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Researchers are testing a vaccine against life-threatening antibiotic resistant bacteria.
- Added: Dec 21, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Dec 13, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
In Episode 19 of Behind The Thread, we go inside the 7-year energy crisis that has beleaguered Pakistan's vital textile industry and see what is be...
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 46:30
It was a terrible, tragic week for commercial space development. Historian and space policy analyst John Logsdon helps up understand the greater m...
Bought by KMUD, WYAP, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Nov 03, 2014
- Length: 28:51
- Purchases: 3
Do you hold your cell phone against your ear? Your user manual probably warns against it.
Bret Bocook knew how to use a cell phone. So he didn’t b...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Nov 03, 2014
- Length: 06:07
- Purchases: 1
MESSENGER is the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging mission that has been orbiting the innermost planet for more than thr...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Oct 28, 2014
- Length: 28:51
- Purchases: 1
Ilse Cleeves is lead author of a paper that concludes up to half of our solar system’s water is older than the solar system itself. The implication...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Oct 21, 2014
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 1
At the corner of Sanchez and Market, Jason Dorn pulls out an iPhone. He’s at one end point of the access area for San Francisco Free WiFi, a free w...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 05:30
When you’re trying to figure out a piece of information online, your search will typically bring you to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia about pr...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 10:56
If you thought the "Heartbleed" bug was bad, get ready for Shellshock, as the Bash Bug is much, much worse. 70 percent of all computers -- includin...
- Added: Oct 09, 2014
- Length: 05:01
Target, Michael's, AOL, EBay, Jimmy John's -- there's been a massive data breach discovered every month this year. Here's some perspective on the s...
- Added: Oct 09, 2014
- Length: 04:49
- Added: Jul 21, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
Radio Frequency ID is now coming into use in America, and a woman in Georgia has already had her identity stolen...just by hugging a stranger. Here...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 04:50
It can be hard to donate your old things to a thrift store, but the idea is that your stuff will get a second life. Once it is donated, it will mak...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 05:08
The sharing economy in San Francisco is humming. Companies like Airbnb have figured out how to make a lot of money by using existing housing stock ...
- Added: May 18, 2014
- Length: 08:40
Del Seymour makes sure to take everybody on his walking tours of the Tenderloin to the corner of Turk and Taylor...
- Added: May 18, 2014
- Length: 12:11
It’s a Tuesday evening in Oakland’s City Hall. A group of people ranging in age from their 20s to 50s are sitting, many in front of their laptops. ...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 04:54
You’re driving your car down a street and as you pass, a camera takes a photo of your license plate. Who is taking the photo and what are they doin...
- Added: Apr 29, 2014
- Length: 17:42
- Purchases: 2
WFHB News Director Alycin Bektesh investigates what a security breach such as Heartbleed means for the average cyberspace user for today's WFHB fea...
- Added: Apr 17, 2014
- Length: 08:46
Now it’s LIKELY — not just possible — that your identity has been stolen. A data breach involving Experian (the credit-reporting firm), plus the re...
- Added: Apr 16, 2014
- Length: 05:01
New guidelines could maximize transplant success by better matching donated kidneys with recipients.
- Added: Mar 31, 2014
- Length: 01:00
Humans relate better to robots that avert their eyes at well-chosen moments.
- Added: Mar 17, 2014
- Length: 01:00
Nineteenth-century technology can trump Twenty-first-century tech if you let a telephone caller convince you he's working for Microsoft. It could c...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 05:01
Science on a Sphere, a project from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, has arrived on Indiana University’s Bloomington campus. It wa...
- Added: Mar 07, 2014
- Length: 08:25
Host Doug Storm talks with Ted Striphas, an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication & Culture at Indiana University and the author o...
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 01:01:53
