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During our short time on Earth we humans have created a lot of stuff. Some of it's life-altering, like the device you’re using right now and some o...
- Added: Jan 21, 2015
- Length: 39:39
- Purchases: 2
The foods we put on our plates have ripple effects way beyond our personal health. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda He...
- Added: Dec 18, 2014
- Length: 28:00
Did you know that the production of cement is responsible for 5% of the carbon dioxide emissions on the planet? Our guest today on Sea Change Radio...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Nov 18, 2014
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Those who are shaping the future have a pretty good idea of how it is going to look. One of those is David Rose. He’s an award winning entrepreneur...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
New Bedford’s role in both whaling and electrical manufacturing took a toll that city’s Harbor. The history of pollution is recorded in the mud at...
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 48:38
Last week on Sea Change Radio, we learned about the new shale gas boom in China. This week, in the second part of my discussion with Jaeah Lee and ...
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 28:00
Nobody hitchhikes anymore. Back in the 1980s getting a ride with a stranger became decidedly un-trendy. Rugged individualism was in and ridesharing...
- Added: Sep 24, 2014
- Length: 29:40
WTIP's Dave TerSteeg spoke recently with Erin Stojan Ruccolo, director of electricity markets for Fresh Energy, about various aspects of generating...
- Added: Aug 26, 2014
- Length: 12:11
When life gives you lemons they say to make lemonade. And what if life gives you sewage released into an enclosed bay, what can you make? Certainly...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Anyone who is on social media knows how often you can be inundated with picayune details of your friends’ daily lives. But what if all that over-sh...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jul 16, 2014
- Length: 29:40
- Purchases: 1
If you own an electric vehicle and you have solar panels on your house, you can drive around powered entirely by renewable energy. But what can EV ...
- Added: Jun 25, 2014
- Length: 29:50
When David Gottfried come up an idea for green environmental building 20-years ago, he ran into a number of hurdles. The building industry had been...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 24, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Climate change poses a real and present danger to our modern way of life, but modern civilization likely would not have arisen without agriculture ...
- Added: Jun 13, 2014
- Length: 48:38
In May 1975, Popular Mechanics published an article called “Cities In The Sky”, about plans for space colonies by 1995. Flash forward forty years a...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Back in 1958 Popular Science published an article about General Motor’s plan to build self-driving cars guided by electrical cables in roadways. Gi...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
The most common element in all accidents is the human element. In the quest to eliminate driver error and make our roads safer, we’ve been searchin...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Believe it or not, electric vehicles used to be more popular than gasoline engines. The first practical electric car in 1884, and for decades many ...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Imagine waiting to catch a train. You show up at the station and wait for the familiar clanking of wheels and squealing of brakes. This time, howev...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
We're getting closer and closer to making fusion power a reality - limitless energy created by fusing hydrogen into helium, the same process that p...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Physicists are approaching closer and closer to one of the Holy Grails of modern science: creating self-sustaining fusion reactions on Earth, and u...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
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
Solar-Roadways-4How often do you hear of an idea so big, so revolutionary, that you immediately start to dream of the possibilities? This week on S...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KVSC
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
When was the last time you were really in the wilderness? Or, maybe you’re like the millions of Americans who’ve never even been in the wild before...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio
- Added: May 22, 2014
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
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
