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In the US, one out of five households don’t use a dishwasher because they think it uses more water and energy than washing by hand. So, we wanted t...
- Added: Jun 24, 2020
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 2
It turns out, there's a way to capture methane before it leaks into the atmosphere. In the case of a landfill, you can cover the surface and then i...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 03:50
- Purchases: 1
Very few issues cause heated debate like the vaccination controversy. From their introduction, vaccines have created concern and skepticism.
- Added: Dec 09, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
This week in space, Blue Origin gets ahead of the competition by, well, not competing, nobody can find India's lunar lander, and we discuss how ast...
- Added: Nov 01, 2019
- Length: 16:54
Most of us don’t spend a lot of time thinking about how much time we spend online. We might even ask if it really matters. The digital world is so ...
- Added: Oct 23, 2019
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
The incredible never-before-heard sounds of the AFSMPT (Amazing Futuristic Scanning Machine Process Technology) :48
- Added: Oct 10, 2019
- Length: :47
We’re obsessed with predicting the future. Most of the time, though, we get it wrong. On the other hand, we can predict a specific event with near ...
- Added: Sep 10, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
How we deal with the possibilities of tomorrow are very dependent on how we handle those possibilities today. Sounds simple, however, even when we ...
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
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
We’re use to hearing about how much humans have impacted the earth. Scientists have given a name for this period to recognize human dominance over ...
- Added: Jul 16, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
We have entered a brand new era of persuasion. This is completely untested water’s. In a world of everything computer, a world where our household ...
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- Added: Jun 24, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Science deniers and attacks on science are more prevalent today. Interestingly, America leads the world in the sheer number of people who have cont...
- Added: May 03, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
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
Nola asks her classmates about their internet personas--what they're like, why they have them, and how they feel about them--in this engaging vox p...
- Added: Apr 09, 2019
- Length: 07:22
Part 2 of our look at kids of the chatroom generation. This week, what happens when kids, unsupervised, find themselves in real relationships and t...
- Added: Mar 04, 2019
- Length: 29:53
A talk with the folks who are turning the Minneapolis Institute for Art into a Puzzle Room
- Added: Aug 10, 2018
- Length: 27:09
Twenty-five years before Fukushima the worst nuclear disaster occurred in the Soviet Union.
- Added: Jul 20, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Artificial Intelligence will drastically change our lives. The technology is expected to advance cyber security, finance, energy, military applicat...
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- Added: Jul 04, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Very few realize the significance of Virtual Reality. Yet, VR will change how we work, how we experience entertainment, how we feel emotions, and h...
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- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Curator Nora Atkinson takes us behind the scenes of the wildly successful exhibit "No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man" in Washington DC.'s Renwi...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: May 25, 2018
- Length: 29:58
- Purchases: 1
Population growth is causing us to rethink our urban and suburban lifestyles, and with that, redesigning cities is a new fad.
Bought by KCBX
- 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.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 19, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
How Apple's electronic health records feature works, and why it's concerning to privacy experts.
- Added: Apr 19, 2018
- Length: 04:15
Celebrating the world's most famous theoretical physicist, author of A Brief History of Time and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Camb...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Mar 20, 2018
- Length: 58:54
- Purchases: 1
Think about the many stories you’ve heard or read over the years. Some of those stories may have had a major impact on your life, or maybe even the...
- Added: Jan 04, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2