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The Glyphosate-Autism Connection
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Dr. Stephanie Seneff of MIT talks about her research linking pesticide residues in food to the destruction of gut bacteria and link to autism.

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 2
Return, Rebury, Repatriate
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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Activists were angry that a museum held the skulls of enslaved people. Then they discovered it also had remains of Black children killed in 1985.

  • Added: May 14, 2023
  • Length: 56:58
Big Hunger Big Chicken Big Moment
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Big Hunger by Andrew Fisher and Big Chicken by Maryn McKenna
Antibiotics in chicken getting away from us and hunger groups loving on corporations. Plus ending hunger by force of law.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Oct 07, 2017
  • Length: 57:57
  • Purchases: 2
Deadly Opioid Overwhelms First Responders And Crime Labs in Ohio
From: Side Effects Public Media
Caption: Bob Topmiller, chief of toxicology at the Hamilton County Coroner's Office, holds a small vial containing carfentanil extracted from a sample of blood., Credit: Jake Harper/Side Effects
Heroin isn't new in Cincinnati, but the recent surge in overdoses is being blamed on an even more potent drug called carfentanil. It's 100 times st...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 27, 2016
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 1
Unspun Grieves with Guy McPherson Over the Demise of Homo Sapiens
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Guy McPherson
Guy McPherson, professor emeritus of natural resources and the environment at the University of Arizona, where he taught and conducted research for...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2015
  • Length: 59:37
The Caffeine Kick That Can Kill You
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
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Caffeine Powder, or the purest form of caffeine, is a very lethal substance in small amounts. Many people do not know about the dangers of the prod...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2015
  • Length: 03:30
The Last Mosquito
From: Anton Foek
Caption: Mosquito Net
According to scientists from all over the world approximately 1 million people die of malaria every year. The world community spends billions of d...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 07:19
  • Purchases: 1
Nanotech Nervousness
From: The Environment Report
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Nanotechnology is being used in all kinds of products with little government regulation.

Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 18, 2007
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 2
Where Do Cadavers Come From?
From: Lawrence Lanahan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
What happens after a person donates his body to science? Follow the process from embalming table to medical school to waterfront plot.

  • Added: May 09, 2007
  • Length: 12:58
Glacier Melts
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Glaciologists use wireless sensors to research glacial ice melt due to Global Warming.

Bought by KZSC


  • Added: May 11, 2006
  • Length: 09:27
  • Purchases: 1
Uranium Mining Returns to Colorado
From: KRCC-FM
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Abandoned uranium mines coming back online

  • Added: Aug 03, 2005
  • Length: 09:25
The Reindeer People
From: Lorne Matalon
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Mongolia's remaining reindeer herders are trying to find their way in post-Communist Mongolia.

Bought by The Nature Podcast, WNIN, KFAI Minneapolis, WGCU, and KLCC


  • Added: Dec 21, 2004
  • Length: 07:35
  • Purchases: 5