Home | About Charles | Show Archive | Podcasting | Station Finder ARCHIVES Feb 5, 2015  Insurance fraud costs an estimated 50 billion dollars a year in this country. But there are cameras everywhere these days, and a lot of insurance scams are being exposed on the web - on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, you name it... TRANSCRIPT Feb 5, 2015  Did you forget your ID card that you have to swipe in order to get into the building? Or what about the password for your computer - or even for your copier? Well, what if a microchip could do all of that for you - and more? TRANSCRIPT Feb 5, 2015  We told you a while back that scientists had discovered huge chunks of ice make all sorts of sounds when they break away from icebergs. Now, they have found that different kinds of icebergs have their own "acoustic signatures"... TRANSCRIPT Feb 5, 2015  People who need to wear prosthetic limbs can do more with them now than they could have a generation ago. What if there was a stretchy skin to wrap around a prosthetic limb that would mimic the sense of touch? TRANSCRIPT Feb 4, 2015  Researchers at Harvard University are working on an exciting new method of empowering the immune system to fight everything from cancers to infectious diseases. David Mooney is a professor of bioengineering there - and he says... TRANSCRIPT Feb 4, 2015  It didn't happen all at once, but a lot of Americans are not drinking milk anymore - not cow's milk, anyway. You didn't used to have to explain when you mentioned "milk" that you meant cow's milk - not soy or almond or rice milk... TRANSCRIPT Feb 4, 2015  When you take a shower, you use a lot of water, somewhere between two and four gallons every minute. But a Swedish company has developed a shower called OrbSys that it says reduces that water consumption by 90 percent... TRANSCRIPT Feb 4, 2015  Did you know light-emitting diodes - or LED's - could revolutionize farming, bring it indoors and upwards? Our CBS News colleague Dean Reynolds visited a so-called "vertical farm" in Portage, Indiana. Sure doesn't look like a farm... TRANSCRIPT Feb 3, 2015  Websites come and websites go. Unless you do something to preserve them, they can vanish into the ether - and you can't always retrieve them, even if you want to. Unless Brewster Kahle and his people have it in The Internet Archive... TRANSCRIPT Feb 3, 2015  For those with serious sight problems, everyday tasks can be difficult, dangerous and time-consuming. But an experimental type of glasses uses cameras and computer software to help people with those problems to see better... TRANSCRIPT Feb 3, 2015  There was once a massive wildfire that has shaped how we fight wildfires ever since. It happened in the Northern Rockies in the summer of 1910. It was called "The Big Burn," says author and journalist Timothy Egan... TRANSCRIPT Feb 3, 2015  Faith Salie, one of our Sunday Morning colleagues, recently visited The Grolier Club in New York City - intrigued by the books in an exhibit there, books that have been shaping young minds and sparking imaginations for generations... TRANSCRIPT Feb 2, 2015  Last night, there was lots of noise emanating from the University of Phoenix Stadium for the Super Bowl. But it's a safe bet that Nicole Marquez didn't lose any sleep because of it, says our CBS News colleague Ben Tracy... TRANSCRIPT Feb 2, 2015  The Super Bowl is always a big event for guacamole. Last night was no exception, with plenty of football fans snacking on chips they dipped in the stuff. But there would be no guacamole without avocados - and avocados are in trouble in California... TRANSCRIPT Feb 2, 2015  In the movies, robots have been interacting with humans for some time now, with varying degrees of success. In the real world today, says our CBS News colleague Mark Strassmann, robots are advancing rapidly from industry to the battlefield... TRANSCRIPT Feb 2, 2015  What began as a "Paleo Diet" has become a full caveman movement. Some people are not only eating like cavemen, but also exercising and sleeping that way, too. Robb Wolf wrote the best-selling book, "The Paleo Solution"... TRANSCRIPT Jan 30, 2015  On a cold wintry night in Cambridge, Massachusetts, an SUV equipped with state-of-the-art sensor technology developed by wizards from MIT is