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Hear from your host, Theresa Soley, as she shares her unexpected interest in glacial ice.
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 24:45
Powerful new antibiotics discovered using artificial intelligence. Sitting in a restaurant, staring at a piece of fish. Is it really that expensive...
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 58:52
Long Covid -- a complex ailment driving lots of people down. Moms, babies and bacteria -- the relationship starts before you’re born, then you’re c...
- Added: Jun 05, 2023
- Length: 57:27
Only one human disease has ever been completely eradicated: Smallpox. Rahima Banu, a woman from rural Bangladesh, was the last person in the world ...
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- Added: May 19, 2023
- Length: 09:37
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The history of why Black women are more likely to die when giving birth than White women.
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- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 56:56
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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
When the plague broke out in San Francisco in 1900, the public health department singled out Chinatown—as if Chinatown were the problem.
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 51:34
If there is no such thing as biological race, why do we have race-specific drugs?
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 54:18
The word “Tuskegee” has become shorthand for the Black community’s mistrust of the medical establishment. But what really happened?
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 59:05
Activists were angry that a museum held the skulls of enslaved people. Then they discovered it also had remains of Black children killed in 1985.
- Added: May 14, 2023
- Length: 56:58
Jess investigates what connects giant salamanders, community organizing, and fracking via a conversation with journalist Annie Roth and biologist J...
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 58:00
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 55:48
- Purchases: 1
Follow the money that props up racist science, and you'll find it all leads back to one man.
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 01:03:24
The faulty—and fatal—race logic of an 18th century yellow fever epidemic.
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 40:50
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 33:44
In this episode, Emily speaks with documentary filmmaker and journalist David France about his films How to Survive a Pandemic (2022) and How to Su...
- Added: May 02, 2023
- Length: 46:32
OB/GYN Jackie Howitt and pediatrician Gretchen Volk bring us into the deserted airport where they first met in April 2020 on their way to offer COV...
- Added: May 02, 2023
- Length: 53:32
In this episode, go into the field with a team of scientists working to map the coastal seafloor in detail—and learn how their technologies could r...
- Added: Mar 06, 2023
- Length: 20:11
When it comes to mapping the seafloor, the hardest spots to see are the ones just off the coast. In this episode, find out why that's the case—and ...
- Added: Mar 06, 2023
- Length: 14:52
The apapane is a forest bird native to the Hawaiian islands. It is a member of the honeycreeper family and an important pollinator.
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- Added: Feb 08, 2023
- Length: 01:00
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Diane Turco from Cape Downwinders talks about the company decommissioning the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant, and how they're trying to save money buy...
- Added: Jan 27, 2023
- Length: 28:04
For Minnesotans, the common loon is more than our state bird. It's a symbol of the beauty of our home. For scientists, the loon's health is also an...
- Added: Jan 19, 2023
- Length: 20:38
Interview with Earl Swift, author of Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island.
- Added: Dec 01, 2022
- Length: 29:53
Over the last nine episodes, we’ve listened to dozens upon dozens of clinicians tell their stories about shame. For this last episode of Shame in M...
- Added: Nov 20, 2022
- Length: 34:26
“I plan to row till my last breath” is a strong endorsement for any sport. Yet we heard this sentiment numerous times at the 2022 Head of the Charl...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 27:42
