Talk radio

The most popular station broadcasting talkback radio is historically Sydney's 2UE, whose right-wing hosts, particularly John Laws, are widely syndicated across the continent, though it has in recent years been eclipsed by Sydney's 2GB after the defection of 2UE most popular talkback host, Alan Jones. The societal impact of such devices would depend on many factors, including who has access to them, how well they work, and how they are used. In Australia, talk radio is known as talkback radio. Nanotechnology could be used to create highly undetectable or concealable surveillance devices - molecular sized microphones, cameras, and homing beacons are well within the realms of possibility. Syndicated programs from the United States which air on Canadian radio stations include:. In terms of efficacy, they might be compared to weapon concepts such as genetically engineered bacteria or viruses, which are similar in intended and practical function and still generally are unattractive tactical weapons, though their terrorism applications are clear. Others include the CHUM Radio Network and the Standard Radio Network. a nanomachine which consumed the rubber in tires would quickly disable many vehicles), such designs are a far off concept.

The largest of these is the Corus Radio Network. While conceivably we could design nanomachines which attacked biological systems or the components of vehicles (i.e. Privately-owned talk radio syndication networks in Canada are generally formed for the purposes of sharing programs across a group of stations with common ownership, although some are formed to distribute their one or two talk radio programs to a number of stations regardless of ownership. While advanced nanomaterials obviously have applications for improving existing weapons and military hardware through novel properties (such as improved strength to weight ratios or modified reflectivity to EM radiation for stealth applications), and molecular electronics could be used to build ruggedized computer systems for missiles, there is no obvious way for nanotechnology in any of its practical forms nowadays and into the foreseeable future to be weaponized beyond what is already possible with other technologies such as genetic engineering. Both networks are commercial-free. The weaponization of nanotechnology is a potential application. These stations typically produce their own local morning and afternoon programs and regional noon hour programs to go along with the network programming that is aired during the rest of the day. Titanium dioxide nanoparticles are often used in sunscreens, as they make them transparent, compared to bigger titanium dioxide particles, which make the sunscreen appear white.

The two largest talk radio networks in Canada are the publicly-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's English language CBC Radio One and French language Première Chaîne. Colon cells exposed to nano titanium dioxide particles have been found to decay at a quicker than normal rate. Other Canadian talk radio programs which have been syndicated to different markets include:. There is a possibility that nanoparticles in drinking water could be dangerous to humans and/or other animals. Rutherford is no longer syndicated nationally but continues to air in Calgary and London. Objective risk assessment can profit from the bulk of experience with long-known microscopic materials like carbon soot or asbestos fibres. Both programs are distributed by the Corus Radio Network and, coincidentally, both hosts had hosted different morning call-in programs in the same time slot on Winnipeg, Manitoba's CJOB 680 before they became nationally syndicated (Adler's show still originates from CJOB and retained its original title, while Warren is now based in Victoria, British Columbia.) Prior to Adler On Line, Corus had syndicated Rutherford, hosted by Dave Rutherford and originating from its Calgary station, QR77. For the near-term, critics of nanotechnology point to the potential toxicity of new classes of nanosubstances that could adversely affect the stability of cell membranes or disturb the immune system when inhaled or digested.

Peter Warren's Warren on the Weekend is heard Saturdays and Sundays. Both of these would, however, be limited by the same mechanism limiting all life forms (who generally already behave this way): available energy. The only nationally-syndicated, politically-oriented weekday talk radio show in Canada is Adler On Line, hosted by Charles Adler and heard on eleven stations across the country. A variant on this is "Green Goo", a scenario in which nanobiotechnology creates a self-replicating nano machine which consumes all organic particles, living or dead, creating a slime -like non-living organic mass. There is no Canadian content requirement for talk radio, or "spoken word", programming. The "grey goo" scenario begs the Tree Sap Answer: what chances exist that one's car could spontaneously mutate into a wild car, run off-road and live in the forest off tree sap? However, other long-term major risks to society and the environment have been identified. In contrast to talk radio stations in the United States where syndicated programs tend to make up a significant part of most schedules, privately-owned Canadian talk radio stations tend to be predominantly local in programming and focus. Eric Drexler considers an accidental "grey goo" scenario extremely unlikely and says so in later editions of Engines of Creation.

