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The Music of the Glaciers (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Composer Matthew Burtner, Credit: Matthew Burtner
Listen to how the sounds of melting glaciers are being frozen in time and woven into haunting electronic musical compositions. We also talk about d...

Bought by WJCT, KMUN, WCQS, WNMU-FM, WNSB and more


  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Music of the Glaciers (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
Caption: Composer Matthew Burtner, Credit: Matthew Burtner
Listen to how the sounds of melting glaciers are being frozen in time and woven into haunting electronic musical compositions. We also talk about d...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
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
Renée Fleming: Music's Ability to Heal
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Renee Fleming with Hartmut Hoell, Credit: Bob Millard
Renée Fleming along with other musicians and scientists look at the remarkable ability of music to make us whole.

Bought by KZUM, KVNF, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 3
Cancer Research and Treatment
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Researchers hope to repair cancer-causing genes - A new app is designed to make more informed patients - A hidden HIV epidemic among elderly Africa...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
Cancer Research and Treatment (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Researchers hope to repair cancer-causing genes - A new app is designed to make more informed patients - A hidden HIV epidemic among elderly Africa...

Bought by WCNY, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WCWP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 10
Cancer Research and Treatment (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Repairing cancer-causing genes - A new app designed to make more informed patients

Bought by WJCT, WXDU, WCQS, WUGA (part of GPB), KMUN and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 10
Cure Violence with Founder Gary Slutkin MD. Epidimiologist with a Health based Vision to end the Epidemic of Violence
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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Cure Violence is guided by clear understandings that violence is a health issue, that individuals and communities can change for the better, that c...

Bought by WCNY and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jun 14, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Fart-fegnugen: Jack Ewing on VW Emissions Scandal
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jack Ewing
When a West Virginia University research team won a grant in 2012 to run some tests on diesel cars, they could not have imagined that their relativ...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 14, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 1
2017-04-16 Sea Heroes: Extreme Edition
From: Climate One
Caption: Liz Taylor, President, DOER Marine
The seas generate much of the oxygen we breathe and drive much of our weather. But most people know very little about the ocean below the surface ...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: May 26, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Measure For Measure: Aclima's Davida Herzl
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Davida Herzl
Galileo said we should, “Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.” This week on Sea Change Radio, we take a look at two ways...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 16, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
There's a Hole in Your Ozone, Mr. President (from The Great American Wrong book and The Dept of Poetic Justice)
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: ...even the polar bears can teach him..., Credit: Susan Cook
Recently, millions protested government inaction on climate change and global warming. Let us find words to help the current administration grasp...

  • Added: May 14, 2017
  • Length: 02:52
The National Endowment for the Arts speaks with poet Kim Roberts
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kim Roberts
Kim Roberts brings a poet’s eye to The Scientific Method

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Animal Intersections (Promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Relationships between humans and other animals can be deeply complex. We delve into how humans can help other species, and how our behavior might c...

Bought by WRGY and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 28, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Animal Intersections (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Relationships between humans and other animals can be deeply complex. We delve into how humans can help the honeybee, and how our behavior might ch...

Bought by WCNY, KREV-LP, WTJU, WMUU-LP, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Apr 28, 2017
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 11
Animal Intersections (Half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Relationships between humans and other animals can be deeply complex. We delve into how humans can help the honeybee, and how our behavior might ch...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, 'The Sea', KWMR, KRDP and more


  • Added: Apr 28, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
Invasion of the Lionfish Snatchers
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Erika Angle
Perhaps it’s cold comfort but it turns out that we human beings are not the only species on earth hell-bent on destroying our own habitat. We share...

Bought by WMUU-LP and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 18, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
2017-04-23 Jane Goodall in Conversation with Jeff Horowitz and Greg Dalton
From: Climate One
Caption: Dr. Jane Goodall
For much of her nearly six-decade-long career, Dr. Jane Goodall has worked to raise awareness about the importance of protecting our planet. The Ja...

Bought by MPR News Stations


  • Added: Apr 17, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pulitzer100: Stories in Science (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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-Pulitzer Prize winning author Dan Fagin on his book "Tom's River: A Story of Science and Salvation" that tells the story of a how small town fough...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: :30
Pulitzer100: Stories in Science (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Pulitzer Prize winning author Dan Fagin on his book "Tom's River: A Story of Science and Salvation" that tells the story of a how small town fough...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KEDT, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 11
Pulitzer100: Stories in Science (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Pulitzer Prize winning author Dan Fagin on how a small town fought against pollution and the polluters. -Marc Edwards who helped uncover the water...

Bought by WJCT, WLPR , KRZA, KMUN, WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 10
High & Dry: Talking Groundwater
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rosemarie and William Alley
With drought-stricken California enjoying its wettest winter in decades, it can be easy to forget that water scarcity is among the globe's most dea...

Bought by WMUU-LP, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Mar 14, 2017
  • Length: 29:20
  • Purchases: 3
Lead-Headed Hunting Laws
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Kelly Sorenson
On his first day on the job, newly appointed Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, rode to work on a horse. This was obviously a rugged, outdoor e...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 07, 2017
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Daniel Monti of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Innovating Integrative Health Care & Education.
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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Doc Ken host of Maximum Health Radio 88.9fm WQCS NPR brings you the future of Integrative Medicine Institutes - Thomas Jefferson University Hospita...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 27:14
Patricia McConnell & The Education of Will: A Mutual Memoir of a Woman and Her Dog
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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The author is a zoologist & animal behaviorist. She describes herself as “stupid in love with dogs” and is known for her work with troubled canines...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 09:30