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Howie has been an avid cyclist most of his adult life, with mileage equivalent to a few laps around the planet. But more remarkable is that he has ...
- Added: Oct 18, 2022
- Length: 18:08
For most clinicians, the idea of harming a patient is a worst nightmare. But in a high-stakes profession, practiced by humans in a dysfunctional sy...
- Added: Oct 18, 2022
- Length: 34:26
In medical culture, shame is often wielded as a teaching tool. We shame learners for not knowing, for forgetting, for making mistakes. When does th...
- Added: Oct 18, 2022
- Length: 40:02
On the path to medicine, we’re constantly taking tests: MCAT, shelf exams, step exams, boards, and more. What are these numbers good for? What are ...
- Added: Oct 18, 2022
- Length: 38:02
Josie's decades-long struggle with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is helped by the ongoing support of her husband, Joe, and their much-loved custom tandem...
- Added: Oct 06, 2022
- Length: 17:24
We all arrive at the gateway to medicine carrying baggage from our past. How does this baggage impact the way we experience shame in our profession?
- Added: Sep 27, 2022
- Length: 26:26
Medical culture is filled with impossible ideals. What makes an “ideal doctor”? Where do these “ideals” come from? How are they communicated? And w...
- Added: Sep 27, 2022
- Length: 30:11
The Nocturnists teams up with two shame experts to investigate the nature of shame, and its role in the culture of medicine.
- Added: Sep 27, 2022
- Length: 24:25
The pipeline fight comes to a surprising end. But with so many environmental injustices remaining in Memphis, the work is far from over. MCAP will ...
- Added: Sep 23, 2022
- Length: 31:05
Though the pipeline’s construction seems inevitable, MCAP’s relentless activism has begun attracting the attention of national figures, who help en...
- Added: Sep 23, 2022
- Length: 29:47
Pipeline activists dig in and discover that the Byhalia crude oil pipeline also threatens a precious 'diamond in the rough' - the Memphis Sands aq...
- Added: Sep 23, 2022
- Length: 30:26
"We took, basically, a point of least resistance." It was a throwaway line by an out-of-town pipeline representative trying to explain the company'...
- Added: Sep 23, 2022
- Length: 35:55
Reporter Carrington Tatum arrives in Memphis and begins reporting on the Byhalia pipeline. Meanwhile, MCAP realizes that calling out politicians wo...
- Added: Sep 23, 2022
- Length: 29:59
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack pays homage and respect to Doctor Rex Veeder, who pass...
- Added: Sep 21, 2022
- Length: 30:00
A passion for movement encounters serious constriction when a yoga instructor and lifelong athlete is diagnosed with thoracic outlet syndrome. When...
- Added: Sep 20, 2022
- Length: 22:11
Not your usual ghost story. Journalist & broadcaster Don Hill investigates a haunted house—his own.
- Added: Sep 18, 2022
- Length: 13:45
Not your usual ghost story. Journalist & broadcaster Don Hill investigates a haunted house—his own.
- Added: Sep 18, 2022
- Length: 19:34
Not your usual ghost story. Journalist & broadcaster Don Hill investigates a haunted house—his own.
- Added: Sep 18, 2022
- Length: 32:31
Not your usual ghost story. Journalist & broadcaster Don Hill investigates a haunted house—his own.
- Added: Sep 17, 2022
- Length: 20:50
episode 5: Disinformation and media manipulation are everywhere. Nobody can really know what’s going on in a ‘fog of war’. You’ll hear from displa...
- Added: Sep 16, 2022
- Length: 15:21
episode 4: Not surprisingly, in a time of war, most of the funding available to science in Ukraine is gone. You’ll hear how Canada can help rebuild...
- Added: Sep 16, 2022
- Length: 19:09
episode 2: How can you conduct research under extremely difficult conditions, such as they are in Ukraine? A sociologist and researcher at the Cen...
- Added: Sep 16, 2022
- Length: 19:25
episode 3: The war in Ukraine is proving to be a real-time lab study of staying one step ahead of the hackers and finding ways to protect and prese...
- Added: Sep 16, 2022
- Length: 20:30
episode 1: It's the early days of the war. Scientists in Canada and France offer a helping hand to Ukrainian colleagues. A research scientist at t...
- Added: Sep 16, 2022
- Length: 19:59
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