Previously, he kept a suicidal teenager talking for 45 minutes before meeting him to convince him against that course of action [2]. K. Pete Price on Magic 1548 is also known as the DJ who rushed to the aid of a regular caller who died live on air during a call [1]. Recently, new analysis has shown that this "grey goo" danger is less likely than originally thought. Some notable presenters include Clive Bull, Steve Allen, Daisy Sampson, Nicky Campbell, Simon Mayo. This argument depends on the speed of which such nanomachines might be able to reproduce. Talk radio expanded dramatically when the BBC's monopoly on radio broadcasting was ended in the 1970s with the launch of Independent Local Radio. Defenders point out that smaller objects are more susceptible to damage from radiation and heat (due to greater surface area-to-volume ratios): nanomachines would quickly fail when exposed to harsh climates.

LBC currently operates two services in London - LBC 97.3, a newstalk station on FM; and LBC News 1152, a rolling news station on AM. An often cited worst-case for everyone scenario is "grey goo", a hypothetical substance into which the surface objects of the earth might be transformed by self-replicating nanobots running amok, a process which has been termed global ecophagy. Other notable commercial talk stations include London's LBC which pioneered the newstalk format in Europe. Here, science has reached a point at which the boundaries separating discrete disciplines become blurred, and it is for precisely this reason that nanotechnology is also referred to as a convergent technology. Many BBC Local Radio stations offer a talk format, for example, BBC London, the BBC's flagship local ststion. In medicine, the specifically targeted deployment of nanoparticles promises to help in the treatment of certain diseases. Nationwide talk stations include BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio Five Live and TalkSport. Achieving a desired material structure and certain configurations of atoms brings the field of chemistry into play.

Talk radio in the United Kingdom is popular, though not as much as music radio. Thus, physics plays an important role—alone in the construction of the microscope used to investigate such phenomena but above all in the laws of quantum mechanics. Sports talk stations like WFAN in New York City and WEEI in Boston have done well in the ratings (aided by baseball and football game broadcasts). A definitive feature of nanotechnology is that it constitutes an interdisciplinary ensemble of several fields of the natural sciences that are, in and of themselves, actually highly specialized. Sports talk radio can be found locally and nationally (with the networks ESPN Radio, Fox Sports Radio, and Sporting News Network). In August 2005, a task force consisting of 50+ international experts from various fields was organized by the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology to study the societal implications of advanced nanotechnology. Some shock jocks such as Opie and Anthony, Ron and Fez, Howard Stern, Don Imus, and Tom Leykis, are also considered talk radio hosts. That roadmap should be completed by late 2006.

Radio show hosts such as Alex Jones focus on exposing Government corruption. National Laboratories) and the Foresight Institute. Jeff Rense, who hosts an Internet radio show, also features paranormal matters, conspiracy theories, and some politics. Determining a set of pathways for the development of molecular nanotechnology is now an objective of a broadly based technology roadmap project [3] led by Battelle (the manager of several U.S. George Noory, Art Bell and others take turns hosting the late-night talk radio show Coast to Coast AM, which deals with a variety of paranormal topics. However, K Eric Drexler and other researchers have proposed that advanced nanotechnology, although perhaps initially implemented by biomimetic means, ultimately could be based on mechanical engineering principles. Other hosts specialize in talk radio comedy, such as Phil Hendrie, who voices his own fictional guests and occassionally parodies other programs. By the countless examples found in biology it is currently known that billions of years of evolutionary feedback can produce sophisticated, stochastically optimized biological machines, and it is hoped that developments in nanotechnology will make possible their construction by some shorter means, perhaps using biomimetic principles.

Other topics of discussion in talk radio include:. Advanced nanotechnology, sometimes called molecular manufacturing, is a term given to the concept of engineered nanosystems (nanoscale machines) operating on the molecular scale. In 2002 an alternative to the progressive / conservative talk radio dichotomy emerged called Free Talk Live. The antenna moves over a distance of one-tenth of a picometer. Some conservatives argue that the long-format news programming on National Public Radio serves as a platform for liberal commentary on radio, although the network denies any partisan agenda. This nanomachine is comprised of 50 billion atoms and is able to oscillate at 1.49 billion times per second. Left-wing opinion radio has long existed on the Pacifica network, though only available in a small number of cities, and in formats that more often act as a volunteer-run community forum than as a platform for charismatic hosts who would be likely to attract a large audience. Since the technology functions at the speeds of gigahertz this could help make communication devices smaller and exchange information at gigahertz speeds.

