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- Added: Jun 16, 2010
- Length: 28:10
- Purchases: 2
Here’s a conundrum. What do you do with three thousand tons of smelly garbage a day? Could you just, well, vaporize it?!
Bought by KOSU
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Okay -- so it sounds pretty disgusting when you first hear about it. But, well, here it goes. We may be able to get drinking water from treated sew...
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Over the years, treasure maps have been of such interest that the Library of Congress devoted a volume to them! Now, a new kind of map is proving t...
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Added: May 05, 2010
- Length: 26:53
- Purchases: 2
From Signal Interrupted, on April 30, 2010. War News Radio reports on a new device that's interrupting communications in Iraq.
- Added: Apr 30, 2010
- Length: 06:31
The biggest power plant on earth is high in the sky -- it’s the sun. But, we only get one percent of our energy from it because it typically costs...
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
I don’t know if Santa Claus ever collected seeds, but one of his neighbors sure does. About 200 miles from the North Pole, the United States is bu...
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Old tires. Mountains of rubber. What’s happening with to them these days? Well, in Pennsylvania, they’re hitting the road!
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Want to learn French, or maybe how to compost, but don’t have the cash to take classes? A group of artists in New York is working to create a syst...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KUT, and WILL
- Added: Apr 25, 2010
- Length: 05:03
- Purchases: 4
- Added: Apr 14, 2010
- Length: 27:52
- Purchases: 2
Experts say that as population and water use rise, the world's fresh water supplies are shrinking. Then why don’t we desalinate more sea water and…...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Mar 26, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Are you worried about global warming? Well, here’s an idea. How about rocketing one trillion miniature umbrellas into orbit somewhere between us ...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Mar 26, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
This documentary tells the moving story of Tucker Stilley, a remarkable spirit who, in his early forties, was diagnosed with ALS (known as Lou Gehr...
Bought by WFIU
- Added: Feb 28, 2010
- Length: 59:59
- Purchases: 1
Jet propulsion doesn't always make you fast...Take, for example, the Antarctic scallop. These bivalve mollusks shouldn't even be able to move. Yet ...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Crispy noodles: They're tasty, and...fuel-efficient! That is, if someday we're driving hydrogen-fueled cars.
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Ever think to yourself, “California and Iceland sure have a lot in common”? Probably not. But if you dig beneath the surface, they both harbor lots...
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
The environmentally polite thing to do in the future might be to give your battery the flu. That's right: Batteries may soon run on a virus.
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
One architecture professor is giving trailer parks a good name. Michael Berk of Mississippi State University has developed award-winning mobile hom...
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Gassing up new family cars with green, clean hydrogen is edging closer to reality.
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Archaeologist Michael Shanks talks about the history of stuff and our relationship with it.
- Added: Feb 19, 2010
- Length: 09:33
Acclaimed jazz guitarist Pat Metheny plugs to the Orchestrion, a massive instrument based on the old player piano orchestrations of yore.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 18, 2010
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 04, 2010
- Length: 29:57
- Purchases: 2
We burn a lot of fossil fuels, and many of us would like to curb our dependence on foreign oil. Ocean tides and crashing waves could be at least a ...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jan 22, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
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
