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On this episode of Culture Clique, we sit down for tea in downtown Winona. The founders of Mandala Center for Wellness (Garret Sorenson and Sarah C...
- Added: Feb 09, 2012
- Length: 00:41:09
A new test for blood sugar levels uses saliva instead of blood.
- Added: Jan 30, 2012
- Length: 00:01:00
Find out how Europe's largest children's hospital is experimenting with the use of birdsong.
- Added: Jan 23, 2012
- Length: 00:07:09
Diabetes among African-American adults has reached epidemic proportions. Healthy Bodies, Healthy Souls -- an innovative public health program in Ba...
Bought by WAMC
- Added: Jan 21, 2012
- Length: 00:06:33
- Purchases: 1
Researchers have used reprogrammed human cells to create new muscle tissue in mice.
- Added: Jan 09, 2012
- Length: 00:01:00
Computer scientists have developed a mathematical model to predict a drug’s side-effects before they can harm patients.
- Added: Jan 03, 2012
- Length: 00:01:00
Today, nano particles are in our food, cosmetics, and hundreds of other items. And this is just the beginning of what is projected to be a $1 trill...
- Added: Dec 19, 2011
- Length: 00:56:38
- Purchases: 3
“Ubiquitous sensing” aims to blanket the world in tiny sensors, the out-of-this world detection system that discovered a possibly Earth-like planet...
- Added: Dec 19, 2011
- Length: 00:54:00
Surgeons, like athletes, may benefit from learning to use their eyes like experts.
- Added: Dec 16, 2011
- Length: 00:01:00
Discover how viruses go from birds to pigs to you, how fossil viruses got into your genome, whether E.T. might be a virus, and what it takes for id...
- Added: Dec 12, 2011
- Length: 00:54:01
Can the placebo effect be harnessed to help people with chronic pain?
- Added: Dec 09, 2011
- Length: 00:01:00
New research says that obesity might not all be to blame for ailments such as hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease.
- Added: Dec 05, 2011
- Length: 00:28:58
From earthquake-predicting cats to dangerous "pox parties" - instances of questionable biology and the history of American scientific literacy.
- Added: Nov 28, 2011
- Length: 00:54:00
On this edition of "Don't Cha Know" Jim Gurley stops by KQAL to talk about Frac-Sand Mining and what it has to do with Winona County, and Winona Mi...
- Added: Nov 23, 2011
- Length: 00:31:52
Overfeeding fruit flies sets off a chain reaction that makes their intestine grow.
- Added: Nov 17, 2011
- Length: 00:01:00
Scientists have designed a pacemaker that restarts the heart with light instead of electricity.
- Added: Nov 14, 2011
- Length: 00:01:00
Fatty acids in python blood stimulate healthy heart growth.
- Added: Nov 14, 2011
- Length: 00:01:00
Think small! Microbes are tinier than the dot at the end of this sentence, yet they can make humans sicker than dogs, dogs sicker than humans, jum...
- Added: Nov 14, 2011
- Length: 00:54:00
For a person with Cystic Fibrosis, the transplant may extend life by years – or it could lead to continued suffering and rejection of the new organ...
Bought by KFAI and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Nov 10, 2011
- Length: 00:25:15
- Purchases: 2
What exactly is Geo-Engineering and how does it affect you? Michael J. Murphy co-producer of What In the World Are they Spraying? answers this ques...
- Added: Nov 09, 2011
- Length: 00:28:44
Dr. Joseph C. Maroon, M.D., author of The Longevity Factor How Resveratrol and Red Wine Activate Genes for a Longer and Healthier Life is a neurosu...
- Added: Nov 09, 2011
- Length: 00:28:38
Jeff O'Connell, author of Sugar Nation: The Hidden Truth behind America's Deadliest Habit and the Simple Way to Beat It, has worked as executive wr...
- Added: Nov 09, 2011
- Length: 00:28:44
Corn: that most American of grains. These days corn is feed, fuel and ubiquitous sweetener, the biggest of business and some say the core of an ind...
- Added: Nov 07, 2011
- Length: 00:55:01
- Purchases: 2
Lab studies show how alcohol inhibits the immune system's response to an infection.
- Added: Oct 31, 2011
- Length: 00:01:00
A new treatment may block specific allergies without disrupting other immune functions.
- Added: Oct 26, 2011
- Length: 00:01:00
