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Find a Rock - Tales from The Heart of America
From: Journeys to Love
Series: Tales From the Heart of America
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From the atomic to the galactic, in 'Find a Rock,' storyteller/adventurer Scotte Burns invites us to marvel at the wonders of the universe found in...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 06:51
Take AUTHORity of Your Life with Kelly Sullivan Walden
From: Katherine Bell
Series: The Dream Journal
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How a daily writing practice can help you reframe your life and restore your sense of self with our guest, author Kelly Sullivan Walden.

  • Added: Jan 22, 2024
  • Length: 54:42
Welcome to Exoplanet Radio
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Exoplanet Radio takes you on a journey to the farthest and coolest planets in the galaxy. Every day we will share with you some of the most amazing...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 12, 2023
  • Length: 01:51
  • Purchases: 1
What’s it like to own an electric car?
From: Possibly
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We did it. My family finally bought an electric car. What’s it like? Should you get one too? Here to help me explain is my husband, Ryan T Conaty.

Bought by PRX Remix, Raven Radio, WRFA-LP, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 07, 2023
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 4
Why are we breaking records for the hottest day on record?
From: Possibly
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When people talk about climate change, it’s often described as something that might happen in the future. But, we’ve been breaking records for the ...

Bought by Raven Radio, WRFA-LP, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 07, 2023
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 3
The IdeaSphere
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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Author Anne Riley is not about to be stereotyped. Although she is a successful fiction writer, she has branched out into science, philosophy and dr...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Science, Art, and Dr. Alan Lightman
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dr. Alan Lightman, Credit: Courtesy of “Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science”
Author and MIT physicist Alan Lightman explores the similarities between artistic and scientific impulses.

Bought by WSLR, WMPG, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
Solve Climate Change Now
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Don Maruska
The mere mention of climate change can cause an unpleasant, visceral reaction. It’s a subject that we’ve avoided and denied for decades. Understand...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Meet the town in Japan that's committed to zero waste
From: Possibly
Caption: The Zero Waste Center in Kamikatsu
Do you ever go to recycle your takeout container or water bottle, see all those different categories, and get so confused you just end up throwing ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, RadioFreePalmer, and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Aug 30, 2022
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 3
The Top 4 Solutions to Global Warming
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jurriaan Kamp
Solutions journalism. I’d never come across that term before. That is, before I came into contact with Jurriaan Kamp, and his multitude of projects...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Plagues Upon the Earth
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kyle Harper
They’re rooted deeply in our global past. Germs. They’ve always been with us. It’s our wealth, health, power and inequity that determine how well w...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Peter T. Coleman
Once a segment of the population becomes miserable, stabilization begins. That shouldn’t be a goal in American politics, but it certainly seems lik...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
The return of the Antarctic blue whale
From: Possibly
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...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 25, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
  • 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...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Whale Fall
From: Katz Laszlo
Caption: Screenshot from Nautilus Livestream, October 2019, Credit: Nautilus
In this piece we hear the process of musicians and scientists who collaborated to turn deep sea research into a song. Produced in Woods Hole, MA, ...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2019
  • Length: 11:46
Digging for Gold
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: ODJB
With jazz coming on the scene in the 1920s, composers began reaping big rewards. The public simply couldn’t get enough of the new music, and anyone...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 01, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Season 2 Trailer
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
Caption: The Nocturnists, Credit: Lindsay Mound
Season 2 of The Nocturnists, hosted by physician Emily Silverman, explores stories from the world of medicine.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 01:23
The Sentient Machine
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Amir Husain
Artificial Intelligence will drastically change our lives. The technology is expected to advance cyber security, finance, energy, military applicat...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 04, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Stephen Hawking-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Stephen Hawking
Celebrating the world's most famous theoretical physicist, author of A Brief History of Time and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Camb...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 20, 2018
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 1
A Precautionary Tale
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Philip Ackerman-Leist
The village of Mals, Italy is on the eastern Swiss boarder in the shadow of the Alps. It’s been known as the breadbasket of the Tyrol. Recently, th...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 13, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Quantum Labyrinth
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Paul Halpern
It was an unexpected, auspicious meeting. Originally, the mentor and student were not even assigned to work together.

Bought by KCBX and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 24, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Code Girls
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Liza Mundy
The iconic image of Rosie the Riveter is cemented in America’s history and imagination. Meanwhile the book and movie Hidden Figures ignited an inte...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 07, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Interview w/ naturalist DIANE ACKERMAN about her book "The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us"
From: Out of Bounds
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Award-winning naturalist, poet & author discusses her most recent book "The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us"

  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
Big Bang in a Little Room
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Black Hole Echos, Credit: Scientific America
At some point in our lives, most of us will begin to question how our universe began. Depending on whom you ask, you’re going to get a variety of r...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 15, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Oliver Sacks, Jacques Cousteau, and George Washington Carver
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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Peanuts, Atlantis, and Colorblindness. It's our latest episode in The Experimenters miniseries featuring icons of science and innovation. Oliver Sa...

Bought by KVSC, KFCF FM, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 20:44
  • Purchases: 4