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883: Let's Celebrate Crying / 884: The Resilient Brain, 3/23/2024
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Let's Celebrate Crying" - When was the last time you cried in front of someone? It’s human to feel grief and pain, but most of us learne...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:01
823: Going For Broke: Change Of Address / 824: Up All Night, 8/26/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Going For Broke: Change of Address" - In the first episode of a three-part series on the care economy, we're thinking about housing. Man...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
The New Dark Ages
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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Jess speaks with Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse about the influence of fossil fuel dark money in politics today.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
Feeling Our Way Forward: How A Biological Understanding of Feeling Will Change the World
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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Max Henning, Neuroscientist and President of Novus Think Tank [https://www.maxahenning.com/], sheds light on why the future of humanity depends upo...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
Disney & "Cultural Depictions," Perfectionism, and Curiosity
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: This Content May Contain Outdated Cultural Depictions. Topic 2: Can Perfectionism Be Toxic? Topic 3: How Much Is Too Much? When Curiosity ...

Bought by KOWS


  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 51:36
  • Purchases: 1
297: Against Cynicism / 298: Repeat When Necessary, 8/11/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Against Cynicism" - Why is the world so cynical? This hour, an irony-free exploration of cynicism. HOUR TWO: "Repeat When Necessary" -...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
Life of the Law #105: In Studio: Heroin Town
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Want to know how heroin treatment centers in Canada, the Affordable Care Act, President Trump’s new budget, and Henrietta Lacks all fit into one co...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 53:54
The Serengeti Rules -- Groks Science Show 2016-05-04
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Sean Carroll discussed the logic of regulation as well as how these principles can be applied to treat disease and heal ecosystems.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 04, 2016
  • Length: 25:45
  • Purchases: 2
Zika Virus -- Groks Science Show 2016-03-16
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Brenda Wilson discusses the origin of the Zika virus, its connection to microcephaly, and what is being done to stop its spread.

Bought by KPIP-LP, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WMUU-LP, WYAP, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Mar 15, 2016
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 5
The Sentimental Sense -- Groks Science Show 2015-11-18
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Virginia Barry discusses the neuroscience behind memory and scent.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 32:36
  • Purchases: 2
Autism's Mysteries -- Groks Science Show 2015-09-02
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Steve Silberman addresses some of the mysteries of autism.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WYAP, and KPVL


  • Added: Sep 02, 2015
  • Length: 30:38
  • Purchases: 3
Driverless -- Groks Science Show 2015-08-26
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Corey Clothier discusses the state of autonomous vehicles.

Bought by KPVL and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 26, 2015
  • Length: 32:59
  • Purchases: 2
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
Found! Beagle 2 Lander is on Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Orbital image of what is believed to be the Beagle 2 lander on surface of Mars., Credit: HiRISE/NASA/JPL/Parker/Leicester
The Beagle 2 Mars lander disappeared after it separated from the Mars Express orbiter on Christmas Day, 2003. Eleven years later, it has been foun...

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


  • Added: Feb 16, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 5
The Quantum Moment -- Groks Science Show 2015-01-21
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Robert Crease discusses how terms from quantum mechanics have found their way into everyday discourse.

Bought by KPVL and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 32:16
  • Purchases: 2
Recipe for a Small Planet
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of exoplanet Kepler -186f., Credit: Wikipedia
Astronomer and planetary scientist Courtney Dressing is the lead author of research that may have found the formula for the mass and composition of...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WYAP, and KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 4
2014: The Year in Space
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Orion spacecraft is recovered by the USS Anchorage, Credit: NASA
Our annual review of the greatest events and accomplishments over the last year features analysis and commentary by Bill Nye the Science Guy, Emily...

Bought by KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KMUD, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KBRP Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 30, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 5
Sara Seager's Quest for Earth's Twin
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: MIT Astrophysicist and Planetary Scientist Sara Seager, Credit: Sara Seager/MIT
MIT planetary scientist and astrophysicist Sara Seager is on a quest. She wants to find a warm, wet exoplanet with signs of life. It could be Earth...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WYAP


  • Added: Dec 15, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 3
All Tangled Up -- Groks Science Show 2014-12-03
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Jason Gallicchio discusses the physics of particle entanglement.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, CHSR-FM 97.9, WRNC-LP, WYAP, and KPVL


  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 32:08
  • Purchases: 5
Kip Thorne and the Science of Interstellar
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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Spoiler alert. Famed physicist Kip Thorne says you might be able to survive a plunge into a black hole after all! That’s just one molecule of the ...

Bought by KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Dec 02, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 3
Digging Deep With Planetary Deep Drill
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Business end of Planetary Deep Drill, Credit: Mat Kaplan
If there’s life on Mars, it’s probably deep beneath the surface. That’s just one reason we need a tool like Planetary Deep Drill on the red planet ...

Bought by WYAP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KFCF FM, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 4
Yale’s Debra Fischer and the Ever More Precise Search for New Worlds
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: In this laser frequency comb, colorized for illustrative purposes, the solid lines are the star spectrum and the dots are the artificial laser spectrum. The dark gaps in the star spectrum represent different chemical elements in the starlight. Long-term s, Credit: European Southern Observatory
It’s terribly hard to find exoplanets that look like our homeworld. The search requires development of astoundingly powerful and precise instrumen...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 13, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
Smashing Holes in Mars to Find Life
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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Explore Mars wants to look for life on the Red Planet. Not past life. Life thriving under the Martian surface right now. Chris Carberry will tel...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Sep 01, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
Journey to the Center of Jupiter: The World's Largest Lasers Simulate the Cores of Giant Planets
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The interior of the target chamber at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The object entering from the left is the target positioner, on which a millimeter-scale target is mounted. Researchers recently used NIF to stu, Credit: Damien Jemison/LLNL
The most bizarre things happen to matter at pressures millions of times higher than what we feel on Earth’s surface. Physicist Rip Collins of the L...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
The Search for Extraterrestrial Polluters?
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Earth-like planet In this artist's conception, the atmosphere of an Earth-like planet displays a brownish haze - the result of widespread pollution. New research shows that the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope potentially could detect certain polluta, Credit: Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Harvard’s Henry Lin led work that determined the soon-to-be-launched James Webb Space Telescope may be able to detect an alien civilization by anal...

Bought by XRAY.fm and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 2