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Should you rent your clothes instead of buying them?
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In the past few years, we’ve seen an increase in fashion companies that offer to rent their clothes. These services have been touted as the perfect...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2020
  • Length: 03:53
Is it better to drink beer from a bottle or a can?
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Summer is the perfect season to kick back and crack open a cold one. But, when you’re trying to pick the perfect beer, do you ever wonder whether i...

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  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 1
The Idea of the Brain
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Matthew Cobb
There is a lot we don’t know about the human body. We’re always learning. But, what about the part that is allowing us to learn: the brain? After u...

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  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Do we need to refrigerate our eggs?
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Here in the US, most of us put our eggs in the refrigerator. But in many other countries, eggs can stay on the counter. So, could we save energy he...

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  • Added: Jun 29, 2020
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 2
Does speeding waste gas?
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The answer lies in drag: every time you double the speed you travel in a car, the energy you use quadruples. That’s because you’re fighting against...

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2020
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 2
What's The Most Energy Efficient Way To Boil Water?
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Would a microwave oven or an electric stove use more energy to boil a cup of water?

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2020
  • Length: 04:06
  • Purchases: 1
What's The Most Efficient Way To Wash Your Dishes?
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In the US, one out of five households don’t use a dishwasher because they think it uses more water and energy than washing by hand. So, we wanted t...

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2020
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 2
Should you use your car's AC or roll down the windows?
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It depends. When you’re driving slowly around town, it’s better to keep your windows down. But on the highway, it’s better to turn on the AC.

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2020
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 1
Should I grill with gas or charcoal?
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If you're choosing between charcoal and gas, choose gas. Grilling with charcoal for an hour produces three times the emissions of grilling with gas...

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  • Added: Jun 15, 2020
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 2
What's the most energy-efficient way to heat your home?
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First make sure your home is well insulated. Then, swap out your furnace or boiler for a device known as a heat pump. Heat pumps run on electricity...

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  • Added: Jun 05, 2020
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 1
What Creates More Greenhouse Emissions - Flying Or Driving?
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In general, if you're traveling alone, driving creates two times the emissions of flying in a plane. Driving with just two people in the car makes ...

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  • Added: Jun 05, 2020
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 1
Industrial Strength Denial
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Barbara Freese
Corporations have a very long history of denying wrongdoing. Think Wells Fargo, Volkswagen, Exxon Mobile. The list is lengthy. In fact ,the persist...

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Is It Possible To Convert Your Gas Car Into An Electric Car?
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Technically yes. There are some car hobbyists who have done this, but there's no streamlined approach to converting your car. The process would be ...

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  • Added: May 29, 2020
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 1
Is Air Drying Your Clothes Worth It?
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Dryers do use a lot of energy. If you were to rank your household appliances by how much energy they use, your dryer would probably come in 3rd, ri...

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  • Added: May 29, 2020
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 1
Can we turn methane leaks into a climate solution?
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Caption: Anaerobic digester
It turns out, there's a way to capture methane before it leaks into the atmosphere. In the case of a landfill, you can cover the surface and then i...

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  • Added: May 28, 2020
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 1
What is methane and how does it relate to climate change?
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Caption: Gas furnace
Methane is a gas that’s created when something organic decomposes in a location that doesn’t have oxygen. The largest human-caused source of metha...

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  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 03:21
  • Purchases: 2
Does global warming cause extreme weather?
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Yes. Global warming increases the intensity of our weather because it causes temperatures to rise, which leads to more water evaporation. When thos...

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  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 1
How can we reduce food waste in the quarantine?
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Today we’re answering a question that has been on a lot of people’s minds during the COVID-19 quarantine: while we’re limiting trips to the store, ...

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  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 2
Can we get rid of driftnets?
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Caption: Sea turtle caught in a ghost net
Driftnets are fishing nets that have largely fallen out of fashion because they can accidentally catch other marine life. But it's still legal to u...

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  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 1
How is COVID-19 affecting our air quality?
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Caption: The Mumbai skyline during COVID-19, Credit: Isha Chawla
Air quality has definitely improved during the pandemic. Air monitoring stations in Rhode Island and the greater Northeast have seen about a 30% de...

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  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 1
The return of the Antarctic blue whale
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Caption: Antarctic blue whale, Credit: Isabel Beasley
Today we’re going to focus on some positive news — a bright spot. Scientists have noticed something remarkable about blue whales— after years of ne...

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  • Added: May 25, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 1
What can be recycled?
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Caption: Recycling contaminated by food and liquid spills. , Credit: Photo from RI Resource Recovery.
What items can be recycled, and what are the most common recycling mistakes?

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  • Added: May 22, 2020
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 1
Myths Surrounding COVID-19
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Helen Lee Bouygues
Americans are in a strange and unusual news cycle. For example, someone can state that hydroxychloroquine is a potential cure for COVID-19. Fox New...

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  • Added: Apr 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Booktalk: Dan Buettner's "The Blue Zones Kitchen: 100 Recipes to Live to 100"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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The Blue Zones are five small areas in the world where people outlive the American and western European average life span by about a decade. The 10...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2020
  • Length: 09:46
COVID 19 Stories with Charles McGuigan: Maintaining Your Mental Health in the COVID-19 Era with Tracey Wingold
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: COVID-19 Stories
Caption: Tracey Wingold,LCSW
Tracey Wingold has worked as a counselor for well over a decade, and she had a sort of head start on the COVID-19 crisis.

  • Added: Apr 07, 2020
  • Length: 08:01

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