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Those of us who use the internet are subject to the words and wisdom, or lack thereof, provided by the people and or machines that upload ideas and...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
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This program was originally broadcast May 7, 2007. The consequences of growing genetically modified alfalfa were deteremined by the United States ...

  • Added: Feb 29, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
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Originally Broadcast: April 4, 2007 I Can Read You Like a Book Have you ever wondered what some body movements mean when people hear certain words...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
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River of Renewal, Myth & History in the Klamath Basin Since the last Ice Age ended about 12,000 years ago, human beings have traveled along the Kl...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
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Originally Broadcast: December 6, 2006 A Graceful Farewell: Putting Your Affairs in Order Putting your affairs in order before you die is the top...

Bought by KMUN and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jan 04, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Originally Broadcast: November 8, 2006 This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science of a Human Obsession The understanding of how we humans experienc...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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Originally Broadcast: November 1, 2006 This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science of a Human Obsession The understanding of how we humans experienc...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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KQAL's Jiovani Bermudez speaks with local artist Maia Williams about her new work, Blooming Underground. Original air date: 11/08/22

  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 26:03
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Originally Broadcast: April 18, 2006 The Mature Mind: The Positive Power of the Aging Brain Do people over a certain age necessarily loose mental...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Sep 07, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Stargazer, the Life and Times of the Telescope The history of the telescope is a rich story of human ingenuity and perseverance involving some of ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 09, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rahima Banu and her mother in 1975, Credit: Daniel Tarantola/WHO
Only one human disease has ever been completely eradicated: Smallpox. Rahima Banu, a woman from rural Bangladesh, was the last person in the world ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: May 19, 2023
  • Length: 09:37
  • Purchases: 1
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The history of why Black women are more likely to die when giving birth than White women.

Bought by WVTF and WNED Buffalo


  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 56:56
  • Purchases: 2
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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
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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
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If there is no such thing as biological race, why do we have race-specific drugs?

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 54:18
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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
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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
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Can anti-racist scientists create racist science?

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 55:48
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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How race was invented to support racism.

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 33:44
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When the polar ice caps melt, sea level will rise. That’s happened earlier in the history of the world, and it appears it will happen again. In th...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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When the polar ice caps melt, sea level will rise. That’s happened earlier in the history of the world, and it appears it will happen again. In th...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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Adam’s Curse, A Future Without Men The Y chromosome, compared to the body’s 45 other chromosomes, is very fragile. It has been worn down by millio...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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Genome & Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human Are we humans defined by nature or nurture? Matt Ridley, the author of “Gen...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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The Journey of Man, A Genetic Odyssey Around 60,000 years ago, a man – identical to us in all important genetic respects – lived in Africa. Every ...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00