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Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for February 7, 2024
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Preventing a Wider Middle East War Linked to Ending Israel’s Brutal War in...

Bought by WFHB and WETS


  • Added: Feb 07, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
An Interview with Lori Griffith of Chasin a Dream Foundation, Empowering Families with Children Facing Life-Threatening Illnesses
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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An Interview with Lori Griffith of Chasin a Dream Foundation, Empowering Families with Children Facing Life-Threatening Illnesses

  • Added: Dec 01, 2023
  • Length: 26:54
MAPPS: Social Networks, Spatial Networks, and Pathogen Spread
From: Brown University School of Public Health
Series: Humans in Public Health
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How do we avoid total societal shutdown during a pandemic? Professor Mark Lurie believes the key lies in understanding how social mixing and human ...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 08:15
How Hot is Too Hot
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: How Hot is Too Hot?, Credit: Seth Shostak
Extreme heat is taking its toll on the natural world. We use words like “heat domes” and “freakish” to de-scribe our everyday existence. These high...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WVTF, CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Oct 02, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
We'll Always Have Parasites
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: We'll Always Have Parasites, Credit: Scott Gardner
Imagine tapeworms longer than the height of an adult human. Or microbes that turn their hosts into zombies. If the revulsion they induce doesn’t do...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRGY, KBBI Alaska, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jul 31, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 12
805: Wonders Of The Human Body / 806: Loving Bees, 6/24/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Wonders Of The Human Body" - What's so wondrous about the human body? An hour on transplants, chronic illnesses and the familiar in ours...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
Good Health and Wellbeing UN Goal #3
From: melodically challenged
Series: Saving the Planet: The United Nations Sustainability Goals
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Welcome to Melodically Challenged.  Today, we continue our series on the U. N. Sustainable Development Goals with an hour dedicated to Goal number ...

  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
Calamity in Philadelphia
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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The faulty—and fatal—race logic of an 18th century yellow fever epidemic.

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 40:50
Conversations: David France
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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In this episode, Emily speaks with documentary filmmaker and journalist David France about his films How to Survive a Pandemic (2022) and How to Su...

  • Added: May 02, 2023
  • Length: 46:32
Vaccine Inequity
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Vaccine Inequity, Credit: Seth Shostak
A radical plan could solve a historic global health inequity. Countries in the global south who waited for more than a year for ample supplies of C...

Bought by KZYX, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KMUN, CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Nov 21, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
Generational Gene
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: My Body Odyssey
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Generational Gene may seem a special case; a middle-aged school superintendent with a father and grandfather who’ve contracted Type 2 diabetes, Gen...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2022
  • Length: 18:29
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for October 26, 2022
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Amid Haiti Crisis, Civil Society Groups Oppose Foreign Military Interventi...

Bought by WFHB, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WETS


  • Added: Oct 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Skeptic Check: Heal Thyself
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Heal Thyself, Credit: Seth Shostak
Do we need doctors? There are umpteen alternative sources of medical advice, including endless health tips from people without medical degrees. Wh...

Bought by WVTF, CHSR-FM 97.9, KZUM, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRGY and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Conversations: Rupa Marya, MD & Raj Patel
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
Caption: Inflamed Book Cover
In this episode, Emily speaks with physician Rupa Marya and political economist Raj Patel about their recent book, Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the ...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2022
  • Length: 56:21
Skeptic Check: Dr. Oz
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Dr. Oz, Credit: Seth Shostak
Dr. Oz’s personable and folky approach when talking about difficult health subjects has made him a trusted source for medical information. But some...

Bought by WVTF, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRGY, KBBI Alaska, KZUM and more


  • Added: May 02, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for March 30, 2022
From: Scott Harris
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Preconditions Necessary to End Russia’s War in Ukraine; U.S. Weapons Feed ...

Bought by KVSC and KNCT FM


  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
673: Secrets Of Alchemy / 674: Wonders Of The Human Body, 3/19/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Secrets Of Alchemy" - The leading science of the 17th century was alchemy, the transformation of matter. What was it really? Could we st...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
Conversations: Jason Karlawish, MD
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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Alzheimer's disease used to be a rare diagnosis. But today, more than 5.8 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's and this number is projecte...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2022
  • Length: 45:47
Conversations: Elinor Cleghorn, MD
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
Caption: Unwell Women
Emily discusses the problem of gender bias in medicine with Dr. Elinor Cleghorn, author of "Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 43:24
Part One of The State Made Visible: On the Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our guest is Rasul Mowatt, author of Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence, published by Routledge, which shows us how the the state...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 06, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Plagues Upon the Earth
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kyle Harper
They’re rooted deeply in our global past. Germs. They’ve always been with us. It’s our wealth, health, power and inequity that determine how well w...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Home Invasions
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Home Invasions, Credit: Seth Shostak
As we struggle to control a viral invader that moves silently across the globe and into its victims, we are also besieged by other invasions. Murde...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRGY, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KMUN and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
After The Plague
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: After the Plague, Credit: Seth Shostak
Everyone is familiar with the immediate consequences of a pandemic – sickness and death. But the long-term ramifications can be just as dramatic: a...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, WKMS, Interlochen Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 21, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
Can We Vaccinate 7.9 Billion People?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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If you live in the United States, there’s a good chance you’ve already been vaccinated, or at least have an appointment booked, but people who live...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
567: Discovering America's Black DNA / 568: Wonders Of The Human Body, 3/13/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Discovering America's Black DNA" - What happens when common DNA brings the black and white side of the family together for the first tim...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:58