roaming the streets, unknown to the people inside the homes they pass... TRANSCRIPT Jan 30, 2015  We spend more than 700 billion dollars a year at restaurants - and for as long as anyone can remember, the concept of what a restaurant is was pretty straight forward. Now, a new kind of restaurant is popping up in cities across the country... TRANSCRIPT Jan 30, 2015  "One man's trash is another man's treasure," as the saying goes. What if you took plastic fishing nets that littered the coastline - or maybe even got dumped in the ocean - and instead, recycled the plastic to make skateboards? TRANSCRIPT Jan 30, 2015  The fastest way to put any thriving creature on the Endangered Species List is for us humans to give it a more appetizing name and find out that it is delicious. Which brings us to the Leaping Asian Carp - a.k.a the "Silverfin"... TRANSCRIPT Jan 29, 2015  As we were reminded this week, sometimes the weather forecasters can get it wrong. But why is that? That question has been bothering Professor Pinhas Alpert of Tel Aviv University for years now. And he has a few answers... TRANSCRIPT Jan 29, 2015  If you're living from paycheck to paycheck, it's not pleasant to think about what you'll do when the paychecks stop coming in. That's why it's a good idea to put something aside for a rainy day - or for retirement - whichever "R Word" comes first... TRANSCRIPT Jan 29, 2015  Just about the fastest growing field in technology is robotics. Every day, we hear about new tasks formerly done by humans - now carried out by machines - controlled by humans. And what about a Giant Robotic Stick Insect - what's that for? TRANSCRIPT Jan 29, 2015  On your desk is a computer - on the computer, you do whatever work you do, operating it with a mouse. The exercise you get operating a mouse is minimal, to say the least. But what if you could point and click, right from a special seat? TRANSCRIPT Jan 28, 2015  A hundred-and-two years ago, Henry Ford introduced the first moving assembly line for the American car industry - and it's been the keystone of mass production ever since. Today though, there is a new way to make cars. TRANSCRIPT Jan 28, 2015  Adopting dogs from animal shelters has caught on. In fact, in some areas, the demand for rescue dogs is so high that local shelters can't keep up - as our CBS News Colleague, Don Dahler found out in a recent visit to Salem, Massachusetts... TRANSCRIPT Jan 28, 2015  A couple of years ago, doctors at Queen Mary University of London began experimenting with a tiny device - an implant the size of a small paperclip - to deal with drug-resistant hypertension. It's called The Coupler... TRANSCRIPT Jan 28, 2015  Everybody has bad habits. Now, there is a startup company in the Boston area that wants to help you break your bad habits - with a wristband that's called The Pavlok, which jolts you with an electric shock... TRANSCRIPT Jan 27, 2015  Stonehenge, that mysterious assemblage of stones in the English countryside, was put there before recorded history - more than four thousand years ago in the Stone Age. The Smithsonian Channel has just done a documentary about it... TRANSCRIPT Jan 27, 2015  On our earlier broadcast, our CBS News colleague Mark Phillips was telling us about the new technology now being used at Stonehenge to see that part of the complex beneath the surface. It is enormous - and you wonder how they did it... TRANSCRIPT Jan 27, 2015  Thirty years ago, 37 percent of the computer science graduates were women. Since then, computers have changed the world. There are millions holding such degrees, but only 12 percent of them are female... TRANSCRIPT Jan 27, 2015  Nothing has given astronomers more information about the Universe and its origins than the Hubble Telescope. But, something even more dramatic in in the works: The James Webb Space Telescope, set for launch in 2018... TRANSCRIPT Jan 26, 2015  Our CBS News colleague Chip Reid visited a fourth-grade class in Washington, DC recently, because he thought what was going on there that day was important - a visit from local celebrity chef James Robinson. Why? TRANSCRIPT Jan 26, 2015  For those of us who either appear on or watch television, today is a very special day. On this day in 1926, a Scottish inventor demonstrated something he called