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Why build a house when you can grow one? So says sustainable building designers at Britain's University of Bath. They recently created a home from ...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Oct 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
We live on a flammable planet! Consider our forests: Vegetation that dries out seasonally. And our atmosphere? Oxygen! Add lightening strikes, volc...
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- Added: Oct 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
These days, Americans are driving three times as many miles per capita as they did in 1980. Not only are longer commutes driving us crazy, they’re...
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- Added: Oct 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Mother Nature doesn't fly a crop-duster -- she doesn't need to. A research team at the University of Warwick, England, recently discovered a natura...
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
i-Pods powered by Kool-Aid? Yep. They might be just around the corner -- no kidding!
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
On top of everything else ailing Mother Earth these days, apparently she’s got gas. Lots of it. Specifically, carbon dioxide.
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- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Medieval alchemy -- you’ve seen it in the movies: A wizard-like figure hovers over a glowing vat adding mysterious ingredients in his quest to turn...
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
It’s no news to anyone that Hurricanes’ can be devastating. Luckily, hurricane forecasting has improved a lot over the years. We owe much of that i...
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Here’s a conundrum. What do you do with three thousand tons of smelly garbage a day? Could you just, well, vaporize it?!
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- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Okay -- so it sounds pretty disgusting when you first hear about it. But, well, here it goes. We may be able to get drinking water from treated sew...
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Over the years, treasure maps have been of such interest that the Library of Congress devoted a volume to them! Now, a new kind of map is proving t...
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
The biggest power plant on earth is high in the sky -- it’s the sun. But, we only get one percent of our energy from it because it typically costs...
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
I don’t know if Santa Claus ever collected seeds, but one of his neighbors sure does. About 200 miles from the North Pole, the United States is bu...
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Old tires. Mountains of rubber. What’s happening with to them these days? Well, in Pennsylvania, they’re hitting the road!
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Experts say that as population and water use rise, the world's fresh water supplies are shrinking. Then why don’t we desalinate more sea water and…...
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- Added: Mar 26, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Are you worried about global warming? Well, here’s an idea. How about rocketing one trillion miniature umbrellas into orbit somewhere between us ...
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- Added: Mar 26, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Jet propulsion doesn't always make you fast...Take, for example, the Antarctic scallop. These bivalve mollusks shouldn't even be able to move. Yet ...
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- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Crispy noodles: They're tasty, and...fuel-efficient! That is, if someday we're driving hydrogen-fueled cars.
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Ever think to yourself, “California and Iceland sure have a lot in common”? Probably not. But if you dig beneath the surface, they both harbor lots...
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
The environmentally polite thing to do in the future might be to give your battery the flu. That's right: Batteries may soon run on a virus.
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Gassing up new family cars with green, clean hydrogen is edging closer to reality.
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
We burn a lot of fossil fuels, and many of us would like to curb our dependence on foreign oil. Ocean tides and crashing waves could be at least a ...
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- Added: Jan 22, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Here’s something that probably won’t be in the Guinness Book of World Records. But maybe it should be since it could impact more people than anyth...
- Added: Dec 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
f you’re looking to save energy and cold, hard cash, check out the fridge.
- Added: Nov 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
As oil prices rise and supplies decline, interest in wind energy is soaring. But finding sites for wind farms hasn’t been a breeze.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Oct 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
