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Maria Gallucci: Zero Emission Marine Vessels
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Maria Gallucci
When it comes to energy transitions, marine vessels tend to get overlooked, even though they are some of the worst polluters of our oceans and air....

  • Added: Apr 16, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Top of Mind - Is Weight an Indicator of Health?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Is weight an indicator of health? We often think that skinny people are healthier than people with obesity, but research suggests we may be wrong.

Bought by KOWS, KMXT, KMXT, RadioStPete Florida, KSTK and more


  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 9
Andrea Thompson: Battling Extreme Heat Fatigue
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Andrea Thompson
While you're shoveling snow out of the driveway this week, you may not want to hear about extreme heat - but then again, maybe you do! This week on...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Top of Mind - Many Students Lack Motivation to Learn. What Can We Do?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Between chronic absenteeism and shifting grading systems, we know many students lack motivation to learn. What can schools do differently?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KOWS, RADIOLEX, and KMXT


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
Salt Lake City Water Reclamation Center
From: KRCL
Series: Ways of Water
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Connor visited the site of the new Salt Lake City Water Reclamation Center. This is the largest public utilities project in SLC's history, coming i...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2024
  • Length: 08:54
Daniel Kammen: The Perils of Deep-Sea Mining
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Daniel Kammen
Most of us have never been there but according to a quick Google search, some of the things you might see at the bottom of the ocean include sea sp...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Jan 24, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Top of Mind - Is Sports Fandom Good for America?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Most Americans are sport fans. But is all of that obsession with wins, losses and rivals good for us? How sports fandom could be the antidote to is...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMXT, GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 10
Top of Mind - How Native Americans are Reclaiming Their Narrative
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Native Americans are reclaiming their narrative. A new wave of research, activism, and representation is changing the conversation.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, WXDU, KOWS and more


  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 52:52
  • Purchases: 6
Matt Simon on Microplastics, Pt. 2
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Matt Simon
Last week on Sea Change Radio, we learned that the plastics industry plans to triple production in the next 40 years, reaching 3 trillion pounds of...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Top of Mind - Immigration and America's Labor Shortage – Are Guestworkers the Solution?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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We are reframing the debate about immigration. We think of immigration of being exclusively a permanent thing. Most of it, in fact, is intended to ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KOWS, and KMXT


  • Added: Dec 08, 2023
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 4
Matt Simon on Microplastics, Pt. 1
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Matt Simon
Look around you: at this very moment, chances are that within a one-foot radius of your body, there’s something plastic. The ubiquity of plastic co...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Top of Mind - Who Owns Our Cultural Heritage? — Museums, Repatriation, and Appropriation
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Who should decide how stories and artifacts of a cultural heritage are shared? What's the difference between appropriation and appreciation?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KOWS, KMXT, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 5
Top of Mind - Why Do We Insist on Proper English — and What Does That Say About Us?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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We all have English pet peeves (and judge people who break the rules). Why do we insist on proper English — and what does that say about us?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KOWS, KMXT, and WYAP


  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 52:52
  • Purchases: 5
Top of Mind - Are All Medical Treatments Safe and Effective?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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It’s easy to assume medical treatments available in the US are safe and effective. Let’s challenge that assumption.

Bought by RADIOLEX, KOWS, WYAP, KSTK, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Sep 20, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 6
Constant Wonder - A Humble Farmer Walks the Globe and Meets the World's Elite
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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By age 25, a young Croatian had come down with a bad case of wanderlust. So much wanderlust that he lived out his days as a perpetual pedestrian, w...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 2
Top of Mind - Facing Our Fear of Grief
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Death and loss are a normal part of life, but American culture is uncomfortable with intense grieving. How can we face our fear of grief?

Bought by RADIOLEX, RadioStPete Florida, KOWS, WYAP, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 7
Top of Mind - Do Traffic Stops Contribute to Public Safety
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Police officers spend a lot of time on routine traffic stops because they make us all safer, right? We're assessing our assumptions about public sa...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioStPete Florida, WVTF, KSTK, KOWS and more


  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 52:52
  • Purchases: 8
Joseph McFadden: A Cattle Biologist Explains Feed Additives
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Joseph McFadden
Did you know that India accounts for about one-third of the world’s one billion head of cattle? Last week on Sea Change Radio, we spoke to the head...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
David Messina: Rumin8 Strives To Reduce Cow Methane Emissions
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: David Messina
When we think about greenhouse gas emissions, automobiles, airplanes, and power plants usually figure more prominently than livestock. The methane ...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Top of Mind - Adoption from the Adoptee Perspective
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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A lot of us think about adoption as a happy ending for a child and a new family. But many adoptees have a different take. We're assessing our assum...

Bought by RADIOLEX, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KOWS, and KMXT


  • Added: Aug 25, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
Professor Greg Abbott discusses the emergency facing The Great Salt Lake
From: KRCL
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KRCL's Lara Jones discusses the current emergency facing The Great Salt Lake with Brigham Young University Professor Greg Abbott.

  • Added: Aug 22, 2023
  • Length: 07:36
Top of Mind - When Living Longer Conflicts With Dying Well
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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What does it mean to die well? Too often people want easy ways out. Either do everything no questions asked, grin and bear it, or give me a suicide...

Bought by KOWS, KSTK, KMXT, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 4
Top of Mind - Why Do Family History
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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What do you do when you discover the branch of your family tree that you've always been proud of includes a dark family secret? Is it always better...

Bought by KMXT, RadioStPete Florida, RADIOLEX, KOWS, and KSTK


  • Added: Jul 27, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
Top of Mind - Weighing the Pros and Cons of Free Expression
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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We cherish the right to free speech in America. But words can also cause real harm. Where is the balance between free expression and protecting the...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXDU, KTNA, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2023
  • Length: 52:54
  • Purchases: 10
Top of Mind - How Can We Help More Kids Thrive in America?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Many children in America are really struggling. We are dealing with kids that are in a different space mentally than we've ever experienced before....

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KOWS, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2023
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 7