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Ride along with a sanitation worker who collects everything in San Francisco’s blue bins, and learn some dos and don’ts of recycling at a Recology ...
- Added: Dec 23, 2021
- Length: 29:30
Schools have reopened in Fall 2020 amid the COVID19 pandemic, and educators are putting in overtime to make it work. Four educators speak about th...
- Added: Oct 31, 2020
- Length: 46:33
On the Fresh Air episode, "For Facebook Content Moderators, Traumatizing Material is a Job Hazard", a Silicon Valley journalist plumbed Facebook's ...
- Added: Jul 03, 2019
- Length: 08:21
A recent Fresh Air interview with Heidi Schreck about the Supreme Court recognition of privacy as the premise for a woman's right to control her ow...
- Added: Mar 21, 2019
- Length: 07:28
I have for months tried to figure out the loose association that comes to mind when my voice-activated GPS begins. After Paul Manafort's sentencin...
- Added: Mar 11, 2019
- Length: 05:56
Insurers who raise health care premiums, systematically deflect accountability for increases as necessary to cover rising health care costs. Deduc...
- Added: Nov 02, 2018
- Length: 07:48
Shouldn't Facebook also be held accountable for their moral indifference to the human consequence of Facebook trolling that the platform's anonymi...
- Added: Apr 14, 2018
- Length: 01:35
Almost every year a small island off the coast of Java is flooded with crabs. The local National Park staff came up with a unique solution to help ...
- Added: Dec 23, 2017
- Length: 07:28
MIT-graduate Tish Scolnik is using the power of business to give people with disabilities a new sense of freedom.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 14:28
- Purchases: 1
Internet anonymity now is presented as ‘the standard’ . But being anonymous when online really is optional . If like many other human activities, a...
- Added: Apr 30, 2017
- Length: 06:29
Amazon has announced they will soon launch an attempt to eliminate that pesky feature of day-to-day life- ‘the grocery store check-out employee’. ...
- Added: Dec 06, 2016
- Length: 07:13
Something very different is going on up in Boothbay, Maine. It was an experiment which – if it works – could represent a fundamental shift in the w...
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 22:15
A musical tribute to "My Funny I.T. Guy" . Blackberry phones - like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had- used to be considered difficult...
- Added: Jul 08, 2016
- Length: 02:08
When the NUMMI auto factory in Fremont closed five years ago, close to 5,000 people lost their jobs. An estimated 20,000 others were also out of w...
- Added: Jul 16, 2015
- Length: 28:37
Hundreds of students at Schools of the Sacred Heart in San Francisco are taking part in a nationwide Tech Timeout, challenging students to unplug f...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 05:22
- Purchases: 1
The ethical challenge for Facebook has been to re-create the ethics of community where there are real consequences for using information in a destr...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 05:49
From: Jacob Podber
Based on oral history interviews, this 29-minute radio documentary examines the effects early radio had on rural America. The program includes inte...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Jan 31, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Shop class 20 years ago meant hacksaws and hammers, but today's shop class is about teaching innovation and creation through computer programming, ...
Bought by WJCT, KVLU, and Radio Newark
- Added: Apr 11, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 3
‘Tis the season to buy and sell. We take a closer look at some of the current trends in retail online.
- Added: Feb 19, 2010
- Length: 26:10
Are mashups the new metaphors– combining rather than comparing unlike things — as a commentary on our culture? How have mashups influenced and chan...
- Added: Feb 19, 2010
- Length: 23:37
Women in the ultimate Man’s World – the labs and Shuttle crew cabins of NASA in the 60s and 70s.
Bought by KUHF, Morehead State Public Radio, KRBD, WVTF, High Plains Public Radio and more
- Added: Oct 22, 2009
- Length: 59:07
- Purchases: 82
- Added: Nov 20, 2008
- Length: :40
The depression was caused by products that never wore out
- Added: Nov 18, 2008
- Length: 02:07
- Added: Sep 23, 2008
- Length: 02:09
- Added: Jul 23, 2008
- Length: 01:52
