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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
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What if a robot could be your closest friend?

  • Added: Dec 02, 2009
  • Length: 28:06
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Harold Shinitzky discussed ten simple principles for developing a happy mind.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Dec 02, 2009
  • Length: 29:13
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Michael Jawer discussed the anatomy of emotion.

  • Added: Nov 25, 2009
  • Length: 28:14
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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
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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
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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
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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
Caption: Proteins control the creation of inorganic materials, Credit: The Sarikaya Research Group
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
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Anahad O'Connor discussed the facts and myths about our health and the world we live in

  • Added: Nov 18, 2009
  • Length: 26:07
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OAFP Archive As the World Turns - Ira Flatow

Bought by KHNS and Northstate Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2009
  • Length: :35
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Aaron Santos discussed how to estimate anything.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 11, 2009
  • Length: 27:16
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Colin Dickey discussed the practice of Cranioklepty

  • Added: Nov 04, 2009
  • Length: 23:02
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The Firefox browser represents the pinnacle of open source software, this commentary explains the open source movement.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:27
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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
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While VOIP is popular it is a difficult problem to make it work with 9-1-1.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:44
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Jack Kilby invented the microchip, and thus, indirectly, helped me to learn to dance.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:15
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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
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But information, of course, isn't knowledge ... and therein lies Google great success.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:47
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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
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Adam Osborne marketed the first successful a compact computer: A 24-pound portable computer!

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:43
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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
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The story of Barbara McClintock's Nobel Prize winning work

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:24
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The story of Willard Gibbs who revolutionized chemistry

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:49
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The story of John von Neumann whose work laid the foundations for digital computing

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:53