PRX - Pieces for Topic: Technology
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Joshua Michael Stern talks about vision, ambiguity, and casting charisma.
- Added: Aug 16, 2013
- Length: 18:08
This feature looks at the greening of Prather Ranch, a sustainable cattle hay and farming operation in Northern California. Through a partnership ...
- Added: Jul 07, 2013
- Length: 10:25
Is it possible to reverse this downward slide of the brick-and-mortar retail stores? Will implementing disruptive technologies alone save the tradi...
- Added: Jun 11, 2013
- Length: 49:44
A British mathematical physicist, Roger is one of the world’s leading scientists. He speaks of black holes, religion and twistor theory. Our conver...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: May 30, 2013
- Length: 10:02
- Purchases: 1
Digital health solutions are on the rise. Now X PRIZE Foundation is challenging innovators to create a wireless device that monitors and diagnoses ...
- Added: May 19, 2013
- Length: 58:27
Episode fifty-nine! Wait, I guess that was the Stratocaster ’59. Still, it’s fifty-nine-y time! This episode we speak with certified master watchma...
- Added: Feb 21, 2013
- Length: 28:02
There's a man in Brooklyn who owns a song by Sufjan Stevens... but he doesn't release it as some normally would. He does something much more special.
Bought by WJCT
- Added: Feb 21, 2013
- Length: 19:56
- Purchases: 1
An interview with Dr. Pericles Papadopoulos, the NASA scientist who landed the Curiosity Rover on Mars.
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 24:38
A growing group of musicians are returning to old analog keyboards, sometimes refurbishing and playing instruments older than they are.
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 03:46
Join us as we speak with Dr. Peter Mitchell, Orthopedic Surgeon, specialized in foot and ankle. You see, I had this bunion and I… nevermind. He’s a...
- Added: Dec 07, 2012
- Length: 28:02
Marriage can be hard. But for Michael and Tori, there's an added complication.
Bought by WJCT and KWIS 88.3 FM
- Added: Nov 19, 2012
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 2
Joel Healy tells his daughter, Kelli Healy Salzar, about participating in Operation Plumbbob, one of the largest nuclear tests conducted by the U.S...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 1
Colin Trevorrow talks respecting legacies, celebrating oddballs, and the best day of his life.
- Added: Jun 15, 2012
- Length: 10:12
If you click the little play arrow down there you’ll be able to join us as we speak with Sheril Kirshenbaum, author and science writer. Besides bei...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Feb 22, 2012
- Length: 28:03
- Purchases: 1
Hurrah, it’s another show about stuff I don’t know! Yes, this episode we speak with Sarah Mattson, planetary photographic cartographer, you know, I...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Nov 01, 2011
- Length: 28:02
- Purchases: 1
Vijay Govindarajan, co-creator of the $300 House Project, discusses the genesis of the idea, how it’s different from mere cheap housing, and his ho...
- Added: Sep 25, 2011
- Length: 15:12
- Purchases: 2
Frank Kovac talks about building the world's largest rotating-globe planetarium.
Bought by WEZU, Spokane Public Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Aug 22, 2011
- Length: 02:24
- Purchases: 3
A web-based video game called FoldIt uses crowd-sourcing in the hopes of solving some very big -- er, tiny -- biological problems.
- Added: Jul 22, 2011
- Length: 06:17
Designers, engineers and corporations around the world have begun seriously to study Evolution's most successful problem-solving strategies in natu...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 21, 2011
- Length: 06:25
- Purchases: 3
David Eagleman suggests prejudices may be hard-wired into our brains; a new real-time film celebrating 50 years since Yuri Gagarin went into space;...
- Added: Apr 08, 2011
- Length: 28:53
- Purchases: 2
Ian Wright is one of the original founders of Tesla, and now the owner of Wrightspeed, a clean energy transportation company based in San Jose. He ...
- Added: Mar 06, 2011
- Length: 07:02
In this episode, host Gabriel Spitzer explores the realm of the senses, finding out how cochlear implants are opening up a world of sound for the h...
Bought by KUT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 25, 2011
- Length: 08:47
- Purchases: 3
Producer Rebecca Lavoie talks with singer-songwriter Mike Doughty about his unusually interactive presence on social media sites, the new narrative...
- Added: Feb 10, 2011
- Length: 08:06
David Kontak builds bizarre musical machines out of found objects and uses them to produce experimental soundscapes.
- Added: Feb 03, 2011
- Length: 04:09
- Purchases: 2
In this episode, host Gabriel Spitzer considers what science has to learn from flying saucers, what it might take for humans to colonize space in o...
Bought by WVTF, WTJU, KBGA 89.9 FM, WRST-FM Oshkosh, PRX Remix and more
- Added: Jan 28, 2011
- Length: 12:59
- Purchases: 6
