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Flight attendants work long hours and deal with unruly passengers for wages that barely make ends meet. Krys Boyd talks with a Washi...
- Added: Sep 18, 2024
- Length: 58:54
The Story of Monsanto's Infamous Weed Killer - with Carey Gillam
- Added: Sep 09, 2024
- Length: 29:02
- Purchases: 2
The ability to spot misinformation is a key skill to have in today's world. How can we tell if something is real or fake? In this episode, Brian Du...
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- Added: Aug 21, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
After the recent assassination attempt on former President Trump, Jess talks with Dr. Garen Wintemute, Director of the Violence Prevention Research...
- Added: Jul 23, 2024
- Length: 29:00
Jess talks with NASA OSIRIS-REx mission lead planetary scientist and cosmochemist Dr. Dante Lauretta about collecting samples from the asteroid Ben...
- Added: Jun 25, 2024
- Length: 29:00
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
Jess talks with California's Attorney General Rob Bonta about a historic lawsuit he filed against Big Oil to hold them accountable for the devastat...
- Added: Apr 03, 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
Jess talks with UCLA climate scientist and Weather West blogger Dr. Daniel Swain about this summer of extremes.
- Added: Sep 05, 2023
- Length: 29:00
India became the first nation in the world to pull off a soft landing on the moon's south pole.
- Added: Aug 29, 2023
- Length: 06:00
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 ...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: May 26, 2023
- Length: 18:27
- Purchases: 1
The trauma of war and intergenerational PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) is discussed. And how state of the art ‘telepresence’, a technology ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2022
- Length: 24:40
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
Today's guests are Dr. Cathy Whitlock, Regents Professor of Paleoecology at Montana State University, and Dr. Steven Hostetler, Hydrologist at the ...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Oct 07, 2021
- Length: 28:18
- Purchases: 3
Today's guest is Dr. Kimiko Barrett of Headwaters Economics. Kimi is the Lead Wildfire and Natural Hazard Researcher at Headwaters where she also l...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Oct 07, 2021
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 3
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
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
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 take a closer look at the response among many in the medical and public health communities to the president’s handling of the C...
- Added: Oct 09, 2020
- Length: 29:30
In Norfolk, Virginia scientists battling sea level rise enlist residents to help collect data that could help the city better understand its rising...
- Added: Aug 31, 2020
- Length: 32:34
