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If you’ve spent some time on TikTok or YouTube recently, you might have stumbled across ASMR content without even knowing it. From long acrylic nai...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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Egg donation in the U.S. is a multibillion dollar industry designed to provide infertile folks with the eggs they need to conceive. But how do we d...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio and KJZZ


  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 2
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Egg donation in the U.S. is a multibillion dollar industry designed to provide infertile folks with the eggs they need to conceive. But how do we d...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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The Brazilian butt lift is one of the fastest growing cosmetic procedures. What is driving the desire for a “perfect peach”?

  • Added: Feb 29, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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If you could speak again with a loved one who has passed away, would you? With recent advances in artificially intelligent grief tech, this questio...

Bought by KWGS


  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 1
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If you could speak again with a loved one who has passed away, would you? With recent advances in artificially intelligent grief tech, this questio...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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In this special broadcast of episodes 5 and 6 of So Far From Care, we return to Marfa for two different stories. This tiny desert town is often ro...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
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In episodes 3 and 4 of So Far From Care, "What We're Capable Of" and "She's Not Here," you’ll hear about what it’s like to live even further out th...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 54:30
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Sex robots have been a sci-fi staple since the genre’s birth. Now that more advancements in technology are bringing early generation bots to life, ...

Bought by KWGS and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 16, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 2
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AI chatbots garner millions of daily users, filling a variety of roles from customer support to text generator. But what about their romantic poten...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WHRV, KWGS, RadioFreePalmer, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 5
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AI chatbots garner millions of daily users, filling a variety of roles from customer support to text generator. But what about their romantic pote...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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There are 1.8 billion monthly menstruators worldwide. Better understanding the science behind period blood, as well as cultural stigma and period p...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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OCD often goes misdiagnosed and misunderstood … and if left untreated, can impact platonic, intimate and familial relationships in challenging ways.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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Humans are the only animal to produce emotional tears. Asking questions about this behavior can help us better understand how we live our lives.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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Between the ages of 40 and 70, more than half of all people with penises will deal with some form of erectile dysfunction. While that experience ca...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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Self-help has existed in some form since the dawn of human civilization and has grown into a robust industrial complex. But does self-help really m...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KTSW 89.9, Troy Public Radio, KGOU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 10
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Self-help has existed in some form since the dawn of human civilization and has grown into a robust industrial complex. But does self-help really m...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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Stuttering has long been the butt of many jokes. People who stutter are working to change that.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2023
  • Length: 58:23
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Many incarcerated people are also parents. Their children navigate social stigma and barriers to staying in contact with their loved ones.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2023
  • Length: 58:23
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In this digital age of flawless, perfect, poreless skin, dealing with adult acne can be incredibly isolating. Two skinfluencers and a photographer ...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2023
  • Length: 58:23
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For older Americans, social isolation is a public health crisis. As we age, our relationships evolve and our communities change — how do we accept ...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2023
  • Length: 58:23
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Art, sport, workout, therapy: modern pole dancing has taken on many forms. A veteran stripper, a pole studio owner, and a young dancer discuss poli...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2023
  • Length: 58:23
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The rise of the wellness industry and marketing of wellness products moves us away from the individualized practices that actually make us feel hea...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2023
  • Length: 58:23
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The rise of the wellness industry and marketing of wellness products moves us away from the individualized practices that actually make us feel hea...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Boise State Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, KJZZ and more


  • Added: Nov 22, 2023
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 7
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Third culture kids spend their formative years trotting the globe, moving between different cultures and countries. Two third culture families shar...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and Boise State Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 21, 2023
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 2