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Here & Now: Reverse Course
Reverse Course: Planes pollute the planet, but new technology could clean up the aviation industry
Reverse Course: Shipbuilders harness the wind to clean up global shipping
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Reverse Course: Detroit debuts 'road of the future' with wireless EV charging
Short Run presents Here & Now's climate series "Reverse Course." This episode looks at wireless electric vehicle charging. Detroit is testing a new way to charge electric vehicles that doesn’t...
Reverse Course: This machine creates drinking water ‘from thin air’ in driest parts of the world
Short Run presents Here & Now's climate series "Reverse Course." This episode looks at water conservation in the Navajo Nation. Up to 30% of the homes on the Navajo Nation...
TRAILER: Introducing ‘The Gun Machine,’ a podcast about how America was forged by the gun industry
WBUR and The Trace bring you a story that most Americans never learned in history class — a new podcast about the gun industry’s grip on our country.
Ep. 1: The U.S. gun industry's surprising origin story
Ep 2: Fear sells guns. Here's how that culture was created
Ep. 3: How U.S. civilians were spurred to buy guns
Ep. 4: Springfield was once the center of the gun industry. Now, many guns on the street are illegal.
Ep. 5: How the police became one of the gun industry’s biggest customers
Ep. 6: Why it's nearly impossible to sue gun companies – and the city that still has a case
Ep. 7: What the ATF — Why it’s so hard for the federal law enforcement agency in charge of guns to do its job
Ep. 8: The Leftovers: How do you account for the true cost of gun violence?
Ep 5: Can populism strengthen a democracy?
Some experts say that while populism can metastasize into authoritarianism, it doesn't have to. They argue that the roots of American populism made this country's democracy better, and that it's...
Ep 1: Richard Nixon's 'crazy' idea
Ep 2: Plots and private planes
Ep 3: Grip and grin
Ep 4: Shared secrets
Ep 5: The break-up
In the fifth part of Here & Now's "The Great Wager," host Jane Perlez considers how Nixon's actions are reverberating today.
Endless Thread: Good Bot, Bad Bot
Ep 1: Mental Health and Bot Therapy
Ep 2: The future of bots in government
Ep 3: Life, death and AI
Ep 4: The toxicity of Tay
Ep 5: Dating Bots Endless Thread
In the fifth episode of Endless Thread's series "Good Bot, Bad Bot," Ben Brock Johnson and Nora Saks dive into the ways AI is changing modern love and online dating.
Ep 6: The quest to build machines like us
In the final episode of Endless Thread's series "Good Bot, Bad Bot," Ben Brock Johnson and Dean Russell visit Google to see how close the field is to creating bots...
Ep 1: Trust in the animal kingdom
Ep 2: The brain science of trust
Ep 3: Lessons from Brazil's trust crisis
Ep 4: How healthy skepticism builds trust
Ep 5: How to rebuild trust in America
Trust — in our institutions, our leaders, in each other — can erode away. But trust can also be rebuilt, even after devastating events. How can humans rebuild trust?
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