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RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 01:00:00 +0000

Airs Monday, August 13 at 8:00 p.m.
Program Two: Facing the Riding Tide
Even when we do understand climate change and it’s impacts, we often do nothing. Why is this? Part Two brings us portraits of two families, a farmer and a land developer. The Mellos and the Fosters provide two different answers to this question.

RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities

Bill Beckett — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 01:00:00 +0000

Airs Monday, August 6 at 8:00 p.m.
Program One: Sounding the Waters
Sea level rise and increasingly extreme weather patterns are two of the impacts of climate change. How are these phenomena created? What effects will they have on our coastlines? To what extent are we feeling them already? And what can we do to adapt to changing conditions? We explore these questions with a visit to San Francisco’s financial district and other spots around the Bay.

Radiolab: Lucy

Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:00:00 +0000

Airs Monday, July 9 at 8:00 p.m. Chimps. Bonobos. Humans. We're all great apes, but that doesn’t mean we’re one happy family. Is this kind of cross-species co-habitation an utterly stupid idea? Or might it be our one last hope as more and more humans fill up the planet? This hour of Radiolab: stories of trying to live together. A chimp named Lucy teaches us the ups and downs of growing up human, and a visit to The Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa highlights some of the basics of bonobo culture (be careful, they bite).

What Was I Thinking for July 5, 2012

Brian O' Nuanain — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:35:00 +0000

Commentator Brian O'Nuanain ponders the possibilities of 3D Printing in manufacturing. Curious? Well listen here for all the details. Printing a Bicycle in 3D

Radiolab: Guts

Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 01:00:00 +0000

Airs Monday, June 18 at 8:00 p.m. This hour, we dive into the messy mystery in the middle of us. What's going on down there? We stick our hand in a cow stomach, get a window into our core through the story of a human science experiment, listen in on the surprising back-and-forth between our gut and our brain, and talk to a man who kind of went out of his mind when a medical procedure left him (for a little while) gutless.