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Jess speaks with Oppenheimer biographer Kai Bird about one of Earth's most influential humans and his scientific and political legacies.
- Added: Jul 25, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Fred Gilliam and Jerry Harris remember their mentor, Dr. Vivien Thomas, a surgical researcher who developed groundbreaking medical techniques.
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WYAP
- Added: Jul 05, 2022
- Length: 02:20
- Purchases: 2
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, we go back over 100 years to hear about the St. Cloud Hospital in the days of the Spanish Influenza p...
- Added: Jun 10, 2021
- Length: 52:33
A generational discussion about nursing as of 2003
- Added: Apr 01, 2021
- Length: 24:08
There always seems to be a peculiar twist in understanding our world. How it works. Just when we think of have a grip on it, like a greased pig, it...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 29, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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
Topic 1: A chemist's single-minded crusade for food safety. Topic 2: The neuroscientist who lost her mind.
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 49:05
Music & Mans Self Discovery with Dj Spooky aka That Subliminal Kid aka Paul Miller explores the ways in which music documents, inspires, heals and ...
- Added: Mar 23, 2017
- Length: 27:41
James Rollins is a prolific novelist who lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
- Added: Dec 15, 2016
- Length: 09:17
"Keep It California" and the people who want to live in the "State of Jefferson" battled it out at the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors meetin...
- Added: Aug 20, 2015
- Length: 03:21:46
We tend to view our hunter-gatherer ancestors with pity for their primitive ways. But what if they employ strategies for leading a depression-free ...
- Added: Feb 28, 2015
- Length: 13:13
In this special episode, Drs. Philip Zimbardo and Christina Maslach tell the story of what ended up being one of the most infamous psychology studi...
Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, Radio Catskill, WRPI, and NPR Illinois
- Added: Jun 27, 2014
- Length: 56:03
- Purchases: 5
In our second compilation, we bring together voices from the Leopold Leadership Program to investigate the changing nature and changing goals of co...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 23:16
We dive into the Schrödinger's Cat paradox and ask what it reveals about the nature of quantum mechanics and physics in general.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 08, 2011
- Length: 09:48
- Purchases: 2
This paradox resists a solution and inspires major advances from Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 08, 2011
- Length: 08:50
- Purchases: 2
In this edition we talk about ‘The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution” based on a book by our guest Denis Dutton.
- Added: Nov 16, 2009
- Length: 28:59
Why do smart people do stupid things? This is the question asked by Laurence Gonzales, author of “Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why” and ...
- Added: Nov 10, 2009
- Length: 29:21
Have humans changed in the last 10,000 years? Or are we biologically the same as the last 40-50,000 years. Some recently considered evidence sugges...
- Added: Aug 31, 2009
- Length: 29:39
