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The Anthropocene Reviewed
Episode 358
The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. On The Anthropocene Re…
6 years, 8 months ago
The Barney Design redux
Episode 357
All over Oakland right now people are wearing Warriors shirts and flying their Warriors flags from their cars, and as much as we like our hometown te…
6 years, 8 months ago
The Automat
Episode 356
The inside of a Horn & Hardart Automat looked like a glamorous, ornate cafeteria -- but instead of a human handing you hot food over a counter, you w…
6 years, 9 months ago
Depave Paradise
Episode 355
Mexico City is in a water crisis. Despite rains and floods, it is running out of drinking water.
To solve the scarcity issue, the city began piping …
6 years, 9 months ago
Sound and Health: Hospitals
Sound can have serious impacts on our health and wellbeing. And there’s no better place to think about health than hospitals.
According to Joel Becker…
6 years, 9 months ago
La Sagrada Familia (Repeat)
Episode 281
There are a lot of Gothic churches in Spain, but this one is different. It doesn’t look like a Gothic cathedral. It looks organic, like it was built …
6 years, 9 months ago
Sound and Health: Cities
Is our blaring modern soundscape harming our health? Cities are noisy places and while people are pretty good at tuning it out on a day-to-day basis …
6 years, 9 months ago
Weeding is Fundamental
Episode 354
Libraries get rid of books all the time. There are so many new books coming in every day and only a finite amount of library space. The practice of f…
6 years, 9 months ago
From Bombay with Love
Episode 353
From the 1950s right up to its collapse, people in the Soviet Union were completely infatuated with Indian cinema. India and The Soviet Union had com…
6 years, 10 months ago
Uptown Squirrel
Episode 352
This past fall, two hundred people gathered at The Explorer’s Club in New York City. The building was once a clubhouse for famed naturalists and expl…
6 years, 10 months ago