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Monday, January 28, 2013 | 11:00 AM
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When cyberbullying turns into sexual shaming, with one teen who decided to tell her peers it’s got to stop.

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Wednesday, December 31, 1969 | 11:00 AM

Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig spoke to us about the death of internet activist Aaron Swartz and what he stood for.

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Thursday, December 20, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Instagram is a popular photo-sharing social network.

Online privacy changes and Instagram. Who owns your digital life?

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Tuesday, December 11, 2012 | 11:00 AM
A screen capture from the streaming media service Hulu Plus. (Hulu)

Revolution in the world of TV, video, cable. Everybody’s migrating. We’ll see where they’re going.

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Thursday, November 29, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Gears. (chance.press/Flickr)

A.I., artificial intelligence, is on the move again. Deep learning. Big strides. It may change the world around you.

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Wednesday, October 31, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Photo illustration. (Alex Kingsbury/WBUR)

Is the desktop computer going the way of the typewriter as computing races mobile?

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012 | 10:00 AM
In this Aug. 23, 2011 photo, a student unpacks her new iPad at Burlington High School in Burlington, Mass. Burlington is giving iPads this year to every one of its 1,000-plus high school students. Some classes will still have textbooks, but the majority of work and lessons will be on the iPads. (AP)

Tablets computers—ipads and the rest—are moving into children’s classrooms and backpacks. How is that changing learning? Homework time?

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Thursday, September 27, 2012 | 11:00 AM
California Gov. Edmund G Brown Jr., front left, rides in a driverless car to a bill signing at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012. The legislation will open the way for driverless cars in the state. Google, which has been developing autonomous car technology and lobbying for the legislation has a fleet of driverless cars that has logged more than 300,000 miles (482,780 kilometers) of self-driving on California roads. (AP)

California gives the green light. Is this the future? No hands?

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Monday, August 13, 2012 | 11:00 AM
An A123 Systems Inc. high power Nanophospate Lithium Ion Cell for Hybrid Electric Vehicles battery is shown Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009 in Livonia, Mich. (AP)

Green America’s big-time battery innovator A123 got millions in taxpayer support. Now China’s snatching up the company, and its knowledge.

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Monday, August 6, 2012 | 11:00 AM
A Samsung Tablet-PC "Galaxy Tab 10.1" and an Apple iPad. (AP)

Apple vs. Samsung. The “Patent Trial of the Century” heats up. We’ll look at what’s at stake.

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May 22, 2013
Apple CEO Tim Cook is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, prior to testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent subcommittee on Investigations hearing. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Apple in the hot seat. Lawmakers say the company dodged billions in taxes on overseas profits. We’ll look at the world of off shore tax escapes.

May 22, 2013
A woman carries her child through a field near the collapsed Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013. (Sue Ogrocki/AP)

After Oklahoma’s giant twister, does Tornado Alley need to change the way it builds and lives in the age of superstorms?

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May 21, 2013
Henry Ford sits at the tiller of his first automobile, the Quadricycle, in front of the John Wanamaker salesroom on Broadway between 49th and 50th Streets in New York City in 1904. (AP)

The controversial and brilliant Henry Ford and the world he invented.

 
May 21, 2013
Detail from the book jacket of "The Unwinding: An Inner History Of The New America" by George Packer. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

New Yorker writer George Packer’s inside history of the great unwinding of America’s 20th century way of life and where we stand now.

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Switching Shows For Our Second Hour Today
Friday, May 17, 2013

Adventures in live radio. Richard Snow, our guest for our show on Henry Ford, was held up — possibly by a faulty Model T? — so we’re running a terrific archive show on great quotations.

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Floyd Abrams On Obama Vs. Nixon
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Floyd Abrams — one of the country’s leading authorities on the First Amendment — joined us today to talk about revelations that the Justice Department seized two months of phone records from the Associated Press.

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Dr. Judy Garber On Angelina Jolie’s Cancer Decision
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Dr. Judy Garber — director of the Center for Cancer Genetics and Prevention at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute — joined us for the final segment of our show today to talk about star Angelina Jolie’s decision to undergo a preventative double mastectomy.

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