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Psychiatrist Pooja Lakshmin speaks about her book "Real Self-Care", which challenges mainstream notions of self care and offers a new framework for...
- Added: Dec 21, 2023
- Length: 53:06
Critical care physician Hannah Wunsch speaks about her book The Autumn Ghost, which tells the story of a polio epidemic in Copenhagen in the 1950s,...
- Added: Dec 19, 2023
- Length: 54:03
It’s been a year of weather extremes – again. But there’s also been cause for renewed hope about our climate future. On the heels of this year’s i...
- Added: Dec 18, 2023
- Length: 59:00
We talk with ecologist Carl Safina about his book, Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe. It’s about how a tiny ragged ball of fluff ta...
- Added: Nov 02, 2023
- Length: 36:19
Disasters caused by burning fossil fuels are becoming more frequent, and in the aftermath of hurricanes, floods and wildfires, federal and state re...
Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KOWS and more
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 9
David Kattenburg speaks about Henrietta Lacks and medical racism in America with Dorothy Roberts. Roberts is Professor of Law and Sociology at the ...
- Added: Oct 01, 2023
- Length: 34:56
It is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organisms have profoundly transformed our planet over the long course of its history. Elemental reve...
- Added: Sep 25, 2023
- Length: 41:55
Six out of nine planetary systems key to the survival of the human species are under threat. Is Earth still a safe operating space for human beings...
- Added: Sep 24, 2023
- Length: 58:33
Feed your head, Grace Slick cried in the song White Rabbit. How about feeding the bacteria in your gut? Beer won’t make you smart. How about wine, ...
- Added: Sep 16, 2023
- Length: 56:05
Author and biologist Sandra Steingraber talks about the impact of fossil fuels on our oceans, ahead of the March to End Fossil Fuels.
- Added: Sep 11, 2023
- Length: 28:48
Jess talks with UCLA climate scientist and Weather West blogger Dr. Daniel Swain about this summer of extremes.
- Added: Sep 05, 2023
- Length: 29:00
What's wrong with dumping a million gallons of radioactive wastewater into the Hudson River?
- Added: Sep 04, 2023
- Length: 28:23
- Purchases: 3
Contemporary Western fire science is integrating what Indigenous Peoples discovered over thousands of years of observation, and trial and error: fi...
- Added: Aug 28, 2023
- Length: 28:30
World renowned epidemiologist Shanna Swan has an important warning for couples planning to have a baby.
- Added: Aug 14, 2023
- Length: 28:01
- Purchases: 3
If you want to cool off in this brutal desert summer, you need to get up someplace higher, around 7,000 feet up — the high-desert plateau around Lo...
- Added: Aug 12, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
Bacteria in your gut tweak your brain. Sometimes friendly, sometimes not. The hundred-day genocide in Rwanda -- recalling the mayhem on its 29th an...
- Added: Jul 30, 2023
- Length: 58:49
Artificial Intelligence -- existential threat to humanity, or just to basic civil rights? Personal DNA testing – you never know what you’ll find. ...
- Added: Jul 23, 2023
- Length: 58:54
After the news, author and investigative journalist Alden Wicker talks about toxic chemicals in the fashion industry.
- Added: Jul 17, 2023
- Length: 28:14
- Purchases: 2
After years of study, a scientific panel proposes a formal definition of the Anthropocene, naming the spot where humanity’s fingerprints are best o...
- Added: Jul 17, 2023
- Length: 58:05
Nothing woolly-headed or Utopian about it: A universal, guaranteed basic income. A hundred years later, memories of war that do not fade. And, one ...
- Added: Jul 09, 2023
- Length: 59:14
Humanity’s impact on Planet Earth has a name: the Anthropocene. The start of Earth’s human age can be pinpointed in ice and biological cores, and t...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Jul 04, 2023
- Length: 59:33
- Purchases: 1
Jess speaks from her experience conducting deep ocean research to answer questions raised by UCS scientists and staff about the recent disasters of...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 19:00
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch was just the beginning for author and photographer Erica Cirino.
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 28:25
Powerful new antibiotics discovered using artificial intelligence. Sitting in a restaurant, staring at a piece of fish. Is it really that expensive...
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 58:52
NY Sierra Club's Tracy Frisch tells why spreading sewage sludge on farmland is a really bad idea that will contaminate fields forever.
Bought by WRFA-LP, WMUU-LP, and WNED Buffalo
- Added: Jun 05, 2023
- Length: 28:15
- Purchases: 3
