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You might be happier by shifting your spending from things to experiences...consumer psychologist explains
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Ever buy something that didn't make you as happy as you thought it would? If so, you're not alone. Dr. Ryan Howell, associate professor of psycholo...

  • Added: May 19, 2015
  • Length: 20:18
Dr. Sondra Barret - Secrets of Your Cells - Part 1
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Dr. Sondra Barret, author of Secrets of Your Cells: Discovering Your Body's Inner Intellige...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 28:38
Dr. Sondra Barret - Secrets of Your Cells - Part 2
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Dr. Sondra Barret, author of Secrets of Your Cells: Discovering Your Body's Inner Intellige...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 28:33
10-09: Just Like a Woman: Nature, Chemicals and the Feminization of Science, 6/10/2015
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Charlotte Brody with Terrence McNally
There is a fundamental need to restore a female perspective to the male-dominated world of science. Is it any accident that the first person to so...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
Test Stress
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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You’ve probably experienced test anxiety. Listen to what it’s like for teenagers to take a test with test anxiety. Then hear educators question whe...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 31, 2015
  • Length: 09:12
  • Purchases: 1
Why Women Have Curves
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses the evolution of women's bodies and why they have curves with Dr. David Bainbridge, author of “Curvology:  The Origins and ...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
Jonathan Goff Says Let’s Redirect an Asteroid
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of an astronaut collecting a sample from a retrieved asteroid., Credit: NASA
ARM is the Asteroid Redirect Mission, and sometimes it seems that it doesn’t have a friend in the world. But it does, and Jonathan Goff of Altius S...

Bought by KMUD, KFCF FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KRZA, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
The Art of De-Extinction
From: Britt Wray
Caption: Will the woolly mammoth face another day?, Credit: Tyler Ingram
A group of scientists are now trying to bring extinct animals - like the woolly mammoth and passenger pigeon - back to life, in a movement called D...

Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2015
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 3
San Francisco drug users bring harm reduction to the streets
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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There’s a plan circulating in San Francisco to make using crack cocaine safer: give away free crack pipes. It might sound farfetched, but it’s supp...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 08, 2014
  • Length: 08:10
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 6: Pills, Potions, and Placebos
From: Faye Reiff-Pasarew
Series: The Art Of Medicine Podcast
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Why everything you know about the placebo effect is wrong?

  • Added: Sep 03, 2014
  • Length: 24:35
Expanding agriculture selectively could produce more food, save more carbon
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Dr. Justin Andrew Johnson, an economist with the Natural Capital Project at the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota, spoke ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 36:54
  • Purchases: 1
That Crime Of The Month
From: Criminal
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What does it mean when a woman commits a crime and attributes her actions to PMS? We revisit the first use of the "PMS defense," in this country, b...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 2
Earth 2.0
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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With hundreds of Earth-like planets discovered over the past few years, it’s fair to say we’re on the verge of finding alien life. Two new programs...

Bought by KTSW 89.9 and WYAP


  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Would you like a side of crickets with that? The future of insects as 'people food'
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Biochemist and entomologist Dr. Aaron Dossey is the founder/owner of All Things Bugs, a Georgia company dedicated to insect-based applications incl...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2014
  • Length: 22:07
Seeing Ourselves
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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Today on our show, four stories of people who tried to see themselves clearly

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 3
Who Decides
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Privacy: Going... going... gone!
Caption: PRX default Piece image
What should consumers do who worry their data is being misused?Whose job is it to educate people about their responsibilities?Does privacy mean any...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
Health
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Privacy: Going... going... gone!
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In the past few years medical companies have been producing a range of devices to help aging people keep track of their vital statistics: pulse rat...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
The Diabetes Epidemic
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Stem Cells - Self-help health care
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Diabetes used to be a fatal but very rare disease. Now rates of Type Two diabetes are soaring worldwide. What’s responsible for the spike in cases?

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
Dr. David Carpenter - EMF Health Hazards - Part 2
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Dr. David Carpenter, author of numerous scholarly articles including Public health implicat...

  • Added: May 26, 2014
  • Length: 28:36
What's the Point?
From: Hold That Thought
Series: On Language
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The study of gestures in American Sign Language sheds surprising new light on Autism Spectrum Disorders.

  • Added: May 12, 2014
  • Length: 10:52
Moyers & Company Show 301: Neil deGrasse Tyson on the New Cosmos and our Dark Universe
From: Moyers & Company
Series: Moyers & Company
Caption: Bill Moyers, Credit: Dale Robbins
When Bill Moyers announced his intention to retire just weeks ago, he received – and read – thousands of messages on his website and Facebook urgin...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, KRDP, KVMR, KMUZ and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2014
  • Length: 24:00
  • Purchases: 32
Two Guys On Your Head: Emotions and Decision Making
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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When we make big decisions in life, such as buying a house or getting married, we often consider those decisions to have been based on a ‘gut feeli...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2013
  • Length: 07:20
Foresight 2020
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Simon Anderson
We’ve all heard the stories of self-driving cars and 3D printers, but it’s the folks like futurists Simon Anderson and Jack Uldrich who make a care...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 16, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
The Elusive Digital Stradivarius
From: David Schulman
Caption: Data from 12 different locations let violinmaker Joseph Curtin digitize a violin's sonic fingerprint., Credit: David Schulman
The sound of a fine acoustic violin is deviously hard to mimic. But a leading maker now has a digital prototype designed to sound the equal of a St...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, Troy Public Radio, Hark! and more


  • Added: Jul 15, 2013
  • Length: 07:38
  • Purchases: 17
Vintage Tomorrow's
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Vintage Tomorrow's jacket cover, Credit: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
The late 19th century was an age of rapid technological change. It’s happening again today. Through interviews with experts such as Willaim Gibson,...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1