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The story of Ruth Moss, her smart meter, and her fight to establish a single name for the physical symptoms of exposure to RF radiation.
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Jan 22, 2024
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
This special broadcast from Aspen Public Radio was recorded live at the 2023 Aspen Psychedelic Symposium earlier this year. “The Neuroscience of Ps...
Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif.
- Added: Oct 10, 2023
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 1
How the military is preparing space for the next world war.
- Added: Sep 11, 2023
- Length: 28:45
- Purchases: 2
Blue light from device screens can upset your body's internal clock with dangerous consequences.
- Added: Aug 21, 2023
- Length: 28:51
The Living Well Show present a two-part interview with Dr. Devra Davis and Theodora Scarato, MSW. Dr. Davis is the author of Disconnect: The Truth...
- Added: Feb 19, 2018
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
Alvin Toffler and Margaret Mead: an author and an anthropologist who endeavored to understand the impact of scientific invention. In this episode o...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KSFR, KVSC, and KSFR
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 16:07
- Purchases: 4
Host Bob Kustra interviews Martin Ford, author of "Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future."
- Added: Oct 14, 2016
- Length: 30:10
There are few enduring truths, but one is that no one gets out of life alive. What’s less certain is what comes next. Does everything stop with d...
Bought by KTSW 89.9, KREV-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer, and WRGY
- Added: Aug 08, 2016
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 5
Environmental issues are mounting, and the stakes are huge. So how might big data be used to tackle the issues of sustainability, climate change, h...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 34:51
Are we addicted to the Internet? Is it even appropriate to use the language of addiction about smartphones and other digital devices?
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 24:30
Big data is revolutionizing health and medicine, from genomics to wearable technologies to precision health. But is our medical care system prepare...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 26:51
What is the future of work? Today, all of our careers are being transformed by big data, from how we find it, to how we collaborate with others, to...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 22:15
Your normal, everyday digital footprints can reveal surprisingly intimate facts – like whether your parents are divorced, and whether you own a gun.
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 22:03
"That’s inevitable that humans would project their hopes and fears upon the cosmos" - Carl Sagan on October 4, 1985, as told to Studs Terkel. The p...
Bought by KZYX, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZMU Moab Community Radio, PRX Remix and more
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 12:53
- Purchases: 6
The climate crisis is a crisis of governance and leadership. Will we move rapidly enough to realign our policies, politics and economy to stabilize...
- Added: Mar 25, 2016
- Length: 28:30
We are surrounded by chemicals every day. They’re in our clothing, cosmetics, household products, electronics, and even our children’s toys.
Bought by KVSC, KCBX, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Dec 09, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
How big is your ecological footprint? Probably bigger than you think. After all, out of sight, out of mind. As an originator of ecological footprin...
Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, Bandon Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, WMUU-LP and more
- Added: Sep 22, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 7
On August 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at the CERN particle accelerator in Switzerland, announced the debut of the World Wide Web, marking...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
What should consumers do who worry their data is being misused?Whose job is it to educate people about their responsibilities?Does privacy mean any...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
In the past few years medical companies have been producing a range of devices to help aging people keep track of their vital statistics: pulse rat...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Today, corporations and governments are using a vast array of tools to gather information on us. What trails are people leaving and do they even know?
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Today, we hear increasing talk about Big Data, supposedly about to revolutionize everything from the way wars are fought and policies are shaped to...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Diabetes used to be a fatal but very rare disease. Now rates of Type Two diabetes are soaring worldwide. What’s responsible for the spike in cases?
- 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
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
