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Dream Sharing and Empathy
From: Katherine Bell
Series: The Dream Journal
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Does dream sharing increase empathy and insight? Today meet two English professors who say, "Yes it does!" The Science and Art of Dreaming is their...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2023
  • Length: 53:01
2346: Your Brain on Literature, 11/14/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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How do writers and filmmakers exploit our cognitive biases to surprise and delight us?

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Skin Deep
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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Happy Halloween! Jess talks with UCLA librarian Megan Rosenbloom about the spooky science of uncovering what makes some old books extra rare.

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
AMOS 23-170: The Invisible World of Manuscripts, 8/25/2023
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
The Invisible World of Manuscripts

  • Added: Aug 15, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
National Writers Series: Bonnie Garmus
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Four
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Cynthia Canty talks with author Bonnie Garmus

Bought by WKAR and Michigan Radio


  • Added: Aug 03, 2023
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2
Beyond the Book (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Outer space probably isn’t in your travel plans this summer. But it could be soon.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KCHW, and KHEN-LP


  • Added: Jul 21, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
Beyond the Book (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Outer space probably isn’t in your travel plans this summer. But it could be soon.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, WFHB, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Beyond the Book (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Outer space probably isn’t in your travel plans this summer. But it could be soon.

Bought by KEDT, KXCV, WMUU-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
Beyond the Book (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Outer space probably isn’t in your travel plans this summer. But it could be soon.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jul 21, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Conversations: Laura Kolbe, MD
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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In this episode, Emily speaks with poet, physician, and medical ethicist Dr. Laura Kolbe about her poetry collection, Little Pharma, the languages ...

  • Added: May 09, 2022
  • Length: 45:12
Medicine's Messiness (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The patient-doctor relationship is complicated and fraught. Patients often feel confused and talked down to, in part because doctors feel like they...

Bought by KHEN-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 29, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
Medicine's Messiness (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The patient-doctor relationship is complicated and fraught. Patients often feel confused and talked down to, in part because doctors feel like they...

Bought by KWGS, WTJU, KXCV, KEDT, WNED Buffalo and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
Medicine's Messiness (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The patient-doctor relationship is complicated and fraught. Patients often feel confused and talked down to, in part because doctors feel like they...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, WFHB, WJCT and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Medicine's Messiness (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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The patient-doctor relationship is complicated and fraught. Patients often feel confused and talked down to, in part because doctors feel like they...

Bought by KXCV, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 29, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
Poet and Essayist Kathryn Nuernberger
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poet and essayist Kathryn Nuernberger discusses how she once shied away from being a "woman writer" and why she now embraces it, as she reads from ...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Conversations: Ross Douthat
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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Emily speaks with New York Times columnist Ross Douthat about his book The Deep Places, which chronicles his harrowing experience with chronic Lyme...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 50:44
Conversations: Emily Maloney
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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Emily speaks with Emily Maloney about her new collection of essays, Cost of Living, which explores the American healthcare system and what it’s lik...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 33:59
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: 2021 International Impact and Global Student Awards
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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2021 recipients of the University of Iowa's International Impact Award and Global Student Award are honored in this WorldCanvass program which kick...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2021
  • Length: 01:15:56
The Write Question - Laura Kolbe
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Doctor and writer Laura Kolbe talks about her new collection of poems, "Little Pharma."

Bought by WETS, KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Nov 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Captivating Fictions and The Experimenting Animal
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our guest is author Thalia Field and our show is about the way normative stories, whether told as fiction or science or religion or history, work t...

Bought by WCNY, RADIOLEX, and KWMR


  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
Author Andy Weir and Project Hail Mary
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Andy Weir's new science fiction novel sends an unlikely protagonist on a mission to save humanity from an interstellar threat., Credit: Ballantine
The author of The Martian introduces us to his terrific new novel and shares his thoughts about the current state of space exploration.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WFHB, KIYU-FM, KWMR, KRZA and more


  • Added: May 05, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Eliot Peper, VEIL & Paul Greenberg, THE CLIMATE DIET
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Eliot Peper about his Cli-Fi novel, Veil. It’s about what happens when a tech CEO decides to geo-engineer the climate—in secret. Then...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:03
Thanksgathering Day
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Poetry and music reflecting on the Thanksgiving holiday.

  • Added: Nov 28, 2020
  • Length: 58:29
Beyond Earth’s Edge: A Celebrity Space Poetry Jam!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The moon and Earth's edge, photgraphed from the International Space Station., Credit: NASA
Creators of an outstanding new collection of poems about spaceflight and exploration join Mat Kaplan to talk about the book as Bill Nye and other n...

Bought by WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioStPete Florida, KWMR, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Oct 14, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
The Write Question - Jonathan Fetter-Vorm - 408
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Graphic novelist Jonathan Fetter-Vorm takes us into the world of his book, "Moonbound: Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight."

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 04, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2