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The Story Of The First African American Face Transplant
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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There have been fewer than 50 full face transplant recipients in the world. And up until 2019, there had been zero done for African-Americans. Toda...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Correcting Race
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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"Race correction" is a practice based on the premise that Black bodies are inherently different from White bodies. Medical students are trying to c...

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 48:57
Black Pills
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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If there is no such thing as biological race, why do we have race-specific drugs?

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 54:18
Race and Research: Charita Castro on Representation in STEM (Bonus Episode)
From: After the Fact
Series: Race and Research
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Charita Castro, a social science researcher and ambassador for the American Association for the Advancement of Science IF/THEN Ambassadors program,...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2021
  • Length: 17:04
Top of Mind - Black Women, Laser Weapons, Solar Flares
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 - Black Women; Topic 2 - Laser Weapons; Topic 3 - Solar Flares

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KSTK, RadioStPete Florida, KOWS, and WYAP


  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 51:44
  • Purchases: 5
Predicting Hotspots (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Atin Basu and his colleague’s Hotspot Predictors placed America high on the conflict predictor index for 2019.

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNYO and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 13
Predicting Hotspots (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Atin Basu and his colleague’s Hotspot Predictors placed America high on the conflict predictor index for 2019.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, KPBS, WJCT, KRDP and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
Predicting Hotspots (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Atin Basu and his colleague’s Hotspot Predictors placed America high on the conflict predictor index for 2019.

Bought by KXCV, WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Experts push for more African-Americans in STEM fields
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Doctor Scott Williams, African American mathematician retired from the Unviersit at Buffalo, discusses what it's like working as an African American in the STEM field., Credit: by ANGELICA A. MORRISON
Great Lakes states have produced several influential African-Americans in the sciences. There’s astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson – he’s from New ...

Bought by WVBI-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WDET Detroit Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WSKG and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 7
Episode 80: Photo, Hair, Fingerprint
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1988, a man in Hickory, NC was sentenced to life in prison based on evidence that experts would later call “junk science.” It took him 24 years ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 25:43
  • Purchases: 1
Cancer Research and Treatment
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Researchers hope to repair cancer-causing genes - A new app is designed to make more informed patients - A hidden HIV epidemic among elderly Africa...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
Cancer Research and Treatment (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Researchers hope to repair cancer-causing genes - A new app is designed to make more informed patients - A hidden HIV epidemic among elderly Africa...

Bought by WCNY, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WCWP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 10
Programming a More Diverse Tech World
From: Lauren Ober
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Technology isn't a field known for its attention to diversity. Most people’s idea of a computer programmer is a white guy in a hoodie and jeans. Bu...

Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 15, 2014
  • Length: 04:43
  • Purchases: 2
Dr. Chileshe Nkonde-Price, Social Media Lab UPENN School of Medicin
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Chileshe Nkonde-Price, Cardiologist and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/US Depart...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Apr 29, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
HeLa Cells
From: William S. Hammack
Series: Stories of Technology
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We owe a major step in the eradication of polio, and a host of other diseases, to one unsung person. I'd say hero, but this person never knew what ...

Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 2
The Time Traveler: a Man, a Dream, a Machine
From: Emily Corwin
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A boy's grief led him to an extraordinary discovery...

Bought by XRAY.fm, WJCT, KUT, KUOW, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Oct 05, 2009
  • Length: 09:35
  • Purchases: 5
Low Powered FM Radio
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
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The Prometheus Project helps develop community low-powered radio stations

  • Added: Aug 24, 2007
  • Length: 09:12