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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
Lethal Doses (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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The author of Dreamland on the opioid crisis rocking America - A new study shows that opioid addiction may begin on the operating table - One fathe...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2017
  • Length: :29
Lethal Doses (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The author of Dreamland on the opioid crisis rocking America - A new study shows that opioid addiction may begin on the operating table - One fathe...

Bought by WCNY, WHCP-LP Cambridge, WTJU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KEDT and more


  • Added: Mar 03, 2017
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 13
Lethal Doses (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The author of Dreamland on the opioid crisis rocking America - A new study shows that opioid addiction may begin on the operating table

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WJCT, WCQS, WUGA (part of GPB), KMUN and more


  • Added: Mar 03, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
Unconscious Addiction (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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America is facing a opioids crisis of epic proportions. In the southeastern United States, there are more opioid prescriptions than there are peopl...

Bought by KENW, WOUB, KRZA, Radio Newark, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2017
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 5
Up In Smoke (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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E-cigarettes are growing more popular and are now being used for illicit drugs - Menthol makes cigarettes more addictive and more unhealthy - New t...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2017
  • Length: :29
Up In Smoke (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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E-cigarettes are growing more popular and are now being used for illicit drugs - Menthol makes cigarettes more addictive and more unhealthy - New t...

Bought by WCNY, KTSW 89.9, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2017
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 8
Up In Smoke (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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E-cigarettes are growing more popular, and now being used for illicit drugs - Menthol makes cigarettes more addictive and more harmful

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KMUD, KKRN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2017
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 10
Advances in Heart Failure Care (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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- New technologies change the game for medical professionals - Simulated sunlight brightens the lives of dementia patients - Making cancer treatmen...

Bought by Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 25, 2016
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
Advances in Heart Failure Care (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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- New technologies change the game for medical professionals - Simulated sunlight brightens the lives of dementia patients - Making cancer treatmen...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KEDT, WMUU-LP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 25, 2016
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 7
Advances in Heart Failure Care (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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- New technologies change the game for medical professionals - Simulated sunlight brightens the lives of dementia patients

Bought by WJCT, KRZA, KKRN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: Nov 25, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Vanishing Bees
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: UW-Madison Bee Hive
It’s called “colony collapse disorder” or CCD. A number of years ago US beekeeping operations realized they lost between 30 and 90 percent of their...

Bought by KSFR and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 09, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Alan Stern and a Triumph at Pluto
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: New Horizons enhanced color image of Pluto, Credit: NASA/JHUAPL
Alan Stern of the New Horizons mission to Pluto and beyond was in Pasadena for the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Division f...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP, KRZA and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
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
Ideas Books - Sean B Carroll: The Serengeti Rules
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
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Biologist Sean B Carroll talks to Craig Barfoot about his latest book, The Serengeti Rules. We find out how wolves can change the physical shape of...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: May 03, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 1
Curious -- Groks Science Show 2016-04-20
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
We are all born curious and a healthy sense of curiosity can benefit a person in many ways. However, modern technology threatens human curiosity. T...

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


  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 22:55
  • Purchases: 3
First Bite -- Groks Science Show 2016-02-17
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Bee Wilson discusses how we learn to eat and whether we can change our approach to food.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KPIP-LP, WYAP, WMUU-LP, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Feb 16, 2016
  • Length: 30:48
  • Purchases: 5
Harness the Sun
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Philip Warburg
American is standing on the brink of an extraordinary revolution: an energy revolution.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Prescribing Placebos -- Groks Science Show 2015-12-02
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
John Kelley discusses the mechanisms of the placebo effect and its role in medicine.

Bought by WMUU-LP, WYAP, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 28:45
  • Purchases: 3
Future Tripping
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Hal Niedzviecki
Cultural critic and entrepreneur Hal Niedzviecki poses the question, “What is it like to live in a society utterly focused on what is going to happ...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Oct 21, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
A New Era For SETI Research—More on the Breakthrough Initiatives
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Screen shot of SETI@Home at work, digging through data for ET’s call., Credit: SETI@Home
We follow last week’s conversation with Ann Druyan about the $100 million funding of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by visiting two o...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMUD, WQCS, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
A Beautiful Question -- Groks Science Show 2015-07-15
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Frank Wilczek discussed the concept of beauty in physics.

Bought by KPVL and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jul 16, 2015
  • Length: 32:13
  • Purchases: 2
A Small, Distant World: Kepler 138b
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: An artist’s conception of what Kepler 138b, its sister planets and its star might look like., Credit: Danielle Futselaar, SETI Institute
SETI Institute scientist Jason Rowe returns to tell us about the smallest exoplanet so far that has had its size and mass determined. Jason also ta...

Bought by KPIK-LP, KMUD, KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jul 13, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7