A few earlier syndicated programs were hosted by prominent Democrats who were not experienced broadcasters, such as Jim Hightower, Jerry Brown, Mario Cuomo and Alan Dershowitz; these met with limited success, and Air America has been faced with various legal and financial problems. This team led by Professor Pritiraj Mohanty developed the sliver of silicon. KABC in Los Angeles. The article states that in Boston an antenna-like sliver of silicon one-tenth the width of a human hair oscillated in a lab in a Boston University basement. Air America Radio, a network featuring The Al Franken Show that was founded in 2004 as a "progressive alternative" to right-wing talk, is a prominent example of liberal talk on commercial radio, and there are syndicated liberal talk programs of recent vintage as well, such as The Ed Schultz Show. In some markets, local liberal hosts have existed for years, such as Bernie Ward in San Francisco, Alan Colmes in New York, Lionel in New York, Stephanie Miller in Los Angeles, and Mr. The further developments in the field of nanotechnology focuses on the oscillation of a nanomachine for telecommunication. Politically liberal talk radio aimed at a national audience has also emerged, although its ultimate success in competing with conservative talk radio for dominance remains in question. The use of plasmons will definitely generate heat but the amount is currently unknown.

Many of these hosts also publish books, appear on television, and give public lectures (Limbaugh, again, was a pioneer of this model of multi-media punditry). Furthermore, the issue of heat will have to be looked upon. Libertarians such as Neal Boortz have also achieved some success. However, most industries that manufacture chips use copper over aluminum since it is a better electrical conductor. The Salem Radio Network syndicates a group of religiously-oriented Republican activists, including evangelical Christian Hugh Hewitt and Jewish conservatives Dennis Prager and Michael Medved. In addition, the best metal currently available for plasmons to travel farther is aluminum. Gordon Liddy, Laura Ingraham, Michael Savage, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Larry Elder, Michael Reagan, Ken Hamblin, and The Weekend Warriors. For instance, the distance plasmons travel before dying out depends on the metal, and even currently they can travel several millimeters, while chips are typically about a centimeter across from each other.

Limbaugh's success demonstrated that there was a market for passionately delivered conservative (and in most cases, partisan Republican) commentary on contemporary events, and many nationally-syndicated hosts have followed Limbaugh's lead in recent years, including Ben Ferguson, Lars Larson, Sean Hannity, G. With the use of plasmons information can be transferred through chips at an incredible speed; however, these plasmons do have drawbacks. (There had been some precursors for this, such as the Los Angeles-area controversialist Joe Pyne, who would attack callers on his program in the early 1960s – one of his famous insults was "gargle with razor blades!" – as well as the similar Bob Grant in New York City.) The most successful pioneer in the 1990s talk radio movement was the politically conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh. These plasmons act like light waves in glass on metal, allowing engineers to use any of the same tricks such as multiplexing, or sending multiple waves. The repeal of the FCC "fairness doctrine" in 1987-which had required that stations provide free air time for responses to any controversial opinions that were broadcast-provided an opportunity for a kind of flatly partisan (and often intentionally inflammatory) programming that had not previously existed. They have the same frequency and electromagnetic field as light; however, the sub-wavelength size allows them to use less space. The United States saw dramatic growth in the popularity of talk radio during the 1990s. Plasmons are waves of electrons traveling along the surface of metals.

In the United States and Canada, Satellite Radio broadcasters syndicate many conventional "AM" talk radio shows, as well as produce their own original talk shows. PhysOrg.com writes about the use of plasmons in the world. These shows often rely less on political discussion and analysis than their AM counterparts, and often employ the use of pranks and staged phone calls for entertainment purposes. Currently the prototypes use CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductors); however, according to Intel smaller scales will rely on quantum dots, polymer layers, and nanotube technology. The commercial FM talk stations often feature hosts such as Tom Leykis and Howard Stern whose audiences are comprised of more men than women. However, the company spoke about how their expectations for the future are for new processors featuring 15,10, 7, and 5 nanometers. Commercial all-talk stations can be found on the FM band in Los Angeles, Boston and other cities. The company showed pictures of these transistor prototypes measuring 65, 45, 32, and 22 nanometers.

"Non-commercial" usually referred to as "public radio", which is located in a reserved spectrum of the FM band, also broadcasts talk programs. The company’s current engineers believe that 5 nanometer processes are actually proving themselves to be more and more feasible. Talk radio is not limited to the AM band. News.com reported on March 1st 2005 that Intel is preparing to introduce processors with features measuring 65 nanometers. Former music stations such as WLW (Cincinnati, Ohio), WHAS (Louisville, Kentucky), WHAM (Rochester, New York), WLS (Chicago, Illinois), KFI (Los Angeles, California), WRKO (Boston, Massachusetts) and WABC (New York, New York) made the switch to all-talk as their ratings slumped due to listener migration to the FM band. It is projected that this new achievement will be available in different applications in two to five years. In the 1970s and early 1980s, as many listeners abandoned AM music formats for the high fidelity sound of the FM radio dial, the Talk Radio format began to catch on in more large cities. To create this transistor they cut metallic nanotubes in order to form electrodes, and afterwards placed one or two organic materials to form a semiconducting channel between the electrodes.

