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In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy smashed into the Eastern seaboard. A monster nobody was prepared to deal with.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 19, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
All about cars, planes, boats and trains.
- Added: Jan 19, 2015
- Length: 05:00
We don’t have metrics to measure what happens when we read something that changes our life. So this episode is an attempt to deal with that.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 31, 2014
- Length: 18:12
- Purchases: 2
A innovative technology to preserve endangered sound recordings without playing them (which would further damage them) is bringing the voices of po...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, KALW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 05, 2014
- Length: 06:24
- Purchases: 4
MN Reads talks with author Thomas Misa about his book, Digital State: The Story of Minnesota's Computing Industry, which reveals the inner workings...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Aug 07, 2014
- Length: 07:25
- Purchases: 1
The year is 2053. Neurosurgeon and scientist, Dr. Hagan Maerici, is to designing "neuromorphic artificial intelligence." This is the setting for Dr...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 23, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
You must be accountable for your actions.
- Added: May 01, 2014
- Length: 04:10
100-second module, from our readings for May. An early computer composed classical music!
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 25, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
The team behind the new app Poems by Heart discuss how they combine gaming with classic poetry. [28:20]
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Feb 18, 2014
- Length: 28:20
- Purchases: 1
"Minnesota Reads" features Minnesota authors talking about their work. This week's guest is Caroline Burau author of "Answering 911: Life in the Ho...
- Added: Nov 07, 2013
- Length: 07:56
“Starship Century—Toward the Grandest Horizon” is the new collection of fact and fiction assembled by Gregory and James Benford. The brothers are ...
Bought by KSKQ, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WESM 91.3 FM
- Added: Oct 01, 2013
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 3
We have a way of talking about STEM fields as the opposite of the humanities–but it’s hard to have one without the other.
- Added: Sep 10, 2013
- Length: 53:53
- Purchases: 3
Publishing women talk tech, sexism and the future.
- Added: Mar 18, 2013
- Length: 43:51
Library expert Matthew Battles asks David Weinberger, "When the smartest person in the room is the room, how do we design the room?"
- Added: Apr 25, 2012
- Length: 26:55
Nick Bilton, The New York Times BITS blog's lead technology writer, talks about his book, "I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works."
- Added: Nov 20, 2011
- Length: 41:07
Who would have thought that Borders, the corporate bookselling behemoth that had stores in practically every mini mall across America, would now be...
- Added: Aug 15, 2011
- Length: 05:44
How many Victorian books would you have to read to know the Victorians? What if you could read all 1.7 million?
- Added: Mar 29, 2011
- Length: 28:57
Jesse Cohen discussed the best American science writing in 2010.
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KMXT
- Added: Oct 14, 2010
- Length: 25:23
- Purchases: 2
What is the importance forgetting has played throughout human history? What will be the effects on society, relationships and humanity now that so...
- Added: Jan 12, 2010
- Length: 58:02
Modern life has become a constant stream of electronic devices demanding our attention. What are the consequences when we choose e-mail, Blackberri...
- Added: Dec 07, 2009
- Length: 29:01
The message of Fahrenheit 451 in the age of DVD and electronic books: We run the risk that the literary and intellectual canon of the coming centur...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 03:34
Robert Harris's novel Pompeii does an incredible job of teaching about Roman Civil engineering and waterworks, although make no mistake, this alway...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:44
Dealers of Americana talk about the allure of old books.
Bought by Remix Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and WBHM
- Added: Apr 20, 2009
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 4
Should anyone be allowed to copy what you create online? We talk with Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing blogger, science fiction writer, and technology op...
- Added: Jul 21, 2008
- Length: 18:14
- Added: Sep 30, 2007
- Length: 04:36
- Purchases: 1
