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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
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
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
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
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
Books and Gifts for Your Favorite Space Nerds
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Senior Editor Emily Lakdawalla visits Mars rover Curiosity at JPL., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Our own Emily Lakdawalla, Planetary Society senior editor and book lover, shares her 2019 list of favorite space books. She also presents a list of...

Bought by KDNK, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WMUU-LP, KWMR, KRZA and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Poets and NEA Fellows Hadara Bar-Nadav & Kathryn Nuernberger
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poets Hadara Bar-Nadav and Kathryn Nuernberger, who were both chosen as 2017 NEA Literary Fellows, talk about their work in this interview at the K...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
2018 Spring Fundraiser: Experiencing More With Less / Predicting Success
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To The Best of Our Knowledge Fundraisers
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In this special fundraising edition of "To the Best of Our Knowledge," host Anne Strainchamps samples some of our best interviews about simplicity ...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WUTC, KUSU, KCPW Salt Lake City, KANW and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2018
  • Length: 01:21:32
  • Purchases: 6
Andy Weir’s New Novel Puts a City on the Moon
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Andy Weir’s Artemis is the new novel set in a city on the Moon. , Credit: Crown Publishing
The author of #1 bestseller The Martian is back with Artemis, a superbly-researched, rollicking adventure in the first city on the Moon. You might ...

Bought by WTJU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Best-selling author Karen Joy Fowler discusses her novel "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves"
From: Out of Bounds
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Karen Joy Fowler talks about her compelling and heart breaking novel "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves."

  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 28:00
195: Our Invisible Universe / 196: Short Stories, 8/19/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Our Invisible Universe" - Millions of people will travel this weekend to see the Great American Eclipse. How far would you go? HOUR TW...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
The National Endowment for the Arts speaks with poet Kim Roberts
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kim Roberts
Kim Roberts brings a poet’s eye to The Scientific Method

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 20 - Eye of the Storm by Kate Messner
From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids
Caption: Sara, Mateo, and Max
Imagine a future where deadly tornadoes are a part of daily life. That's writer Kate Messner's world in "Eye of the Storm." 5th graders from Belved...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2016
  • Length: 20:10
Nuts and Bolts: Our Brains on STEM
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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What if you could change not just how much you know, but your actual intelligence? (And more...)

Bought by WCNY, WYSO, KPVL, WABE, WTJU and more


  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 6