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Infostorms

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

We think that with today’s technology, we’re better informed. Therefore it follows we have more knowledge. Not so fast.

Bought by KCBX

Added: Sep 27, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

WorldCanvass: Big Data: Big Brother or Big Sister? (Part 1)

From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass

WorldCanvass tackles informatics—also known as big data—on its final program of the 2015-2016 season. Guests from the diverse fields of computer sc...

Added: May 02, 2016
Length: 27:10

WorldCanvass: Big Data: Big Brother or Big Sister? (Part 2)

From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass

WorldCanvass tackles informatics—also known as big data—on its final program of the 2015-2016 season. Guests from the diverse fields of computer sc...

Added: May 02, 2016
Length: 25:15

Carl Sagan on Extraterrestrials

From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank

"That’s inevitable that humans would project their hopes and fears upon the cosmos" - Carl Sagan on October 4, 1985, as told to Studs Terkel. The p...

Bought by KZYX, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZMU Moab Community Radio, PRX Remix and more

Added: Apr 14, 2016
Length: 12:53
Purchases: 6

Julia Angwin, author of "Dragnet Nation"

From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra

Host Bob Kustra talks with Julia Angwin about her book, "Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Survei...

Added: Apr 01, 2016
Length: 30:11

The Powerhouse: America, China and the Great Battery War

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

There’s no doubt that the invention of a super battery would shake up the world. Think about it. It would endanger the ruling Saudi Arabian family ...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX

Added: Feb 25, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

Frank Lloyd Wright on Arrogance

From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank

“Any man who really has faith in himself will be dubbed arrogant by his fellows” - Frank Lloyd Wright in 1957, as told to Mike Wallace

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KVSC, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and Troy Public Radio

Added: Feb 16, 2016
Length: 11:10
Purchases: 4

Future Tripping

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Cultural critic and entrepreneur Hal Niedzviecki poses the question, “What is it like to live in a society utterly focused on what is going to happ...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX

Added: Oct 21, 2015
Length: 29:01
Purchases: 2

Rise of the Robots

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

We’re on the cusp of another revolution: A technology revolution. This one, however, is vastly different from its predecessor: The industrial revol...

Bought by WDBM, KVSC, and KCBX

Added: Oct 07, 2015
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 3

Pleasures and Pitfalls of Synthetic Love

From: Ben Orlando
Series: History Repeating Itself

In this episode we discuss the benefits and consequences of relationships and sex with synthetic beings.

Added: Sep 25, 2015
Length: 17:47

Against the Tide (pledge drive special)

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Caption: Against the Tide, Credit: Naval Academy Press

As early as the 1940s, Admiral Hyman Rickover saw the need for radical change in America’s submarine serice. Without his perseverance the Cold War ...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Apr 10, 2015
Length: 21:31
Purchases: 1

Jonathan Goff Says Let’s Redirect an Asteroid

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Artist's conception of an astronaut collecting a sample from a retrieved asteroid., Credit: NASA

ARM is the Asteroid Redirect Mission, and sometimes it seems that it doesn’t have a friend in the world. But it does, and Jonathan Goff of Altius S...

Bought by KMUD, KFCF FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KRZA, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more

Added: Feb 23, 2015
Length: 28:50
Purchases: 6

The Art of De-Extinction

From: Britt Wray

Caption: Will the woolly mammoth face another day?, Credit: Tyler Ingram

A group of scientists are now trying to bring extinct animals - like the woolly mammoth and passenger pigeon - back to life, in a movement called D...

Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix

Added: Jan 07, 2015
Length: 06:28
Purchases: 3

Earth 2.0

From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon

With hundreds of Earth-like planets discovered over the past few years, it’s fair to say we’re on the verge of finding alien life. Two new programs...

Bought by KTSW 89.9 and WYAP

Added: Jul 25, 2014
Length: 58:37
Purchases: 2

Seeing Ourselves

From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human

Today on our show, four stories of people who tried to see themselves clearly

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, and Spokane Public Radio

Added: Jun 27, 2014
Length: 58:53
Purchases: 3

Who Decides

From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Privacy: Going... going... gone!

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

Health

From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Privacy: Going... going... gone!

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

The Diabetes Epidemic

From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Stem Cells - Self-help health care

Diabetes used to be a fatal but very rare disease. Now rates of Type Two diabetes are soaring worldwide. What’s responsible for the spike in cases?

Added: Jun 05, 2014
Length: 02:00

So Do You Think You’re Modern? Nope! The Middle Edges #101

From: Teosson Wells

So do you think you’re modern? Well, only if you’re 100 years old. Is it history that repeats itself, or do we simply not move forward in the ways...

Bought by WTJU

Added: Oct 18, 2013
Length: 15:46
Purchases: 1

Foresight 2020

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

We’ve all heard the stories of self-driving cars and 3D printers, but it’s the folks like futurists Simon Anderson and Jack Uldrich who make a care...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX

Added: Jul 16, 2013
Length: 28:58
Purchases: 2

Vintage Tomorrow's

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

The late 19th century was an age of rapid technological change. It’s happening again today. Through interviews with experts such as Willaim Gibson,...

Bought by KCBX

Added: May 13, 2013
Length: 28:58
Purchases: 1

I Love Storms

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories

Mary Finch on severe weather.

Bought by KSRQ

Added: Sep 06, 2012
Length: 02:55
Purchases: 1

"The Country Doctor Revisited" edited by Therese Zink

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords

Heidi Holtan talks with Therese Zink about this collection of writing in various forms penned by modern day rural health care professionals. Things...

Bought by KSRQ