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Children's Health & the Environment with Dr. Mark Miller
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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The Director Emeritus of the Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unity at UC San Francisco talks about children and their environmental exposu...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 07, 2024
  • Length: 28:19
  • Purchases: 1
End Kids Cancer
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Frank Kalman w/daughter Cali
Nearly 30-years ago the Committee on Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children released a new study. Not surprising, they found an abundance ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality and the Struggle for Oral Health
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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Twelve-year old Deamonte Driver died following brain surgery in February 2007. His original diagnosis was meningitis. After his death, the culprit...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 23, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mindfulness Calms Students Before School
From: WCPN
Series: StateImpact Ohio
Caption: Congressman Tim Ryan with Inner Explorer co-founder Laura Bakosh , Credit: Mark P. Urycki
Non-religious meditation appears to lower stress and behavioral problems. Gets support from Congressman Tim Ryan

  • Added: Mar 15, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
10-09: Just Like a Woman: Nature, Chemicals and the Feminization of Science, 6/10/2015
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Charlotte Brody with Terrence McNally
There is a fundamental need to restore a female perspective to the male-dominated world of science. Is it any accident that the first person to so...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
What's the Point?
From: Hold That Thought
Series: On Language
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The study of gestures in American Sign Language sheds surprising new light on Autism Spectrum Disorders.

  • Added: May 12, 2014
  • Length: 10:52
Two Guys on Your Head: Learning Styles
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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Are you an auditory learner or a visual learner? If you answered "yes" you would be right. We use all our senses to learn and process information....

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Jan 24, 2014
  • Length: 07:20
  • Purchases: 1
Kids Cancer Research Foundation
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kids Cancer Research Foundation, Credit: foundation logo
Pediatric cancer strikes a relatively small number of victims, and market incentives do not provide clear financial motivation for investors to fun...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
It may not sound like medicine...
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The growing field of music therapy found recent success in the treatment of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Her therapists sang or played...

Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 06, 2012
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 3
Building Green
From: Bill Baue
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Computers, Videos and TV: Their Effect on Children
From: Barry Vogel
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Effect on the developing brain of computers, video and television

  • Added: Dec 13, 2003
  • Length: 29:00