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"What gives me hope is watching the sparkle in the eye of a child, a young
mother, a middle-aged business person, or an elderly person when they im...
Bought by WOJB
- Added: Apr 22, 2024
- Length: 58:02
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 19, 2024
- Length: 58:08
- Purchases: 2
Brian Dunning examines the evidence that humans are warming the earth.
- Added: Jan 27, 2024
- Length: 59:00
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
Only one human disease has ever been completely eradicated: Smallpox. Rahima Banu, a woman from rural Bangladesh, was the last person in the world ...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: May 19, 2023
- Length: 09:37
- Purchases: 1
If there is no such thing as biological race, why do we have race-specific drugs?
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 54:18
Jess investigates what connects giant salamanders, community organizing, and fracking via a conversation with journalist Annie Roth and biologist J...
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 58:00
When it comes to mapping the seafloor, the hardest spots to see are the ones just off the coast. In this episode, find out why that's the case—and ...
- Added: Mar 06, 2023
- Length: 14:52
Interview with Earl Swift, author of Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island.
- Added: Dec 01, 2022
- Length: 29:53
- Added: Dec 01, 2020
- Length: 02:00
A lot of the technology we associate with the modern day started on anachronistic machines. I'm not talking about mainframes, I'm talking older. To...
- Added: Aug 22, 2020
- Length: 48:31
Are Herpes Simplex 1 and other microbes contributing to, if not causing, the brain changes in Alzheimer's Disease? Prominent Alzheimer's researche...
- Added: Feb 28, 2020
- Length: 28:19
Some people with chronic pain now rely on medical marijuana in place of opioid painkillers. But, in the absence of formal medical guidance, many pa...
- Added: Jan 19, 2020
- Length: 24:49
Health researchers are planting 8,000 trees in Louisville to learn how trees prevent cardiac death. No crystals and woo woo. This is solid scienc...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, WFHB, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and 'The Sea'
- Added: Jul 09, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 4
- Added: Jan 17, 2018
- Length: 25:35
Caffeine! Everyone's favorite psychoactive drug. Is caffeine good or bad for you? This episode of This Won't Hurt A Bit we shall discuss how caffei...
Bought by WART FM
- Added: Jun 03, 2016
- Length: 25:36
- Purchases: 1
David Holtzman, professor and chairman of the neurology department at the Washington University School of Medicine, explores Alzheimer's disease an...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 11:09
- Purchases: 1
Evolutionary neuroscientist Bronwyn Tarr was in a remote area of Brazil to begin an experiment. On her first night there, she heard distant drumbea...
- Added: Feb 10, 2016
- Length: 09:30
- Purchases: 2
Women over 30 who haven't yet had kids are often told “tick tick; your biological clock is running out of time."
Marnie Chesterton digs into the f...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 19, 2015
- Length: 10:00
- Purchases: 4
In real life, the business of jury selection is a 400 million dollar industry. So in a world of high priced jury consultants what does a jury of ou...
- Added: Nov 03, 2015
- Length: 24:42
For most of human history, famine was only a single bad harvest away. Now, thanks to modern agriculture and fertilizers, we’ve almost eliminated hu...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Believe it or not, electric vehicles used to be more popular than gasoline engines. The first practical electric car in 1884, and for decades many ...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
52 Hz is the name given to a mysterious whale that vocalizes at a different frequency than other whales. Some refer to him as "The World's Lonelies...
Bought by WJCT
- Added: Jul 18, 2013
- Length: 15:17
- Purchases: 1
Digital music is the furthest we’ve come from running needles through intricate grooves, but record orders keep coming in.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 02:22
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
