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States in the Great Lakes kill beavers and remove dams on select rivers and streams. They’re doing it, in part, for anglers and the multi-billion d...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 14:14
Brian Dunning examines some interesting beliefs around food and whether or not they are supported by science.
- Added: Apr 09, 2024
- Length: 59:00
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
Brian Dunning separates fact from fiction as he examines the talking points made by the many people who hate electric cars.
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 59:00
In recent years, scientists have begun testing geoengineering technologies to slow down or even stop global warming. But, is geoengineering safe? A...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Oct 30, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Today, we are going to explore a remarkable world that lies beyond our solar system: Kepler-22b. This planet is one of the first confirmed exoplane...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Aug 13, 2023
- Length: 03:56
- Purchases: 1
In the last full episode of the season, we travel to the Greenland ice sheet and hear from a researcher who collects data at the face of tidewater ...
- Added: Jul 12, 2023
- Length: 23:22
Nothing woolly-headed or Utopian about it: A universal, guaranteed basic income. A hundred years later, memories of war that do not fade. And, one ...
- Added: Jul 09, 2023
- Length: 59:14
We hear what makes tidewater glacier habitat an acoustic refuge, and why glaciers are important to other species in the ecosystem.
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 19:11
We hear from Judy Ramos in Lingít Aaní. She tells us about the history of glacier travel in the region, and about the Spirit of the Glacier.
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 24:28
Interview with Earl Swift, author of Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island.
- Added: Dec 01, 2022
- Length: 29:53
How do we know when to push through pain to pursue the activities we love? And when should we suspect that injuries are part of a disease process? ...
- Added: Aug 24, 2022
- Length: 19:56
Music host Paul Ingles welcomes his first repeat guest on his series - Steve Cropper - guitarist, producer, songwriter, and collaborator with most ...
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 3
How can we make space for concerns about the vaccine and grapple with a difficult history?
Infectious disease specialist Dr. Joyce Sanchez says th...
- Added: Mar 26, 2021
- Length: 28:40
- Purchases: 2
We want to answer a question a lot of people ask us: Why are we making this podcast? Why make a podcast about solutions to the opioid epidemic?
On...
- Added: Jan 20, 2020
- Length: 11:21
In this episode we look at the idea of harm reduction and focus specifically on needle exchanges. Those are hundreds of places across the US that h...
- Added: Jan 20, 2020
- Length: 22:21
At a book group meeting, women went around the circle and introduced themselves. They found out that nearly everyone there had a son addicted to he...
- Added: Jan 20, 2020
- Length: 30:42
At a clinic in Everett, Washington, a nurse pushes his patients to work hard, and the patients embark on their road to recovery. This episode we're...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Oct 15, 2019
- Length: 25:34
- Purchases: 1
An audio snapshot celebrating the unique diversity of tidepools along the pacific coast.
Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KRZA
- Added: Dec 14, 2018
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 3
Pat and Ted Davis have been married for more than fifty years. But since Ted started showing signs of depression and dementia, he has become so qui...
- Added: Nov 27, 2018
- Length: 10:52
Among the various STEM education organizations that have developed throughout the last several years, there is ChickTech. The local Austin chapter ...
- Added: Oct 07, 2018
- Length: 35:42
From measuring the "size of the wiggle" to monitoring a "seismic moment", Geologist Lori Dengler discusses the scientific endeavor to quantify ear...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 01:50
- Purchases: 1
Documentary on a developmental affliction called "Sensory Processing Disorder."
- Added: Apr 09, 2018
- Length: 24:44
The mountain beaver is an important part of ecosystem health.
Research Ecologist Bill Zielinski wrote this segment about this little-known mammal.
Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, KRZA, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Mar 31, 2018
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 4
An audio postcard highlighting the city of Arcata's Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary that also functions as an innovative wastewater treatment facility.
Bought by KZYX, WNED Buffalo, and Radio Newark
- Added: Feb 15, 2017
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 3