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Exploration

Exploration

Tuesdays: 2PM Pacific Time

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An hour long radio program on science, technology, politics, and the environment. Topics covered include black holes, time travel, higher dimensions, string theory, wormholes, search for extra-terrestial life, dark matter and dark energy, the future of space travel, genetic engineering, the aging process, the future of medicine, the human body shop, artificial intelligence, the future of computers and robots, as well as topics from science fiction. Hosted by Michio Kaku.

Exploration

Explorations – March 6, 2007

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03.06.07 - 2:00pm

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1) UN General Secretary says global warming is as important as war. 2) Inuit people to sue US over global warming. 3) Space tourism by 2009 4) Stephan Hawking to go into space 5) Who lives the logest on the earth?


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Explorations – February 27, 2007 at 2:00pm

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Explorations – February 20, 2007

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1) UN General Secretary says global warming is as important as war. 2) Inuit people to sue US over global warming. 3) Space tourism by 2009 4) Stephan Hawking to go into space 5) Who lives the longest on the earth?


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Explorations – February 13, 2007

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1) Billionaire announces $25 million prize to solve global warming. 2) NASA at a turning point, with new space craft, and missions to the moon and Mars. 3) N. Korea and Iranian nuke proliferation. 4) LHC and Kepler to become operational. 5) Bird Flu o


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Explorations – February 6, 2007

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1) UN: humns cause global warming, with 90% confidence. 2) Hurricanes to be stronger in the future 3) The Hubble Telescope is disabled in space 4) NRC says that nuclear plants do not have to survive a terrorist attack by airplane. 5) Why do some people


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Explorations – January 23, 2007

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1) Seth Shostak speaks about SETI and the search for aliens in space. 2) Ray Kurzweil, robotics inventor, speaks of when robots may exceed human intelligence.


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Explorations – January 16, 2007 at 2:00pm

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Explorations – January 9, 2007

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1) Guest: George Brown, NY Times, speaking of astronomer Henrietta Levitt and women in science. 2) Guest: Michael Lemonick, of Time Magazine, speaking about the Big Bang theory.


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Explorations – January 2, 2007

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Special guests: 1) Dr. Seth Shostak, speaking about life in outer space. 2) Ray Kurzweil, speaking about robots, and whether they will replace humans.


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Explorations – December 26, 2006

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Special guests: Topic: String Theory 1) Dr. Brian Greene of Columbia University 2) Dr. Lisa Randall of Harvard University


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