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Cultivated meat has the potential to disrupt the meat industry, and engineer Dr. Katie Kam joins the podcast to talk about it. Katie founded BioBQ...
- Added: Feb 12, 2023
- Length: 28:20
For the past 20-years or so, our society has been deep in the Knowledge Age. Now, it’s about to be replaced by the digital revolution and artificia...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 15, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Feudalism. Now that’s a word you don’t hear very often. It’s been a long time since we’ve had a structured society of that nature. But, even more c...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Aug 25, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The SXSW Education conference and festival in 2017 highlighted equity, fairness, and justice as a major theme. How does this apply to engineering ...
- Added: Mar 21, 2018
- Length: 43:03
The world of technology is male driven. Very few women are represented in leadership roles. For decades now, there’s been a major gender diversity ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 06, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
There are few enduring truths, but one is that no one gets out of life alive. What’s less certain is what comes next. Does everything stop with d...
Bought by KTSW 89.9, KREV-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer, and WRGY
- Added: Aug 08, 2016
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 5
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: 27:43
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 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
Capt of more than one Greenpeace ship Capt Peter Wilcox tells us what a RHIB is. (like a life boat, but not.)
- Added: Mar 03, 2016
- Length: 01:36
In this episode we discuss the benefits and consequences of relationships and sex with synthetic beings.
- Added: Sep 25, 2015
- Length: 17:47
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
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
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
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
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
An exploration of the many ways in which genetics and new technologies are changing the world we live in and challenging long-held assumptions.
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 01:58:37
Two scholars from the Berkeley School of Information share thoughts on their research and the future of the Internet.
- Added: Dec 30, 2009
- Length: 11:25
- Added: Dec 06, 2009
- Length: 03:04
BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 11, 2009
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
Use water wisely, and we all benefit. Produce a film inspiring others to, and you could win thousands of dollars.
- Added: Mar 26, 2008
- Length: 01:32
- Added: Oct 18, 2004
- Length: 03:58
