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A special edition of Art Works a conversation between NEA Chair Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson and U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Santos, moderated ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KECG


  • Added: Mar 26, 2024
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 5
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Sam Dunning and Stimson Snead talk jibs, self-acceptance, and the power of entropy.

  • Added: Mar 13, 2024
  • Length: 22:42
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A Conversation about “From Heritage to Health:” which demonstrates how storytelling and the arts can help medical professionals better treat cultur...

Bought by WMPG, KMUN, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WDCB and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2024
  • Length: 27:57
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: The Not Old Better Show
📣 Exciting Episode Release! 🎧 🌟 Join us on The Not Old Better Show as we explore 'Embracing the Unknown: Wisdom in Uncertainty' with acclaimed auth...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2023
  • Length: 30:47
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Not Old Better Show
Our guest on PRX Radio is Dr. Ken Dychtwald. Dr. Ken Dychtwald is a psychologist, gerontologist, and visionary who has been shaping conversations a...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2023
  • Length: 29:53
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series
My guest today, Dr. Noah Whiteman, tells us to scratch beneath the surface of a coffee bean, a red pepper flake, a poppy seed, a mold spore, a foxg...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2023
  • Length: 35:16

  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 30:37
Caption: Kinetic Sculpture Race Contestant
We're revisiting one of my favorite interviews: from 2013--Behind the scenes of the Kinetic Sculpture Race, Grand Championship, where art and scien...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
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In this episode, Emily speaks with documentary filmmaker and journalist David France about his films How to Survive a Pandemic (2022) and How to Su...

  • Added: May 02, 2023
  • Length: 46:32
Caption: Dr. Alan Lightman, Credit: Courtesy of “Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science”
Author and MIT physicist Alan Lightman explores the similarities between artistic and scientific impulses.

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
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Today we look at practical ways to approach the climate crisis and how we can tell real solutions from pseudo-solutions.

  • Added: Oct 16, 2022
  • Length: 54:53
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In this episode, we discuss vaccines – the science that has brought us such an incredible solution to public health crises; the human response to v...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Unwell Women
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
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We talk with deep sea explorer Edith Widder about Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir Of Exploring Light And Life In The Deep Sea. Then, we revis...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2021
  • Length: 58:39
Caption: Screenshot of the game RoboCo., Credit: Filament Games
Learning in robotics doesn’t have to take weeks, if you can design, build, and test a robot in hours in a video game. Dan White, CEO of Filament G...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2021
  • Length: 51:41
Caption: Headshot: Dr. Monica Gandhi
In this episode, we explore where we’re at with the COVID-19 pandemic - regionally, nationally, and internationally - and begin to assess where we’...

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  • Added: Jul 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode, we explore carbon offsets, and how their promise as a way to mitigate carbon emissions - and thus climate change - have not yet pa...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Two books on 3D Printing by David Seto and Michael Welch.
Kids can learn CAD for 3D printing, but teaching it doesn’t have to be a hassle. David Seto and Michael Welch wrote a set of books to make teachin...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2021
  • Length: 49:38
Caption: Angela Chen says her book, Ace, "invites everyone to rethink pleasure and intimacy.", Credit: Photo by Sylvie Roskoff.
Quick, what’s your sexuality? Most of us know roughly where we fall on the Kinsey scale that goes from 0 to 6. But have you considered the asexual ...

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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We talk with Carey Gillam about her page-turning follow-up to Whitewash, The Monsanto Papers: Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption, and One Man’s S...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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In this episode, we discuss the current state of California’s climate - how it’s changed in recent years, and what we face in 2021, including a sig...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Dr. Russell Dupuis, Credit: Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
LEDs, or light-emitting diodes, have changed the world – and continue to do so. This energy-efficient electronics technology came from decades of ...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 53:11
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How do you make an audio-based course to teach science topics to kids? Podcast creator, teacher, and musician Marshall Escamilla explains. Marsha...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2020
  • Length: 44:13
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As a biomedical engineer in orthobiologics, Neil Thompson still had to do a lot of public speaking. He was a self-professed awful public speaker, ...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2020
  • Length: 31:48
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Generational discussion on birth defects

  • Added: Feb 04, 2020
  • Length: 51:26