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From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat

KQAL's Jiovani Bermudez speaks with local artist Maia Williams about her new work, Blooming Underground. Original air date: 11/08/22

Calamity in Philadelphia

From: Distillations
Series: Innate

The faulty—and fatal—race logic of an 18th century yellow fever epidemic.

Too Healthy for the Hospital, Too Sick for the Streets

From: Tradeoffs

Why are a growing number of private insurance companies starting to invest in medical respite — a decades-old way of caring for homeless people?

Old Docs Take New Patient: The Climate

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Caption: Robin Cooper, Psychiatrist and Climate Activist

Older doctors talk about their journey from medicine to hardcore climate activism. Bill McKibben introduces his new group Third Act and explains w...

Bought by WFHB, KICI Iowa City, KZYX, WFHB, and RadioStPete Florida

Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

An environmental success story.

Bought by KRZA

The Yoga Pant Problem

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

The rise of synthetic fibers and the war on cotton

Bought by WSGE

Stephen Hawking-All Mixed Up

From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up

Celebrating the world's most famous theoretical physicist, author of A Brief History of Time and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Camb...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio

Paul Ingles' Music Showcase #004 - Why Monterey Pop Mattered (Hour 2)

From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase

Hour 2 of an appreciation of the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival, generally recognized as the first pop or rock festival of all-time.

Bought by KFSK, WPVM 103.7, KSJE, WRVO Public Media, KUPR low power FM and more

Episode 10: Big Fish, Big Science

From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf

Caption: Biochemist Dana Wetzel dissects a fish exposed to oil in the lab., Credit: David Levin

Scientists at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, are leading a new experiment that will help uncover the effects of oil spills on fis...

Episode 9: Mapping Oil Spills by Satellite

From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf

Caption: Chuanmin Hu, an optical oceanographer at USF, points to a map of the Ixtoc-1 spill made from archival satellite data.

The 1979 Ixtoc-1 oil spill spewed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, but has since been largely forgotten. More than 35 years late...

Episode Four: The Case of The Vanishing Seals

From: KUCB
Series: SEAL: The Case of The Vanishing Seals (An Alaskan Island Mystery)

Caption: Northern fur seal on Alaska's St. Paul Island, Credit: KUCB/John Ryan

A marine mammal mystery told in bite-size chunks.

Bought by KRUA

The Best Medicine for Heart Disease

From: Richard Paul
Series: The Best Medicine with Dr. Ken Miller

A look inside the labs, treatment facilities, and homes of those closest to heart disease.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KHNS, MPR News Stations, Maine Public Radio, KCPW Salt Lake City and more

How to Give

From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human

This week we're asking what it takes to get us to give, and how we know if we're doing it right.

Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, WKCC, and Spokane Public Radio

Stuck in the Bluff

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

WABE reporter Jim Burress takes us to ‘The Bluff’, a neighborhood in Atlanta where a needle exchange program has become a vital part of a strugglin...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio

Conversations

From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY

Conversations with people who take a DIY approach to science and to life: DIY biologists working to democratize the lab, a single mom who says some...

Bought by XRAY.fm, KUT, KUOW, WYSO, and WRVO Public Media

Whitebark Pine, Grizzlies, and an Ecosystem on the Brink

From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay

Caption: Yellowstone flyover 2, Credit: K. Gourlay

Whitebark pine trees, once a feature of the mountainous west, are under attack. Nearly two-thirds have died from beetle attacks and other causes, h...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Cave Conservation

From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay

Caption: Looking up and out of the mouth of Horse Cave, Kentucky, Credit: K. Gourlay

Caves may lie beneath our radar, but they play an important role in many Southeastern U.S. ecosystems. They filter water and shelter diverse wildli...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio