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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
Spinning Science for Profit with Dr. Laura Vandenberg
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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After the news headlines, Dr. Vandenberg talks about her work studying the techniques big companies use to undermine science and create doubt.

Bought by WMUU-LP, WRFA-LP, and WYAP


  • Added: Oct 16, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Communicating Science: Vaccine Efficacy, Public Health, & Combatting Misinformation, with Greta Keenan
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we discuss vaccines – the science that has brought us such an incredible solution to public health crises; the human response to v...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
The COVID-19 Pandemic: Where we Stand & How We Can Move Forward, with UCSF’s Dr. Monica Gandhi
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
Caption: Headshot: Dr. Monica Gandhi
In this episode, we explore where we’re at with the COVID-19 pandemic - regionally, nationally, and internationally - and begin to assess where we’...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jul 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Carbon Offsets & Climate Change with Researchers Grayson Badgley & Anna Trugman
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we explore carbon offsets, and how their promise as a way to mitigate carbon emissions - and thus climate change - have not yet pa...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
Vaccinating the World Part II: You Can’t Fight Scarcity with Scarcity
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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India is the world’s largest supplier of vaccines but the government there suspended the export of all COVID-19 vaccines after a devastating outbre...

  • Added: May 28, 2021
  • Length: 03:52
Zoonotic Viruses and Their Origins
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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There’s a lot we don’t know about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus but there is a consensus that it came from animals. This is called zoonosis. H...

  • Added: May 14, 2021
  • Length: 04:18
Drought & Climate in California with NWS Meteorologist Brian Garcia
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we discuss the current state of California’s climate - how it’s changed in recent years, and what we face in 2021, including a sig...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
Invisible Women
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Domestic workers have been especially hard hit by the pandemic but have been consistently excluded from bills meant to help frontline workers. In t...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 04:10
Rise of the South Africa Variant
From: Celine Gounder
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We’re looking at the variant that emerged in South Africa: 501Y.V2. This variant is not only more transmissible, but has demonstrated the troubling...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 04:00
California Climate:Heat, Drought, Flood, Lightning, & Fire w/ Dr. Michael Anderson
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
Caption: California Climate Map, Credit: Photo by: Ali Zifan (CC BY-SA 4.0) (derived from World Köppen Classification (with authors).svg)
In this episode, we explore California’s dynamic and shifting climate, which impacts so much across the Bay area, region, and state, including our ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Aug 27, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
479-Comet Catalina
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Comet C/2018 M1 (Catalina) is eternal in the sense that it will likely wander the vast space between the stars in our Milky Way Galaxy until the e...

Bought by KGLP, KENW, WLPR , KKRN, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Healing Trauma
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Whether it's soldiers returning from war or youngsters recovering from mass shootings, or any other kinds of sudden or on-going trauma, the need fo...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 28, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
445-Not So Secret
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A partnership of humans and computers will help to minimize the damage when asteroid hunters find a space rock with our number on it.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KKRN, KRWG, and KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Mar 22, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
380-Southern Colleagues
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In this age in which science is being advanced by large teams of scientists with budgets in the millions to billions of dollars, it is gratifying t...

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, and KKRN


  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
376-Active Asteroids
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Some asteroids become comets giving rise to beautiful meteor showers.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KRWG, KENW, KKRN, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jul 20, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
370-Life's Parts
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Astronomers have found the basic ingredients of life in an infant solar system.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WOUB, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Pugs
From: Colin Wright
Series: Let's Know Things
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This week we discuss brachycephalic dogs, maize, and birth control.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2017
  • Length: 38:41
Frontiers
From: Colin Wright
Series: Let's Know Things
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This week we talk about the net-casting spider, space junk, and Kessler syndrome.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2017
  • Length: 42:04
Up In Smoke (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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E-cigarettes are growing more popular and are now being used for illicit drugs - Menthol makes cigarettes more addictive and more unhealthy - New t...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2017
  • Length: :29
Up In Smoke (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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E-cigarettes are growing more popular and are now being used for illicit drugs - Menthol makes cigarettes more addictive and more unhealthy - New t...

Bought by WCNY, KTSW 89.9, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2017
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 8
Up In Smoke (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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E-cigarettes are growing more popular, and now being used for illicit drugs - Menthol makes cigarettes more addictive and more harmful

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KMUD, KKRN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2017
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 10
310-Ethics and Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Should martian microbes be sacrificed to human space exploration.

Bought by Radio Newark, KMXT, WLPR , KENW, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
309-Tiny Atira
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Atira, named for the Pawnee goddess of Earth and the Morning and Evening Star orbits the Sun inside of our path.

Bought by Radio Newark, WLPR , KENW, KUPR low power FM, WOUB and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
308-Planning For Impact
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Planning for the unlikely event that an asteroid is on a collision course with planet Earth will minimize injury and the loss of life.

Bought by Radio Newark, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KKRN, KRWG and more


  • Added: Nov 25, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6