a "televisor." Some were impressed, but not everybody saw its potential... TRANSCRIPT Jan 26, 2015  Dizzy Gillespie was one of the most influential musicians in the history of jazz. The bandleader and trumpeter - who used his cheeks as bagpipes, in a way - was a role model for many artists on and off the stage... TRANSCRIPT Jan 26, 2015  Has handwriting really become a thing of the past - a victim of the digital age? If so, why are designers at Microsoft working under team leader Ralf Groene spending millions of dollars on something that may bring handwriting back - big time? TRANSCRIPT Jan 23, 2015  NASA's Opportunity Rover arrived on the planet Mars eleven years ago and started bouncing around on its surface and sending back pictures - says our CBS News colleague John Blackstone. But, something unexpected happened... TRANSCRIPT Jan 23, 2015  What if a car accident takes place late at night or in an area where there isn't anyone to see it and report it? A university student in Chile has developed a possible solution for this - it's a smartphone app called "SoSmart"... TRANSCRIPT Jan 23, 2015  For those of us who don't know sign language and its nuances, it can be quite a challenge to communicate with someone who is deaf. There is a tablet case that enables deaf people and those who can hear to carry on a conversation... TRANSCRIPT Jan 23, 2015  When you think of California crops, grapes come to mind - avocados maybe - but not coffee. But, nestled in the hillsides near Santa Barbara, California - just beneath the avocado groves - is Jay Ruskey's most promising new cash crop... TRANSCRIPT Jan 22, 2015  You may have heard the orchestral suite "The Planets," composed by Gustav Holst a century ago. He used music to capture what he thought were the "personalities" of each of the planets. We may have to revise his suite to include two more... TRANSCRIPT Jan 22, 2015  Life can sometimes seem like a roller coaster, full of ups and downs. Well, the Bar-Headed Geese seem to have taken those words to heart. They are native to China - and they spend much of their migratory flights over the Himalayas... TRANSCRIPT Jan 22, 2015  Most wedding rings for men are pretty much alike - they're gold or silver bands. Well, a jeweler in Georgia by the name of Bruce Boone has crafted what you might call the "Swiss Army Knife" of rings. It is called "The Man Ring"... TRANSCRIPT Jan 22, 2015  Remembering all our different usernames and passwords these days is a pain in the neck. But there's technology that can see your face, look into your eyes and tell that it's you - without your having to remember your username or password... TRANSCRIPT Jan 21, 2015  Last night, President Obama had a lot to say in his State of the Union address about the economy. And so did the Republicans - who now control both houses of Congress for the first time in his presidency. Will they find common ground? TRANSCRIPT Jan 21, 2015  There are about 2,000 very rare and very cute snub-nosed monkeys living in the cold and remote mountains not far from Tibet - difficult for humans to reach, even humans who are trying to save them, says our CBS News colleague Seth Doane... TRANSCRIPT Jan 21, 2015  The Kelly Brothers are identical twins. Scott is an astronaut - his twin brother Mark is a former astronaut. As the only American astronauts who are each other's twin brothers, says our CBS News colleague Don Dahler... TRANSCRIPT Jan 21, 2015  Prosthetic limb technology has come a long way over the years. Today, bionic arms have been developed that, until recently, would have seemed impossible outside the world of science fiction. The problem is they're very expensive... TRANSCRIPT Jan 20, 2015  Our CBS News colleague David Begnaud tells us that there is a new state law in Arizona that says that you cannot get a high school diploma there without passing a civics test about American history and government... TRANSCRIPT Jan 20, 2015  Have you heard about the priest and the real estate mogul? His name is Father Rick Curry. Hers is Connie Milstein. They got together to start a business with a mission. It's called The Dog Tag Bakery - and it's in Washington, DC... TRANSCRIPT Jan 20, 2015  To become a superior poker player takes many skills: intelligence, discipline, patience - and a certain