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How Should We Respond To Climate Change?
From: Casey Walker
Series: Energy Switch
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Dr. Steve Koonin, a former U.S. Secretary of Science, and Dr. Michael Greenstone, Director of the Energy Policy Institute at University of Chicago,...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 26:02
  • Purchases: 1
2024-04-07 Could Robots Be Persons?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What would it mean to assign legal or moral responsibility to algorithms in human form?

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WNED Buffalo, GCR (Global Community Radio), KTSW 89.9, KMUN and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
2415: Could Robots Be Persons?, 4/9/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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What would it mean to assign legal or moral responsibility to algorithms in human form?

  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
2024-03-17 What Can Virtual Reality (Actually) Do?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Can VR really put you in someone else’s shoes?

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
2412: What Can Virtual Reality (Actually) Do?, 3/19/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Can VR really put you in someone else’s shoes?

  • Added: Mar 09, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
2024-02-18 The Social Lives of Robots
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Can social intelligence be taught to non-social beings?

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  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 12
2408: The Social Lives of Robots, 2/20/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Can social intelligence be taught to non-social beings?

  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
2024-02-04 Can A.I. Help Us Understand Babies?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Could large language models show us how human babies learn to speak?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 05, 2024
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 3
2406: Can A.I. Help Us Understand Babies?, 2/6/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Could large language models show us how human babies learn to speak?

  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 53:58
Is Engineering Solar Radiation A Crazy Idea?
From: Open to Debate
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Right now, climate engineers are working on new technologies, called solar geoengineering, that would reflect the sun’s rays away from Earth as a w...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Will AI Kill the Future of the Creative Arts?
From: Open to Debate
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From AI-generated paintings to writing scripts and novels, AI is challenging our endeavor to create, innovate, and connect. Will the human touch be...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 07, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
2338: Are We Living in a Simulation?, 9/19/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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How would we even tell the real world from a simulated one?

  • Added: Sep 18, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
2023-09-17 Are We Living in a Simulation?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How would we even tell the real world from a simulated one?

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
2337: Adorno and the Culture Industry, 9/12/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Theodor Adorno was born September 11, 1903.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 53:58
Should We Erase Bad Memories?
From: Open to Debate
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Similar to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, neurotechnology techniques like decoded neurofeedback open the possibility of modifying or erasin...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
2023-08-13 Making a Better World
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Can moral philosophy make us better people?

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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2333: Making a Better World, 8/15/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Can moral philosophy make us better people?

  • Added: Aug 10, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Is Social Media Bad For Kids' Mental Health?
From: Open to Debate
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Recently, the US Surgeon General released an advisory stating with social media, there’s a risk of harm to children and adolescents' mental health....

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 27, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Is Elon Musk Killing Twitter?
From: Open to Debate
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These days, the bird’s the word. Since shelling out $44 billion for Twitter, critics say Elon Musk is knocking the social media giant off its perch...

Bought by WMUU-LP and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 13, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
2023-06-11 The Rhetoric of Big Tech
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What do Ayn Rand, Martin Heidegger, and Samuel Beckett have to do with Silicon Valley?

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  • Added: Jun 12, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 14
2324: The Rhetoric of Big Tech, 6/13/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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What do Ayn Rand, Martin Heidegger, and Samuel Beckett have to do with Silicon Valley?

  • Added: Jun 07, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
RESCUE, part 18: Opportunity for Ocean Finance
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week the multi-part RESCUE series continues with a turn toward the topic of finance. This episode lays out a plan for future editions that foc...

  • Added: May 11, 2023
  • Length: 05:02
Will ChatGPT Do More Harm Than Good?
From: Open to Debate
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ChatGPT is all the rage. But despite the chatbot’s growing popularity, it’s not without controversy. Critics raise privacy and ethical concerns, an...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WNED Buffalo


  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
2023-04-09 What's in a Game?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Are games just a fun way to pass the time, or do they do something more for us?

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  • Added: Apr 10, 2023
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 14
2022-01-08 Can Streets Discriminate?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Could the design of our streets be a matter of justice?

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  • Added: Jan 09, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 13