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If you’ve spent some time on TikTok or YouTube recently, you might have stumbled across ASMR content without even knowing it. From long acrylic nai...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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Egg donation in the U.S. is a multibillion dollar industry designed to provide infertile folks with the eggs they need to conceive. But how do we d...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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If you could speak again with a loved one who has passed away, would you? With recent advances in artificially intelligent grief tech, this questio...

Bought by KWGS


  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 1
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If you could speak again with a loved one who has passed away, would you? With recent advances in artificially intelligent grief tech, this questio...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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Sex robots have been a sci-fi staple since the genre’s birth. Now that more advancements in technology are bringing early generation bots to life, ...

Bought by KWGS and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 16, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 2
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AI chatbots garner millions of daily users, filling a variety of roles from customer support to text generator. But what about their romantic poten...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WHRV, KWGS, RadioFreePalmer, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 5
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AI chatbots garner millions of daily users, filling a variety of roles from customer support to text generator. But what about their romantic pote...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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There are 1.8 billion monthly menstruators worldwide. Better understanding the science behind period blood, as well as cultural stigma and period p...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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OCD often goes misdiagnosed and misunderstood … and if left untreated, can impact platonic, intimate and familial relationships in challenging ways.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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Humans are the only animal to produce emotional tears. Asking questions about this behavior can help us better understand how we live our lives.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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Between the ages of 40 and 70, more than half of all people with penises will deal with some form of erectile dysfunction. While that experience ca...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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Self-help has existed in some form since the dawn of human civilization and has grown into a robust industrial complex. But does self-help really m...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KTSW 89.9, Troy Public Radio, KGOU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 10
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Self-help has existed in some form since the dawn of human civilization and has grown into a robust industrial complex. But does self-help really m...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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Stuttering has long been the butt of many jokes. People who stutter are working to change that.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2023
  • Length: 58:23
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The rise of the wellness industry and marketing of wellness products moves us away from the individualized practices that actually make us feel hea...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Boise State Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, KJZZ and more


  • Added: Nov 22, 2023
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 7
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The Nocturnists’ Emily Silverman tells a story about how medical school satisfied much of her curiosity about the human body—but how some mysteries...

  • Added: May 05, 2023
  • Length: 44:24
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Medical student Katie van Kampen brings us into the magical world of Dungeons & Dragons. The deeper they get into the forest, the more parallels th...

  • Added: May 05, 2023
  • Length: 42:56
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Emergency medicine and helicopter flight physician Mike Abernethy recounts an unexpected run-in at his local Walmart that made him feel as if he’d ...

  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 46:55
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Hospitalist PJ Lally reflects on a time he got a second chance at life.

  • Added: May 02, 2023
  • Length: 47:19
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OB/GYN Jackie Howitt and pediatrician Gretchen Volk bring us into the deserted airport where they first met in April 2020 on their way to offer COV...

  • Added: May 02, 2023
  • Length: 53:32
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How do we get the right information without falling down the rabbit hole of misinformation? In our final installment of series on vaccine hesitanc...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 57:18
  • Purchases: 1
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We revisit Sarah Aronson's interview with Doug Chadwick from 2017. Wildlife biologist and author Doug Chadwick engages in a lively discussion aroun...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 26, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Shelter in Place Podcast, Credit: Sarah Edgell
Why we're losing against COVID-19--but don't have to be.

  • Added: Nov 25, 2020
  • Length: 40:06
Caption: Walter Koenig, Credit: Richard Solomon
Live from the floor of the Javitz Center for Star Trek 50 New York

  • Added: Sep 27, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
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In the second episode of the new series, Palestinians Podcast, we hear from Rana Akleh, a doctoral student at Boston College. Rana artistically des...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2016
  • Length: 29:15