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The National Endowment for the Arts speaks with poet Kim Roberts

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Kim Roberts brings a poet’s eye to The Scientific Method

Bought by WNJR

Added: May 04, 2017
Length: 28:59
Purchases: 1

Science Under Attack part 3

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

The Trump Administration is calling for drastic cuts in scientific research and development.

Bought by KCBX

Added: Apr 09, 2017
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Science Under Attack – part 1

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order. Its purpose is to reverse efforts to shrink America’s carbon footprint.

Bought by WCPN, KVSC, and KCBX

Added: Mar 30, 2017
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 3

Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality and the Struggle for Oral Health

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Twelve-year old Deamonte Driver died following brain surgery in February 2007. His original diagnosis was meningitis. After his death, the culprit...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Mar 23, 2017
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Big Bang in a Little Room

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Caption: Black Hole Echos, Credit: Scientific America

At some point in our lives, most of us will begin to question how our universe began. Depending on whom you ask, you’re going to get a variety of r...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Mar 15, 2017
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Sea Level Rise and the Future of Megacities

From: Coastridge Productions
Series: Planet Watch

Dr. Gary Griggs, Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz and director of the Institute of Marine Sciences talks abo...

Bought by KFOI Radio and WGRN-LP 94.1

Added: Feb 04, 2017
Length: 54:01
Purchases: 2

Vanishing Bees

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

It’s called “colony collapse disorder” or CCD. A number of years ago US beekeeping operations realized they lost between 30 and 90 percent of their...

Bought by KSFR and KCBX

Added: Nov 09, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

A.D.H.D. Nation

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

A high percentage of children in the United States are getting diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, as it’s become known.

Bought by KCBX and KCBX

Added: Sep 13, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

The Mosquito Crusader

From: Jake Smith

Caption: Fred L. Soper crossing a bridge to investigate an area where yellow fever occurred, Credit: Photo by Wilbur A. Sawyer courtesy National Library of Medicine

Eighty years ago, one man set out to eradicate the mosquito that now causes Zika virus—and it sullied his reputation forever.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WABE

Added: Jun 21, 2016
Length: 12:08
Purchases: 2

Breaking Rockefeller

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Oil is one of the earth’s coveted substances. We love it and we hate it. Yet, it surrounds our lives every day.

Bought by KCBX

Added: Jun 14, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

The Gene: An Intimate History

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

You’d have to go back more than 160-years to land upon the beginning of the story of the gene.

Bought by KCBX

Added: Jun 06, 2016
Length: 29:01
Purchases: 1

Snowball in a Blizzard: A Physician’s Notes on Uncertainty in Medicine

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

In his book, Dr. Steven Hatch cuts to the chase. Readers get a sense of the challenges in all areas of modern medicine.

Bought by KCBX

Added: Mar 23, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

The Meaning of Science

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

From the origins of human culture to space exploration, the achievements of science have been extraordinary.

Bought by KCBX and KCBX

Added: Feb 18, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

Sally Ride on Dumb Questions, The Experimenters

From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank

“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

We Have the Technology

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Researchers are changing the way we experience our world. They’re engineering scents that stimulate lost memories, they’re searching for the elusiv...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX

Added: Jan 06, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

Chemicals Without Harm

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

We are surrounded by chemicals every day. They’re in our clothing, cosmetics, household products, electronics, and even our children’s toys.

Bought by KVSC, KCBX, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.

Added: Dec 09, 2015
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 3

Life's Greatest Secret

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Everyone has heard of the story of DNA as the story of Watson and Crick and Rosalind Franklin, but knowing the structure of DNA was only a part of ...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX

Added: Nov 05, 2015
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

Buds on the Tracks: Prehistoric Plants Thrive in D.C.'s Subway

From: Rebecca Sheir

Caption: Unbeknownst to most commuters, ferns grow at the Van Ness-UDC Metro station in Washington, D.C.., Credit: Andy Baldwin

What's the perfect environment for a fern species dating back 65 million years? Look no further than Washington, D.C.'s subway system.

Bought by WABE

Added: Oct 26, 2015
Length: 05:52
Purchases: 1

Science writer Mary Roach talks about "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

Mary has developed a career specializing in popular science and doing it with respect and wit. Since the publication of her first book “Stiff,” she...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio

Added: Oct 04, 2015
Length: 09:15
Purchases: 1

The Open Door

From: Side Effects Public Media
Series: Sick

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

Who Gets the Credit for the Modern World? David McCullough & "The Wright Brothers"

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

Orville and Wilbur, DIY scientists, were bicycle mechanics at the turn of the 20th century in Dayton, Ohio before they changed our world. David Mc...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio

Added: Jun 17, 2015
Length: 09:58
Purchases: 1

Stories in Rocks

From: Hold That Thought
Series: Into the Earth

Geologist Phil Skemer gets to crush rocks for a living. Find out how and why he and his team build instruments that can mimic conditions deep insid...

Bought by XRAY.fm

Added: Jun 12, 2015
Length: 12:55
Purchases: 1

The Politics of Teaching Climate Change

From: Hold That Thought
Series: Into the Earth

Discover what happens when science education collides with business and government.

Bought by KVSC and KUFM - Montana Public Radio

Added: Jun 10, 2015
Length: 09:34
Purchases: 2

Who Owns Science? A Story About Bugs.

From: University of Montana Journalism

Caption: Junebug holotypes from Mike Ivie's entomology lab at Montana State University. When Ivie retires, his personal collection will be donated to the Smithsonian.

Until recently, bug specimens collected on federal land had to be returned as government property, even if they're dead and pulverized. The rules a...

Bought by PRX Remix