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Top of Mind - Should Being a Bystander Be a Crime

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Why do some people help when others stand by? Every heroic act starts with paying attention to what other people need. Resisting the urge to stand ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioStPete Florida, KSTK, RADIOLEX, KOWS and more

Added: May 25, 2023
Length: 52:51
Purchases: 6

Constant Wonder - Rough Sleepers: A Doctor's Quest to Help the Homeless

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

Tony was an unhoused man who was hunting for a purpose in the world and defended weak people. Women called him the Night Watchman, he would stay up...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)

Added: May 17, 2023
Length: 52:52
Purchases: 1

Constant Wonder - A Family Crosses the Color Line

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

Her family had to swear on paper to be entirely white in order to have civil rights. Rachel Webster, recalibrates everything she thought she knew a...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WYAP

Added: May 11, 2023
Length: 52:51
Purchases: 2

Constant Wonder - My Father's Brain: A Doctor Reckons With Alzheimer's

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

A brilliant scientist starts exhibiting erratic behavior in this poignant father son story. It's our latest episode of Constant Wonder.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)

Added: May 03, 2023
Length: 52:50
Purchases: 1

Top of Mind - Who is Responsible for Combating Pollution?

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose

When we drink the water, breathe the air and dig in the soil in our communities, we expect it to be safe. Who is responsible for combating pollution?

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KMXT, KOWS and more

Added: Apr 21, 2023
Length: 52:50
Purchases: 6

Constant Wonder - Superplants vs. Superbugs

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

With courage and humor, this scientist searches for superplants that can defeat superbugs. For her, it's personal.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida

Added: Apr 11, 2023
Length: 52:51
Purchases: 1

Constant Wonder - Sprouting a Seed That Survived the Roman Siege

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

When Romans put down a Judean rebellion in 73 AD, they also extinguished the Judean date palm. Two thousand years later, an unlikely pair of scient...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida

Added: Apr 06, 2023
Length: 52:50
Purchases: 2

Constant Wonder - The Funky, Fragile World Beneath Your Feet

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

Since the first shock of landing in desert country, Sasha Reed has fallen in love with it, especially the organisms that constitute bio crust. They...

Bought by WVTF, RadioStPete Florida, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WYAP

Added: Mar 30, 2023
Length: 52:51
Purchases: 4

Constant Wonder - Dreams Before Dying

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

Dr Christopher Kerr and his team have videotaped hundreds of terminally ill patients to hear about their end of life experiences. He's convinced th...

Bought by WVTF, GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP

Added: Mar 20, 2023
Length: 52:50
Purchases: 4

Constant Wonder - A Real-Life Indiana Jones Discovers Shackleton's Lost Ship

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

He spearheaded the recent expedition to locate the final resting place of Ernest Shackleton's famous ship Endurance. Mensun Bound relates the wonde...

Bought by WVTF, GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP

Added: Mar 09, 2023
Length: 52:50
Purchases: 4

Constant Wonder - Blue Mind: Finding Emotional Healing in Water

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

Jay Nichols is convinced that water is very good for us. Not just the conventional wisdom of keeping hydrated, being in, near, on, or around water ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP

Added: Feb 28, 2023
Length: 52:50
Purchases: 3

Constant Wonder - Experiencing Awe in Tragedy

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

A preeminent researcher tells about his personal experiences of wonder. Feelings of awe beneath the desert stars, and endless wonders he feels are ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP

Added: Feb 23, 2023
Length: 52:50
Purchases: 3

Top of Mind - Why Do We Take Risks?

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose

The pandemic has us recalculating risks in life. But risk assessment requires a lot of effort.

Bought by KSTK, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioStPete Florida, RADIOLEX, WYAP and more

Added: Feb 23, 2023
Length: 52:50
Purchases: 7

Constant Wonder - Anxiously Ever After: A Father Faces Mental Illness With Humor

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

Clint Edwards has told a few whoppers in his day, things that he didn't even need to lie about. For example, he wrecked his bike once and then told...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida

Added: Feb 14, 2023
Length: 52:49
Purchases: 3

Engineering Meat Cruelty-Free, with Dr. Katie Kam

From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast

Cultivated meat has the potential to disrupt the meat industry, and engineer Dr. Katie Kam joins the podcast to talk about it. Katie founded BioBQ...

Added: Feb 12, 2023
Length: 28:20

Constant Wonder - Infrasound

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

Deep rumbles in the Earth, through the Earth. Frequencies below the threshold of human hearing. Infrasound, if we can detect it around volcanoes, m...

Bought by WVTF, GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP

Added: Feb 08, 2023
Length: 52:50
Purchases: 4

Sound Ecology: 'Akiapōlā'au

From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology

The 'Akiapōlā'au is one of Hawaii's rare and endangered birds, living exclusively on the Big Island.

Added: Feb 08, 2023
Length: 01:30

Top of Mind - Green Lights for Migraines, Black in Science, Lithium Mining

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Topic 1 - Green Lights for Migraines; Topic 2 - Black in Science; Topic 3 - Lithium Mining

Bought by RadioStPete Florida

Added: Feb 02, 2023
Length: 51:45
Purchases: 1

Protecting the Common Loon

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture Podcast

Caption: A loon on Elbow Lake, Credit: Pam Hickman, volunteer with Birds Canada

For Minnesotans, the common loon is more than our state bird. It's a symbol of the beauty of our home. For scientists, the loon's health is also an...

Added: Jan 19, 2023
Length: 20:38

Constant Wonder - Snowfall, Snowflakes, and Ice Instruments

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

How snowfall fits into climate change, snowflake science, and instruments fashioned from ice actually work...and sound good!

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and RadioStPete Florida

Added: Dec 27, 2022
Length: 52:49
Purchases: 2

The Emotion Roadmap Successfully Planning for A Special Holiday Gathering

From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel

Emotion Roadmap explained with an example from a caller, Jim, who wants to make sure his new partner, and his son and daughter, who are all meeting...

Added: Dec 21, 2022
Length: 23:29

Top of Mind - Lewy Body Dementia, Saving Pets and People, Undersea World

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Topic 1: A disease called Lewy body dementia is the second-most common type of degenerative dementia after Alzheimer's. But it's a lot less well-un...

Bought by KMXT, KSTK, WYAP, KOWS, and KTNA