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Skeptic Check: Brain Gain
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Brain Gain, Credit: Seth Shostak
Looking to boost your brainpower? Luckily, there are products promising to help – smart drugs, neurofeedback exercises, and specially-designed vi...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, KMUN, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRGY, WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Oct 25, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
Home Invasions
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Home Invasions, Credit: Seth Shostak
As we struggle to control a viral invader that moves silently across the globe and into its victims, we are also besieged by other invasions. Murde...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRGY, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KMUN and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Skeptic Check: Science Denial
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Science Denial, Credit: Seth Shostak
Climate change isn’t happening. Vaccines make you sick. When it comes to threats to public or environmental health, a surprisingly large fraction...

Bought by WVTF, CHSR-FM 97.9, WRGY, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Sep 20, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Venom Diagram
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Venom Diagram, Credit: Seth Shostak
Evolution has outfitted some animals with a highly effective mechanism for saying “back off!”. Venoms can ward off predators and disable prey, and...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WCNY, WUFT, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 19
Creature Discomforts
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Creature Discomforts, Credit: Creature Discomforts
We love them, fear them, use them – and sometimes eat them, too. But how well do we really know animals? Our impressions are often simplistic. T...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KBBI Alaska, WXXI Rochester, WRGY and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
Skeptic Check: Betting on Pseudoscience
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Betting on Pseudoscience, Credit: Seth Shostak
Psychics may not be able to predict the future or sense your thoughts. Nonetheless, they rake in big bucks. But the harm from pseudoscience can go ...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KBBI Alaska, WMUU-LP, WRGY and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Handling the Holidays
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Handling the Holidays, Credit: Seth Shostak
The stress of the holidays can make you want to hide under the covers with a warm cup of cocoa. From gift buying to family gatherings, the holiday...

Bought by WUFT, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KTXK, KZUM, WUFT and more


  • Added: Dec 21, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
Sex Post Facto
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Sex Post Facto, Credit: Seth Shostak
Birds do it, bees do it, but humans may not do it for much longer – at least not for having kids. Instead, babies will be made in the lab, with ge...

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, KMUN, WRGY, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
Skeptic Check: Stay Skeptical
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Stay Skeptical, Credit: Seth Shostak
Whether you call it hooey, codswallop, or malarky, misinformation is not what it used to be. It’s harder to spot now. New-school BS is often cloake...

Bought by WVTF, CHSR-FM 97.9, KMUN, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Oct 26, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
S2 E10 The River Styx
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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After hearing a mentor make an inappropriate joke, medical student Jenny Tiskus grapples with humor's place in the world of medicine.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2019
  • Length: 37:22
S1 E3 Out Of The Way
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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Hospitalist Ann Knapp navigates her own doubts and assumptions when her patient, a ninety-year-old man, states he wants to die -- today.

  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 29:25
Bacteria to the Future
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Bacteria to the Future, Credit: Seth Shostak
Why did the chicken take antibiotics? To fatten it up and prevent bacterial infection. But farms have become superbug factories, threatening our l...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, KFOI Radio, Royalton Community Radio, CHSR-FM 97.9 and more


  • Added: Nov 26, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis with Marilyn Murray Willison a six-time Award Winning Author, Former Health & Fitness Editor for the LA Times & International Journalist
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis with Marilyn Murray Willison a six-time Award Winning Author, Former Health & Fitness Editor for the LA Times & Inter...

Bought by WCNY and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Sep 14, 2018
  • Length: 27:53
  • Purchases: 2
Time on Your Side
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Time on Your Side, Credit: Seth Shostak
Time passes like an arrow, but what if flew like a boomerang? Find out how scientists are working to reverse time’s most relentless march: aging. ...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., Royalton Community Radio, KBBI Alaska, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCSB-FM and more


  • Added: May 28, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
DIY Diagnosis
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: DIY Diagnosis, Credit: Seth Shostak
You can use your DNA to explore your genetic health – but are you ready for what you might find when your genome is sequenced? Plus, practitioners...

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, WMUU-LP, Royalton Community Radio, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Dec 25, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
With All Our Mites
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: With All Our Mites, Credit: Seth Shostak
You can’t see ‘em, but your face is a festival of face mites. And a new study finds that hundreds of different tiny spiders, beetles, make your ho...

Bought by KBBI Alaska, WMUU-LP, WRGY, KUNM, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Dec 11, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
Gene-y in a Bottle
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Gene-y in a Bottle, Credit: Gary Niederhoff
You can’t pick your parents. But soon you may be able to change the DNA they gave you. Imagine deleting genes from your body that you don’t like ...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, KUNM, KREV-LP, WTJU, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 05, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
Skeptic Check: Glutenous Maximus
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Glutenous Maximus, Credit: Seth Shostak
Eat dark chocolate. Don’t drink coffee. Go gluten-free. If you ask people for diet advice, you’ll get a dozen different stories. We’ll help you...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, RadioFreePalmer, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Apr 17, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Skeptic Check: Not So Sweet
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Not So Sweet, Credit: Seth Shostak
Obesity, diabetes, heart disease … maybe even Alzheimer’s. Could these modern scourges be caused by sugar? A journalist says there’s evidence sug...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
The Light Stuff
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: The Light Stuff, Credit: Seth Shostak
The light bulb needs changing. Edison’s incandescent bulb, virtually unaltered for more than a century, is now being eclipsed by the LED. The cre...

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, WUFT, WMUU-LP, 91.7 WHUS Storrs and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 19
Skeptic Check: Skeptic Seth
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
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Are you skeptical? Do you readily accept the claimed benefits of organic milk, or the whitening ingredients in your toothpaste? What about the da...

Bought by Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, CHSR-FM 97.9, KUNM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 19
Sex Post Facto
From: Gary Niederhoff
Caption: Sex Post Facto, Credit: Seth Shostak
Birds do it, bees do it, but humans may not do it for much longer – at least not for having kids. Instead, babies will be made in the lab, with ge...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif. and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 19, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Microbes: Resistance is Futile
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Microbes: Resistance is Futile, Credit: Seth Shostak
You have more microbial DNA than human DNA. Find out what questions this raises about what it means to be an individual, how your microbiome can ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRIR, and WRGY


  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Science Fiction True
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Science Fiction True, Credit: Seth Shostak
Don’t believe everything you see on the screen. Science fiction film is just a guess as to how our future might unfold. But sometimes fantasy be...

Bought by WUFT, RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRGY and more


  • Added: Jul 04, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Shocking Ideas
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Shocking Ideas, Credit: Seth Shostak
Innovation in the use of electricity continues long after the days of Edison and Tesla. Find out why the invention of the blue LED was worthy of a...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer, WRIR, and WRGY


  • Added: May 09, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5