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Surprise! Plans To Resolve High Medical Bills Are Still a Mess

From: Tradeoffs

Patients are now mostly protected from surprise bills, but doctors and insurers are still fighting about the prices.

Climate Connections April 15 - May 10, 2024

From: ChavoBart Digital Media
Series: Climate Connections

This month on Climate Connections schools in coal country are going solar, some anglers say Rhode Island’s Block Island wind farm has improved fish...

Bought by WNIN, KTSW 89.9, Northwest Public Broadcasting, WNIJ, WLRN and more

Forgetting the Lessons and Losses of Covid

From: KSFP

The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic are behind us and it’s time for an early reckoning of our successes and failures. An epidemiologist shares...

Feet To The Fire

From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix

Jess talks with California's Attorney General Rob Bonta about a historic lawsuit he filed against Big Oil to hold them accountable for the devastat...

Imagining where love came from: Sonnet for the Primordial Gravity Waves

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets (Bookshop.org), Credit: Susan Cook

The 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to those who offered proof of the existence of Primordial Gravity Waves. Einstein theorized they were ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City

On the death of Stephen Hawking "Sonnet for The Black Hole" "Sonnet for A Loss"

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets , Credit: Susan Cook

Stephen Hawking has died who brought us all to imagine what black holes are and to recognize ourselves in them and him.

Bought by KICI Iowa City

Ride into the Danger Zone: Tornado Chasing, Hurricane Hunting, and Smoke Jumping

From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf

We're talking with professional storm chasers and smoke jumpers whose job it is to run towards danger.

Climate Connections March 18 - April 12, 2024

From: ChavoBart Digital Media
Series: Climate Connections

This month on Climate Connections snowmobiles don’t have to be noisy and polluting, the plastics industry’s carbon footprint has doubled in the pas...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WNIJ, WTJU, KTSW 89.9 and more

How Pushing Hospitals to Give Away More Free Care Could Backfire

From: Tradeoffs

With high health bills drowning patients in debt, some lawmakers want nonprofit hospitals to give away more free care. But experts warn that could ...

787-Far Out

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Milky Way Rising Over the Gila Wilderness, Credit: David Thornburg

In 2024, Voyager I is 163 times further from the Sun than we are and is the most distant, human made, traveler in the night.

Bought by KRWG, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more

Testing for Toxins with Leah Segedie

From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots

Mamavation is the leading site for independent testing of consumer products. We talk with founder Leah Segedie.

Bought by WMUU-LP

786-Comet 31

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered his 31st comet while asteroid hunting in Leo with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Ariz...

Bought by Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KGLP and more

The Glyphosate-Autism Connection

From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News

Dr. Stephanie Seneff of MIT talks about her research linking pesticide residues in food to the destruction of gut bacteria and link to autism.

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRFA-LP

Why Are People Afraid of the Most Popular Opioid Addiction Treatment?

From: Tradeoffs

Fentanyl killed 75,000 people in 2022. Now it’s making one of the few treatments for opioid addiction harder to use.

Is Wireless Tech Making You Sick?

From: Doug Wood

The story of Ruth Moss, her smart meter, and her fight to establish a single name for the physical symptoms of exposure to RF radiation.

Bought by WMUU-LP

782-Probing The Cosmic Web

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: A Cosmic Thread, Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Feige Wang (University of Arizona)

In the past two decades astronomers have discovered that galaxies are not randomly distributed in space but rather occur along filaments of mass wi...

Bought by Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KGLP and more

The Stink Over PFAS with Tracy Frisch

From: Doug Wood

Scientist Dr. Tracy Frisch explains why spreading fertilizer from sewage sludge is a really bad idea.

Bought by WMUU-LP

This Week in Water for January 7, 2024

From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water

How Whales Might Help Us Communicate with Extraterrestrials. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer and more

To the First Images Seen of A Black Hole

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: " Breathing: American Sonnets" (Shermans.com), Credit: Susan Cook

Black holes still doing what they do. Re-visiting Einstein imagining his most important discovery.

Bought by KICI Iowa City

777-Psyche Bound

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Artists Conception Psyche Spacecraft, Credit: NASA

The NASA Psyche Spacecraft will use a multispectral imager, gamma and neutron spectrometers, and other instruments to map, measure, and characteriz...

Bought by Raven Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP and more

This Week in Water for December 10, 2023

From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water

Phase Down? Or Phase Out? That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KMXT, KRZA, KGNU Community Radio and more

776-Naming Asteroids and Comets

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Artists Conception Sun and Asteroids, Credit: NASA

Historically explorers in many fields of human endeavor have been granted the privilege to name their discovery. If you find a new comet and it r...

Bought by Raven Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., RADIOLEX, WTIP, KKRN and more

Post-Roe America preview: Conversation with Alison Block, MD

From: The Nocturnists
Series: Post-Roe America

Caption: The Nocturnists: Post-Roe America series, Credit: Nicole Xu

After the Supreme Court’s landmark Dobbs decision in June 2022, Dr. Emily Silverman spoke with Dr. Alison Block – a family medicine physician, abor...

This Week in Water for November 19, 2023

From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water

Going Nuclear in a Small Way. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KRZA, KMXT, RadioFreePalmer and more

More Hospitals Move to Confront Medical Errors Head On

From: Tradeoffs

One out of every four Medicare patients in the hospital is the victim of a medical error. Over the past 20 years, a growing number of hospitals hav...

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