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Forgetting the Lessons and Losses of Covid
From: KSFP
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The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic are behind us and it’s time for an early reckoning of our successes and failures. An epidemiologist shares...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 21:30
All the Noise Surrounding Electric Cars
From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour
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Brian Dunning separates fact from fiction as he examines the talking points made by the many people who hate electric cars.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
The Promise and Peril of Geoengineering
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Image of Arctic Ice, Credit: Pink floyd88 a, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
In recent years, scientists have begun testing geoengineering technologies to slow down or even stop global warming. But, is geoengineering safe? A...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Are Lifespans Long Enough?
From: Open to Debate
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What if we didn’t have to grow old and die? The average American can expect to live for 78.8 years, an improvement over the days before clean water...

Bought by WMUU-LP, Troy Public Radio, WNED Buffalo, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Jun 09, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 4
02-23-2023: Psyched Up: The Brain Science Behind the Human Story with Paul Bloom PhD, 2/23/2023
From: KBUU
Series: Harvesting Happiness Talk Radio
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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 science of t...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2023
  • Length: 24:11
2022.06.17 REWIND Climate Miseducation
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Climate change science isn’t taught accurately — or equally — across the country. Investigative reporter Katie Worth dug into textbooks and talked ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KUHF, KOWS and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
20220617: REWIND Climate Miseducation, 6/17/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Climate change science isn’t taught accurately — or equally — across the country. Investigative reporter Katie Worth dug into textbooks and talked ...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
Vultures and Cranes
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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When I was a boy vultures were called buzzards. It’s an interesting common name that came across the ocean with early British colonists who had no ...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:03
Got Methane?
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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A look at the climate and health impacts of dairy digesters

Bought by KICI Iowa City, RadioFreePalmer, WFHB, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Dec 11, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Doug Chabot on Mountain and Snow Safety
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week’s guest is Doug Chabot, Director of the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center. With winter fast approaching, we talk with Doug about ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Sustainable Development in a Post-Covid World
From: Mateo Schimpf
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How are cities from Pittsburgh to Bogotá using sustainable development goals to guide pandemic recovery and increase health and equity?

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Oct 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Climate Change In Greater Yellowstone With Cathy Whitlock And Steven Hostetler
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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Today's guests are Dr. Cathy Whitlock, Regents Professor of Paleoecology at Montana State University, and Dr. Steven Hostetler, Hydrologist at the ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 28:18
  • Purchases: 3
Rise of the South Africa Variant
From: Celine Gounder
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We’re looking at the variant that emerged in South Africa: 501Y.V2. This variant is not only more transmissible, but has demonstrated the troubling...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 04:00
Advanced Humanities Institute at SFI
From: KUNM
Series: Augmented Humanity
Caption: Simon DeDeo
Philosopher David Kinney, an Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellow at The Santa Fe Institute, and SFI External Professor Simon DeDeo, a cognitive scientist a...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Uncharted Territory
From: Broken Ground
Series: Season 3: Sea Level Rise
Caption: Children walking in flood water, Norfolk, VA, Credit: Emily Richardson-Lorente
In Norfolk, Virginia scientists battling sea level rise enlist residents to help collect data that could help the city better understand its rising...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2020
  • Length: 32:34
California Climate:Heat, Drought, Flood, Lightning, & Fire w/ Dr. Michael Anderson
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
Caption: California Climate Map, Credit: Photo by: Ali Zifan (CC BY-SA 4.0) (derived from World Köppen Classification (with authors).svg)
In this episode, we explore California’s dynamic and shifting climate, which impacts so much across the Bay area, region, and state, including our ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Aug 27, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
A Psychic Discusses His Belief in Extrasensory Perception and Psychic Phenomena
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: Being Reasonable
Caption: Being Reasonable Radio Show
A Psychic discusses his belief in extrasensory perception. His belief appears innocuous until we introduce the analogy of illness & vaccines. This...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
Downstairs at the White House, A New Way to Counter the Generic Drug Shortage
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Downstairs at the White House. Topic 2: A new way to counter the generic drug shortage.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2020
  • Length: 49:49
An Interfaith Minister/Physician Reconciles her Beliefs
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: Being Reasonable
Caption: Being Reasonable
An Ordained Interfaith Minister/Physician reconciles her beliefs. Also, a Troposphere Astronaut works through his general lack of a strong belief....

  • Added: Jan 15, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
Lithium Nevada is on schedule to begin Thacker Pass construction in 2021, a carbon neutral mine
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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Lithium is rare. According to the US Geological Survey, the lightest of all metals makes up a tiny fraction of the Earth’s crust at .0007 percent. ...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2019
  • Length: 27:13
Helping People Change
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
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How can you help someone to change? Richard Boyatzis is an expert in multiple areas including emotional intelligence. Richard and his coauthors, Me...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2019
  • Length: 54:59
Labors and Losses: maternal mortality in the United States
From: Elaine Vitone
Series: Pitt Medcast
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Why are new mothers dying at an alarming rate in this country?

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 10, 2019
  • Length: 21:26
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 4 - Under the Weather
From: Shannon Thomas
Series: Mothers of Invention - Series 1
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This episode explores the impact of climate change on public health, traversing political, scientific, radical and spiritual realms with our Mother...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2019
  • Length: 46:43
Episode 3 - Taking Over
From: Shannon Thomas
Series: Mothers of Invention - Series 1
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“Illuminating.” @hollywoodreporter Watch @JustVisionMedia’s #NailaandtheUprising on @PBS March 26, 9 pm ET, as part of the acclaimed series @WomenW...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2019
  • Length: 47:47
Keeping Pace with Climate Change
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
Series: Science Moab
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The impacts of climate change can be complicated and far reaching. Here we are speak with Ryan Choi about the influence that climate change has on ...

Bought by KDXI - Radio St George, KRZA, and KSKA


  • Added: Feb 03, 2019
  • Length: 18:17
  • Purchases: 3