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The award-winning novelist, blogger, and advocate talks about science fiction and technology.
- Added: May 11, 2017
- Length: 26:59
- Purchases: 2
This week, we talk about self-driving trucks, Malthusian catastrophes, and human obsolescence.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 47:03
If you had a functional magic wand wouldn’t you use it to reverse climate change? A quick flick of your wrist and, presto change-o, our troubles wo...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
- Added: Nov 08, 2016
- Length: 29:40
- Purchases: 2
WorldCanvass guests join host Joan Kjaer to discuss the controversial method of energy production known as fracking and its impact on the environme...
- Added: Oct 07, 2016
- Length: 26:14
What does decarbonization mean? Well, it’s not just what happens when your soda goes flat. Today on Sea Change Radio we talk with Jesse Jenkins, re...
Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
- Added: Sep 20, 2016
- Length: 29:40
- Purchases: 1
Amanda Sanfilippo talks about public art and Miami’s Fringe Projects
- Added: Aug 12, 2016
- Length: 09:22
She has spent most of her life working toward a bright future for humanity in space, and Lori Garver has lost none of her passion. She visited the...
Bought by KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WMUU-LP, KFCF FM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more
- Added: Jul 05, 2016
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 6
"Women come to Washington to do something, men come to be someone." --Jennifer Harris, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and author...
- Added: Jun 15, 2016
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 5
In an interview with Kitty and Michael Dukakis, journalist Katia Hauser explores the benefits and risks of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in treat...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: May 16, 2016
- Length: 10:43
- Purchases: 1
At the same time the Great Recession has inflicted enormous pain and suffering, it has also caused people to take a deeper look at what’s really im...
- Added: Mar 24, 2016
- Length: 28:30
Why nuclear energy is a main source of energy for Ontario and who is using renewables?. And how lawsuits silence environmentalists.
- Added: Mar 13, 2016
- Length: 12:18
There’s no doubt that the invention of a super battery would shake up the world. Think about it. It would endanger the ruling Saudi Arabian family ...
- Added: Feb 25, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
In this first episode of Upstream, a radio documentary series, we look at the darker side of the "sharing economy" and explore the conditions that ...
- Added: Feb 13, 2016
- Length: 59:44
- Purchases: 2
Imagine electronic music onstage without being welded to a keyboard. Imagine if a gesture could trigger a string section, a melody, a drum riff. No...
- Added: Oct 16, 2015
- Length: 58:55
Discussions about the West’s epic drought tend to focus on the need to cut back on residential and agricultural water usage. The importance of wate...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
- Added: Jun 24, 2015
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 2
We're asking the $64,000 question: can we build a more crash-proof, less leveraged, more equitable financial system? Our guest Jeremy Allaire would...
- Added: Mar 31, 2015
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 2
In the 1970’s, a series of laws ushered in a so-called “sunshine era” of government transparency. A new book examines the dark side of the Sunshine...
- Added: Mar 27, 2015
- Length: 03:53
- Purchases: 3
The potential damage posed by hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” to ground water, its contribution to earthquake risk, and overall deceptive pract...
- Added: Mar 03, 2015
- Length: 30:00
In this episode we try to make clear what the term Neoliberal means and see how it can be applied to the world of the American University, and in ...
- Added: Dec 09, 2014
- Length: 55:53
- Added: Nov 01, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
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
What are the failed promises and real risks of GMO crops? Is the “co-existence” of genetically engineered (GMO) and non-GMO crops really possible?...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Oct 02, 2014
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Fritz Pleitgen is a journalist who covered the Stasi in East Germany during the 1980s. He explains how one lives and acts in a surveillance state.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Jul 17, 2014
- Length: 02:28
- Purchases: 1
Ashkan Soltani is a researcher for The Washington Post, who broke many of the NSA surveillance stories from the Edward Snowden leak. He tells us ab...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Jul 17, 2014
- Length: 04:06
- Purchases: 1
Benjamen Walker, radio producer/host of the Theory of Everything podcast, explains how the book "1984" started in the year 1984.
- Added: Jul 17, 2014
- Length: 05:56
- Purchases: 2
