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We think we know a lot. Perhaps we do. On the other hand, an ongoing study at Yale University finds that today’s society thinks it knows more than ...
- Added: Aug 27, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
America is set to lose tens of millions of job in the next 15 years. Some of the best research today estimates that one half of all U.S. jobs will ...
- Added: Apr 22, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
In Violence Work, Micol Seigel shows how the police put violence to work for the state; policing being the quintessential translation of state powe...
- Added: Oct 11, 2018
- Length: 59:00
Population growth is causing us to rethink our urban and suburban lifestyles, and with that, redesigning cities is a new fad.
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- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
According to a 2016 report by Business Insider magazine, three of the world’s largest employers are now replacing their workers with robots.
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- Added: Apr 19, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill recently returned from the Economist World Ocean Summit in Cancún, Mexico where he gathered with 400 ocean leade...
- Added: Mar 20, 2018
- Length: 05:52
Who Owns the Economic Rights to Arctic Resources?
This week on World Ocean Radio: part five of a multi-part series on the Arctic. In this episode, ...
- Added: Nov 15, 2017
- Length: 05:12
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
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: 28:20
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
Alex Gibney , Eric Chien, and Liam O'Murchu talk resisting paranoia, code as character, and the psychology of secrets.
- Added: Jul 06, 2016
- Length: 23:57
In an interview with Kitty and Michael Dukakis, journalist Katia Hauser explores the benefits and risks of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in treat...
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- 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
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
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In our second podcast, we have interviewed Monica Webb with the Wired West Initiative in rural western Massachusetts. Like our first pod...
- Added: Aug 24, 2015
- Length: 15:41
Episode 162:
A few weeks back, we noted an excellent new report on Holyoke Municipal Light Plant in Massachusetts published by the Berkman Center f...
- Added: Aug 24, 2015
- Length: 20:04
Episode 113:
Though much of western Massachusetts has poor access to the Internet, the town of Leverett is in the midst of fiber build that will of...
- Added: Aug 24, 2015
- Length: 18:25
Episode 65:
Holyoke Gas & Electric has been connecting community anchor institutions and local businesses in Western Massachusetts with fiber netwo...
- Added: Aug 24, 2015
- Length: 17:25
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 Oregon State Legislature, since the beginning of the 2015 session, the Joint Committee on Implementing Measure 91 has held a series of infor...
- Added: Mar 22, 2015
- Length: 05:42
Barack Obama plans to send his VP choice via text message to supporters. But is it possible to text something meaningful? Kat and Kaitie seek to a...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 06:13
Isaac Lappert is President of Cannabis Creamery Ice Cream Company. Working with Cali Labs, Lappert crafts premium quality medicated ice cream. CRN’...
- Added: Sep 23, 2014
- Length: 10:15
Brian Knappenberger talks precedents, freedom of internet access, and saving lives.
- Added: Aug 08, 2014
- Length: 28:44
The jobless economy: a fully automated, engineered, robotic system that doesn’t need YOU, or me either. Anything we can do, machines can do better ...
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- Added: Aug 01, 2014
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 1
