in Iraq.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2010
  • Length: 06:31
Nano Flakes
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The biggest power plant on earth is high in the sky -- it’s the sun. But, we only get one percent of our energy from it because it typically costs...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
Banking on Seeds
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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I don’t know if Santa Claus ever collected seeds, but one of his neighbors sure does. About 200 miles from the North Pole, the United States is bu...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2010
  • Length: 01:30

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