WinMedia – NPR’s Michele Norris talks with Carol Brey-Casiano, president of the American Library Association, about the impact of Google’s plan to digitize the resources of five major libraries. [All Things Considered]

RealAudio – Can memetics help us understand complex aspects of human nature and culture, or is it, as some have complained, “cocktail-party science”? Join Ray Suarez and guests for a look at the controversy over …

WinMedia – From the chip in your EZ Pass, to the chips at the casino, radio-frequency identification tags are becoming increasingly common. We’ll look at the technology and find out why RFID chips could be …

RealAudio – Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist, Director of the Hayden Planetarium, New York City. [Focus 580]

RealAudio – Stephen Wolfram, author of A New Kind of Science, founder of Wolfram Research and creator of Mathematica. [Focus 580]

RealAudio – Life is inevitable, believes Dr. Stuart Kauffman in conversation with Paula Gordon and Bill Russell. Dr. Kauffman is an experimental and molecular biologist at the Santa Fe Institute for the Study of Complex …

RealAudio – Thomas Homer-Dixon, director of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program and associate professor in the department of political science at the University of Toronto, author of The Ingenuity Gap and Environment, Scarcity and …

RealAudio – A Harvard Bookstore technology book panel featuring Neil Postman, Stewart Brand, James O’Donnell, Berkman Fellow John Perry Barlow, and Berkman Professor Lawrence Lessig, author of the Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. The …

RealAudio – The nano/bio interface. [BBC Radio 4]

RealAudio – The environmentalist ETC group has warned that nanotechnology (or ‘atomtech’ as they describe it) poses “horrendous social and environmental risks”. [BBC Radio 4]

RealAudio – Along with the invention of the scanning tunnelling microscope, the creation of a new, ball-shaped form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, has helped through the 1990s to transform a vague dream of manipulating the atomic …

MP3 – Open Networks, Closed Regimes explores Internet use in eight countries: two semi-authoritarian (Egypt and Singapore), and six fully authoritarian (China, Cuba, Vietnam, Burma, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia). The book analyzes …

MP3 – Dr. J. talks to Robin Marantz Henig on her book Pandora’s Baby, a story about the moral panic around the first “test-tube babies,” born from in-vitro fertilization. [Changesurfer Radio]

WinMedia – The Flyers: In Search of Wilbur and Orville Wright, the latest book by NPR’s Noah Adams, follows the quest by the Wright brothers to be the first to build a heavier-than-air craft that …

RealAudio – On this edition of Talk of the Nation, guest host Steve Inskeep talks to industry insiders about the tradeoffs of the PC revolution. [Talk of the Nation]

RealAudio – Bill Joy, a leading computer technologist, sounded a warning for his colleagues and the public to consider the unintended consequences of 21st-century technologies. In this hour, we’ll talk about the quest for intelligent …

RealAudio – From housekeeping to the battlefield to your neighborhood convenience store, researchers are creating robots to live with us and work for us. In this hour, we’ll look at how robots may change our …

RealAudio – About 35,000 years ago in Europe, people began painting on the walls of caves. Those first works of art were long thought to be signs of the birth of abstract thinking. Along with …

RealAudio – New findings of culture in orangutans push back the origins of socially transmitted behavior among primates to 14 million years ago. [Morning Edition]

WinMedia – Burnt seeds, wood and flint found in Israel could be the oldest evidence of controlled use of fire by our ancestors. Have archaeologists unearthed leftovers from a 790,000 year-old dinner? [Talk of …

RealAudio – In a new book, T.R. Reid says Europe, not the U.S., is the emerging superpower on a roll. Though the U.S. talks louder and swings a bigger military stick, it is Europe that …

RealAudio – The discovery of homo floresiensis, along with several fossils indicating greater diversity in the human past than previously thought, has shaken our picture of the evolutionary tree. How does this challenge the place …

MP3 – Eugene Thacker speaks about the integration of molecular biology and computer science, the notion of open source DNA, and Biotech Hobbyist. He is the author of Biomedia and the forthcoming The Global Genome: …

RealAudio – On January 1, 2005, the World Trade Organization is set to lift quotas on textile production. China’s share of the U.S. textile market has risen from 9 percent to 72 percent in the …

RealAudio – Cutting away from the clutter of commercials on TV and radio, companies are going underground to market their products. [The Connection]