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My friend Jimmy Fingerbutton invented a perpetual motion machine. I was the first person he showed it to. I guess he figured I had the right qual...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 11:38
Denis Du Bois takes listeners on a 10-minute tour of energy technologies shown at the the Innovation Expo at the GLOBE 2016 Environmental Conference
- Added: Apr 21, 2016
- Length: 14:06
Denis Du Bois takes listeners on a 10-minute tour of energy technologies shown at the the Innovation Expo at the GLOBE Environmental Conference
- Added: Apr 20, 2016
- Length: 14:06
It's hard to let go of owning a car. What passes through those pipelines we hear so much about?
- Added: Mar 13, 2016
- Length: 14:05
A new virtual reality video game puts players into one of the Twin Towers during 9/11. Players try to escape the flaming towers. The developers d...
- Added: Dec 09, 2015
- Length: 07:57
This is a remixed interpretation of a collaborative piece with Benjamin Riskin - "Where Do I Even Start?" - A working interview for a smartphone so...
- Added: Jun 04, 2015
- Length: 05:50
A Studs Terkel "Working" interview for a smartphone society.
- Added: Apr 20, 2015
- Length: 02:52
In 2007, Kathy Sierra quit the internet because of misogynist hate trolling and stayed off the social web for 7 years.
Bought by KZYX and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Feb 07, 2015
- Length: 26:25
- Purchases: 2
In 1984 your host was twelve years old, and like George Orwell’s protagonist Winston Smith, he kept a diary, for the citizens of the future.
For t...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 31, 2014
- Length: 50:51
- Purchases: 2
When Evernote came along, it re-shaped note taking by giving us a way to use technology to remember things. Many thought the application would fail...
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 31:21
It seems odd that a large corporation would launch a campaign that’s neither proprietary nor tightly controlled. So when American Express — a not-s...
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 31:16
Where can you find a teacup, the molar of a goat, and an arrowhead all in one place? At an urban archaeology site, that’s where.
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 36:50
- Purchases: 1
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
This episode looks at how innovative new ways of making and distributing music are coming into conflict with our legal system. Some argue that copy...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Jul 08, 2014
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Episode two explores the videogaming backgrounds of a variety of Irish experimental musicians.
- Added: Jul 08, 2014
- Length: 30:00
IEEE Spectrum Radio explores what the workplace will look like and what the meaning of work will be 30 years into the future.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KHNS, KTSW 89.9, WUFT, KUER and more
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 54
This podcast we have news on just how Edward Snowden managed to get all those “highly guarded secrets”, how Facebook is trying to protect everyone’...
- Added: Nov 22, 2013
- Length: 01:00:13
In West Virginia, people say that in the old days, communities turned into ghost towns when the coal ran out. Now they turn into ghost towns when t...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 15, 2013
- Length: 14:45
- Purchases: 2
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
- Added: Sep 13, 2013
- Length: 01:51
- Purchases: 1
Join Andrea and her Grandma Phyllis for Radio Passover. While the two munch matza and bitter herbs, they'll present a selection of stories about th...
Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and KPIP-LP
- Added: May 14, 2013
- Length: 58:27
- Purchases: 2
Episode fifty-nine! Wait, I guess that was the Stratocaster ’59. Still, it’s fifty-nine-y time! This episode we speak with certified master watchma...
- Added: Feb 21, 2013
- Length: 28:02
In Berlin, Cathy Byrd meets German artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis to talk about how Agnes fuses pure science and creativity to explore the zone between...
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 21:57
In Tampa, FL, Cathy Byrd meets with New York-based video artist Janet Biggs to talk about how her artmaking has become an extreme sport.
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 08:30
