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Your Brain on Stories: part two
From: Battery Radio
Series: Your Brain on Stories
Caption: Cave art in Lascaux, France
Your Brain on Stories examines how storytelling could have given early humans a critical evolutionary advantage. Is homo sapiens really homo fictus...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 19, 2016
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 2
Ep.10: Green Design
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Episodes
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Green Design: Why revolving doors rule. They give buildings the LEED badge when they are environmentally friendly. Why is a bldg a LEED bldg? A gr...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 14:57
Living the T1Dream
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Core by Open Orchard Productions
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Olivia was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in 2010. Three years later, her best friend, Allison, was diagnosed with the same disease. They talk to e...

Bought by KSKA


  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 1
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
Three Letters Met on Broom Bridge
From: Samuel Hansen
Caption: Broom Bridge Plaque, Credit: Francesco Perini
Every October 16th hundreds of people gather in Dublin for a walk from Dunsink Observatory to Broom Bridge that celebrates Ireland's greatest mathe...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 1
Staying Alive: The Art and Science of Living to 100
From: Karen Brown
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An audio essay that combines science, personal moments, and the wit and wisdom of four 100-year-old (and up) women.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2015
  • Length: 10:26
The Open Door
From: Side Effects Public Media
Series: Sick
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When Brandy Gibson was pregnant the first time, she noticed that opening her freezer gave her an odd, pleasant feeling. But when she got pregnant a...

Bought by KRZA and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 27, 2015
  • Length: 15:59
  • Purchases: 2
Why Darwin Matters
From: Rick Coste
Series: Evolution Talk
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Over the last 150 years there is one subject which has caused much debate. That subject of course is evolution by natural selection. But what does ...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2015
  • Length: 15:38
On the Origin of Species
From: Rick Coste
Series: Evolution Talk
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On November 24, 1859, "On the Origin of Species" was published. To say that it made a splash would be an understatement. It changed the world.

  • Added: Aug 22, 2015
  • Length: 17:59
Getting Right
From: Side Effects Public Media
Series: Sick
Caption: Kevin Polly as he leaves his house for the rehab facility.
During the state's largest HIV outbreak, a man conquers his addiction.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2015
  • Length: 13:06
Darwin On The HMS Beagle
From: Rick Coste
Series: Evolution Talk
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On 12/27/1831, 22 year old Charles Darwin stood on the deck of the HMS Beagle to bid England farewell.

  • Added: Aug 11, 2015
  • Length: 13:39
Darwin Before the Beagle
From: Rick Coste
Series: Evolution Talk
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Had Charles Darwin not set foot upon the HMS Beagle the wonderful idea of evolution by natural selection might never have occurred to him.

  • Added: Aug 11, 2015
  • Length: 15:45
Episode 1: Living with the Deer
From: Willow Belden
Series: Out There
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Wyoming naturalist joins game herd, 'becomes' a mule deer

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 21:04
Virginia’s Restless Archipelago Part 3
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Colony of American oyster catchers on a lesser Barrier Island., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Oyster Virginia is an old fishing village on the seaside of the Easter Shore. On the road in there are old dead rises, some half submerged in the s...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2015
  • Length: 26:36
Episode 4: How to do science, part 2: From the beach to the lab
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Measuring Marine Microbes
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If you send scientists to the beach, they may come back with the next way to produce biofuels. But it takes a lot of collaboration along the way.

  • Added: May 15, 2015
  • Length: 09:36
Episode 3: Microbial Warfare
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Measuring Marine Microbes
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It's like gang warfare, but with really tiny gang members. Some microbes provide their relatives with protection, emitting antibiotics that kill of...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 15, 2015
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 1
The Path To Primary Care: Who Will Be Our Next Frontline Doctors?
From: Karen Brown
Caption: Norman Rockwell - Doctor and Doll, Credit: WikiArt Visual Encyclopedia
A half-hour, sound-rich documentary that follows a group of medical residents as they decide whether to enter the fraught field of primary care, or...

Bought by HowSound


  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 27:21
  • Purchases: 1
Bio-hackers Grow Their Own Ink
From: Britt Wray
Caption: Biohackers grow their own ink from soil-dwelling bacteria., Credit: La Paillasse
What does it mean to live in a world where biotech is done for and by the people? How long might it be until we are all growing our own ink, laund...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 1
Mother of Invention
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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A mother and a nurse created a device to help other breast-feeding moms.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 22:32
  • Purchases: 1
Life After Stress: The Biology of Trauma and Resilience
From: Karen Brown
Caption: Orphans in Romania., Credit: Mike Carroll for Harvard University
What makes some people able to cope with life's challenges better than others? A growing field of science is peering into the brain to find an answer.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KPIK-LP


  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 28:13
  • Purchases: 2
Wake up and Smell the Story: Sniffing out Health and Sickness
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Illustration of a nose., Credit: Wikimedia Commons
If you asked people which of their senses they most feared losing, they'd probably say sight or hearing. But what about the ability to smell? We ex...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Sep 25, 2014
  • Length: 43:58
  • Purchases: 1
That Crime Of The Month
From: Criminal
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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
Control: The Stanford Prison Experiment
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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In this special episode, Drs. Philip Zimbardo and Christina Maslach tell the story of what ended up being one of the most infamous psychology studi...

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, Radio Catskill, WRPI, and NPR Illinois


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 56:03
  • Purchases: 5
Obsession
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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This week on State of the Human, we're looking at obsessions, the helpful and the debilitating.

Bought by WMUU-LP, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:46
  • Purchases: 3
History of Automated Transportation
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Maglev - Hi-speed transportation
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The most common element in all accidents is the human element. In the quest to eliminate driver error and make our roads safer, we’ve been searchin...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:00