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Letting Go with Sahlah Dubel
From: Katherine Bell
Series: The Dream Journal
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Learning to let go and move forward even when we are afraid. The Dream Journal has a conversation with new mother Sahlah Dubel who goes deep with a...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2023
  • Length: 55:57
S4 EP3: Authentically Me
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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Internist Ashley McMullen decides to let her hair go natural for the first time in over a decade — a process which serves as a metaphor for self-ac...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2022
  • Length: 41:05
180: Dr. Mae Carol Jemison
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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On September 12, 1992, Dr. Mae Carol Jemison became the first Black female astronaut. She's an engineer, a scientist, a physician, and an educator....

Bought by KMUN, WRFA-LP, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 3
210305: Temperature Check: Science, Texas, and Climate Chaos, 3/5/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Just two months into 2021, deadly winter temperatures left millions of Texans without water and power. Meanwhile, California is preparing for anoth...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
2021-03-05 Temperature Check: Science, Texas, and Climate Chaos
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Just two months into 2021, deadly winter temperatures left millions of Texans without water and power. Meanwhile, California is preparing for anoth...

Bought by WCNY, WAMU, Maine Public Radio, MPR News Stations, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 18
Grace Hopper, first computer scientist
From: WHYY
Series: Women100
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Grace Hopper, born in 1906, is one of America's first computer scientists and among the first women in the U.S. Navy to achieve the rank of rear ad...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WITF, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 4
S1 E6 That's Ninja Doc To You
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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Hospitalist Meghan O'Brien recounts the frustration of caring for a homeless patient who would rather be on the streets.

  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 32:47
Labors and Losses: maternal mortality in the United States
From: Elaine Vitone
Series: Pitt Medcast
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Why are new mothers dying at an alarming rate in this country?

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 10, 2019
  • Length: 21:26
  • Purchases: 1
Focus Point – Heart Disease
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Focus Point with Avis Jones-DeWeever
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The discussion about heart disease, the number one killer in women, is the focal point of Avis Jones-Deweever’s topic. The guest informs listeners...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 23, 2014
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 1
Edna the Engineer: Who Gets to be a Scientist?
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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You know the stereotype: white guy in a lab coat with crazy hair and an experiment gone awry. But the picture of science is changing. In this episo...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, WFHB, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Study of STEM Program for Improved Retention, Progression, and Graduation: Part 2 of 2
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: The Sounds of Progress: The Changing Role of Girls and Women in Science and Engineering
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Researchers conducting a longitudinal study on the effectiveness of the STEM scholarship program at Norfolk State University have some results. Ear...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Sep 19, 2008
  • Length: 10:26
  • Purchases: 1
Study of STEM Program for Improved Retention, Progression, and Graduation: Part 1 of 2
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: The Sounds of Progress: The Changing Role of Girls and Women in Science and Engineering
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Norfolk State University (NSU) created a scholarship program to encourage African American students to pursue degrees in STEM. African American wom...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Sep 19, 2008
  • Length: 12:10
  • Purchases: 1