kind of confidence, too - to bet, raise and bluff your way to the top. Could a computer do that better than a person could? TRANSCRIPT Jan 20, 2015  Imagine that the devices in your home are so connected that with, say, just a few taps on your smartphone, you can do things remotely such as turn your lights on and off - adjust your thermostat - even run your coffee maker... TRANSCRIPT Jan 19, 2015  Our CBS News colleague Steve Hartman introduced us to Charles Clark, a custodian at a high school in Euless, Texas. Being a custodian at Trinity High School isn't exactly the most important job in the America - but don't tell Clark that... TRANSCRIPT Jan 19, 2015  Once upon a time, at the dawn of television, there were only a few channels available to watch. And on this day in 1953, one of the biggest audiences in TV history watched a groundbreaking episode of a now-classic sitcom: "I Love Lucy"... TRANSCRIPT Jan 19, 2015  Ever notice how hard it can be to escape from email at work, even when you're not at work? And we can be just as chronic about checking our personal email, too. Sounds stressful, doesn't it? It sure can be. Perhaps there's an alternative... TRANSCRIPT Jan 19, 2015  Drunk driving is a deadly problem - not only in the United States, but around the world - and there is an idea that someday might keep impaired drivers off the road and help save lives, by analyzing a driver's voice... TRANSCRIPT Jan 16, 2015  Sometimes, there is a story within a story. On The CBS Evening News the other night, our colleague Dr. Jon LaPook had one about the dramatic use of an Automated External Defibrillator - AED - to save a man's life... TRANSCRIPT Jan 16, 2015  Accurate measurement is always important in science. I think that I shall never see the volume of a living tree without 3D technology or with laser scanning, see how dense a forest is - some are immense. Of such things science can make sense... TRANSCRIPT Jan 16, 2015  This is a big anniversary for Broadway. On this day in 1964, a new show opened in New York - which became a huge hit, gave its star the role of a lifetime and helped breathe new life into musical theater: Jerry Herman's "Hello, Dolly!"... TRANSCRIPT Jan 16, 2015  Robots are becoming more and more common these days. In fact, many people might not even realize how much they're being used now. Hospitals are using them to disinfect exam rooms, and Amazon employs an army of robots to fill orders... TRANSCRIPT Jan 15, 2015  The things we hear are just as important as the things we see. This being a radio program, we're well aware of that. But sound and music are vitally important in visual media like television and the movies, too... TRANSCRIPT Jan 15, 2015  There's a fast-growing business concept known as "peer-to-peer sharing." Spinlister is a good example. If you have a bicycle and don't use it all the time, you can list it with Spinlister - and you can let somebody else use it for a fee... TRANSCRIPT Jan 15, 2015  It's easy to cut yourself while shaving - or slicing up food in the kitchen. But one person's cut may be another person's opportunity. Some scientists say they have developed a gel that can stop bleeding from a cut in just seconds... TRANSCRIPT Jan 15, 2015  Recently, a lot has been written and said on the subject of police cameras. But it's microphones that are behind one of the latest crime-fighting technologies. The tool is called ShotSpotter - and police are using it in Camden, New Jersey... TRANSCRIPT Jan 14, 2015  The Cover Story on our Sunday Morning TV broadcast this week was about how the old-young Governor Jerry Brown of California came back decades later as the new-old Governor Brown - and turned things around... TRANSCRIPT Jan 14, 2015  On our earlier broadcast, John Blackstone was telling us about the once-and-present Governor of California, Jerry Brown - who's just started his fourth term. Can Washington learn some lessons from what's he's done in the Golden State? TRANSCRIPT Jan 14, 2015  Ever wonder why airline food, no matter what it is or how well it's cooked, always tastes a little strange? Well, so have the experts. They think that they have figured it out - and they say that it's not entirely the airlines' fault... TRANSCRIPT Jan 14, 2015  Building a house takes a lot of time