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This week on the show: What happens if, in an attempt to learn more about yourself, you find something ugly?
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Aug 19, 2022
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: We were so overwhelmed by your emails we could hardly keep your names straight!
- Added: Aug 05, 2022
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Should we just… ignore the (pretty solid) health data saying we shouldn't drink until middle age?
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Jul 22, 2022
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Historian and philosopher Yuval Harari writes, “When the first humans reached Australia about 45,000 years ago, they quickly drove to extinction 90...
- Added: Jul 13, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Years of extreme drought have left the Colorado River at alarmingly low levels. Earlier this month, water management experts testified in front of ...
- Added: Jun 28, 2022
- Length: 29:00
A personal and political fight to keep abortion legal in Michigan is in full swing — in the courts, on the campaign trail, at the ballot box this N...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 17:59
Psychologist and pop culture icon of the 1960s, Timothy Leary, famously instructed San Francisco hippies to take psychedelic drugs in order to “tur...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jun 15, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: The stuff you breathe out can tell an enormous amount about your health — and intentions.
- Added: May 13, 2022
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Studies out of South Africa indicate that our natural immunity to Omicron might already be waning.
- Added: May 07, 2022
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: A less healthy Gabe returns to talk long COVID, new variants & the best corona metric we still have.
- Added: Apr 22, 2022
- Length: 30:00
After Medicare’s decision to restrict coverage of the controversial new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, we look at how this one drug has forced the natio...
- Added: Apr 14, 2022
- Length: 22:11
San Francisco saw more people die from drug overdoses than from COVID-19 over the last two years. We take a deep dive into the complex factors cont...
- Added: Apr 12, 2022
- Length: 29:30
You may not have seen them running through your yard, but just wait. Feral pigs are everywhere and they’re a growing problem. This week on Sea Chan...
- Added: Apr 05, 2022
- Length: 29:00
This week on the show: How could a diabetes medicine be connected with a '40% increase' in birth defects? And with stealth omicron now dominating....
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WXDU
- Added: Apr 01, 2022
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
Since March 2020, the global community has grappled with an unprecedented pandemic. At first, most people were willing to do what it takes to keep ...
Bought by KUHF, KGUA, WMUU-LP, Maine Public Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz and more
- Added: Mar 28, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 9
Since March 2020, the global community has grappled with an unprecedented pandemic. At first, most people were willing to do what it takes to keep ...
- Added: Mar 28, 2022
- Length: 59:00
This week on the show: When a child asks you about war and impending death, what exactly should you say? In other news, the Black Death may not ha...
- Added: Mar 05, 2022
- Length: 30:00
We explore “cascades of care” — how a doctor’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.
- Added: Mar 03, 2022
- Length: 18:18
This week on the show: As support drops for COVID-19 measures, the people who are violently opposed to them are gaining strength.
- Added: Feb 18, 2022
- Length: 30:00
In this episode, we discuss vaccines – the science that has brought us such an incredible solution to public health crises; the human response to v...
- Added: Feb 16, 2022
- Length: 29:30
This week on the show: We received so many messages this past week about the lopsided male COVID-19 mortality rate. Maybe you wrote one of them?
- Added: Feb 05, 2022
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Getting COVID-19 had an impact on getting pregnant — and also, what actually causes two people to stay together?
- Added: Jan 29, 2022
- Length: 30:00
With Omicron cases surging, we speak with Dr. Kim Rhoads, who has been working on community-led responses since the beginning of the pandemic. She ...
- Added: Jan 14, 2022
- Length: 29:30
This week on the show: Hospitals, animals and miniature human organoids are showing us how omicron causes disease. And the news is mostly good.
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Jan 07, 2022
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: Omicron won't be a wave, it'll be a wall, says Germany's top virologist. And the best response is to lock things down — aga...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Dec 25, 2021
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
