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Conversations: Michael Stein, MD
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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Physician, public health professor, and author Michael Stein speaks about his recent book Me vs. Us: A Health Divided, which explores the differenc...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 49:38
2334: Weird Wants, 8/22/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Is it weird to want to do things that are bad for us?

  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
EE 23-35: A beehive contains multitudes, 8/25/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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Microbiologist Irene Garcia Newton shares her knowledge about the many organisms involved in keeping a colony of honeybees healthy.

  • Added: Aug 15, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
The Promise of Kepler-22b
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Today, we are going to explore a remarkable world that lies beyond our solar system: Kepler-22b. This planet is one of the first confirmed exoplane...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 13, 2023
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 1
Rogue Planets: Not All Exoplanets Orbit Stars
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
One of the most exciting recent discoveries in astronomy has been the existence of planets around other stars.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 13, 2023
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 1
Recovery (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Universities have been trying to curb dangerous binge drinking for years.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, WRMU, KVSC, KXCV and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
Recovery (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Universities have been trying to curb dangerous binge drinking for years.

Bought by KHEN-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 11, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
Recovery (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Universities have been trying to curb dangerous binge drinking for years.

Bought by WTJU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, KXCV, WRGY and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
Recovery (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Universities have been trying to curb dangerous binge drinking for years.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Aug 11, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
2023-08-06 What Has Replaced Freud?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Freud may have laid the groundwork for a science of the unconscious, but didn’t he get most of it wrong?

Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WNYO, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMUN and more


  • Added: Aug 07, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10
Gender Bias in the Lab
From: Suki Wessling
Series: Babblery Minibabbles
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Three women scientists discuss the issues that women face in the classroom and workplace.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 07, 2023
  • Length: 23:16
  • Purchases: 1
Terrapins and Terriers (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In the early 20th century, terrapins–a kind of turtle–were a culinary delicacy. Then humans nearly hunted them to extinction.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KXCV, WRMU and more


  • Added: Aug 04, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
Terrapins and Terriers (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the early 20th century, terrapins–a kind of turtle–were a culinary delicacy. Then humans nearly hunted them to extinction.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, WYAP, and KHEN-LP


  • Added: Aug 04, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
Terrapins and Terriers (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the early 20th century, terrapins–a kind of turtle–were a culinary delicacy. Then humans nearly hunted them to extinction.

Bought by WTJU, KXCV, WMUU-LP, KEDT, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Aug 04, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Terrapins Terriers (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In the early 20th century, terrapins–a kind of turtle–were a culinary delicacy. Then humans nearly hunted them to extinction.

Bought by WABE, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Aug 04, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
The Hard Problem
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Tom Stoppard's deep dive into altruism and the nature of consciousness.

Bought by KMUN, WPCA-LP, Spokane Public Radio, KFCF FM, KWMR and more


  • Added: Aug 02, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 17
Oppenheimer’s omission and other secrets of the Atomic Age
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Caption: Paul Pino of Carrizozo, New Mexico., Credit: Nate Hegyi
From NHPR's Outside/In comes two stories that shed light on unseen consequences of America's nuclear ambitions.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Vermont Public, and Valley Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 01, 2023
  • Length: 56:30
  • Purchases: 4
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 21
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
Caption: Rwandan genocide museum, Credit: David Kattenburg
Bacteria in your gut tweak your brain. Sometimes friendly, sometimes not. The hundred-day genocide in Rwanda -- recalling the mayhem on its 29th an...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2023
  • Length: 58:49
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 20
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Artificial Intelligence -- existential threat to humanity, or just to basic civil rights? Personal DNA testing – you never know what you’ll find. ...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2023
  • Length: 58:54
Is the FDA Too Cautious?
From: Open to Debate
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While the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) needs to approve safe and effective drugs as quickly as possible to patients who need them, it must al...

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 20, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
2332: What Has Replaced Freud?, 8/8/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Freud may have laid the groundwork for a science of the unconscious, but didn’t he get most of it wrong?

  • Added: Jul 20, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 19
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
Caption: Crawford Lake, Credit: David Kattenburg
After years of study, a scientific panel proposes a formal definition of the Anthropocene, naming the spot where humanity’s fingerprints are best o...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:05
episode 6: glacier thread
From: Theresa Soley
Series: Ice and Fire
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In the last full episode of the season, we travel to the Greenland ice sheet and hear from a researcher who collects data at the face of tidewater ...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2023
  • Length: 23:22
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 18
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Nothing woolly-headed or Utopian about it: A universal, guaranteed basic income. A hundred years later, memories of war that do not fade. And, one ...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:14
RESCUE, part 25: How to Transform the Ocean Apparat
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with a proposed solution to advance successful connection and communication within and with thos...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2023
  • Length: 10:25

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