KABC station manager Ben Hoberman and KMOX station manager Robert Hyland independently developed the all-talk format. They have accomplished creating this transistor making it two nanometers wide and able to maintain current three nanometers in length. Louis, Missouri, and KABC, 790 AM in Los Angeles—adopted an all-talk show format in 1960, and both claim to be the first to have done so. These single-walled carbon nanotubes are basically a rolled up sheet of carbon atoms. Two radio stations—KMOX, 1120 AM in St. As of August 23 2004, Stanford University has been able to construct a transistor from single-walled carbon nanotubes and organic molecules. Joe Pyne and John Nebel were also among the first to explore the medium in the 1950s. In October 2004, researchers at the University of Manchester succeeded in forming a small piece of material only 1 atom thick called graphene.[1] Robert Freitas has suggested that graphene might be used as a deposition surface for a diamondoid mechanosynthesis tool.[2].

Soon followed by listener call-ins, this is often credited as the first instance of talk radio, and Gray is often billed as "The Father of Talk Radio". Shanefield, Kluwer Academic Publ., Boston.). Working for New York's WMCA in 1945, Barry Gray was bored with playing music and put a telephone receiver up to his microphone to talk with bandleader Woody Herman. J. Talk radio has existed since at least the mid-1940s. (Those materials are discussed in "Organic Additives And Ceramic Processing," by D. . However, a few dispersants such as ammonium citrate (aqueous) and imidazoline or oleyl alcohol (nonaqueous) are promising additives for deagglomeration.

(In public or non-commercial radio, sometimes music is played in place of commercials to separate the program segments). The strong tendency of small particles to form clumps ("agglomerates") is a serious technological problem that impedes such applications. Generally, the shows are organized into segments, each separated by a pause for advertisements. "Nanosize" powder particles (a few nanometres in diameter, also called nano-particles) are potentially important in ceramics, powder metallurgy, the achievement of uniform nanoporosity, and similar applications. Listener contributions are usually screened by a show's producer(s) in order to maximize audience interest and, in the case of commercial talk radio, attract advertisers. Gold, for example, which is chemically inert at normal scales, can serve as a potent chemical catalyst at nanoscales. Talk radio typically includes an element of listener participation, usually by broadcasting conversations with listeners who have placed telephone calls to speak with the program's host or guest. Natural or man-made particles or artifacts often have qualities and capabilities quite different from their macroscopic counterparts.

Most shows feature a regular host, who interviews a number of different guests. One of the things being explored is synthesis of organic molecules by adding them to the ends of complementary DNA strands such as ----A and ----B, with molecules A and B attached to the end; when these are put together, the complementary DNA strands hydrogen bonds into a double helix, ====AB, and the DNA molecule can be removed to isolate the product AB. Talk radio is a radio format which features discussion of topical issues. In this case, biology is a place to find inspiration: cells and their pieces are made from self-assembling biopolymers such as proteins and protein complexes. Catharines. Supramolecular chemistry is the chemistry beyond the molecule, and molecules are being designed to self-assemble into larger structures. The Phil Hendrie Show on CKTB St. Supramolecular chemistry is here a very important tool.

The Jim Rome Show. One of the problems facing nanotechnology is how to assemble atoms and molecules into smart materials and working devices. the Brick. You don't want to assemble a billion transistors into a microchip by taking an hour to place each transistor, but these techniques can be used for things like helping to guide self-assembling systems. GameTime React with J.T. Atoms can be moved around on a surface with scanning probe microscopy techniques, but it is cumbersome, expensive and very time-consuming, and for these reasons it is quite simply not feasible to construct nanoscaled devices atom by atom. Laura. By designing different tips for these microscopes, they can be used for carving out structures on surfaces and to help guide self-assembling structures.

Dr. Atomic force microscopes and scanning tunneling microscopes can be used to look at surfaces and to move atoms around. Joy Browne Show. Scanning probe microscopy is an important technique both for characterization and synthesis of nanomaterials. The Dr. That is, they build themselves from the bottom up. Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, arguably the most widely distributed U.S.-based program in Canada. One fundamental characteristic of nanotechnology is that nanodevices self-assemble.