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05242018: Appearances DO Matter: Good Design Does a Body and Soul Good with India Hicks, Pamela Pekerman & Sally Augustin PhD, 5/24/2018
From: KBUU
Series: Harvesting Happiness Talk Radio
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Purpose-driven and consciously prepared brain food from the beaches of Malibu, California. Join us on this week’s show focusing on lifestyle brandi...

  • Added: May 17, 2018
  • Length: 46:27
The Yoga Pant Problem
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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The rise of synthetic fibers and the war on cotton

Bought by WSGE


  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 27:04
  • Purchases: 1
The Future of Integrative Cancer Care on A Hospital Campus is Now. The Sari Center at Good Samaritan Hospital is impacting lives one therapy at a time.
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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The Future of Integrative Cancer Care on A Hospital Campus is Now. The Sari Center is compassionately supporting cancer patients and their loved on...

Bought by WCNY and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Apr 10, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Philosophy of Cancer
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Health & Healing
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A philosoper of biology shares her struggle with breast cancer and her opinions on ongoing debates over breast cancer screening.

Bought by KVSC and KRZA


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 15:45
  • Purchases: 2
Milk at Altitude: Exploring Health in the Himalayas
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Health & Healing
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How is human milk different in the Himalayan highlands than in the United States, and what can these differences reveal about what moms and babies ...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 16:40
  • Purchases: 1
Breaking Down Persistent Myths About Eating Disorders
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Health & Healing
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Treated for her first eating disorder at 11, Rebecca Lester now studies eating disorders as an anthropologist and psychotherapist.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 15:10
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Dorothy Sears Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that when we eat during the day (meal timing) affects the way our bodies handle calories, and can help us lose weight, control blood s...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 04, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Code Girls
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Liza Mundy
The iconic image of Rosie the Riveter is cemented in America’s history and imagination. Meanwhile the book and movie Hidden Figures ignited an inte...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 07, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
77: How To Be Taken Seriously When You Have a Mystery Illness - Jennifer Brea, "Unrest"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Jennifer Brea, Credit: Tommy Lau
Jennifer Brea was an avid traveler, a Harvard PhD student and a Princeton grad. She was engaged to be married to the man she loved. Then one day sh...

Bought by KWIT, KWMR, KCSB-FM, KKRN, KCSB-FM and more


  • Added: Oct 06, 2017
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 11
Active Learning in Computer Science
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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We talk strategies for teaching computer science (CS), with Dr. Cynthia Taylor, a computer science professor at The University of Illinois at Chica...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2017
  • Length: 37:10
A Cosmic Voyage with Astronomer Sandra Faber
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: • New Very Large Telescope image of galaxy Messier 77 , Credit: • European Southern Observatory
Veteran astronomer and cosmologist Sandra Faber has just been awarded the Gruber Prize for Cosmology, honoring more than forty years of pioneering ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WTJU, KWMR, WMUU-LP, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Thomas Edison, Eclipse Chaser!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: "American Eclipse" by David Baron, Credit: Liveright/W.W. Norton
The great inventor was just one of many men and women who made their way across the American West to view and document the total solar eclipse of 1...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, WJSU, KISU, Kansas Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 21, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
Ep. 20: Reinventing the Wheelchair
From: The Story Exchange
Series: Good on the Ground
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MIT-graduate Tish Scolnik is using the power of business to give people with disabilities a new sense of freedom.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 14:28
  • Purchases: 1
64: Deb Liu of Facebook is Developing More Women in Tech; Dr. Shruti Naik of The Rockefeller University is Keeping More Women in Science
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Shruti Naik
Deb Liu is VP of Platform and Marketplace at Facebook. As one of few female executives in technology, she is working to address the challenges that...

Bought by KUT, KUAF Public Radio, WLPR , WRGY, KUNM and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Ice, Snow and Lava: Exploring Antarctica’s Mount Erebus
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Rosaly Lopes on the slopes of Antarctica's Mt. Erebus, Credit: Michael Carroll
Earth’s southernmost active volcano may also be its most remote. Rosaly Lopes and Michael Carroll recently spent a few frigid days on the slopes o...

Bought by KVSC, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan Leaves NASA
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Outgoing NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan, Credit: NASA
For well over three years, planetary scientist Ellen Stofan has worked directly with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden to help coordinate and expan...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP, KRZA, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Lynn Sherr, author of "Sally Ride"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra interview Lynn Sherr about her book about America's first woman in space.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Dec 22, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
59: America The Anxious; Cooperative Games; Negotiate in "Man Pants"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Ruth Whippman
Lauren's guests this week are Ruth Whippman, author of "America the Anxious. How The Pursuit Of Happiness Is Making Us A Nation of Nervous Wrecks";...

Bought by KWMR, KKRN, KKRN, WGBH Radio Boston, CHSR-FM 97.9 and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2016
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 10
48:Nancy Santiago Negrón, Lending To The Poor & Simine Vazire, Changing Research Approaches
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Nancy Santiago Negrón
Nancy Santiago Negrón of the Opportunity Finance Network shares why it took three calls from the White House for her to join the Women's Bureau at ...

Bought by KKRN, KSJD, KWMR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
39: Dr. Dava Newman, Deputy Administrator of NASA & Write On Campaign founders Sabrina Moyle and Tess Darrow
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Dr. Dava Newman, Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Dr. Dava Newman, the Deputy Administrator of NASA has a goal to usher in the next mission to Mars. Will this next mission be one giant step for wom...

Bought by WRIR, KUT, KSJD, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 20, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 4
Gender Bias & Online Sales
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Buyers shell out a lot less on online auctions for when the seller is female.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KENW, and WLPR


  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
Sally Ride on Dumb Questions, The Experimenters
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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“I wish that there had been another woman on my flight. I think it would have been a lot easier.” - Sally Ride in 1983. Interviewed by Gloria Steinem.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, WLRH, KVSC, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 11:59
  • Purchases: 12
19: Fighting the Cause of Cancer, Dr Sandra Steingraber & Karuna Jaggar
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Dr. Sandra Steingraber, Credit: Laura Kozlowski
The causes of cancer seem to be everywhere. From makeup products, to the clothes we wear, and the furniture we buy. And even if it has a pink ribbo...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KUT, KSJD, and WRIR


  • Added: Oct 21, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Fugitive Red (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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We go in search of the origins of a "perfect red," which once eluded scientists, pirates, and kings. Plus, how scientists are now tracking down rar...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, WABE, and KKRN


  • Added: Jul 17, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 4
6: Shana Rappaport & Amanda Ravenhill; Julia Prochnik, Negotiating Climate Change
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Amanda Ravenhill & Shana Rappaport
Climate change--one view is doom and gloom and destruction. The other is that things could be far more beautiful and regenerative and sustainable a...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WRIR, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 22, 2015
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 3