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Our show centers on the life and thought of Tanaka Shozo, a radical environmental thinker in early 20th century Japan who criticized the modernizin...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 26, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Topic 1 and 2 - “The Mountains Sing”: Trauma, Resilience and the Legacy of War in Vietnam, Topic 3 - An App That’s Designed to Be Your BFF

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 30, 2020
  • Length: 52:07
  • Purchases: 3
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National Public Radio reporter Aarti Shahani talks with WDET News Director Jerome Vaughn about her book, "Here We Are: American Dreams, American Ni...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio and WKAR


  • Added: Oct 28, 2019
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: Drawing the line - What we smell influences our intestines, how a "smart school" in China spies on its pupils, and fac...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 19, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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World in Progress: Urban futures - On this week's show, we head to Singapore where 100 scientists have gathered for the Future Cities Laborat...

  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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The tools, techniques, and the methods which make mass production possible were pioneered at the Robbins & Lawrence Armory in Windsor, Vermont. But...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2016
  • Length: 04:49
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Mable Chan continues her conversation with 2Redbeans.com founder, Q Zhao.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2016
  • Length: 15:21
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A discussion of the evolution of film over the last hundred years, both as a vehicle for imaginative storytelling and a genre for commentary, the p...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2014
  • Length: 23:17
Caption: Jenova Chen
Host Phalana Tiller talks with Aaron Dignan, the author of The Game Frame, and Jenova Chen of ThatGameCompany.

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 48:19
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How do you conceive of a refrigerator that doesn't run on electricity? That's what's behind the Indian philosophy of Jugaad-- or flexible frugal th...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 52:00
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Meejin Yoon talks about creating work at the intersection of art, architecture, landscape, and technology. [27:29]

  • Added: Jan 20, 2012
  • Length: 27:29
Caption: Venerable Lobsang Monlam, computer genius monk, Credit: www.lobsangmonlam.org
This Buddhist monk from Tibet went from learning how to switch a computer on to programming sophisticated, innovative software all on his own in ju...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2011
  • Length: 05:52
Caption: School children in Laos work on computers donated by the Jhai Foundation. , Credit: Photo by Michael Beebe
Back in 1966 Lee Thorn was a young American serviceman in the Vietnam War. His assignment: loading bombs onto planes bound for Laos, a small countr...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:13
Caption: CyberFrequencies, Life on the Web, Credit: Michael Uhlenkott
The father of virtual technology says the promise of Web 2.0 - individualism, wisdom of the crowd - is a chimera.

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Jan 30, 2010
  • Length: 08:30
  • Purchases: 1
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In Japan Universal Design is often being heard through talking machines and appliances.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: May 15, 2009
  • Length: 05:47
  • Purchases: 1
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Even in the digital age, T. Susan Chang believes in the benefits of an analog, lower-tech lifestyle.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KJZZ


  • Added: Sep 17, 2007
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 3
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Why are household appliances and other machines talking in Japan?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 02, 2006
  • Length: 05:48
  • Purchases: 1
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Japan's most famous dot com entrepreneur, three of his top executives arrested on fraud charges

  • Added: Jan 23, 2006
  • Length: 03:02
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A Hong Kong researcher creates a fabric that cleans itself in sunlight.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 01, 2005
  • Length: 03:22
  • Purchases: 2