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Host Diana Korte speaks with Canadian journalist Taras Grescoe, author of “THE LOST SUPPER. Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of th...
- Added: Oct 05, 2023
- Length: 10:49
Emily speaks with writer and physician Ricardo Nuila about his debut book The People's Hospital, a love letter to Ben Taub Hospital in Houston, Tex...
- Added: May 30, 2023
- Length: 46:06
In Marc Schultz's THE GOOD LIFE, what makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life?
The simple but surprising answer is: relationships. T...
- Added: Mar 02, 2023
- Length: 10:01
LONGPATH by futurist Ari Wallach is about a mindset that looks at a future where new ways aren’t quite here yet and the old ways don’t
work anymor...
- Added: Jan 06, 2023
- Length: 10:13
Emily discusses the problem of gender bias in medicine with Dr. Elinor Cleghorn, author of "Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 43:24
Brian Haughton is an archeologist, researcher, and author on the subjects of supernatural folklore and ancient sacred places.
When I contacted Bria...
- Added: Apr 25, 2021
- Length: 57:21
Hugo Fruehauf, one of the co-inventors of GPS, explains the nitty-gritty of what GPS is. He also details his critical engineering work on the GPS s...
- Added: Jan 16, 2020
- Length: 32:27
Brantley Hargrove is the author of "The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras.” It’s a true story of a Denveri...
- Added: Aug 23, 2018
- Length: 09:56
Nature writer Craig Childs is the author of Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America. It’s a travelogue of places and people, just like us...
- Added: Aug 23, 2018
- Length: 09:56
After decades of field work in southern Arizona, these two retired Univ of Colorado professors have authored the first in their Arizona Borderlands...
- Added: Dec 16, 2016
- Length: 09:56
Audubon is best known for his 435 paintings of American birds. He came here as a young man in the early 1800s from France with a talent for self-ta...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Dec 04, 2015
- Length: 09:47
- Purchases: 1
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
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...
- Added: Jul 17, 2015
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 4
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...
- Added: Jul 17, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 8
The early days of neuroscience relied on tragedy to strike before doctors could peek inside the brains of humans. Today advanced technology helps s...
- Added: May 28, 2015
- Length: 43:39
In 2014 the United States had 650 reported cases of measles, a disease made preventable by a vaccine introduced 30 years ago. The majority of these...
- Added: Apr 01, 2015
- Length: 01:27:06
In this enlightening memoir about her parents’ deaths, the author lays out some of the difficulties in having the so-called good death when teamed ...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Sep 04, 2014
- Length: 10:00
- Purchases: 2
During the first generation of American psychiatry, no figure was cited as an authority on insanity and mental functioning more frequently than Wil...
- Added: Aug 27, 2014
- Length: 18:11
In “1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus,” science writer Mann describes what some of the North and South American nations looked ...
Bought by WTJU, KCMJ Community Radio, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Aug 25, 2014
- Length: 10:01
- Purchases: 3
The Gulf Stream was essential to the early exploration of the New World and continues to influence our climate, weather, environment, and shipping ...
- Added: Jun 27, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 7
Eight out of 10 children born in America today will never know a night sky dark enough to see the Milky Way. Are we experiencing the end of night?
Bought by WCNY and KAZU Seaside, Calif.
- Added: Oct 07, 2013
- Length: 53:54
- Purchases: 2
New research shows one key to curtailing West Nile disease may lie in increasing the diversity of birds.
Bought by WCNY, WCWP, Radio Newark, and WTJU
- Added: Jul 03, 2013
- Length: 53:26
- Purchases: 4
Where there’s fermentation, there’s culture. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Sando...
- Added: Apr 15, 2013
- Length: 28:00
Kas tells us about the US Airway's Flight 1549 Hudson River accident, how the system worked when it was most needed.
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 07:28
The Radio Rounds crew takes a trip to the famed Mutter Museum at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia — a museum that welcomes tens of thousan...
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 29:01
