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| Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:42
Sociologist Sherry Turkle asks the tough questions about the impact of instant messaging and wireless communications on the politics and preoccupations of youth culture. Also this week: A puff-ball planet discovered and the science of baby poo uncovered
Science Talk: September 20, 2006
from Science Talk: The Podcast of Scientific American
Science Download Now · | Wed, 20 Sep 2006 05:00
Human Evolution Fossil Find and Oil Company Conservation Comments
from Ask A Ninja - iPod
Download Now · | Sat, 02 Sep 2006 01:47
Available Formats - quicktime | flash Matt asks the Ninja how to entertain himself at a boring summer job. Click below to Download this movie: read more
from The Science Show
Science radionational Download Now · | Sat, 02 Sep 2006 07:34
1210 Gaia and accelerating climate change,
from CBC Radio: The Best of Ideas
Canada Multicultural Download Now · | Wed, 16 Aug 2006 02:55
Mongrel cities are a twenty-first century reality. Multiculturalism is an ideal about the kind of country we want to be and how we might live together. But can multiculturalism overcome the tribal tendencies that often accompany immigration? In the UBC-Laurier Institution Multiculturalism Lecture, Leonie Sandercock, Professor of Urban Planning and Regional Policy at the University of British Columbia asks, is multiculturalism the solution or the problem?
from The Writing Show
Download Now · | Wed, 11 Apr 2007 05:44
With Librarians Betsie Bush and Annie Coleman.
from Big Ideas
Download Now · | Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:52
KATHERINE BARBER is the editor of the "Canadian Oxford Dictionary" and author of "Six Words You Never Knew Had Something to Do with Pigs." She takes us on a quick tour of the history of the English language.
A conversation with Mike Frost about intelligent energy management
from Interviews with Innovators: Jon Udell's Friday Podcasts
Download Now · | Fri, 16 Jun 2006 04:00
Mike Frost, CEO of Site Controls, joins me for this Friday's installment of my Interviews with Innovators series. A couple of years ago I wrote an essay called The energy web about a set of ideas that matter more with each passing month. I'll say more about this in my InfoWorld column next week, but as you'll hear in this interview, I'm really excited by the focused entrepeneurial approach that Mike's company is taking. "We can't wait for the government to build the railroads in this case," he says, and I violently agree.
from Open Source
Download Now · | Wed, 11 Apr 2007 05:45
Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) 10, 9, 8, 7... [william.ward / Flickr] The science is incontrovertible: if we don't act now to curb global warming, we're in serious trouble. And U.S. public opinion is finally catching on, helped along, most recently, by Al Gore's new movie An Inconvenient Truth (see our hour on Al Gore Unplugged). The buzz about the movie turns on whether or not Gore's going to run in 2008, which begs this question: could a presidential candidate now actually build a viable political platform based on global warming? If enough politicians sense the tide turning, could...
the future is yesterday » Wiretap: Wiretap - 10,000 Kilograms of Radio
from the future is yesterday » Wiretap
Download Now · | Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:00
Wiretap - 10,000 Kilograms of Radio (11 MB MP3) From 2006-06-23 with host Jonathan Goldstein. Subscribe to the Wiretap Podcast.
Download Now · | Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:11
How do bilingual individuals slip so effortlessly from one language into another? New neuroimaging studies may have pinpointed the part of the brain at the centre of this smooth-switching skill.
Download Now · | Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:31
Nicholas Negroponte wants to give every school child in the developing world a laptop computer. He has established a non-profit organization to design and produce $100 laptops for sale to governments in quantities of no less than 1 million machines on the condition that they are given to school children. In this talk, he describes his and his colleague Seymour Papert's experience with educational computing in developing nations as well as the machine design.
from Unofficial This American Life Podcast
Download Now · | Mon, 22 May 2006 14:04
Original Air Date: 2006-05-19
from The Science Show
Download Now · | Sat, 27 May 2006 03:05
Headless in Vanuatu, 08:21 Planets around star HD69830, 30:27 Defining consciousness, 42:44 Captive breeding,
from Ockham's Razor