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Mapping the Brain
From: Hold That Thought
Series: The Human Brain
Caption: White Matter Fiber Architecture, Credit: The Human Connectome Project
Pull our your compass, because researcher Deanna Barch is about to guide us through the Human Connectome Project.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 12:51
  • Purchases: 1
Your Brain on Movies, Pt. 1
From: Hold That Thought
Series: The Human Brain
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Psychologist Jeffrey Zacks explains why people (even psychologists!) get so emotionally involved in movies.

Bought by KUER, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 12:00
  • Purchases: 4
Your Brain on Movies, Pt. 2
From: Hold That Thought
Series: The Human Brain
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It's the sequel! Psychologist Jeff Zacks returns to explain how our eyes and brains make sense of continuous movie edits.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 11:39
  • Purchases: 3
Cocktail Effect Remix
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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In this remix, you’ll hear updated information, restructured content, and a new mix to explain how we parse voices and music in a noisy scene. Mu...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 13, 2016
  • Length: 15:19
  • Purchases: 1
India and Biotechnology
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Going Global
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Glenn Stone explores the controversies around genetically modified crops and the effects of biotechnology on farmers in India.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 10:30
The Best Medicine for Heart Disease
From: Richard Paul
Series: The Best Medicine with Dr. Ken Miller
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A look inside the labs, treatment facilities, and homes of those closest to heart disease.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KHNS, MPR News Stations, Maine Public Radio, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2015
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 6
Inka Milewski
From: David Kattenburg
Caption: Inka Milewski, at home in Miramichi, NB, Credit: David Kattenburg
Profile of New Brunswick, Canada researcher and environmental health advocate Inka Milewski

  • Added: Oct 24, 2015
  • Length: 29:42
Why We Pay Attention
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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Hear neuroscientist, Jacqueline Gottlieb, discuss some of the cutting-edge questions in neuroscience: What is attention on a neuronal level? How do...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 19, 2015
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 1
A Neuron Channel Makes You Dumb
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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New research reveals a strange fact – a special type of neuron channel (HCN) makes us dumb. Hear about basic neuron mechanics and the supposed func...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 22, 2015
  • Length: 07:18
  • Purchases: 2
#31 MIW Eric Drake - Small Business Owner & Inter-Galactic Consciousness Explorer
From: Allegra Bandy
Series: Making It Work Radio
Caption: Eric Drake on MIW, Credit: Oddua Productions
I’m Akeisha Johnson, your show host, and on this episode of Making It Work, we will chat with this small business owner of Saxology and Saxcraft ab...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2015
  • Length: 21:57
How We Hurt Learning
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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A short episode about the things that hurt the learning process: why distractions are distracting and the conflict your brain encounters when given...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 03, 2015
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 2
Stories in Rocks
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Into the Earth
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Geologist Phil Skemer gets to crush rocks for a living. Find out how and why he and his team build instruments that can mimic conditions deep insid...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: 12:55
  • Purchases: 1
A Volcanic Mystery
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Into the Earth
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How did the Cameroon Volcanic Line form? Geologist Aubreya Adams is on the hunt for clues.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: 11:58
  • Purchases: 1
A Meeting of the Sciences
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Into the Earth
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To understand rocks like banded iron formations, researcher Steven Chemtob has to approach the ancient formations in a variety of ways.

  • Added: Jun 10, 2015
  • Length: 09:12
Episode 4: How to do science, part 2: From the beach to the lab
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Measuring Marine Microbes
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If you send scientists to the beach, they may come back with the next way to produce biofuels. But it takes a lot of collaboration along the way.

  • Added: May 15, 2015
  • Length: 09:36
Episode 3: Microbial Warfare
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Measuring Marine Microbes
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It's like gang warfare, but with really tiny gang members. Some microbes provide their relatives with protection, emitting antibiotics that kill of...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 15, 2015
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 1
Test Stress
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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You’ve probably experienced test anxiety. Listen to what it’s like for teenagers to take a test with test anxiety. Then hear educators question whe...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 31, 2015
  • Length: 09:12
  • Purchases: 1
How to Measure Learning
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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How do we measure learning? Hear neuroscientists and teachers describe how it's done in the lab and at school.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 27, 2015
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 2
Synaptic Pruning
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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How do we get better at tasks? In this short episode, we describe an important mechanism of learning: pruning away neural connections.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 3
Learning Defined
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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Listen to experts define learning and lead us through the types of knowledge to be gained in learning. Then hear the basic explanation of how neuro...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 14, 2015
  • Length: 10:09
  • Purchases: 2
Psychology of Jazz (Ep. 11)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Jazz pianist Kenny Werner: the accidental guru of the musical self-help movement
Are jazz musicians more prone to mental illness? Can jazz be therapeutic? And what can musicians do to get over performance anxiety? We'll answer t...

Bought by WCPN, KMUN, KHNS, Radio New Zealand, WCPN and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 26
Taste The Color Eight
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive: Summer 2011
Caption: Number Tube, Credit: Andrew
On today's show, we hear two stories about a brain condition called synesthesia. That's when the stimulation of one pathway in the brain leads to a...

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network and KUOW


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 11:09
  • Purchases: 2
Episode #3: The Sweet Tooth
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: The Mixing Board
Caption: Quick! Blow out the candles so we can cut the cake!, Credit: Nathan D. Friend
OUCH! Keano's mouth gets burned — by chocolate! Michelle Dutro and Keano Martinez first hear from Lizzie Kirchner's family who explains the process...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 08:20
Episode #1: I Remember This One Time…
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: The Mixing Board
Caption: Bryce Ellis enjoys a day at the park, just like in his earliest childhood memories, Credit: Molly Anderson
Molly Anderson and Bryce Ellis explore human memory through a story told by intern Lizzie Kirshner. They also interview Jessica Sommervile on the f...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 08:50
Wood-Fired Woes
From: Youth Express
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Diamond, Demetrius, Josh and Kevin interview Jamin Bogi (Group Against Smog and Pollution), Phil Johnson (The Heinz Endowments) and Neil Donahue (C...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 03:26

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