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How can innovation and fair compensation can go hand in hand?
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Dec 10, 2009
- Length: 25:05
- Purchases: 1
What if a robot could be your closest friend?
- Added: Dec 02, 2009
- Length: 28:06
Dr. Harold Shinitzky discussed ten simple principles for developing a happy mind.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 02, 2009
- Length: 29:13
- Purchases: 1
Michael Jawer discussed the anatomy of emotion.
- Added: Nov 25, 2009
- Length: 28:14
f you’re looking to save energy and cold, hard cash, check out the fridge.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Nov 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
A brilliant young professor invents a way to heat and cool homes -- for free. The president gives him a prestigious award, and he waits for the e...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Nov 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Once upon a time in the West, there were 30 million American bison. Now, around Yellowstone National Park, there are only 3900 -- but that’s up fro...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Nov 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
It turns out that the milk that goes with the ‘breakfast of champions’ is less environmentally friendly than a pint of beer.
- Added: Nov 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
University of Washington materials scientist Dr. Mehmet Sarikaya has developed a promising new field. Science reporter Audrey Quinn speaks with hi...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Nov 19, 2009
- Length: 07:27
- Purchases: 2
Anahad O'Connor discussed the facts and myths about our health and the world we live in
- Added: Nov 18, 2009
- Length: 26:07
OAFP Archive
As the World Turns - Ira Flatow
Bought by KHNS and Northstate Public Radio
- Added: Nov 11, 2009
- Length: :35
- Purchases: 2
Dr. Aaron Santos discussed how to estimate anything.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Nov 11, 2009
- Length: 27:16
- Purchases: 1
Colin Dickey discussed the practice of Cranioklepty
- Added: Nov 04, 2009
- Length: 23:02
The Firefox browser represents the pinnacle of open source software, this commentary explains the open source movement.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:27
Most power plants waste much energy because they are so inefficient. Moving them closer to where their power is used would waste much less energy
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:21
While VOIP is popular it is a difficult problem to make it work with 9-1-1.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:44
Jack Kilby invented the microchip, and thus, indirectly, helped me to learn to dance.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:15
With the Concorde soon to stop flying, an era of air transport has come to an end. Unknown to most people the era ending is the 1950s, and the Conc...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:51
But information, of course, isn't knowledge ... and therein lies Google great success.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:47
A pothole is a uniquely American phenomenon. Drive the highways of South Africa, Germany or France and you'll find few ruts and divots. Why pothole...
Bought by KFAI
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:47
- Purchases: 1
Adam Osborne marketed the first successful a compact computer: A 24-pound portable computer!
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:43
Commentary that argues that to be environmentally friendly we want products designed so that the high value materials can be removed - reserving re...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:48
The story of Barbara McClintock's Nobel Prize winning work
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:24
The story of Willard Gibbs who revolutionized chemistry
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:49
The story of John von Neumann whose work laid the foundations for digital computing
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:53





