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Caption: The Nocturnists, Credit: Lindsay Mound
Season 2 of The Nocturnists, hosted by physician Emily Silverman, explores stories from the world of medicine.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 01:23

  • Added: May 27, 2019
  • Length: 27:35
Caption: Hope (A Three Part Series)
We begin our three part series on hope. Is it something we’re innately born with or something we can choose to have?

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KTRT RADIO INC, KICI Iowa City, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KBIA


  • Added: May 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
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The theme of this show is, "What is health?"

Bought by WNYO


  • Added: Dec 27, 2018
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Taxonomists are scientists (usually in museums) who classify life. They're field has open boundaries which creates tension for the Taxonomists and ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2018
  • Length: 01:08:52
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The theme of this episode is the brain.

  • Added: Jul 23, 2018
  • Length: 52:00
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The theme of this episode is the mental health of our children.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2018
  • Length: 52:00
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The life of an asteroid hunter on Mars will be interesting and exciting. The double planet, our Earth and Moon, in the Martian night sky will be a...

Bought by KENW, KRWG, WTIP, KKRN, KSFR and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: The cover art for this episode alludes to the activity mentioned where a class of forms a scale model of the solar system with the sun as a basketball.
Science education occurs in juvenile detention centers, as part of the schooling available to young people there so that they can receive their hig...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2018
  • Length: 40:25
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The theme of this episode is the body image, aging, and acceptance.

  • Added: May 21, 2018
  • Length: 52:00
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Marshall Escamilla is part of a team of podcasters who create Tumble, a science podcast for kids and their families. With a background in music and...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 39:29
  • Purchases: 1
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The theme of this episode is the national opioid epidemic and what doctors and organizations are doing to combat it.

Bought by WSKG and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 2
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Recorded in the middle of South by Southwest (SXSW) EDU 2018, this episode features educator Rachel and engineer Pius. They discuss their immediate...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2018
  • Length: 25:09
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Is Stem Cell Therapy for you? Maximum Health shares why now may be the time to reap the benefits from years of research and technological innovatio...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2018
  • Length: 27:17
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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
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A professor of history and philosophy of science invites us to see pain as a social experience that comes with moral and ethical dimensions.

Bought by KVSC and KRZA


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 13:39
  • Purchases: 2
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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How can we deal with data better? How can we teach kids to deal with data better? Sarah Morris from the nonprofit Nuclear Learning Network has some...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2018
  • Length: 25:06
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How can teachers expose their students to more engineering role models? What do they do if they don’t have time to arrange visits and field trips? ...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2017
  • Length: 15:22
Caption: The cover art for this episode is full of origami cranes, and it is inspired by “the birds activity” from past podcast guest Ellen Browne, which Melanie describes at the end of this episode; it is also inspired by the colored puzzle pieces historically us, Credit: Pios Labs
In the big push for more engineers today, can we get them from autistic students? Research has shown that college students with autism spectrum dis...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWMR


  • Added: Aug 27, 2017
  • Length: 40:45
  • Purchases: 2