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Two episodes that include uncomfortable but necessary conversations.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 23:09
  • Purchases: 1
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


  • Added: Dec 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: This artist’s concept shows what exoplanet K2-18 b could look like based on science data., Credit: NASA, CSA, ESA, J. Olmsted (STScI), Science: N. Madhusudhan (Cambridge University)
Hycean Worlds, with masses between Earth and Neptune which have thin hydrogen rich atmospheres above a liquid water ocean may be very common in ou...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RADIOLEX, Raven Radio, KGLP, WTIP and more


  • Added: Oct 29, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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KQAL's Jiovani Bermudez meets with Mai'a Williams to discuss her project, Blooming Underground. Blooming Underground is a centers on their relation...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2023
  • Length: 26:03
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This week on the show: Upping the pressure, the EU cuts the number of travel visas for Russians Remembering Gorbachev's gamble, but will Russians...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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This week on the show: Should we just… ignore the (pretty solid) health data saying we shouldn't drink until middle age?

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jul 22, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: The race to replace Boris Johnson as the UK’s next prime minister. As a heatwave engulfs Europe, Germans worry about freezi...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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This week on the show: Macron weakened, the left temporarily united and the far-right ascendent. Dutch farmers protest livestock cuts to curb nitr...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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This week on the show: How could a diabetes medicine be connected with a '40% increase' in birth defects? And with stealth omicron now dominating....

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WXDU


  • Added: Apr 01, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: When a child asks you about war and impending death, what exactly should you say? In other news, the Black Death may not ha...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Ukraine’s defiant stand against Russian invasion is re-shaping Europe. We’ll be bringing you perspectives from a continent ...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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This week on the show: We received so many messages this past week about the lopsided male COVID-19 mortality rate. Maybe you wrote one of them?

  • Added: Feb 05, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Getting COVID-19 had an impact on getting pregnant — and also, what actually causes two people to stay together?

  • Added: Jan 29, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Mount Kilimanjaro: 'Eternal ice' no more? - The highest peak on the African continent has inspired locals and travelers a...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and WXDU


  • Added: Jan 29, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: The lifesavers-50 years of Doctors without Borders - In the past 50 years, they've saved millions of people, providing med...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Dec 25, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Forcing people to vaccinate is not an appealing option — at all. It might happen anyway.

  • Added: Nov 26, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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On December 3, 1955, a 33-year-old Black gas station attendant named Clinton Melton was shot and killed in Glendora, Mississippi. Two witnesses — i...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 11:44
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: How do astronauts deal with their sex drives when they're up in space for months on end? And why is it so embarrassing to ...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Will mutations change our vaccination strategy? Also, a controversial step in the fight against Alzheimer's, and how to tel...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Have an ear for birdsong? Neither do we. But with a couple clues (and a digital tool), we think you can solve our bird quiz...

  • Added: May 19, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Who owns space? - We dive deep into outer space. Who owns space? Who owns mineral resources and water? The race is on — i...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
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This week on the show: Just how high are the number of COVID-19 infections that happen inside compared to outside? So high that aerosol experts ar...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Traveling without a passport - just by being scanned at an airport? Projects to test this kind of digital identity have alr...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Fukushima 10 years on - Fukushima in Japan, March 11, 2011. An earthquake, a tsunami and three nuclear meltdowns. Much ...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Mar 12, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: France mulls legislation to restitute stolen assets to their countries of origin. A facemask scandal rocks Germany's conse...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:00