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COVID-19 The Nurse Response: Safe Homes
From: Rebecca McInroy
Series: See You Now
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In this episode of SEE YOU NOW, we speak with nurse scientist Camille Burnett about how nurses are in a unique position in their communities to scr...

  • Added: May 23, 2020
  • Length: 08:59
S2 Ep 6: Treating addiction from the ER
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: Justina Bauthues (center) poses for a photo with her parents, Lisa and Tom Hilton.
A new approach is linking people with addiction to drug treatment, instead of just sending them out the door when they’re well again. Two doctors, ...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 28:04
S2 Ep 3: Treating Chronic Pain
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: Physical therapist, Dr. Timothy Zepelak, meets with patient Kimberly Bergrud at Swedish Hospital in Seattle on her first day in the Structured Functional Restoration Program for people with chronic pain., Credit: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
On this episode we zoom out and get a more complete picture of chronic pain, so we can understand where opioids fit in. We find out about one solu...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 29:56
S2 Ep 2: Treating acute pain to prevent opioid dependence
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: Megan and Scarlett coming home from the hospital, Credit: The Swarners
Washington State law around opioid prescribing has recently changed. Reporter Eilís O’Neill follows a couple, Megan and Ben, through the birth of t...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 19:04
Ep 3: Treating the opioid epidemic like a natural disaster
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season One
Caption: Sheriff Ty Trenary, Credit: Leah Nash for Finding Fixes
Addiction hits home for the top dog of a disaster-prone county. An old-school cop gets a wake-up call and learns “handcuffs and a trip to jail” jus...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 26:39
191011: Scorched Earth: Culture and Climate Under Siege, 10/11/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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From the Amazon to the Congo to California, our planet’s forests are being decimated. And along with them, the stability of our climate. Why? Becau...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
190705: Winners and Losers, 7/5/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The new climate reality means that even those living on a hill will be affected by flooding in the valley, and those living in the North will be af...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
190308: If Global Warming Exists, Why is it so Cold Outside?, 3/8/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The last five years have been the hottest on record globally. But this past winter, plunging temperatures, snowstorms and torrential rains througho...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
2019-03-08 If Global Warming Exists, Why is it so Cold Outside?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The last five years have been the hottest on record globally. But this past winter, plunging temperatures, snowstorms and torrential rains througho...

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  • Added: Mar 05, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 11
05-14: Don’t Fence Me In: Linked Landscapes, Citizen Science and Wild Nature, 1/23/2019
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Mary Ellen Hannibal
As lion populations crash in Africa, baboon numbers explode. Associate Professor of Ecology and Conservation Justin Brashares illuminates how to st...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 28:29
2019-01-13 The Hidden Health Hazards of Climate Change
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Climate change isn’t just an environmental problem – it’s also a health hazard. Air pollution and changing weather patterns give rise to heat-relat...

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  • Added: Jan 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 9
Giving Venus the Love (and Science) She Deserves
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: A radar view of Venus reveals the surface of the cloud-shrouded planet., Credit: Mattias Malmer/NASA/JPL
We have so much to learn about Venus, says JPL scientist Sue Smrekar. What we learn will help us understand our own world and Mars. Sue joins us ...

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  • Added: Aug 15, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
California Greenin'
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: David Vogel is author of the new book California Greenin’ How the Golden State Became an Environmental Leader. , Credit: James Meinerth
California. Land of sunshine and seashore. In an effort to protect the state’s magnificent landscape, California has led the country in environment...

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  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
Daily Tweet Cycle
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
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Can tweets reveal how thoughts and moods shift throughout the day?

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, and KENW


  • Added: Jun 30, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 4
WorldCanvass: Climate Science and the Environment (Part 1)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Leading experts in climate science and environmental research join WorldCanvass host Joan Kjaer to discuss the most pressing concerns facing Iowans...

Bought by KZUM


  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 19:45
  • Purchases: 1
A Space Station Crashes to Earth
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of the Tiangong-1 space station, Credit: CMSA
By the time you hear this week’s episode, China’s Tiangong-1 may have spectacularly re-entered our planet’s atmosphere, raining metal on an unpredi...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
It’s a Hard Rain on Titan
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Radar images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal many lakes on Titan's surface, some filled with liquid, and some appearing as empty depressions. The data were obtained by Cassini's radar instrument from 2004 to 2013., Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASI / USGS
A computer model based on our best data about Saturn’s cloud-shrouded moon says that torrential liquid methane pounds the surface far more frequent...

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  • Added: Jan 17, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Mysterious Tabby’s Star, With Tabby Herself
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of uneven dust ring surrounding “Tabby’s Star” KIC 8462852, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
It may not host an alien “megastructure” but Tabby’s Star still guards many mysteries of science. Astronomer and astrophysicist Tabetha “Tabby” Boy...

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  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
President Trump Sets Course for the Moon
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Representatives of Congress and the National Space Council, along with several astronauts, joined President Donald J. Trump, for the president’s signing of Space Policy Directive 1., Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani
On December 11th President Donald Trump signed a memorandum that firmly points the US space effort toward the Moon, but without providing many deta...

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  • Added: Dec 12, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Life of the Law #100: LIVE LAW NSF: Translating (law and social) Science
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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To celebrate Life of the Law’s 100th Episode, Life of the Law and the National Science Foundation brought five NSF funded scholars to the NSF Headq...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2017
  • Length: 01:07:16
How To Edit a Human: The CRISPR Genetic Revolution
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Quirks & Quarks
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Science magazine named it as their Breakthrough of the Year for 2015. It's a game-changing new gene editing tool, called CRISPR. And it has the pot...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2016
  • Length: 30:18
The Pope and the Planet
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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In an encyclical letter, Pope Francis himself will intervene next week on the global story of climate change, bringing scientific and moral authori...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KZYX


  • Added: Jun 18, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Infidelity & Breadwinning
From: Susanne Bard
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People who are financially dependent on their spouse June be more likely to cheat on them.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jun 02, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fatherless Fish
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: A juvenile smalltooth sawfish., Credit: (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission)
A critically endangered fish may be making up for to a lack of mates by reproducing without sex.

Bought by KENW and WLPR


  • Added: Jun 02, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
Leaving Behind a Life on Mars—Former Curiosity Project Scientist John Grotzinger
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Former Curiosity Rover Project Scientist John Grotzinger, Credit: Mat Kaplan
The Mars Science Laboratory rover has accomplished its primary goals on the Red Planet, and John Grotzinger has left his central role to become Cha...

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  • Added: Mar 17, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6