MP3… Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Duke University professor, Henry Petroski, about his new book, The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems, where he explores science and engineering and how …

Windows Media | Real Audio … Before long, instead of reaching for your wallet, you may be reaching for your cellphone. Thanks to digital money transfers, you can already Tweet a donation to your favorite …

MP3… Dr Aleks Krotoski continues her investigation into how the world wide web is transforming our lives. In this second programme in the series, she charts how, for better and for worse, the web is …

MP3… Twenty years on from the invention of the world wide web, Dr. Aleks Krotoski looks at how it is reshaping almost every aspect of our lives. Joined by some of the web’s biggest names …

MP3… Dr. Aleks Krotoski concludes her investigation of how the World Wide Web is transforming almost every aspect of our lives. Joined by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Al Gore and the neuroscientist Susan …

MP3… Dr. Aleks Krotoski continues her investigation into how the world wide web is transforming our lives. In the third programme in the series, she charts how the web has impacted businesses — and in …

MP3… With the cap-and-trade legislation aimed at curbing global warming stalled in Congress, there’s an almost-complete collapse of the market for carbon credits. That means profits are drying up for people who are paid to …

Windows Media | Real Audio … The FCC unveiled a road map for the future of Internet access in the United States. But a lot of experts feel it’s impossible to draw a map when …

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)