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Solutions Week: Reducing The Food Waste Problem
Episode 1130
We close out Climate Solutions Week with a look at the final step in the food system: waste. Roughly 30-40% of all food produced globally gets thrown…
1 year, 7 months ago
Solutions Week: Reinventing Chocolate
Episode 1130
Climate change is contributing to erratic weather where cocoa beans are grown and threatening the global chocolate supply. Record rainfall last year …
1 year, 7 months ago
Solutions Week: The Cost Of Food Delivery
Episode 1128
Since the height of the pandemic, there has been a boom in the use of food delivery services. Day 2 of NPR's Climate Solutions Week is all about the …
1 year, 7 months ago
Solutions Week: Climate Change Is Coming For Your Wine
Episode 1128
In California's Napa Valley, the nation's unofficial wine capital, one varietal reigns supreme: cabernet sauvignon. But climate change is threatening…
1 year, 7 months ago
Solutions Week: Climate Change Is Coming For Your Wine
Episode 1128
In California's Napa Valley, the nation's unofficial wine capital, one varietal reigns supreme: cabernet sauvignon. But climate change is threatening…
1 year, 7 months ago
Body Electric: How AI Is Changing Our Relationships
Episode 1127
Hey, Short Wavers! Today, we have a special present for all of you: An episode from our good friends at NPR's Body Electric podcast all a bout artifi…
1 year, 8 months ago
Dogs Go Viral For 'Talking' To Humans — But Can They?
Last year, a dog named Bunny went viral on TikTok for pressing buttons with words on them to "communicate" with her owner. But can dogs even understa…
1 year, 8 months ago
Feeling Itchy? Air Pollution Might Be Making It Worse
Episode 1125
Short Wave producer Hannah Chinn has adult-onset eczema. They're not the only one. Up to ten percent of people in the United States have it, accordin…
1 year, 8 months ago
Are You Overestimating The Algorithm?
Episode 1124
Humans hallucinate. Algorithms lie.
At least, that's one difference that Joy Buolamwini and Kyle Chayka want to make clear. When ChatGPT tells you th…
1 year, 8 months ago
Batteries: The Lemonade Of Life
Episode 1123
Just in time for the return of the school year, we're going "Back To School" by revisiting a classic at-home experiment that turns lemons into batter…
1 year, 8 months ago