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For the past fifty years physicists around the world have been trying to create a fusion power reactor, harnessing the processes deep inside of sta...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
By the middle of the 20th century electromagnets were common and engineers had begun experimenting with using them to levitate vehicles, including...
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Taking the listeners back into the early history of the universe, this introductory episode explains what fusion is, how it powers stars, and how i...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
In December 2012, a two-ton instrument built to detect cosmic rays ascended into the Antarctic sky, carried by a balloon the size of a football fie...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 14:00
On this episode, Tom Ruginis tells us about his company, HappiLabs.
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and WRNC-LP
- Added: Mar 11, 2014
- Length: 13:57
- Purchases: 2
Advertisers love to talk about the art of engineering. But this week’s guests on Sea Change Radio truly are fusing their high-tech research with ar...
Bought by KVSC and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 05, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
While California is experiencing one of it’s driest seasons, the east and south are having one of the coldest and wettest. Is this climate change, ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Can you think of two everyday materials with a worse environmental rep than Styrofoam and plastic bottles? From production through disposal, these ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2013
- Length: 28:59
The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Dr. Timothy Mousseau, a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the Universit...
- Added: Oct 07, 2013
- Length: 28:33
The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Dr. Timothy Mousseau, a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the Universit...
- Added: Oct 07, 2013
- Length: 28:33
Not long ago, we were told that North America had entered a new era of energy abundance thanks to shale gas. Or, have we? If you’ve listened to ex...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jul 10, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
Dr. George Waldbusser discusses oysters and ocean acidification.
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KPVL, and WRNC-LP
- Added: Jun 20, 2013
- Length: 29:40
- Purchases: 3
Jane Lubchenco, the former head of the US government’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), discusses what it’s like being asked...
- Added: May 27, 2013
- Length: 29:07
Hank Greely and Jake Sherkow discuss the science, morals, and ethics of de-extinction: bringing extinct species back to life. As lawyers with an i...
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 29:01
Climate scientist Ken Caldeira begins with a discussion of ocean acidification, a term he helped coin. He follows with the story of how his name b...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 28:17
It’s our 50th episode! To celebrate we sit down with four members of the Anthropocene Working Group: the scientists and experts who are deciding w...
- Added: Apr 16, 2013
- Length: 35:54
In this interview, Dr. Peter Haff of Duke sits down with Mike (and Mike sits down with Leslie) to explain the Technosphere. We learn that technolog...
- Added: Apr 16, 2013
- Length: 26:55
Astrobiologist David Grinspoon takes the anthropocene off-planet to our nearest cosmic neighbor Venus and discusses what we learn about climate cha...
- Added: Apr 14, 2013
- Length: 28:41
Environmental engineer Granger Morgan explains how to use aerosols to control climate change, why it’s a “Faustian bargain,” all building to the te...
- Added: Apr 14, 2013
- Length: 22:16
Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch examines the Anthropocene with thought experiments of bacteria throughout the solar system, using scientific pri...
- Added: Mar 19, 2013
- Length: 24:01
One of the most alluring answers to the climate change conundrum is a transition from a fossil fuel-based economy to a hydrogen-based economy. As h...
- Added: Feb 15, 2013
- Length: 30:00
Here’s a little exercise: take a pen and a blank piece of paper and write down everything you know about nano-technology. If you do this, you may f...
- Added: Jan 23, 2013
- Length: 29:50
Microbial ecologist Jack Gilbert joins us to discuss the Earth Microbiome Project.
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KPVL, WRNC-LP, and KMXT
- Added: Jan 16, 2013
- Length: 31:58
- Purchases: 4
There are no crystal balls. No one really knows the direction technology is going to take us. But, there are always those best guesses.
- Added: Jan 08, 2013
- Length: 28:55
- Purchases: 2
How will our current climate policies and actions be viewed by future generations? Our first guest this week on Sea Change Radio is pretty sure our...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Dec 18, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
