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Caption: Bren Smith
In this second of a two-part program, we plunge into the mind-bending proposition that we get a second chance to remake our broken food economy. Br...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
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Meet therapists who specialize in treating unique populations like those on death row or the extremely wealth.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
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Most of us, when we encounter a fruit fly, are focused on keeping it out of our food. But what if it was your job to feed fruit flies?

  • Added: Feb 02, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
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This pediatric neurosurgeon has saved the lives of countless children–from fetuses in the womb to teenagers. Here are their stories.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Dec 28, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Timely, In Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Ohio GOP’s Aug. 8th ‘Issue One’ Referendum Threatens to Impose Minority Ru...

Bought by WFHB and WETS


  • Added: Jul 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Timely, In Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Georgia GOP Voter Suppression the Media Missed, Likely to Spread Across th...

Bought by WFHB and WETS


  • Added: Dec 14, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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An astronaut experiences a juxtaposition of the sublime and the mundane, sensing God while floating weightless, fixing cables outside his spacecraft.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 3
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We all arrive at the gateway to medicine carrying baggage from our past. How does this baggage impact the way we experience shame in our profession?

  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 26:26
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Medical culture is filled with impossible ideals. What makes an “ideal doctor”? Where do these “ideals” come from? How are they communicated? And w...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 30:11
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The Nocturnists teams up with two shame experts to investigate the nature of shame, and its role in the culture of medicine.

  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 24:25
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Steel is the signature material of the Industrial Revolution. It’s also an essential component of the wind turbines, electric cars, and climate-fri...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 44:52
  • Purchases: 1
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What do self-driving trucks mean for American truckers?

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Apr 18, 2022
  • Length: 44:40
  • Purchases: 1
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Topic 1: US Immigration Policy is Outdated. Here's a New Perspective. Topic 2: Measles Erases the Immune System's Memory. Topic 3: Precrastination ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Aug 25, 2020
  • Length: 51:35
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Trump and GOP Governors’ Move to Prematurely Reopen U.S. Economy Will Trig...

Bought by WKPW and KMXT


  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Meet Your Robot Barista, Credit: Seth Shostak
We sip lattes in a robot café and contemplate the future of work. Our mechanical barista is just a start as robots and A.I. train to do a variety o...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, CHSR-FM 97.9, WRST-FM Oshkosh, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
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This week on the show: Kaboom - Like destroying things? We all do. So much so that scientists in even Europe are planning a 100-kilometer meg...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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Spectrum: The dogged, interminable struggle with diabetes - This week on the show, DW reports from a special conference in Bochum, where experts ...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
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HOUR ONE: "Burnout" - Ever get the Sunday Night Blues? This hour, how to take back your weekends and the culture of overwork. HOUR TWO: "Getting ...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
Caption: Kyle Cook (left) and Carla Saunders (right)
Kyle Cook and Carla Saunders are neonatal nurse practitioners at East Tennessee Children’s Hospital in Knoxville. They’ve spent decades caring for...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Timely, in-depth, progressive analysis since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Texas Flood Linked with Extreme Weather Patterns Long Predicted by Climate...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WXDU, WRIR, and KRZA


  • Added: Aug 30, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Edward D. Hess
If we were on a ship at sea, and learned of the impending tsunami, we’d do everything we could to prepare for the collision.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 03, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Feeling the tension
Burn out and feeling overwhelmed seem to be on the rise again. Becoming more emotionally intelligent can help. Expert Cary Cherniss and a caller to...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2017
  • Length: 55:00
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What is the future of work? Today, all of our careers are being transformed by big data, from how we find it, to how we collaborate with others, to...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 22:15
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Episode topics: Physician assistants and nurse practitioners and fall vegetables.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: Frozen tuna in the hold of a fishing ship. , Credit: Alex Hofford | Greenpeace | MarinePhotobank.org
World fisheries are in crisis, with many species pushed to the edge of extinction. The current system is a recipe for disaster: demand is up; exter...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2016
  • Length: 05:25