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We now live in what’s called “The Post-Truth Era.” That means feelings carry more weight than evidence, and alternative facts replace actual facts....
- Added: Aug 07, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
HOUR ONE: "After 30 Years of Prozac" - Happy 30th birthday Prozac. We've had three decades of the drug, so why are we still depressed? HOUR TWO: ...
- Added: Mar 23, 2018
- Length: 01:58:56
HOUR ONE: "Is The Universe A Number?" - A Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a crocheting mathematician and a man obsessed with the Kabbalah are search...
- Added: Oct 06, 2017
- Length: 01:58:58
What will New York City look like in 2140? Scifi author Kim Stanley Robinson’s latest novel explores a possible future in which NYC is partly subme...
- Added: Jul 05, 2017
- Length: 40:50
There’s no doubt that the invention of a super battery would shake up the world. Think about it. It would endanger the ruling Saudi Arabian family ...
- Added: Feb 25, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
There is a fundamental need to restore a female perspective to the male-dominated world of science. Is it any accident that the first person to so...
- Added: Apr 08, 2015
- Length: 28:30
ARM is the Asteroid Redirect Mission, and sometimes it seems that it doesn’t have a friend in the world. But it does, and Jonathan Goff of Altius S...
Bought by KMUD, KFCF FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KRZA, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more
- Added: Feb 23, 2015
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 6
Why everything you know about the placebo effect is wrong?
- Added: Sep 03, 2014
- Length: 24:35
What does it mean when a woman commits a crime and attributes her
actions to PMS? We revisit the first use of the "PMS defense," in this
country, b...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 26, 2014
- Length: 10:00
- Purchases: 2
With hundreds of Earth-like planets discovered over the past few years, it’s fair to say we’re on the verge of finding alien life. Two new programs...
- Added: Jul 25, 2014
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 2
We’ve all heard the stories of self-driving cars and 3D printers, but it’s the folks like futurists Simon Anderson and Jack Uldrich who make a care...
- Added: Jul 16, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
In her newest work, cognitive scientist Alexandra Horowitz turns her attention to humans with an investigation into human perception and a look int...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 22, 2013
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview Lauren Redniss about her book, Radioactive: A Tale of Love and Fallout, which artistically chronicles t...
- Added: Jul 25, 2012
- Length: 27:31