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We improve our movements. This is called motor learning and it is a very subconscious activity. Hear about the subconscious subverting the consciou...
- Added: Jan 05, 2017
- Length: 15:54
We move in a noisy world. Hear biomechanics professor Alaa Ahmed describe motor learning through modeling and commands. In this light, elite athlet...
- Added: Nov 22, 2016
- Length: 12:16
If you dip your toe into the running world, you'll notice a variety of claims about efficiency and speed from coaches and athletes. Surprisingly, w...
- Added: Nov 02, 2016
- Length: 07:39
Thought and Action are much more connected than we typically think: Simply imagining or watching actions can influence how you perform similar acti...
- Added: Sep 20, 2016
- Length: 05:56
As sport fans, we subject ourselves to anxiety and depression nearly every week. Why do we do it? This episode explores the reasons why we care so ...
Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Jul 14, 2016
- Length: 15:07
- Purchases: 1
Mark Rollins explores the ways that our brains encounter and interpret art.
Bought by WABE
- Added: Jun 01, 2016
- Length: 11:00
- Purchases: 1
Neuroscientist Eric Herzog shares the importance of increasing diversity in his field and his efforts to encourage local students.
- Added: Jun 01, 2016
- Length: 14:39
- Purchases: 2
Physical therapist Catherine Lang explains her research on ischemic conditioning and its exciting potential for helping patients recover from stroke.
- Added: Jun 01, 2016
- Length: 10:15
In the 1970s, a geochemist and a biologist banded together to solve a mystery at Lake Oneida in upstate New York. What they found is changing the w...
Bought by WDBM
- Added: Apr 21, 2016
- Length: 14:03
- Purchases: 1
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
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
It's the sequel! Psychologist Jeff Zacks returns to explain how our eyes and brains make sense of continuous movie edits.
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 25, 2016
- Length: 11:39
- Purchases: 3
Alauna Yust is the producer of Area Voices and our very own Embedded Artist. Alauna hangs out with fine and folk art groups around Bemidji and trie...
- Added: Jan 20, 2016
- Length: 07:44
Professor Joe Loewenstein details Shakespeare's creative and intellectual response to accusations of plagiarism by Robert Greene.
- Added: Jan 04, 2016
- Length: 16:39
Shakespeare Festival St. Louis speaks to its many projects and its summer 2015 production of Antony and Cleopatra.
- Added: Jan 04, 2016
- Length: 13:40
Roman historian Karen Acton explores the historical identities of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.
- Added: Jan 04, 2016
- Length: 14:58
Scholars and directors shed light on the question of why we continue to study and admire William Shakespeare.
- Added: Jan 04, 2016
- Length: 16:50
Joe Loewenstein describes the small and highly competitive theater scene in which Early Modern playwrights like William Shakespeare flourished.
- Added: Jan 04, 2016
- Length: 14:06
Robert Henke tracks Shakespeare back to his Italian inspirations and uncovers sources for his early comedies.
- Added: Jan 04, 2016
- Length: 12:26
Jami Ake questions the role of marriage in Shakespeare's plays and whether the famous playwright qualifies as a feminist.
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Jan 04, 2016
- Length: 15:11
- Purchases: 1
Musa Gurnis describes the characteristics and lasting influence of theater in Shakespeare's time.
- Added: Jan 04, 2016
- Length: 13:50
Historian Mark Valeri examines the truths about the first Thanksgiving and the myths of American identity we have created around the event.
Bought by 'The Sea'
- Added: Nov 13, 2015
- Length: 14:52
- Purchases: 1
Political scientist Matt Gabel on how international courts work - and why countries should sometimes be allowed to bend the rules.
- Added: Oct 27, 2015
- Length: 11:24
An urban studies professor explores some of the problems shared by cities around the globe.
- Added: Oct 27, 2015
- Length: 10:00
When Miss Havisham, a strange but wealthy old woman asks for Pip to come play, he has no choice but to go. What he experiences changes his life and...
- Added: Oct 14, 2015
- Length: 20:04