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One woman's heartbreaking story of her husband's brain cancer diagnosis, and why cell phone manufacturers warn users never to hold the phone agains...
- Added: Oct 23, 2023
- Length: 28:17
- Purchases: 2
Ellen Marks' husband spent years with a cell phone held against his head. Then he got brain cancer. Coincidence? Maybe not.
- Added: Dec 12, 2022
- Length: 28:45
Coronavirus concerns forced many universities to close their campuses this fall. The mix of fewer students on campus, canceled athletics, and onlin...
- Added: Jul 16, 2021
- Length: 04:12
Days of wonder, days of rage. We're living through an information revolution as profound as any since Gutenberg and the printing press, but are we ...
Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Aug 05, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
He built Facebook's business model.....and then realized he was addicted to his phone.
- Added: Aug 14, 2019
- Length: 43:36
With all the digital text trails we're creating these days, what can we learn about our inner psychology, mental health, and well-being?
- Added: Apr 15, 2016
- Length: 28:32
- Purchases: 2
Are we addicted to the Internet? Is it even appropriate to use the language of addiction about smartphones and other digital devices?
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 24:30
Elections and political messaging are changing in the new media landscape. Campaigns are using big data to target voters with better precision, and...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 32:12
Big data is revolutionizing health and medicine, from genomics to wearable technologies to precision health. But is our medical care system prepare...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 26:51
Your normal, everyday digital footprints can reveal surprisingly intimate facts – like whether your parents are divorced, and whether you own a gun.
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 22:03
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
- Added: Dec 10, 2015
- Length: 07:28
- Purchases: 1
Alberta citizen/researcher Jessica Ernst takes on Big Frac
- Added: Nov 02, 2015
- Length: 29:52
Investigative reporter Judy Bachrach talks about her new book Glimpsing Heaven. Scientists may have underestimated green energy's potential for fi...
- Added: Jun 17, 2015
- Length: 57:53
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 jobless economy: a fully automated, engineered, robotic system that doesn’t need YOU, or me either. Anything we can do, machines can do better ...
Bought by WESM 91.3 FM
- Added: Aug 01, 2014
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 1
You’re driving your car down a street and as you pass, a camera takes a photo of your license plate. Who is taking the photo and what are they doin...
- Added: Apr 29, 2014
- Length: 17:42
- Purchases: 2
While countries like Japan, Italy and Germany begin to phase out their use of nuclear energy, the US aims to build the first new nuclear power plan...
- Added: Nov 15, 2013
- Length: 29:00
In spite of the current state of the economy, the next 25 years will see an unprecedented rise in human wellbeing.
- Added: Sep 28, 2012
- Length: 29:01
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently released a report on the growing domestic use of unmanned aircraft for surveillance. Chuck Samue...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 27:44
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
- Added: Dec 27, 2011
- Length: 20:08
- Purchases: 1
James Kakalios discussed the amazing story of quantum mechanics.
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WRNC-LP, and KMXT
- Added: Dec 04, 2010
- Length: 28:14
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Dec 06, 2009
- Length: 03:04
- Added: Sep 23, 2009
- Length: 29:53
- Purchases: 1
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
