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Climate change is already hitting businesses’ bottom lines – and those business costs are only beginning. As guest Kim Campbell – the former Prime ...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
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There’s not a business on the planet that isn’t impacted by weather at some level. Leaders must prepare their organizations for what’s to come. It’...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2023
  • Length: 52:01
Caption: Jason F. McLennan, Credit: Alex Akamine Photography
What would it feel like to live in a world where our built environment was as elegant as nature's designs? What if our living and working spaces nu...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Today, we are going to visit TrES-2b, a planet that is so dark that it reflects less than one percent of the sunlight falling on it. How can a plan...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: Diane Rosenfeld sees a social structure in bonobo apes that makes human society look positively primitive in comparison.
People like to think humanity is at the top of cultural achievement, the pinnacle of evolution’s craftwork. But one glance at the daily headlines p...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2022
  • Length: 50:46
Caption: Fearing uncertainty is part of our biology. But we can hack our mindsets, Dr. Hartanov says, so we see uncertainty's opportunities instead.
When you face uncertainty, how do you react? We’re biologically wired to meet uncertainty with concern, even panic or anxiety: it triggers our fig...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2022
  • Length: 57:19
Caption: Dr. Maryanna Klatt leads Ohio State's Center for Integrative Health -- and has found mindfulness, yoga, and other practices to have highly beneficial results when practiced regularly.
Mindfulness is mainstream. So is yoga. There's renewed interest in Ayurvedic medicine, an Indian system that's thousands of years in the making. Ho...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2022
  • Length: 56:24
Caption: Dr. Roseanna Means, Credit: Sam Shinn
As more young people pursue degrees in public health, we ask Dr. Roseanna Means about her long and widely admired career in the field.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 14:44
Caption: Jonathan Reams cofounded the Center for Transformative Leadership; he discusses how critical mindsets are for good leaders.
Leadership is nothing without thought -- and research shows we (literally!) think with our hearts as well as our minds. Neurocardiology is just on...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2022
  • Length: 57:10
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America’s largest health insurance companies moonlight as obscure middlemen, managing billions in health care spending for many of the country’s bi...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 26:58
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Corporate pledges of reaching net zero carbon emissions have quickly become commonplace. Critics argue that such pledges are mere greenwashing, and...

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  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 9
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Corporate pledges of reaching net zero carbon emissions have quickly become commonplace. Critics argue that such pledges are mere greenwashing, and...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 58:55
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Did you know that industries use a variety of tactics to manipulate public opinion about products that can harm our health and environment? Join Fo...

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  • Added: Dec 30, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Two very interesting calls explore what happens and why it happens in retirement. We explore how attitude and emotions influence "How much is enoug...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2021
  • Length: 36:36
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Economist Rebecca Boehm and Nina Lakhani, journalist at The Guardian, expose the harms of near-monopolistic chicken production practices at Tyson F...

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  • Added: Sep 07, 2021
  • Length: 29:05
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Dr. JJ Walcutt: From psychology to neurology, she studies ways the human brain can be optimized for peak cognitive performance.
To be competitive over the next decade, businesses must not only help employees optimize the body for physical and mental health purposes, but it w...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2021
  • Length: 53:58
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Step on a crack, break your mother's back! But what if the concrete never cracks? A microbiologist has invented living, self-patching concrete.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A start-up company in the Netherlands is looking for new solutions for renewable energy and finding them in plants.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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This week on the show: What, exactly, is behind the frightening surge in Europe's COVID-19 numbers? And are we blaming the wrong groups of people ...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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Topic 1: Can Brands Be True Advocates for Social Issues? Topic 2: How We're Saving the California Condor. Topic 3: How Bear Hibernation Might Work ...

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  • Added: Jun 29, 2020
  • Length: 51:46
  • Purchases: 1
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Laura looks to infectious disease doctor Joyce Sanchez for perspective on reopening the country even as coronavirus continues to claim hundreds and...

  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 11:13
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: More Than 90,000 Deaths & Whistleblower Testimony Confirm Trump’s Catastr...

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  • Added: May 20, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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When institutional investors divest from fossil fuel companies, does it make a difference, or is the impact merely symbolic? Some advocate keeping ...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
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Purpose-driven and consciously prepared brain food from the beaches of Malibu, California. Join us on this week’s show focusing on financial succes...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 50:40
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Purpose-driven and consciously prepared brain food from the beaches of Malibu, California. Join us on this week’s show focusing on the gig economy....

  • Added: Dec 16, 2019
  • Length: 56:38