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We hear what makes tidewater glacier habitat an acoustic refuge, and why glaciers are important to other species in the ecosystem.
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 19:11
We hear from Judy Ramos in Lingít Aaní. She tells us about the history of glacier travel in the region, and about the Spirit of the Glacier.
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 24:28
Hear from your host, Theresa Soley, as she shares her unexpected interest in glacial ice.
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 24:45
Only one human disease has ever been completely eradicated: Smallpox. Rahima Banu, a woman from rural Bangladesh, was the last person in the world ...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: May 19, 2023
- Length: 09:37
- Purchases: 1
The word “Tuskegee” has become shorthand for the Black community’s mistrust of the medical establishment. But what really happened?
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 59:05
1 in 10 physicians will get sued at some point in their career – but physicians rarely discuss this, much less prepare for it. How do we bring liti...
- Added: Nov 09, 2022
- Length: 40:56
We all arrive at the gateway to medicine carrying baggage from our past. How does this baggage impact the way we experience shame in our profession?
- Added: Sep 27, 2022
- Length: 26:26
In My Body Odyssey’s (MBO) first episode, we meet Ultimate Mark – uber-competitive weekend warrior in Ultimate Disc: “If it hurts me but helps the ...
- Added: Jul 27, 2022
- Length: 18:49
In an ambitious “extra-planetary” project, six Israelis entered a small container in the middle of the Negev Desert, and pretended they were on Mar...
- Added: Feb 17, 2021
- Length: 21:07
Forty years after Carl Sagan’s ‘Golden Records’ began their long voyage into the depths of outer space, Eyal Gever - an Israeli high-tech-wunderkin...
- Added: Oct 29, 2020
- Length: 31:11
As healthcare workers, many of us have had to leave our home and go wherever our profession takes us. This week we asked you to reflect on what hom...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Oct 19, 2020
- Length: 31:03
- Purchases: 1
We want to answer a question a lot of people ask us: Why are we making this podcast? Why make a podcast about solutions to the opioid epidemic?
On...
- Added: Jan 20, 2020
- Length: 11:21
After seeing ads for home DNA tests on TV, John decided to give it a try. Just spit into a cup—what did he have to lose… or gain?
- Added: Jul 22, 2019
- Length: 13:23
This week on the show: Your breath smells like emotional tension -
Follow us into a darkened German cinema to talk about how the stuff we breathe...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Nov 14, 2018
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Documentary on a developmental affliction called "Sensory Processing Disorder."
- Added: Apr 09, 2018
- Length: 24:44
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 30:39
Using 21st-century medicine to maintain a 300-year-old way of life.
- Added: Aug 16, 2017
- Length: 27:16
A first-person account of being a standardized patient and discovering the importance of the doctor-patient relationship.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 06:12
- Purchases: 1
Every day, Hilary Zurbuch grappled with a nagging fear that if she didn’t look just right, something bad would happen. Zurbuch lives with obsessive...
Bought by WDBM
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 13:25
- Purchases: 1
EVEN WITH THE RISE OF ONLINE DATING WEBSITES AND WAYS TO CONNECT, THERE IS STILL A LARGE DEMOGRAPHIC THAT THEY HAVE YET TO HELP. FROM GLEN BURNIE,...
- Added: Nov 19, 2016
- Length: 05:16
There’s a very robust debate going on right now as to exactly how much sea level rise we’re in for, and the Cliffs Notes version is that it’s betwe...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 22:05
- Purchases: 1
Hacking your hearing aid to implanting NFC tags into your hands -- we are now in the age of DIY Bio. We dive into the growing underworld of body mo...
- Added: Apr 07, 2016
- Length: 18:22
Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein share 100 percent of their DNA. Separated at birth, the twins were both adopted and raised by loving families. The...
Bought by WDBM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, American Voices, and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 19, 2016
- Length: 15:05
- Purchases: 4
Olivia was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in 2010. Three years later, her best friend, Allison, was diagnosed with the same disease. They talk to e...
Bought by KSKA
- Added: Jan 25, 2016
- Length: 05:45
- Purchases: 1
An audio essay that combines science, personal moments, and the wit and wisdom of four 100-year-old (and up) women.
- Added: Nov 13, 2015
- Length: 10:26
