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Poets Hadara Bar-Nadav and Kathryn Nuernberger, who were both chosen as 2017 NEA Literary Fellows, talk about their work in this interview at the K...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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HOUR ONE: "After 30 Years of Prozac" - Happy 30th birthday Prozac. We've had three decades of the drug, so why are we still depressed? HOUR TWO: ...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
Caption: Assault on De'Andre Harris, Credit: Zach Roberts
When disaster strikes, will we descend into dystopia — or cooperate? We talk with Cory Doctorow about his new work of speculative fiction, Walkaw...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2017
  • Length: 59:02
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What will New York City look like in 2140? Scifi author Kim Stanley Robinson’s latest novel explores a possible future in which NYC is partly subme...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 40:50
Caption: John Tipton, poet, Credit: Stephanie Tipton
John Tipton looks at the Rosetta Spacecraft’s September 2016 landing on a comet orbiting Jupiter.

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  • Added: Jun 20, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Louis the German divides the Rhine and the doomed space shuttle Challenger is used by the Department of Defense on its last successful (classified)...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2016
  • Length: 02:20:46
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Podcasting from The Old Oak Street Burial Ground in Grafton, MA, Piazza and I speak with author, Roberta Grimes, about her book “The Fun of Dying: ...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2014
  • Length: 52:54
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James Rolllins is the New York Times bestselling author of international thrillers that have been translated into more than forty languages. Known ...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 19:57
Caption: Dr. Eric C. Leuthardt
The year is 2053. Neurosurgeon and scientist, Dr. Hagan Maerici, is to designing "neuromorphic artificial intelligence." This is the setting for Dr...

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  • Added: May 23, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Why do you buy what you buy? What do you hope to gain from it and will it make you a happier, sexier and more successful person? In these days of e...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
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Studies show that many areas of your brain process music.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2008
  • Length: 03:04
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THE PLANETS is Dava Sobel's historic and scientific tour of our solar system.

  • Added: Jun 28, 2007
  • Length: 13:21