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Journalist and environmental activist Bill McKibben takes Roman Mars through the story of how a president showed the American people a powerful new technology promising abundant cheap energy and why Americans shrugged.
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Jan Todd was considered by many to be the strongest woman in the world back in the 1970s. Then she became a historian, and uncovered a lost generation of strong women who came before her.
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The story of the sinking of the SS Central America and the gold that sparked the first global financial panic, helped fuel the Civil War, and—over a century later—ruined one man’s life.
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Emmett Fitzgerald reports on the new rules about what plants you can grow around your house in Berkeley, CA.
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In the 1990s, AOL introduced millions of Americans to the internet with its ubiquitous free CDs, but how did the company that once dominated the internet nearly disappear?
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Reporter Katie Thornton tells the story of Doktoro Esperanto’s dream, and what we can all still learn from Esperanto right now.
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How a women’s prison in Greenwich Village, and its unusual open windows, helped shape queer community and the modern gay rights movement.
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A closer look at the quirks, imperfections, and clever design solutions that have helped Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum evolve over the decades.
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A desert train built for Tony Hawk leads into the strange and thoughtful world of N.D. Austin, a designer of real-life experiences.
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Football helmets can prevent devastating injuries, but they may also help make an inherently violent game feel safer than it really is.
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- SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars
- Oldest episode in feed
- 09/2010 · over 16 years
- Typical length
- 32 min
- Format
- Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone
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