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Batteries Save the Day
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Installing battery in Sterling
A story of 3 towns who find that storing solar energy in giant batteries is cheaper and safer than power plants.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jun 24, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
breakpoint
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Stop everything! We've hit a breakpoint, and things are gonna get dicey. This is Episode 65 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on fav...

Bought by Enchantment Radio


  • Added: May 28, 2018
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 1
Take Care (Monthly) #4
From: WRVO Public Media
Series: Take Care
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The theme of this episode is the body image, aging, and acceptance.

  • Added: May 21, 2018
  • Length: 52:00
Palliative Care: The Search For Comfort And Healing In The Face Of Death
From: JoAnn Mar
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For those who are dying, palliative medicine can go a long way in relieving the pain and suffering that often accompanies the final stages of death...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Apr 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Take Care (Monthly) #3
From: WRVO Public Media
Series: Take Care
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The theme of this episode is the national opioid epidemic and what doctors and organizations are doing to combat it.

Bought by WSKG and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 2
Take Care (Monthly) #2
From: WRVO Public Media
Series: Take Care
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The theme of this episode is influenza, and how it affected the public this past season.

  • Added: Apr 13, 2018
  • Length: 52:00
10 - The Truth About The End - Part 2
From: FOOLY BOO
Series: Shabam!
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We find out how it all ends.

  • Added: Mar 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:57
10 - The Truth About The End - Part 1
From: FOOLY BOO
Series: Shabam!
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The kids arrive at the base. We come up with a simple way to separate fact from fiction.

  • Added: Mar 14, 2018
  • Length: 28:40
9 - Killing Zombies - Part 2
From: FOOLY BOO
Series: Shabam!
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The kids run into a problem. We explore the physiology of the zombie body.

  • Added: Mar 14, 2018
  • Length: 27:01
9 - Killing Zombies - Part 1
From: FOOLY BOO
Series: Shabam!
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The kids continue their journey. We explore the zombie brain.

  • Added: Mar 14, 2018
  • Length: 17:33
8 - On The Road - Part 1
From: FOOLY BOO
Series: Shabam!
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The kids begin their journey to Vandenberg on bikes. We find out about transportation

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Mar 14, 2018
  • Length: 23:39
  • Purchases: 1
Metabolism: The Google Maps of Cancer Research
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Health & Healing
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Chemist Gary Patti shares how the emerging field of metabolomics, the study of metabolism, may hold clues for cancer research.

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 12:27
  • Purchases: 1
2 - The Pathogen
From: FOOLY BOO
Series: Shabam!
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If you like having a brain but don't really care about having skin, please listen to this episode.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 28:11
  • Purchases: 1
A Chemist's Quest for New Antibiotics
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Health & Healing
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria is spreading around the world; chemist Tim Wencewicz explains what his lab is doing to solve the problem.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 15:48
  • Purchases: 1
Milk at Altitude: Exploring Health in the Himalayas
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Health & Healing
Caption: PRX default Piece image
How is human milk different in the Himalayan highlands than in the United States, and what can these differences reveal about what moms and babies ...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 16:40
  • Purchases: 1
Breaking Down Persistent Myths About Eating Disorders
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Health & Healing
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Treated for her first eating disorder at 11, Rebecca Lester now studies eating disorders as an anthropologist and psychotherapist.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 15:10
  • Purchases: 1
Eating Organic in Nazi Germany
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Health & Healing
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A historian shares the story of the Nazis' obsession with natural foods, and discusses how their ideas about nutrition compare with how we think ab...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 13:38
  • Purchases: 1
Galen and the Elephant's Heart
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Health & Healing
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What can an ancient debate about an elephant tell us about the history of medicine?

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 15:57
  • Purchases: 1
Mapping Asthma: The Geography of Inequality
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Health & Healing
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A doctoral student in education seeks to discover solutions to health inequities in the St. Louis region and beyond.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 12:15
Take Care (Monthly) #1
From: WRVO Public Media
Series: Take Care
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The theme of this episode is "Giving", from treating cleft in developing countries, charitable giving, donating blood, resources for struggling fam...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2018
  • Length: 52:00
LaTeX
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Keep your hands clean when you write professional publications. This is episode 43 of the Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorit...

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Oct 31, 2017
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 1
Raw Cannabis Healing With Dr. William Courtney
From: KZYX
Series: The KZYX Cannabis Hour
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April 7, 2016, Raw Cannabis and Healing, with Dr. William Courtney. Dr. Courtney. Dr. Courtney has seen over 7,000 patients whose diverse medical c...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2017
  • Length: 53:14
Fire Ecology and Politics with Dr. Chad Hanson
From: KZYX
Series: KZYX Ecology Hour - Science Edition
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Tim and Bob talk to Dr Chad Hanson about Wildfires and Policy in the West. Dr Hansen is the research ecologist at the John Muir Project of the Eart...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:14
The Amazing Feats Of Shore Birds
From: KZYX
Series: KZYX Ecology Hour - Science Edition
Caption: Bar Tailed Godwit
The bar tailed godwit migrates 7,000 miles nonstop from Alaska to New Zealand. Learn how and why on this edition of the Ecology Hour. All about sho...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 57:52
Harbor Seals and Sea Lions with Dr. James Harvey
From: KZYX
Series: KZYX Ecology Hour - Science Edition
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Tim and Bob speak with professor Jim Harvey of the Moss Landing Marine Laboratory In Moss Landing California. Jim has spent most of his career stud...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 57:27