MP3 … For more than 20 years, the mantra in Washington has been “more, not less” when it comes to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the expansion of homeownership. But in light of the financial …

MP3… Richard Dawkins talks to Craig Venter and other leading scientists about the potential powers of genome science in the future. In May this year, researchers at the J Craig Venter Research Institute announced they …

MP3… Dr. Moira Gunn talks with the Director of Community for Harvard Medical School, Jason Bobe, about the Personal Genomes Project and “Do It Yourself” Biotech. (20m) [Tech Nation]

MP3 … Geolocation is the idea of using your smart phone to report where you are as you go through your day. A company called Foursquare is the leader of this movement. They’re best …

Windows Media | Real Audio … Magazines are in trouble. Hundreds of periodicals folded last year and the former powerhouse Newsweek was sold for a dollar in exchange for millions in debt: What’s ahead for …

Windows Media | Real Audio … Ants do it. So do fish, birds, bees and humans. They think better in groups than as individuals. How understanding flocks, schools and colonies in the animal world can …

MP3 … Americans are ditching cell phones in favor of devices that can make calls AND check email AND update Facebook AND stream video AND you get the idea. In the process, we’re flooding …

Windows Media | Real Audio … There’s no formula for cultivating an artistic community. In Baltimore, cheap rents and empty factories are making way for studio spaces and galleries. But the economic and cultural ingredients …

Windows Media | Real Audio … The story of a team of men who journey deep into the heart of the Amazon to find and protect a man believed to the lone survivor of an …

MP3 … Eli Kintisch tells NPR’s Guy Raz that many scientists see geoengineering as a sort of insurance policy. “We might face emergencies in the future which driving a Prius or putting up …

Windows Media | Real Audio … The creation of the world’s first self-replicating, synthetic cell heralds a new era in biology. It also prompts moral, legal, and safety questions: Analysis of the potential …

MP3 … What microorganism can make mice attracted to cats or make humans more likely to have car accidents or even develop a mental illness like schizophrenia? Host Guy Raz talks with infectious disease researcher …

MP3 … In one day, hundreds of IEEE members tackled the future of water and energy in one big brainstorming game, cosponsored by IEEE Spectrum and Institute for the Future. Together, they came up …

MP3 … For insight on the future of books, Future Tense speaks with author Susan Orlean (The Orchid Thief), publishing consultant Mike Shatzkin, and Bob Stein, the founder and co-director of the Institute for the …

MP3 … Each year the internet grows more multilingual. The good news: this has allowed hundreds of millions of people to get online and use their native language. The bad news: it threatens to divide …

Windows Media | Real Audio … It’s being called the “flash crash.” Over the course of a half hour, the stock market plunged nearly 1,000 points before reversing and recovering 543 points in a minute …

MP3… Richard Clarke has now turned his attention to another potential security catastrophe: computer-based terrorism attacks. In his new book, Cyberwar: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It, he and …

MP3… The idea that geoengineering can combat global warming is a controversial one, fraught with scientific uncertainties and ethical issues. In his new book, How to Cool the Planet, Jeff Goodell explains that there are …

Windows Media | Real Audio… When you order red snapper at a restaurant, you may actually be purchasing catfish. The sheep’s milk at your local market may actually be cow’s milk. Watchdogs say “food fraud” …

Windows Media | Real Audio… In 1989, Bill McKibben sounded an early-warning alarm about the future hazards of global climate change. He now says the things we were warned about are happening all around us …

Windows Media | Real Audio… A major court ruling last week threw a wrench into federal plans to regulate the Internet. But regulators would have been shooting at a moving target anyway — broadband technologies …

MP3… Volunteers with MIT’s Fab Lab program, which is part of the school’s Bits and Atoms lab, helped create a Wi-Fi network in Afghanistan. They call it FabFi, and they made it from junk: wire, …

MP3… They’re known as “flash mobs” — gatherings of people who use social media and text messages to stage a spontaneous group “dance-in” at a train station or get a big crowd together to imitate …

Windows Media | Real Audio… Artificial trees to capture carbon, billions of tiny mirrors to reflect sunlight, sulfate to whiten clouds: promise and pitfalls of large scale radical ideas for addressing climate change. [Diane …

MP3… India has the third largest higher education system in the world, but it’s largely closed to foreign colleges and universities. That may soon change. The World’s Katy Clark reports on a bill pending in …