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This Week in Water for December 3, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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The War in Israel Comes for U.S. Water Systems. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRZA, KMXT, KGNU Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2023
  • Length: 06:10
  • Purchases: 7
Radical Curiosity: Exploring the Future of Aging with Dr. Ken Dychtwald
From: Paul VOGELZANG
Caption: The Not Old Better Show
Our guest on PRX Radio is Dr. Ken Dychtwald. Dr. Ken Dychtwald is a psychologist, gerontologist, and visionary who has been shaping conversations a...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2023
  • Length: 29:53
Starstruck with Sarafina El-Badry Nance
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Sarafina El-Badry Nance’s Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark debuted on June 6, 2023. Starstruck shares Sarafina’s emotional and inspiring journey to becoming an astrophysicist, and the powerful role space science can play , Credit: Penguin Random House
Sarafina El-Badry Nance joins Planetary Radio to discuss her new book, Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, KVSC, KIYU-FM, KWMR, WJCU and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Portrait of a Scientist: A Conversation with Psyche mission leader Lindy Elkins-Tanton
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman is the great new memoir by Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Credit: William Morrow
Psyche asteroid mission principal investigator Lindy Elkins-Tanton returns with her excellent new memoir, “A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young W...

Bought by KMUN, WFHB, KIYU-FM, WJCU, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Legendary Space Physics Pioneer Margaret Kivelson
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Margaret Kivelson at JPL with a model of the Jupiter-orbiting Galileo spacecraft., Credit: NASA
A fascinating conversation with a space science and policy leader who is still hard at work in her 10th decade.

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  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
Sally Ride: Our 2005 Conversation
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Sally Ride in orbit aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, Credit: NASA
A first-ever encore of our wonderful conversation with the first American woman in space.

Bought by WFHB, KIYU-FM, KWMR, WJCU, KRZA and more


  • Added: Oct 27, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Amazing Technology at the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Symposium
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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Here’s our sampling of the leading edge research presented by NIAC Fellows at NASA’s 2021 virtual gathering.

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
The Women in AI Are Talking
From: The Story Exchange
Series: Good on the Ground
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We sit down with three female founders who are running AI startups -- and they tell us exactly what it's like to be a woman in artificial intellige...

  • Added: May 21, 2021
  • Length: 20:57
African Eyes Look to the Cosmos
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Astronomers Without Borders founder Mike Simmons, AWB National Coordinator for Nigeria Olayinka Fagbemiro and host Mat Kaplan after their conversation at the Planetary Society, Credit: Mat Kaplan/The Planetary Society
The founder of Astronomers Without Borders brings the organization’s leader in Nigeria to the Planetary Radio microphones.

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  • Added: Mar 03, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
Science Profile: Health Physicist Hattie Carwell
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Hattie Carwell
Close your eyes and imagine a physicist. What does this person look like? Was it a white guy? Well, if it was, you might be guilty of reaffirming s...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
M Jackson: It's Thin Where We're Skating
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: M Jackson
Have you ever noticed that scientists historically are mostly white men? Do you think that this fact has skewed some scientific findings? Well, our...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 28:30
Gender & STEM Achievement
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
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Girls get slightly higher grades in science and math worldwide than boys, but fewer enter STEM professions.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, KENW, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 06, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 5
C-HIT The WorkUp: Women and Depression Part 1
From: Lynne DeLucia
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Women are about twice as likely to suffer from depression as men. It’s the leading cause of disability worldwide.

  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 09:05
C-HIT The WorkUp: Women and Depression Part 2
From: Lynne DeLucia
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Women are about twice as likely to suffer from depression as men. Poor and minority women are less likely to get help than affluent or white women.

  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 09:02
Big Talk! w/ Michael Glab: Caty Pilachowski
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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Indiana University Astronomy Department Professor and Kirkwood Chair Caty Pilachowski talks with Michael Glab about this month’s once-in-a-century ...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 08:42
Moms-To-Be With Addiction Face Obstacles At Every Turn
From: Side Effects Public Media
Series: Side Effects News
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Insurance companies set rules that sometime make patients go for days without opioid addiction medicine. These rules are especially tough on pregna...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
A Cosmic Voyage with Astronomer Sandra Faber
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: • New Very Large Telescope image of galaxy Messier 77 , Credit: • European Southern Observatory
Veteran astronomer and cosmologist Sandra Faber has just been awarded the Gruber Prize for Cosmology, honoring more than forty years of pioneering ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WTJU, KWMR, WMUU-LP, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Thomas Edison, Eclipse Chaser!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: "American Eclipse" by David Baron, Credit: Liveright/W.W. Norton
The great inventor was just one of many men and women who made their way across the American West to view and document the total solar eclipse of 1...

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
Repairing BRCA1 (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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About 1 in 8 American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in their lifetime. Some of the most aggressive forms of breast cance...

Bought by KENW, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 4
Big Talk! w/ Michael Glab: Heather Bradshaw
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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Michael Glab talks with Heather Bradshaw about the active compounds in marijuana and how they may or may not be useful as medicines on this week’s ...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2017
  • Length: 08:49
Ice, Snow and Lava: Exploring Antarctica’s Mount Erebus
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Rosaly Lopes on the slopes of Antarctica's Mt. Erebus, Credit: Michael Carroll
Earth’s southernmost active volcano may also be its most remote. Rosaly Lopes and Michael Carroll recently spent a few frigid days on the slopes o...

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  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan Leaves NASA
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Outgoing NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan, Credit: NASA
For well over three years, planetary scientist Ellen Stofan has worked directly with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden to help coordinate and expan...

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  • Added: Jan 17, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Big Talk: Betsy Stirratt
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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The director of the IU Grunwald Gallery of Art, Betsy Stirratt, joins Michael Glab on this week's edition of Big Talk!

  • Added: Oct 13, 2016
  • Length: 09:10
Gender and Infectious Disease - Martha Anker - PHM
From: Public Health Minute
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Women are the main caretakers of the sick and the majority of nurses all around the world are women; therefore, women are more exposed to some infe...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2016
  • Length: :59
Evolution of Monogamy
From: Jorge Salazar
Series: Science and Supercomputers Podcasts
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UT Austin biologist Rebecca Young traces the genes behind monogamous behavior using Wrangler data-intensive supercomputer.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Apr 01, 2016
  • Length: 08:10
  • Purchases: 1