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Unforget, Dream, Build
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this episode, Laura speaks with Latinx Americans whose work flies in the face of those narratives. They are “unforgetting” histories suppressed...

Bought by KWMR, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 07, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Reversing Addiction
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Hitoshi Morikawa., Credit: University of Texas, Austin
Could a drug erase the memories that keep addicts coming back for more?

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jun 27, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Historical Speech Acoustics
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Pericles' Funeral Oration., Credit: Philipp von Foltz/1852
How did historical leaders once address crowds of thousands, unaided by modern amplification

Bought by KENW and WLPR


  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
Measles vs. the Immune System
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Measles vaccination in Ethiopia., Credit: UNICEF Ethiopia Creative Commons License BY-NC-ND 2.0, via flickr
The measles vaccine protects the immune system from other infectious diseases.

Bought by KENW, KMXT, and WLPR


  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
Virtual Bodyswapping & Racial Bias
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Virtual “bodyswapping” helps people set aside unconscious biases towards others.

  • Added: Dec 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
MRSA Skin Vaccine
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: SEM of MRSA, Credit: (Janice Carr/Deepak Mandhalapu/M.H.S./CDC)
Researchers are testing a vaccine against life-threatening antibiotic resistant bacteria.

Bought by KMXT and WXDU


  • Added: Dec 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
Smoker’s Brain Scans
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Caryn Lerman, Ph.D. led the MRI study of smoker's brains., Credit: Caryn Lerman (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Brain scans can predict a quitter’s likelihood of smoking again.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Dec 13, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Time of Day Medicine
From: Susanne Bard
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The outcome of a medical test could be affected by the time of day.

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jul 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spotting Liars
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: The Cardsharps, 1594, Credit: Caravaggio
People’s unconscious reactions to liars and truth-tellers are more accurate than their conscious judgments.

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Mar 31, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Robot Gaze Aversion
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Humans relate better to robots that avert their eyes at well-chosen moments.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
Discrimninatory Punishment (es#142)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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Why should some crimes get special punishment?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KDNK, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 07, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
Equal Rights and Same Sex Marriage (es#105)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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Why is marriage like voting? Because they have both been the subject of "legal" governmental discrimination.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 16, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Nose to Nose in a Restaurant (es#104)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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What should you do when bottle of cologne is seated at the table next to you?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 15, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Protecting College Students' Tender Parts (ES#101)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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Conservative students allege that liberal bias on college compuses offends their intellectual sensitivities.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 15, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caring for Aging Parents (ES#100)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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Do we have an obligation to care for our aging parents as we do our children?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KDNK


  • Added: Mar 15, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2