Windows Media | Real Audio … Can an injection help you stop smoking? Or end a drug addiction? We hear about a new approach to curing addiction that works like the flu vaccine. How your …

MP3… Just about every week, a TV news segment or magazine cover scares us with the prospect that new media technology is damaging our brains, our social skills and our culture. But, says neuropsychologist Dr. …

MP3… “Climategate” has damaged the credentials of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and decades of science on global warming. But as scientists push back against efforts to dismiss the threat of global warming, some …

MP3… Our correspondents on how debt, deficits and demographic change are impacting the country’s 200-year-old political system. [The Economist] (10m 56s)

MP3… Culture in the digital age is being created from the ground up, and just about anyone with a computer or smartphone can become a content-producing superstar, according to Bill Wasik, a senior editor at …

MP3… Film critic Roger Ebert had his larynx removed through surgery, but a company called CereProc in Edinburgh, Scotland, has created a beta version of his voice. Dr. Matthew Aylett, chief technical Officer of CereProc, …

Windows Media | Real Audio … For local restaurants, serving “sustainable” food from local farms can be appetizing to eco-conscious eaters. But the demand for locally grown food can often outstrip supply, forcing chefs to …

Windows Media | Real Audio … Delivered-to-your-door newspapers are in a downward spiral, and most have slashed their local news staff. But an Arlington-based company recently announced plans to launch a local news Website to …

MP3… The World’s Laura Lynch reports that British consumers are finding two labels now on their food — one for nutritional facts, the other on the food’s carbon footprint. [The World] (5m 29s)

MP3… Within a single generation, digital media and the World Wide Web have transformed virtually every aspect of modern culture, from how we learn and work to how we communicate and even conduct war. Frontline …

MP3… A new study by British and Belgian scientists has raised provocative questions about the inner life of patients in what doctors call a vegetative state. They’re seemingly unconscious or unaware. The new research published …

MP3… Nathan Myhrvold, CEO of Intellectual Ventures and author of the HBR article “Funding Eureka,” talks about new model for invention. [Harvard Business IdeaCast] (14m 40s)

MP3… Stock markets in the U.S. and Europe have taken a beating in recent days because of worries about the debt crisis in Greece, Portugal, Spain and some other European countries. Financial Times reporter Stacy-Marie …

MP3… With the bursting of the economic bubble in Iceland at the end of 2008, many people have been thrown out of work. Lines now form every week at a soup kitchen that hands out …

MP3… Dr.Moira Gunn catches up with internet pioneer and author, Jaron Lanier to discuss his new book, You Are Not a Gadget…a Manifesto, where he discusses the technical and cultural problems that can grow out …

MP3… Dr. J. (James Hughes) chats with Gowri Ramachandran, a professor of Law at the Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles California, and author of Against the Right to Bodily Integrity: Of Cyborgs and Human …

MP3… Rapid technological change and media saturation have been constants for people born in the 1990s and this decade. [Future Tense] (3m 53s)

Windows Media | Real Audio … Young people looking for jobs today can’t help feeling their timing stinks. Nearly one in five people age 16 to 24 is unemployed. Kojo Nnamdi and guests look at …

MP3… John Naisbitt, a long-time China observer, and Doris Naisbitt, director of the Naisbitt China Institute in Tianjin and a professor at Yunnan University, talk about the transformation of China′s economic, social, and political systems. …

MP3… Part 1 of our interview with Michael Belfiore, author of The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs [Future Tense] (3m 56s)

MP3… Dr. Moira Gunn sits down to talk science with writer James Schwartz about his new book, In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA, digging into the world of science and the personalities …

MP3… Just as wars over oil played a major role in 20th-century history, a new book makes a convincing case that many 21st-century conflicts will be fought over water. In Water: The Epic Struggle for …

MP3… The “Do It Yourself” movement works well when you’re talking about making your own music or growing your own vegetables. But some people are starting a DIY-biology movement. They’re studying things like DNA and …

MP3… The Economist examines international conflicts and attempts to resolve them. [The Economist] (14m 51s)

MP3… In just a couple of months, the Federal Communications Commission will introduce its long-awaited National Broadband Plan. Free Press policy director Ben Scott says that rewiring all of America for high-speed internet may be …