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Metabolism: The Google Maps of Cancer Research
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Health & Healing
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Chemist Gary Patti shares how the emerging field of metabolomics, the study of metabolism, may hold clues for cancer research.

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 12:27
  • Purchases: 1
A Chemist's Quest for New Antibiotics
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Health & Healing
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria is spreading around the world; chemist Tim Wencewicz explains what his lab is doing to solve the problem.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 15:48
  • Purchases: 1
Milk at Altitude: Exploring Health in the Himalayas
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Health & Healing
Caption: PRX default Piece image
How is human milk different in the Himalayan highlands than in the United States, and what can these differences reveal about what moms and babies ...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 16:40
  • Purchases: 1
Breaking Down Persistent Myths About Eating Disorders
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Health & Healing
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Treated for her first eating disorder at 11, Rebecca Lester now studies eating disorders as an anthropologist and psychotherapist.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 15:10
  • Purchases: 1
Eating Organic in Nazi Germany
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Health & Healing
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A historian shares the story of the Nazis' obsession with natural foods, and discusses how their ideas about nutrition compare with how we think ab...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 13:38
  • Purchases: 1
Galen and the Elephant's Heart
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Health & Healing
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What can an ancient debate about an elephant tell us about the history of medicine?

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 15:57
  • Purchases: 1
Mapping Asthma: The Geography of Inequality
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Health & Healing
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A doctoral student in education seeks to discover solutions to health inequities in the St. Louis region and beyond.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 12:15
Mapping the Brain
From: Hold That Thought
Series: The Human Brain
Caption: White Matter Fiber Architecture, Credit: The Human Connectome Project
Pull our your compass, because researcher Deanna Barch is about to guide us through the Human Connectome Project.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 12:51
  • Purchases: 1
Your Brain on Movies, Pt. 1
From: Hold That Thought
Series: The Human Brain
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Psychologist Jeffrey Zacks explains why people (even psychologists!) get so emotionally involved in movies.

Bought by KUER, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 12:00
  • Purchases: 4
The World of Natural Competitive Bodybuilding
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: MN Mayhem is an event that takes place in Duluth MN, Credit: DFAC and Leif Anderson
On Culture Clique, we get a glimpse into the world of natural competitive bodybuilding. You will hear from trainers, competition organizers, and co...

  • Added: Dec 24, 2015
  • Length: 57:07
Studs Terkel in Conversation with Oliver Sacks
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Caption: Oliver Sacks
On December 4, 1985 Studs sat down with famed neurologist and author Oliver Sacks. Although the interview was supposed to center on his newest publ...

Bought by Radio Catskill, KCMJ Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KPIP-LP, KVNF and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2015
  • Length: 01:22:29
  • Purchases: 6
Experience Shapes Perception
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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Your experiences shape who you are as a person. But how do they shape our perceptual abilities? Listen to how our brains process auditory informati...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 07, 2013
  • Length: 09:04
  • Purchases: 2
Two Guys on Your Head: Rivalries
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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Even though football teams who consider themselves to be rivals often like to highlight their supposedly apparent differences, in actuality, rivals...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2013
  • Length: 07:20
Metal in Microwaves
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Why is this metal rack in a microwave?
If metal isn’t supposed to go in microwave ovens, why do some of them have metal racks?

Bought by KREV-LP


  • Added: Aug 23, 2013
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1