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Why Are People Afraid of the Most Popular Opioid Addiction Treatment?
From: Tradeoffs
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Fentanyl killed 75,000 people in 2022. Now it’s making one of the few treatments for opioid addiction harder to use.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 23:50
Correcting Race
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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"Race correction" is a practice based on the premise that Black bodies are inherently different from White bodies. Medical students are trying to c...

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 48:57
Medicare’s Unprecedented Alzheimer’s Drug Decision
From: Tradeoffs
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In early January, Medicare took an unprecedented step to restrict patients’ access to the first new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 ...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 22:47
Coyote
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: The Wind
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An ode to the coyote. Dan Flores and his book Coyote America, dueling press releases, and The Wind Inaugural Coyote Calling Contest.

  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 47:41
The Rough Draft Diaries Revisit: Dr. Reutter
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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In this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries Revisit, we'll be returning to the world of science to get an update about the present struggles of Lake...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2020
  • Length: 06:08
Corporate Cash and Higher Education, and Infectious Disease Outbreaks
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: University partnerships with corporations. Topic 2: A conversation with a CDC ecologist.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and KOWS


  • Added: Mar 16, 2020
  • Length: 49:49
  • Purchases: 2
Coral reefs cry out to their fish for help
From: Meisa Salaita
Series: Small Matters
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Sometimes a little bit of protection can mean the difference between everything and nothing. We head now to the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 23, 2015
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 1
Meet Golden Gate Park’s hairiest denizens
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: The bison of Golden Gate Park., Credit: Laura Klivans
Betsy. Buttercup. Bambi. Those are not Disney characters but three of the eight female bison that live at the bison paddock in Golden Gate Park. Sa...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 1
AUTISM CAUSE
From: Joseph Carraro
Series: THE AVERAGE JOE
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
We need to move forward to find a cause for Autism without fear to question and innovate and just maybe get closer to understanding what we're deal...

  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 12:41
Dam Radio Story
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The story of one man's quest to harness the power of the tide, and why now, nearly 100 years later, the quest continues.

Bought by SALTcast Podcast


  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 11:23
  • Purchases: 1
Searching for Roots
From: Philip Graitcer
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Searching for African American ancestors is not easy

  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 03:28
Einstein
From: Talking History
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Elizabeth Stoddard explains Einstein's theories and historian William Ashworth comments on Einstein's personality.

Bought by KPIK-LP


  • Added: May 16, 2005
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1