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Thousands of new chemicals have been developed and released into the global environment during the last four decades. Yet, most of those chemicals ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 15, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Summer is the perfect season to kick back and crack open a cold one. But, when you’re trying to pick the perfect beer, do you ever wonder whether i...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 03:52
- Purchases: 1
Here in the US, most of us put our eggs in the refrigerator. But in many other countries, eggs can stay on the counter. So, could we save energy he...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 29, 2020
- Length: 03:58
- Purchases: 2
Would a microwave oven or an electric stove use more energy to boil a cup of water?
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 24, 2020
- Length: 04:06
- Purchases: 1
If you're choosing between charcoal and gas, choose gas. Grilling with charcoal for an hour produces three times the emissions of grilling with gas...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 15, 2020
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 2
The Blue Zones are five small areas in the world where people outlive the American and western European average life span by about a decade. The 10...
- Added: Apr 26, 2020
- Length: 09:46
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
It’s called “colony collapse disorder” or CCD.
A number of years ago US beekeeping operations realized they lost between 30 and 90 percent of their...
- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Food has become cheaper and more abundant in the last 150 years, largely thanks to technological advances. Irrigation, fertilizer, pesticides, and ...
Bought by KSJD
- Added: Jun 29, 2014
- Length: 22:01
- Purchases: 1
Pulitzer Prize-winning Michael Moss describes “bliss point” and “mouth feel,” two of the terms common in the trillion-dollar processed food industr...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Mar 21, 2013
- Length: 10:00
- Purchases: 3
In the last five years the world has seen two devastating spikes in the price of food, and according to journalist and professor Frederick Kaufman,...
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
Across the country, a renaissance of local food, local farming and place based culinary traditions is taking hold. Yet, something small, critically...
- Added: Aug 07, 2012
- Length: 28:57
