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How Pushing Hospitals to Give Away More Free Care Could Backfire
From: Tradeoffs
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With high health bills drowning patients in debt, some lawmakers want nonprofit hospitals to give away more free care. But experts warn that could ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2024
  • Length: 15:44
Golden, Kevin Z. — "Lawsuit to Ban Genetically Modified Alfalfa"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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This program was originally broadcast May 7, 2007. The consequences of growing genetically modified alfalfa were deteremined by the United States ...

  • Added: Feb 29, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
BD - Exploring the ancient world of the Neanderthals with Ludovic Slimak
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
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Dave visits with French archaeologist and paleoanthropologist Ludovic Slimak about his multi decadal research into Neanderthals. Author of the new ...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Feb 29, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Twenty Three -- Groks Science Show 2024-02-28
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
We look back at the past and gaze forward to the future of science.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 29, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Science unscripted (DW) 02/27/24 - How can reconciliation happen after genocide?
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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On April 7 this year Rwanda will commemorate a genocide that, 30 years ago, left up to a million people dead and society ripped apart. With the wor...

Bought by WMFE and WFHB


  • Added: Feb 29, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
‘She Didn’t Want to Die. But She Didn’t Want to Suffer’
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Steven Petrow (R) and Jay Petrow (L) kiss their sister Julie Petrow-Cohen. Julie used New Jersey’s medical aid in dying law after a six-year battle with ovarian cancer., Credit: Courtesy of the Petrow family
A handful of states allow terminally ill people to take life-ending medications prescribed by a doctor instead of waiting for death. This week, we ...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2024
  • Length: 21:12
Working Together for River Conservation
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
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It is well known at this point that humans are using more water out of the Colorado River, then the river can support…for humans as well as other l...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2024
  • Length: 20:29
Drinking Plastic with Mike Belliveau
From: Doug Wood
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Every plastic bottle is filled with hundreds of thousands of tiny pieces of plastic. Here's what you need to know.

  • Added: Feb 27, 2024
  • Length: 28:25
Love and Power with Marsha Hudson and Norman Brown
From: Katherine Bell
Series: The Dream Journal
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What does the #metoo movement have to do with the climate crisis? And how can dreams help both? On today's Dream Journal, meet Marsha Hudson and No...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 53:54
Season 1, Episode 17 - 'Ecological Reality' feat Dr. Julian Caldecott
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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How changing our hearts and minds will change how we approach our relationship with the planet.

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 57:55
  • Purchases: 2
90 Second Naturalist – March 2024 Modules
From: WGUC/ WVXU
Series: The 90-Second Naturalist
Caption: The 90 Second Naturalist
90-second modules that celebrate the natural world and bring the wonder of nature into daily life.

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KCBX, Mountain Streams Radio WKYW-LP, and WVIA


  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 31:30
  • Purchases: 4
Tomb with a View
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Tomb with a View, Credit: Seth Shostak
A century ago, British archaeologist Howard Carter opened the only surviving intact tomb from ancient Egypt. Inside was the mummy of the boy king T...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KBBI Alaska, WRGY, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Notes On Spring - A Seasonal Music Special
From: Charlie Warren
Series: "Notes On" - Seasonal Specials
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An assuring hour of music and information about the promising resurgence of spring, including rare facts about the featured music and the reasons f...

Bought by WWNO, KFCF FM, KTSW 89.9, WGTE Public Media, WRGY and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 58:11
  • Purchases: 26
This Week in Water for February 25, 2024
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Despite the War, Ukraine Plans to Be a Green Energy Hub. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 06:08
  • Purchases: 6
787-Far Out
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Milky Way Rising Over the Gila Wilderness, Credit: David Thornburg
In 2024, Voyager I is 163 times further from the Sun than we are and is the most distant, human made, traveler in the night.

Bought by KRWG, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Find a Rock - Tales from The Heart of America
From: Journeys to Love
Series: Tales From the Heart of America
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From the atomic to the galactic, in 'Find a Rock,' storyteller/adventurer Scotte Burns invites us to marvel at the wonders of the universe found in...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 06:51
Hearing every color, feeling every earthquake: Life as a cyborg
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, meet a man who was born colorblind but can now hear colors thanks to an antenna implanted into his skull. And a chore...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Sensitive sounds and sweaty skin: Unraveling hyperacusis and hyperhidrosis
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, meet a man with hyperacusis - extreme sensitivity to sound, and a woman with hyperhidrosis - unpredictable, controlla...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Aftershocks: Life after getting struck by lightning
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, hear how two people's lives were changed after getting hit by lightning. And an expert will talk about ways to avoid ...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
875: In Your Dreams / 876: Mysteries Of Migration, 2/24/2024
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "In Your Dreams" - Did you dream last night? Or are you among the millions of Americans who are not only sleep deprived but dream deprive...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
Birds Caching
From: WTIP
Series: North Woods Phenology
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Chel Anderson is a botanist and plant ecologist and she joins us periodically to report on what she’s seeing in our woods and waters right now.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2024
  • Length: 05:13
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 67
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two episodes about working through some of life’s big questions.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Feb 23, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
Gregory Hartley & Maryann Karinch – "Reading Body Language"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Originally Broadcast: April 4, 2007 I Can Read You Like a Book Have you ever wondered what some body movements mean when people hear certain words...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Robot Literati -- Groks Science Show 2024-02-21
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Dennis Yi Tenen discussed his book, Literacy Theory for Robots.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
[Simulated Part Three] Building an AI afterlife: an exploration of new grief technology
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied - Specials
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If you could speak again with a loved one who has passed away, would you? With recent advances in artificially intelligent grief tech, this questio...

Bought by KWGS


  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 1

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