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This week we continue the Earth Optimism Series, a 24-episode project in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution's Ocean Portal, to address oc...
- Added: Nov 21, 2016
- Length: 05:20
This week we continue the Earth Optimism Series, a 24-episode project in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution's Ocean Portal, to address oc...
- Added: Nov 01, 2016
- Length: 05:21
In the 20th century, U.S. waterways had become dumping grounds for industrial, urban, and agricultural waste. Today many of these waterways are get...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Oct 26, 2016
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
We could do a lot to improve public health and reduce runaway medical expenses if we focussed more on preventing disease and less on medical fixes,...
- Added: Oct 21, 2016
- Length: 02:18
With our piecemeal coastal policies, "We're haphazardly geo-engineering a whole coast," says Duke University economist Martin Smith.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: May 16, 2016
- Length: 02:19
- Purchases: 1
Sean Carroll discussed the logic of regulation as well as how these principles can be applied to treat disease and heal ecosystems.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and WMUU-LP
- Added: May 04, 2016
- Length: 25:45
- Purchases: 2
With all the digital text trails we're creating these days, what can we learn about our inner psychology, mental health, and well-being?
- Added: Apr 15, 2016
- Length: 28:32
- Purchases: 2
In January of 2016 the UN General Assembly accepted a 1,752 page report entitled "The First Global Integrated Marine Assessment: World Ocean Assess...
- Added: Mar 01, 2016
- Length: 05:21
Investigative reporter Judy Bachrach talks about her new book Glimpsing Heaven. Scientists may have underestimated green energy's potential for fi...
- Added: Jun 17, 2015
- Length: 57:53
What is the possibility of a post-capitalism economic model to support the values and behaviors for a new era filled with alternative technologies,...
- Added: Jun 08, 2015
- Length: 05:24
Emily Lakdawalla coined the phrase, and it is exquisitely appropriate. We’ll visit the Jet Propulsion Lab on its Icy Worlds Day to learn more about...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KFCF FM, and KWMR
- Added: Feb 10, 2015
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 3
Dr. Robert Crease discusses how terms from quantum mechanics have found their way into everyday discourse.
- Added: Jan 22, 2015
- Length: 32:16
- Purchases: 2
In her new book: “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate”, Naomi Klein argues that while it’s too late to stop climate change, we can ...
- Added: Oct 21, 2014
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
The Chairman of the powerful Science, Space and Technology Committee in the US House of Representatives joins us for a talk about planetary science...
- Added: Sep 29, 2014
- Length: 28:50
The National Research Council released its long-awaited report June 4th. Distinguished space policy analyst John Logsdon returns to Planetary Radi...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WESM 91.3 FM
- Added: Jun 17, 2014
- Length: 28:51
- Purchases: 2
It’s that time of the year when we resolve to drink less, exercise more, save money, etc. It may feel really good to intend to do “better” in the n...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WMPG, and Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Dec 27, 2013
- Length: 07:20
- Purchases: 3
Author, radio host, and scientist David Suzuki has spent a lifetime working to protect the environment. But he says that work is failing, and a pa...
- Added: Feb 11, 2013
- Length: 29:00
The lessons of D.L. Rosenhan's 40 year old study of psychiatric patients "plagerised" psychiatric diagnosis to see if they would be detected as fra...
- Added: Feb 03, 2013
- Length: 06:18
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will suggest that we must move beyond the narrow perception of the ocean as a natural system...
- Added: Jul 23, 2012
- Length: 05:38
Dr. Dario Maestripieri joins us to discuss his new book, 'Games Primates Play: An Undercover Investigation of the Evolution and Economics of Human ...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WRNC-LP, and KMXT
- Added: May 02, 2012
- Length: 24:47
- Purchases: 3
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will argue for the ocean as the true commons, a reservoir of natural capital without which t...
- Added: Mar 09, 2012
- Length: 05:34
What’s the connection between the increase in chronic diseases, mental illness and drug addiction in our society today? On this edition, Dr. Gabor ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 15, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Kieran Mulvaney discussed the life and future of the great white bear.
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WRNC-LP, and KMXT
- Added: Mar 23, 2011
- Length: 29:21
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Mar 16, 2011
- Length: 27:32
- Purchases: 2
Rachel Carson would not be happy to see how pervasive the endocrine disrupter BPA has become, and the deleterious effects it is having on our health.
- Added: Mar 02, 2011
- Length: 02:00
