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Caption: Torbjörn Törnqvist says sea-level rise will overtake natural subsidence as a cause of land loss., Credit: Barry Yeoman
Most of us shudder to imagine the impact of another large oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and for good reason. A spill in future decades could hav...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 04:36
Caption: Commuters taking the highway to downtown Austin., Credit: Image courtesy of Flickr user Rutlo.
We continue the four-part series: Our Chemical Landscape. These shows look at how science has shaped the city, the suburb, the farm, and the wild. ...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2011
  • Length: 14:36
Caption: Philadelphia skyline., Credit:  Image courtesy of Flickr user Kevin Burkett.
In honor of the International Year of Chemistry, today we begin the four-part series Our Chemical Landscape. These shows look at how science has sh...

  • Added: May 27, 2011
  • Length: 14:35

  • Added: Jan 07, 2011
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Inside Technology
The Water-Energy Crunch is a clash of essential needs. Humans are thirsty creatures who need water to drink and bathe, but also to produce most for...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUNM, 90.5 WESA and more


  • Added: Jan 03, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
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Stand-alone segment of Planet Warning Series. With the earth heating up with global warming, the polar ice sheets are melting. But nobody knows ho...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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There are now over 400 "dead zones" in coastal oceanic waters with varying degrees of oxygen-deprivation.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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Scientists predict fish stocks worldwide will collapse by mid-century unless drastic changes are made to humankind's impact on the oceans.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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Revised piece. Too much carbon is flooding the ocean with carbolic acid, with devestating effects on life in the sea.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2010
  • Length: 01:58
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the sound of ice dripping

Bought by PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Jul 19, 2010
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 1
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From Darwin's early years to his voyage of discovery on H.M.S. Beagle.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 07, 2010
  • Length: 53:51
  • Purchases: 1
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Why Science and society today are still wrestling with Darwin's big idea.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 07, 2010
  • Length: 53:47
  • Purchases: 1
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What 'The Origin Of Species' said, and what was said about it.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 06, 2010
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 1
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Darwin thinks his way to 'The Origin of Species'.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 06, 2010
  • Length: 53:44
  • Purchases: 1
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This two-part series examines the debate by world-class scientists if a connection between tics, Tourette's, obsessive-compulsive disorder and ext...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2010
  • Length: 20:30
Caption: From Knowledge to Wisdom, by Nicholas Maxell. Published by Pentire Press, 2007
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Twenty-Four of a documentary series by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program Ideas.Modern societies ...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:57
Caption: The Trouble With Physics, by Lee Smolin. Published by Houghton Mifflin, 2006
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Twenty-Three of a documentary series by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program Ideas. Modern societie...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Caption: The Harmony of Illusions , by Allan Young. Published by Princeton University Press, 1997
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Twenty-Two of a documentary series by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program Ideas. Modern societies ...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Caption: Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism, by Christopher Norris. Published by Routledge, 2000
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Twenty-One of a documentary series by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program Ideas. Modern societies ...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Re-Thinking Science, published by Polity Press, 2002
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Twenty of a documentary series by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program Ideas. In this episode, he t...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Caption: Exploding the Gene Myth by Ruth Hubbard and Elijah Wald. Published by Beacon Press, 1999
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Nineteen of a documentary by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program IDEAS. Modern societies have tend...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Caption: Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA. The 1990 Massey Lectures by Richard Lewontin
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Eighteen of a documentary by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program IDEAS. Modern societies have tend...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Caption: Physicist and Professor of the history of science at Harvard
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Seventeen of a documentary by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program IDEAS. Modern societies have ten...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Caption: The Scientific Revolution, by Steven Shapin. Published by University of Chicago Press, 1998
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Sixteen of a documentary by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program IDEAS. Modern societies have tende...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:57
Caption: Disembodying Women, by Barbara Duden. Published by Harvard Univeristy Press, 1993
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Fifteen of a documentary by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program IDEAS. The word gene is a scientif...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56