and a lot of money. But today, a London-based design firm called The WikiHouse Foundation has found a way for people to build their own homes for a lot less time and a lot less money... TRANSCRIPT Jan 13, 2015  The most prolific living American inventor is Dean Kamen, who now holds more than 400 U.S. and foreign patents - but whose best known invention is that personal transportation device called the Segway. Erin Moriarty visited him... TRANSCRIPT Jan 13, 2015  On our earlier broadcast, our CBS News colleague Erin Moriarty was telling us about her visit with inventor Dean Kamen. Some 63-year-olds start thinking about retirement, but not Kamen. He's done alright for himself - and for others, too... TRANSCRIPT Jan 13, 2015  A company in Israel called PlaySight has recently come out with "SmartCourt," a computer vision system that's exciting the tennis world both for its ability to improve officiating - and to improve a player's game... TRANSCRIPT Jan 13, 2015  How big, do you think, should a piece of glass be? That's a very good question, you see. Is it a movie screen - or a TV? Is it a smartphone or a tablet to which you refer? Is it a mirror to see yourself in? A window to look out - or in? TRANSCRIPT Jan 12, 2015  MAD Magazine's signature cartoon character Alfred E. Newman is always saying, "What, me worry?" But when our "Sunday Morning" broadcast asked MAD's editor-in-chief John Ficarra to talk about the attack on Charlie Hebdo, he was worried... TRANSCRIPT Jan 12, 2015  Malaria is one of the deadliest diseases in the world. A company in France says it has developed a way to turn an iPhone into a portable tool that can speed up the diagnosis of malaria - and help to save lives... TRANSCRIPT Jan 12, 2015  Robert Frost once wrote a poem called "Fireflies in the Garden" - and this is how it began: "Here come real stars to fill the upper skies. And here on Earth come emulating flies, that though they never equal stars in size..." TRANSCRIPT Jan 12, 2015  A Swedish company has come up with a touch-free interface that you manipulate by holding your hands around an imaginary sphere, without touching it. You swipe and roll - moving one hand up, the other down - one hand left, the other right... TRANSCRIPT Jan 9, 2015  The people who design and build robots have made a lot of progress in recent years - their creations are more and more like us. But robots have not been very good at recognizing and responding to human faces until - well, until "NAO"... TRANSCRIPT Jan 9, 2015  Do you like vanilla ice cream? A lot of people do - and most people think that the vanilla flavor in vanilla ice cream comes from vanilla beans, which it does not. Well, the flavor in vanilla ice cream is synthetic... TRANSCRIPT Jan 9, 2015  It's a wheelchair called "Get Up" - and with a touch of a button, it lifts its occupant and safely locks them into a standing position. Juan Ayala was born with cerebral palsy and is now confined to his wheelchair... TRANSCRIPT Jan 8, 2015  When a strong wind whips through a forest full of trees, the sound can be powerful, indeed. What if you could harness the power of that wind - and somehow turn it into electricity? You would need a special tree to do that... TRANSCRIPT Jan 8, 2015  You know about the Internet, of course - we all know about that by now. But have you heard of something called "The Internet of Things"? Well, imagine a world in which all sorts of devices talk to all sorts of other devices, more than ever before... TRANSCRIPT Jan 8, 2015  On a trip to Hawaii, our CBS News colleague Chip Reid learned a lot about sharks from people who've had experience with sharks. Of course, how you feel about sharks has a lot to do with the nature of that experience... TRANSCRIPT Jan 8, 2015  One of the hottest pieces of sporting equipment now out is a mask that makes it more difficult for you to breathe. Why in the world would anybody want to pay 80 dollars to make it hard to do anything, let alone breathe? Good question... TRANSCRIPT Jan 8, 2015  There are devices that people can strap on to monitor their hearts and alert them, even their doctors, in the event of a problem. Now, an Israeli technology company - HealthWatch - has developed a heart monitor out of an everyday garment... TRANSCRIPT Jan 7, 2015  Millions of