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The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic are behind us and it’s time for an early reckoning of our successes and failures. An epidemiologist shares...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 21:30
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
After the news headlines, Dr. Vandenberg talks about her work studying the techniques big companies use to undermine science and create doubt.
- Added: Oct 16, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
David Kattenburg speaks about Henrietta Lacks and medical racism in America with Dorothy Roberts. Roberts is Professor of Law and Sociology at the ...
- Added: Oct 01, 2023
- Length: 34:56
Jess speaks from her experience conducting deep ocean research to answer questions raised by UCS scientists and staff about the recent disasters of...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 19:00
There’s growing excitement that artificial intelligence can make health care better by speeding up care, improving diagnoses and easing the burden ...
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- Added: May 26, 2023
- Length: 18:27
- Purchases: 1
An immunosuppressed physician explains what navigating her life – and her workplace – is like in this COVID-fatigued world.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 07, 2022
- Length: 14:43
- Purchases: 1
Every 5 years, the FDA has to renegotiate billions of dollars in user fees with the drug and medical device companies it regulates. Congress has to...
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 18:33
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
More than half of all American adults have received a COVID-19 vaccine. But even though we’ve made great strides in our vaccination efforts, there ...
- Added: Jul 08, 2021
- Length: 03:27
In this episode, we explore where we’re at with the COVID-19 pandemic - regionally, nationally, and internationally - and begin to assess where we’...
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- Added: Jul 02, 2021
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
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
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
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
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
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
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
In this episode, we explore California’s dynamic and shifting climate, which impacts so much across the Bay area, region, and state, including our ...
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- Added: Aug 27, 2020
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
Topic 1: Actor and author George Takei. Topic 2: Emojis and the law. Topic 3: Proprioception.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida and KOWS
- Added: Apr 06, 2020
- Length: 48:53
- Purchases: 2
Topic 1: Downstairs at the White House. Topic 2: A new way to counter the generic drug shortage.
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 49:49
Topic 1: Many states allow children under 18 to get married with parental consent. Should that be illegal? Topic 2: Brain scans in the criminal jus...
- Added: Jan 30, 2020
- Length: 48:25
Topic 1: NASA practices techniques for countering deadly asteroids. Topic 2: Exploring the tough decisions for end-of-life care involving dementia....
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- Added: Jan 30, 2020
- Length: 50:08
- Purchases: 1
Topic 1: How can a megastar like Taylor Swift not own the recordings of her hits? Topic 2: The tweeting tree. Topic 3: The author of "A Composer’s ...
- Added: Jan 14, 2020
- Length: 50:04
Topic 1: Ads for you. Topic 2: Training cats. Topic 3: Prejudice against disabled persons.
- Added: Jan 09, 2020
- Length: 49:54
Topic 1: Thawing permafrost. Topic 2: Healthy anger. Topic 3: SIDS.
Bought by KSTK
- Added: Jan 08, 2020
- Length: 50:06
- Purchases: 1
