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HOUR ONE: "Journeys Through Gender" - Once upon a time there were two genders. He and She. Not anymore. So what are your pronouns? HOUR TWO: "The...
- Added: Jan 14, 2022
- Length: 01:59:01
The emergency room is a place of intensity—a place of noise and colors and human drama. This is the setting of Dr. Michele Harper's memoir, The Bea...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 36:02
It’s a conundrum. A puzzle. A very strange thing if you think about it. But, there in itself lies the problem. We’re thinking about and studying th...
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- Added: Jan 11, 2022
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: "Time Beyond The Clock" - What's wrong with the way we tell time? What if we lived with no clocks at all? HOUR TWO: "Up All Night" - On...
- Added: Dec 31, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
It’s a girl or a boy. That’s identifiable at birth. Binary. A biological inheritance. Today, however, when it comes to gender, we’re living in a fl...
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- Added: Nov 23, 2021
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Our rising awareness that we have destroyed our planet has simultaneously provided us not with remorse or resolve but with a new fantasy: that the ...
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- Added: Nov 23, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
This Extended Version of “Captivating Animals” with Thalia Field includes a discussion of Émile Zola and his attempt to recreate in fiction the sci...
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- Added: Nov 16, 2021
- Length: 01:23:38
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: "Living With Loneliness" - In countries all over the world, rates of loneliness are skyrocketing. How did it become a condition of modern...
- Added: Nov 12, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
Our show is Three Little Words and our guest is Holly Buck, author of Ending Fossil Fuels - Why Net Zero Is Not Enough just out from Verso. We’re ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
“Gender is queer for everyone,” says author and professor Kathryn Bond Stockton. She doesn’t mean “queer” only in the LGBTQIA+ sense — she means t...
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- Added: Oct 06, 2021
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
They’re rooted deeply in our global past. Germs. They’ve always been with us. It’s our wealth, health, power and inequity that determine how well w...
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- Added: Oct 05, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: "Finding Meaning In Desperate Times" - The pandemic isn't just a health crisis, it's an x-ray into our psyches. This hour, how COVID-19 i...
- Added: Sep 24, 2021
- Length: 01:58:59
By now, most people are waking up to the reality of climate change. Between fires and hurricanes, a large swath of our planet is becoming uninhabit...
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- Added: Aug 31, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: "Writing The Climate Change Story" - Floods, wildfires, winds and extreme temperatures. This hour, the novelists and journalists who are ...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 01:59:02
From clearing land for pasture to building dams, humans have long changed the face of the Earth. But Indian eco-feminist Vandana Shiva is highly cr...
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- Added: Jul 29, 2021
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 12
From clearing land for pasture to building dams, humans have long changed the face of the Earth. But Indian eco-feminist Vandana Shiva is highly cr...
- Added: Jul 29, 2021
- Length: 58:59
HOUR ONE: "When Mountains Are Gods" - Science tells us mountains are giant piles of rock, formed millions of years ago. But that's not all they are...
- Added: Jul 23, 2021
- Length: 01:59:01
If you think medical treatment for the trans gender population sounds like a straightforward, easily addressed protocol. It’s not. Even today it’s ...
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- Added: Jul 06, 2021
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
If someone said to you, “You’re out of your mind,” you might feel insulted. On the other hand, you could take that as a compliment. Research is fin...
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- Added: Jun 29, 2021
- Length: 29:01
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Once a segment of the population becomes miserable, stabilization begins. That shouldn’t be a goal in American politics, but it certainly seems lik...
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- Added: Jun 22, 2021
- Length: 29:01
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HOUR ONE: "Our Time Of Mourning" - The pandemic is waning in many places. But before we go back to normal life, let's not forget to mourn our loss...
- Added: Jun 18, 2021
- Length: 01:59:01
HOUR ONE: "The Resilient Brain" - In 1848, an explosion drove an iron rod through the skull of a railroad foreman. Find out how it changed science ...
- Added: Jun 11, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
How do you let people who are fully vaccinated get back to normal life without creating super-spreader events for those who haven’t yet been vaccin...
- Added: Jun 10, 2021
- Length: 04:19
HOUR ONE: "Secrets Of Alchemy" - The leading science of the 17th century was alchemy, the transformation of matter. What was it really? Could we st...
- Added: Jun 04, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Why Do We Have So Much Stuff?" - From baby showers to estate sales, we fill our lives with material possessions. Why do we do it? HOUR...
- Added: May 28, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
