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Cyber Teachers
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason news features
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Writers of science fiction have long predicted a time when computers could engage humans in two-way communication, from R2D2 to the sinister Hal 90...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2013
  • Length: 02:29
Should Buenos Aires’ trains be Re-Nationalized?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The trains of Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina are falling apart. A group of train workers and student activists says the problem is that private co...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 08:36
Where Twitter and Quakers meet
From: KALW
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The mid-Market district of San Francisco is undergoing tremendous change. Construction cranes literally cast shadows over the businesses and charit...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2013
  • Length: 11:15
Drone practice above Upstate New York
From: North Country Public Radio
Caption: Air National Guard students train on maintaining the MQ-9 Reaper at Hancock Air Base in Syracuse, NY., Credit: David Sommerstein, NCPR
Drones, or unmanned aircraft, are making headlines for their controversial attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan…and for how they could be used for s...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 1
Digital Detox
From: John Myers
Caption: Digital Detox, Credit: http://thedigitaldetox.org/
Spending too much time on Facebook or compulsively checking your smartphone might seem innocuous. But, as more people find it difficult to put the...

Bought by WAMC and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 05:55
  • Purchases: 2
Brain Injury and Couples
From: With Good Reason
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Five times as many people get a brain injury than are diagnosed with breast cancer, and the aftermath of a traumatic brain injury can be devastatin...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Nov 19, 2012
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 1
Ghost In The Machine: Computers, Music and Creativity.
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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'Ghost In The Machine' examines computers in Music. David Cope is one of the main interview subjects; he's designed a remarkable computer program t...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2012
  • Length: 53:46
Oh, I See!
From: Ed Prosser
Caption: A horse as seen through the vOICe, Credit: New Scientist
Using technology to step outside of blindness - the vOICe is a computer program being developed to allow blind people to see through sound! This ...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2012
  • Length: 17:42
The Field Trip Podcast: Wildfires
From: The Field Trip Podcast
Caption: The Field Trip Podcast logo, Credit: Mike Smith
Here's the first episode in our “Summer Dispatches” series, in which reporter Megan Molteni braves the scarred landscape of Colorado Springs after...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2012
  • Length: 13:57
Episode Five: Rebooting the Public Square
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: ReCivilization
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In the finale of ReCivilization, host Don Tapscott takes us into the public square, to look at how governments must re-engage with citizens.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 53:02
Episode Four: Re-Industrializing the planet
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: ReCivilization
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In Episode four of ReCivilization, host Don Tapscott looks as how the digital revolution has changed how business are run.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 53:02
Episode Three: Collaborative Health Care
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: ReCivilization
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In part three of ReCivilization, host Don Tapscott looks at the future of heath care and medicine.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 53:02
Episode Two: Open-Source Knowledge
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: ReCivilization
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In episode two of ReCivilization, host Don Tapscott looks at the transformation of education and science, and the emergence of knowledge-sharing an...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 53:02
Episode One: Turning the media inside out
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: ReCivilization
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In the first installment of ReCivilization, host Don Tapscott looks at the media and how the industrial-age model of mass production is giving way ...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 53:02
Remain Sustainable
From: Civic Commons
Caption: The CivicCommons.com
Taking care of trash--should we incinerate or not?

  • Added: Apr 14, 2012
  • Length: 28:41
Santa Cruz police attempt to catch crime before it occurs
From: KALW
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The Santa Cruz Police Departments is the first in the country to experiment with predictive policing, a mathematical approach to detecting and prev...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 05, 2012
  • Length: 05:44
  • Purchases: 3
Clever Apes: Breaking the fossil record
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
Caption: Joseph Orgel holds his sample of T. rex tissue. , Credit: (WBEZ/Michael De Bonis)
In this installment, Gabriel Spitzer discovers how an ancient specimen might rewrite prehistory, and maybe medical books, too.

Bought by KUT and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Mar 07, 2012
  • Length: 08:25
  • Purchases: 2
Clever Apes: The happiness machine
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
Caption: Philip Janicak of Rush University Medical Center adjusts his TMS machine. , Credit: WBEZ/Gabriel Spitzer
Host Gabriel Spitzer explores how doctors are using magnets to tweak the brain's machinery and treat depression. Plus, how magnets and radio waves ...

Bought by KFAI, KISU, KUT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 15, 2012
  • Length: 08:25
  • Purchases: 5
Reducing nurses' stress pays off for Kaiser patients
From: KALW
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Technology has done great things for medicine: Machines can help keep hearts beating and lungs breathing. Electronic medical records help doctors k...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Public Radio Remix, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:34
  • Purchases: 3
Turkish Internet Censorship
From: Deutsche Welle
Series: Digital Europe
Caption: Digital Europe
Turkey is set to impose a strict new Internet filter that has many Turkish Internet users and human rights organizations up in Arms.

Bought by WBEZ and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Nov 28, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
Regulating the Internet
From: Deutsche Welle
Series: Digital Europe
Caption: Digital Europe
How should governments around the globe regulate the Internet

  • Added: Nov 28, 2011
  • Length: 05:13
Using Light to Transfer Data
From: Deutsche Welle
Series: Digital Europe
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Report on new technologies that will use light to transfer data at very high speeds in the office and home.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 14, 2011
  • Length: 06:33
  • Purchases: 1
Czech Pirate Movie Party
From: Deutsche Welle
Series: Digital Europe
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Profiles the pirate website that simplifies downloading pirated commercial blockbusters

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 14, 2011
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 1
Europe's First Bionic Hand
From: Deutsche Welle
Series: Digital Europe
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A robotic implant is much closer to reality after controversial, but successful surgery replaced an Austrian man's hand.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 14, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
As Renewables Boom, California Struggles to Quit Coal
From: KQED
Series: QUEST: Coal at the Crossroads
Caption: The coal-fired San Juan Generating Station in New Mexico. , Credit: Matt Preusch
California is known for its "green" reputation. Just look at all the new solar and wind farms popping up around the state. So it might be a surpris...

Bought by WFPL News, Oregon Public Broadcasting, WRFA-LP, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, KUMD and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2011
  • Length: 05:09
  • Purchases: 8