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Sidewalks Versus Surgery
From: Duke University
Series: Glad You Asked
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We could do a lot to improve public health and reduce runaway medical expenses if we focussed more on preventing disease and less on medical fixes,...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2016
  • Length: 02:18
Reshaping the Coast
From: Duke University
Series: Glad You Asked
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With our piecemeal coastal policies, "We're haphazardly geo-engineering a whole coast," says Duke University economist Martin Smith.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 1
A Perfect Storm
From: Duke University
Series: Glad You Asked
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Climate change, failing infrastructure and growing inequality add up to a perfect storm that is poised to hit the nation's poor, says Megan Mullin....

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 05, 2016
  • Length: 01:51
  • Purchases: 1
90 Second Naturalist - November 2015
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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90 second modules that celebrate the natural world and bring the wonder of nature into daily life

Bought by KMUN, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KCBX


  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 31:30
  • Purchases: 3
NOVA Minute: Humans and Mass Extinction
From: NOVA
Series: NOVA Minute
Caption: Sam Bowring, Credit: MIT
Sam Bowring studies mass extinctions in the Earth's past. He says humans might not be around much longer... geologically speaking.

Bought by Radio Newark, KRUA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 01:29
  • Purchases: 3
NOVA Minute: Loneliness in Space
From: NOVA
Series: NOVA Minute
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NASA psychologist Al Holland describes the mental challenges astronauts might face during a 3-year mission to Mars.

Bought by 91.7 WHUS Storrs, WEZU, WXDU, Radio Newark, KRUA and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 01:28
  • Purchases: 6
NOVA Minute: Diving in Underwater Caves
From: NOVA
Series: NOVA Minute
Caption: Kenny Broad
Anthropologist and explorer Kenny Broad studies some of the world's most dangerous places—underwater caves called "Blue Holes."

Bought by Radio Newark, KRUA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 01:29
  • Purchases: 3
NOVA Minute: Leeches
From: NOVA
Series: NOVA Minute
Caption: Mark Siddall, Credit: Sara Watson
Leech expert Mark Siddall explains why leeches can survive on nothing but blood.

Bought by Radio Newark, KRUA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 01:14
  • Purchases: 3
NOVA Minute: Diamond Electronics
From: NOVA
Series: NOVA Minute
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Materials scientist Stephen Steiner says that high-speed computers in the future might run on man-made diamonds instead of silicon.

Bought by Radio Newark, KRUA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 01:17
  • Purchases: 3
NOVA Minute: How Earth Got Its Water
From: NOVA
Series: NOVA Minute
Caption: Geoff Marcy, Credit: NASA
Planetary scientist Geoff Marcy describes how the Earth got just the right amount of water to support life.

Bought by Radio Newark, KRUA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 01:29
  • Purchases: 3
Science of Love
From: Christopher Moyer
Series: PsychRadio
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Findings from the "Love Lab."

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Jul 13, 2009
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 1
Self-esteem, relationships and physical health
From: Christopher Moyer
Series: PsychRadio
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Keeping the doctor away, with a little help from our friends.

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Jun 27, 2009
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Chili peppers and motivation
From: Christopher Moyer
Series: PsychRadio
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Why some people willingly eat painful food.

Bought by Raven Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KSFR


  • Added: Jun 27, 2009
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 3
Black bile
From: Distillations
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A sad, melancholy element

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
Pneuma
From: Distillations
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The science of the soul.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
Platinum
From: Distillations
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Platinum: beautiful, expensive, and scientifically important.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
Krypton
From: Distillations
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The real story of krypton

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
Fire
From: Distillations
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Fire, from a chemical perspective

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:31
Chromium
From: Distillations
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Chromium, the element named after color

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
Carbon
From: Distillations
Caption: PRX default Piece image
the most abundant element in the universe

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
Ruthenium
From: Distillations
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Ruthenium, a transition metal.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
Copper
From: Distillations
Caption: PRX default Piece image
a colorful use for this common element

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:31
The World of 1607 part 3
From: WCVE
Series: The World of 1607
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Measuring the Macrocosm and the Microcosm

  • Added: Nov 07, 2007
  • Length: 01:02
Liposuction
From: Judy Foreman
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Liposuction is generally safe, but there are real pitfalls

  • Added: Apr 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:46
CT Scanning for lung cancer
From: Judy Foreman
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The plusses and minuses of CT scanning for lung cancer

  • Added: Apr 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:24