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Brian Dunning examines some interesting beliefs around food and whether or not they are supported by science.
- Added: Apr 09, 2024
- Length: 59:00
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...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 21:30
Brian Dunning separates fact from fiction as he examines the talking points made by the many people who hate electric cars.
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 59:00
How changing our hearts and minds will change how we approach our
relationship with the planet.
Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB
- Added: Feb 26, 2024
- Length: 57:55
- Purchases: 2
In recent years, scientists have begun testing geoengineering technologies to slow down or even stop global warming. But, is geoengineering safe? A...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Oct 30, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
My guest today, Dr. Noah Whiteman, tells us to scratch beneath the surface of a coffee bean, a red pepper flake, a poppy seed, a mold spore, a foxg...
- Added: Oct 11, 2023
- Length: 35:16
Today, we are going to explore a remarkable world that lies beyond our solar system: Kepler-22b. This planet is one of the first confirmed exoplane...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Aug 13, 2023
- Length: 03:56
- Purchases: 1
One of the most exciting recent discoveries in astronomy has been the existence of planets around other stars.
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Aug 13, 2023
- Length: 02:35
- Purchases: 1
Bacteria in your gut tweak your brain. Sometimes friendly, sometimes not. The hundred-day genocide in Rwanda -- recalling the mayhem on its 29th an...
- Added: Jul 30, 2023
- Length: 58:49
In the last full episode of the season, we travel to the Greenland ice sheet and hear from a researcher who collects data at the face of tidewater ...
- Added: Jul 12, 2023
- Length: 23:22
Nothing woolly-headed or Utopian about it: A universal, guaranteed basic income. A hundred years later, memories of war that do not fade. And, one ...
- Added: Jul 09, 2023
- Length: 59:14
We hear what makes tidewater glacier habitat an acoustic refuge, and why glaciers are important to other species in the ecosystem.
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 19:11
We hear from Judy Ramos in Lingít Aaní. She tells us about the history of glacier travel in the region, and about the Spirit of the Glacier.
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 24:28
The history of why Black women are more likely to die when giving birth than White women.
Bought by WVTF and WNED Buffalo
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 56:56
- Purchases: 2
The word “Tuskegee” has become shorthand for the Black community’s mistrust of the medical establishment. But what really happened?
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 59:05
In this episode, Emily speaks with documentary filmmaker and journalist David France about his films How to Survive a Pandemic (2022) and How to Su...
- Added: May 02, 2023
- Length: 46:32
Interview with Earl Swift, author of Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island.
- Added: Dec 01, 2022
- Length: 29:53
“I plan to row till my last breath” is a strong endorsement for any sport. Yet we heard this sentiment numerous times at the 2022 Head of the Charl...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 27:42
The trauma of war and intergenerational PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) is discussed. And how state of the art ‘telepresence’, a technology ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2022
- Length: 24:40
How do we know when to push through pain to pursue the activities we love? And when should we suspect that injuries are part of a disease process? ...
- Added: Aug 24, 2022
- Length: 19:56
Steel is the signature material of the Industrial Revolution. It’s also an essential component of the wind turbines, electric cars, and climate-fri...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Apr 20, 2022
- Length: 44:52
- Purchases: 1
Older doctors talk about their journey from medicine to hardcore climate activism. Bill McKibben introduces his new group Third Act and explains w...
Bought by WFHB, KICI Iowa City, KZYX, WFHB, and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Mar 10, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
After decades of scientific study and political wrangling the world has agreed—at least on paper—that 1.5C of heating must be the upper limit of ou...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Feb 01, 2022
- Length: 46:29
- Purchases: 1
Do we live in an age where online conspiracies and cults proliferate ever more frequently and powerfully? We continue to explore this question by f...
- Added: Jun 15, 2021
- Length: 27:48
Music host Paul Ingles welcomes his first repeat guest on his series - Steve Cropper - guitarist, producer, songwriter, and collaborator with most ...
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 3
