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2024-01-21 The Mysterious Timelessness of Math
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is math like an abstract painting—beautiful equations, with no connection to the world—or is it more like a blueprint for the universe?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KICI Iowa City, KSKQ, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and more


  • Added: Jan 22, 2024
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 12
Interview with Dan Levitt, author of What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner.
From: KRCL
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This is a 1 on 1 interview with Author Dan Levitt, and Radioactive's Nick Burns. From Levitt's Website "For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse ...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2023
  • Length: 12:04
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
Environmental Sound
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we responded to a listener request about trees by looking at environmental soundscape recordings,...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2023
  • Length: 28:35
Is Carbon Capture Essential to Fighting Climate Change?
From: Open to Debate
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When it comes to carbon dioxide, 2022 was a record year. So...what can be done? One potential method is called carbon capture and storage, a techno...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WNED Buffalo, and KUNM


  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
2023-04-30 The Power of Prediction
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is your brain a camera that records the world, or a projector that imposes pictures on it?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN, KKWE Niijii Radio, WVTF, KSKQ and more


  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
2023-03-19 Science and Skepticism
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Our understanding evolves over time—how can we explain that to impatient people who don't trust science?

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
2312: Science and Skepticism, 3/21/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Our understanding evolves over time – how can we explain that to impatient people who don't trust science?

  • Added: Mar 14, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Conversations: Gabor Maté, MD
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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In this episode, Emily speaks with physician and author, Dr. Gabor Maté about his latest book, The Myth of Normal, which explores the connections b...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 56:42
The Untold Story of Doctor Rex Veeder and His Work
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack pays homage and respect to Doctor Rex Veeder, who pass...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
The Untold Story of "Am I Real?", a Conversation about Star Trek Picard with SCSU Professor Mike Dando
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with SCSU English Professor Mike Dando about a r...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
Herding Cats Podcast
From: Justin Schmidt
Series: Herding Cats Podcast
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Herding Cats Podcast is a student lead and produced podcast that addresses environmental challenges as well as takes an introspective look at the s...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2021
  • Length: 01:27:56
2021-05-30 The Psychology of Cruelty
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Are people cruel to others despite -- or because of -- their victims' humanity?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KTSW 89.9, KMUN, KSKQ, KNVC Carson City Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 31, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Nursing recorded 1/2003
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A generational discussion about nursing as of 2003

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 24:08
Smoking
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Recorded in August of 2002, a generational discussion about smoking

  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 24:40
What Do Equations Sound Like on the Piano?
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
Caption: A piano image made on the coordinate plane., Credit: Pios Labs
Let’s make equations musical. Instead of visualizing equations on a graph, let’s listen to them on the piano, merging all our math and music knowl...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 49:30
Permian Extinction
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
Series: Science Moab
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A unique combination of events came together at the end of Permian time (250 million years ago)that resulted in the extinction of more the 90% of l...

Bought by KDXI - Radio St George


  • Added: Oct 31, 2020
  • Length: 31:05
  • Purchases: 1
Hasta la última gota
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Edición Especial de la Pandemia en Español
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¿Intentando destruir el coronavirus? ¡La Organización Mundial de la Salud dice que se lave las manos! Veinte segundos en el lavamanos es suficiente...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 26, 2020
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Every Last Drop
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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Trying to destroy coronavirus? The World Health Organization says get to scrubbing! Twenty seconds at the sink should do it. But what if you don’t ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pandemic Special Edition: Viruses
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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In this special episode, we go microscopic to learn about viruses. We explore how they work, and we discuss our odds of defeating them. We also lea...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 49:39
  • Purchases: 1
A Reiki Master Argues that the Power of Healing Light Can Calm and Brighten a Person’s Energy Field
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: Being Reasonable
Caption: Being Reasonable
The challenge of our time is that Americans do not agree on common sets of facts. This timely show thoroughly questions the reliability of a belief...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
El agujero negro - The black hole
From: Sol Rezza
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The black hole (2017) is a work that consists of two pieces of experimental radio where the main theme is the development of the ear and the first ...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2018
  • Length: 16:49
2021-04-04 Does Science Over-reach?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Are there questions that science is powerless to answer?

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  • Added: Jul 23, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
Drowned at Sea
From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation
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This week, we look at how a religious cult of number worshipers on the Italian coast gave rise to modern science, mathematics, philosophy, and musi...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 30:09
  • Purchases: 1
HAIR
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Author Kurt Stinn is the special guest. His new book "Hair- A Human History" is discussed in comparative generational aspects.

  • Added: Nov 03, 2017
  • Length: 51:26