smartphones and tablets now let you use a fingerprint in place of a password. That's all very well, but there are now concerns that your own fingerprints can be hacked. Says our CBS News colleague John Blackstone... TRANSCRIPT Jan 7, 2015  More and more people are having sleep disorders - but there is a small, portable, LED kind of light therapy called "The Re-Timer" - worn on the bridge of your nose like a pair of glasses. Psychologist Leon Lack developed it... TRANSCRIPT Jan 7, 2015  Think about all the times that you've used a shovel to clear the snow out of the driveway or do yard work around the house - and you know how sore your back, your hands and your muscles can be. But, an "ergonomic shovel" may lighten the load... TRANSCRIPT Jan 7, 2015  Baristas do not work at bars. That comes as no shock. Baristas are at every single Starbucks on the block. But what you are about to hear about a growing trend in beer is with each new microbrewer, the beers they brew appeal to fewer... TRANSCRIPT Jan 6, 2015  Today - under a U.S. Capitol Dome covered by scaffolding and undergoing a 60-million-dollar repair job to mend thousands of breaks and cracks and fractures - the U.S. Congress convenes. As our CBS News colleague Wyatt Andrews puts it... TRANSCRIPT Jan 6, 2015  Theodore Roosevelt is enshrined on Mount Rushmore - along with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. What made him the man he was? Our Sunday Morning colleague Mo Rocca met with T.R.'s great-grandson... TRANSCRIPT Jan 6, 2015  Our Sunday Morning colleague Mo Rocca went to the Dakota Badlands to see for himself where Theodore Roosevelt found peace and comfort in the beauty of nature, and the challenge of a strenuous life in the great outdoors... TRANSCRIPT Jan 6, 2015  Long before YouTube, some of you will remember there was a man named Robert Ripley - who entertained millions of Americans with tales of the weird and the wondrous. Ripley called these tales "Believe It ... Or Not!" And strangest of all? TRANSCRIPT Jan 5, 2015  Prosthetics have come a long way over the years. People who need to wear prosthetic limbs can do more with them now than ever before. What if there was a stretchy skin to wrap around a prosthetic limb that would mimic the sense of touch? TRANSCRIPT Jan 5, 2015  As we get older, we need more help to keep seeing clearly, from stronger prescriptions with bifocals or progressive lenses to surgery for cataracts or astigmatism. Well, there is a lens implant in Britain called "Symfony" that is doing some good... TRANSCRIPT Jan 5, 2015  The nose knows - and one thing that it really knows how to do is multitask. For the nose to do so many things takes great precision - and there's an idea for what is called a "digital nose" that could be even more precise... TRANSCRIPT Jan 5, 2015  Introducing: Shape-Shifting Houses, the home of the future - according to an exhibit at Barcelona's Institute of Advanced Architecture, which includes a prototype of a home that expands and contracts as heat is applied... TRANSCRIPT Jan 2, 2015  Have you heard about all the American boots on the ground in Northern Iraq? Twenty-five thousand pairs since November - another 60,000 yet to come? No, not combat boots - rubber boots in children's sizes - gifts from Americans... TRANSCRIPT Jan 2, 2015  Some people in the People's Republic of China are living well - some are living very well - and a privileged few are living very well, indeed - so much so that in some circles, there's a growing need for and shortage of butlers... TRANSCRIPT Jan 2, 2015  There's nothing like a good night's rest - but if you have to work the overnight shift, you know that getting enough rest during the day is quite a struggle for your body clock, creating a sense of chronic jet lag.,, TRANSCRIPT Jan 2, 2015  Smartphones are power-hungry critters, aren't they? Since we use smartphones to do so many things - often, to do many things at the same time - it isn't long before they do run out of power, and then we have to charge them up again... TRANSCRIPT Return to the Osgood File program page Copyright © 2001-2015 Dial Global, Inc. All rights reserved. Dial Global Home | Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy | Acknowledgements This site is hosted and Managed by Nox Solutions LLC.