An MP3 clip… This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest discuss how sushi became one of America’s most popular fast foods. [Here On Earth]

An MP3 clip… Harvard Business Online’s Steve Singer talks with Cheryl Perkins, President and Founder of Innovation Edge. [HBR IdeaCast]

An MP3 clip… Andrew Keen’s book “Cult of the Amateur” attacks Wikipedia, bloggers, pornographers and other amateurs who communicate on the Net. He says the gatekeepers of mainstream media should be the model for the …

A RealAudio clip… Tom Ashbrook checks in with three young world-beating American innovators, on the path to breakthroughs right now, about what it takes and how they do it. And we hear from a big-view …

An MP3 clip… Harvard Business Online’s Steve Singer talks with Cathleen Benko, co-author of Mass Career Customization: Aligning the Workplace with Today’s Nontraditional Workforce.
[Harvard Business Online]

A RealAudio clip… It’s an emerging marketplace, worth billions of dollars, and many Americans don’t even know it exists. In virtual worlds like “Second Life” or “World of Warcraft,” members buy and sell everything from …

A RealAudio clip… Russia sent two mini-submarines 13,000 feet beneath the Arctic ice cap, and planted a titanium-encased Russian flag on the seabed of the North Pole. “The Arctic,” declared expedition leader Artur Chilingarov, “is …

A RealAudio clip… Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich says the US tradition of democratic capitalism has gone badly wrong. A generation of free market adulation, says Reich, has built a kind of capitalism so powerful …

A RealAudio clip… William Gibson has been writing about the future of technology and society for more than twenty years, and is even credited with coining the term “cyberspace.” But his most recent novels are …

A RealAudio clip… People once believed it was impossible to overfish the seas. But no longer — today it’s understood that the world’s fish stocks are being harvested faster than they can regenerate. Marine conservationist …

A RealAudio clip… The political strategist and pollster who coined the term ‘soccer moms’ talks about some of the many small and emerging groups in our society and what they may signal about political, economic, …

A RealAudio clip… What is a copyright and who does it protect? Who owns it, and who can use it? And how will the digital era impact copyright protection? On the Beat commentator Celia Hirschman …

A RealAudio clip… Ira Flatow, host of the popular NPR program Science Friday and author of the new book Present at the Future: From Evolution to Nanotechnology, Candid and Controversial Conversations on Science and Nature …

An MP3 clip… When a humanoid robot successfully mirrors human emotion and evokes an emotional response from us, what happens to our understanding of ourselves and our emotional reality? This provocative panel discussion on the …

An MP3 clip… Dr. Mitchell Joachim of the MIT Media Laboratory shares some of his ‘out of this world’ thinking and design around his work to rethink car design based upon more humanistic principles. From …

An MP3 clip… Called “the biggest digital art installation in the world” (Warren Ellis), Second Life is a highly imaginative, online, 3-D rendered environment populated with avatars (graphic representations of people). In Second Life you …

An MP3 clip… From billion-dollar nonprofits to single person causes, there is a growing worldwide movement of organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. This is a movement with no name, leader, …

An MP3 clip… In this conversation Jon Udell and Dr. Moira Gunn discuss what it’s like for a computer scientist and engineer to venture into the world of biotechnology, why the decade of biotech may …

An MP3 clip… Microfinance is a proven, sustainable poverty-fighting strategy that works in all kind of cultural environments. For it to reach its potential, Muhammad Yunus explains that we must change the mindsets of donors, …

A RealAudio clip… How has industrialization changed or even threatened many traditional food cultures around the world? Jean Feraca and her guests explore what families in different countries eat. [Here on Earth]

A RealAudio clip… Many are sounding the alarm that declining birth rates in the Western world will tip the balance of world power to the East and send the economy and more into a tailspin. …

A RealAudio clip… The explosion of a Manhattan steam pipe has highlighted a mounting national crisis of crumbling infrastructure. [Diane Rehm]

An MP3 clip… Daniel Wilson talks about his Rave Award winning book How to Survive A Robot Uprising. With his humor in pocket, he walks us through the worst Sci-Fi and Hollywood robot attacks. Luckily, …

An M3U clip… A World of Possibilities explores ways in which new media are being used to connect people with common interests and generate new options for solving problems and ending conflicts worldwide. [A …

A RealAudio clip… This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest discuss what the world would look like if humans disappeared. [Here on Earth]