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889: Luminous: Your brain on 'shrooms / 890: Against cynicism, 4/13/2024
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Luminous: Your brain on 'shrooms" - More and more scientists believe psychedelics can open a window into how our minds work. And for som...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:01
2024-04-05 Elizabeth Kolbert on Hope, Despair, and Everything In Between
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Even before Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” brought climate change to the mainstream, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Elizabeth Kolbert was on ...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KALW and more


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 9
240405: Elizabeth Kolbert on Hope, Despair, and Everything In Between, 4/5/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Even before Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” brought climate change to the mainstream, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Elizabeth Kolbert was on ...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
Imagining where love came from: Sonnet for the Primordial Gravity Waves
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets (Bookshop.org), Credit: Susan Cook
The 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to those who offered proof of the existence of Primordial Gravity Waves. Einstein theorized they were ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:14
  • Purchases: 1
What We Need to Make Democracy Work
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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Longtime Washington journalist Jesse J. Holland talks with Jess about changes in journalism and communicating science in the age of social media an...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Ride into the Danger Zone: Tornado Chasing, Hurricane Hunting, and Smoke Jumping
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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We're talking with professional storm chasers and smoke jumpers whose job it is to run towards danger.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
027: Tapping your way to serenity: your brain and heart on ASMR, 3/15/2024
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied
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If you’ve spent some time on TikTok or YouTube recently, you might have stumbled across ASMR content without even knowing it. From long acrylic nai...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
231215: This Year in Climate: 2023, 12/15/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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It’s been a year of weather extremes – again. But there’s also been cause for renewed hope about our climate future. On the heels of this year’s i...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
2023-08-20 Weird Wants
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is it weird to want to do things that are bad for us?

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  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
2334: Weird Wants, 8/22/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Is it weird to want to do things that are bad for us?

  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
AMOS 23.84: The Humanizing Voice, 4/27/2023
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
The Humanizing Voice

  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
779: Out Of The Anxiety Box / 780: Against Cynicism, 3/25/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Out Of The Anxiety Box" - It's 7 a.m. You're not even out of bed and you're already worrying. So let's talk about it: How anxious we are...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
2312: Science and Skepticism, 3/21/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Our understanding evolves over time – how can we explain that to impatient people who don't trust science?

  • Added: Mar 14, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2023-01-22 Why Trust Science?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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When the truths of science are always shifting, why should we still trust it?

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  • Added: Jan 23, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
2304: Why Trust Science?, 1/24/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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When the truths of science are always shifting, why should we still trust it?

  • Added: Jan 22, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2022-12-04 Thinking Like A Conspiracy Theorist
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Don’t the vast majority of people believe at least some conspiracy theories?

Bought by KSKQ, KICI Iowa City, and KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Dec 05, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 3
747: Forged By Hand / 748: If Your Clothes Could Talk, 12/3/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Forged By Hand" - You would think that handcrafting, like iron forging and copper smithing, would be on the way out. But COVID has shown...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
2022-11-20 Covid Conundrums and Moral Dilemmas
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What ethical dilemmas have people faced in their daily lives related to the Covid-19 pandemic?

Bought by KMUN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., GCR (Global Community Radio), KICI Iowa City, KMUN and more


  • Added: Nov 21, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Raj Patel, Credit: TheStar.com
The network of systems that make up our bodies – respiratory, digestive and nervous system to name a few - is seen by conventional medicine as self...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Science unscripted 08/23/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: With Artemis about to launch, we need to ask ourselves an important question: What do we actually want for our moon?

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Aug 26, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
2022.06.17 REWIND Climate Miseducation
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Climate change science isn’t taught accurately — or equally — across the country. Investigative reporter Katie Worth dug into textbooks and talked ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KUHF, KOWS and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
20220617: REWIND Climate Miseducation, 6/17/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Climate change science isn’t taught accurately — or equally — across the country. Investigative reporter Katie Worth dug into textbooks and talked ...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
2022-04-29 Dismantling White Supremacy to Address the Climate Crisis
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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A fundamental injustice of the climate crisis is that those who have contributed to it least are already bearing the brunt of the impacts, and that...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KCPW Salt Lake City, WDET Detroit Public Radio, Nevada Public Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 28, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 13
20220429: Dismantling White Supremacy to Address the Climate Crisis, 4/29/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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A fundamental injustice of the climate crisis is that those who have contributed to it least are already bearing the brunt of the impacts, and that...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2022
  • Length: 58:58