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If the brain is enclosed in the skull, and the mind is just the brain working, is the mind also enclosed in the skull?

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Is it just dumb luck that the universe has just the right settings to support life as we know it?

Bought by KKRN, WRNC-LP, WNJR, and KSKQ


  • Added: Mar 18, 2013
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
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The lessons of D.L. Rosenhan's 40 year old study of psychiatric patients "plagerised" psychiatric diagnosis to see if they would be detected as fra...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2013
  • Length: 06:18
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What were the most philosophically significant events of 2012?

Bought by KKRN, WRNC-LP, KSKQ, and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Where does water come from? We know from science that water evaporates from the ocean reservoir, is captured in clouds, fog and rain, descends to s...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Megan Bang helped incorporate systems-level thinking into the design of an early education classroom., Credit: (WBEZ/Gabriel Spitzer)
We go back to one of the first lessons kids learn about science, and what it says about how human minds develop. As children discover the natural w...

Bought by KUT and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 05, 2012
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 2
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Why is death such a difficult subject to talk about? From hospital mortuary to the grave, The D-Word explores our complex relationship with death...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 30:30
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Should we resolve inconsistent beliefs... or let them be?

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This paradox resists a solution and inspires major advances from Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 1
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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Paradoxes - What are they? What do they mean? How should we think about them? Experts weigh in.

Bought by KGOU


  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 36:09
  • Purchases: 1
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When New York City author Ginger Strand passed through Tulsa, we sat her down and asked her what she thought about our state. The wind, of course, ...

Bought by KOSU and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 03:07
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Mark Lehner, Credit: pbs.org/nova
Archaeologist Mark Lehner says that his field is really about the art of observation.

Bought by Radio Newark, KRUA, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 01:16
  • Purchases: 3
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A piece about preserving prairie.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2010
  • Length: 10:39
Caption: Rob Olson and Heidi Sosik developed an automated underwater microscopic camera that takes photographs of phytoplankton in the ocean., Credit: Tom Kleindinst, WHOI
Heidi Sosik and Rob Olson describe how a shared frustration led them to develop a special underwater camera that takes pictures of tiny cells in th...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2009
  • Length: 10:02
Caption: Navigating Life with Science and Soul
A story of healing

  • Added: Apr 10, 2009
  • Length: 07:51
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Ocean biology is threatened by Climate Change

  • Added: Feb 08, 2009
  • Length: 01:46
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Fred Flaxman destroys the theory in only two minutes using his usual tongue-in-cheek approach.

  • Added: Jan 01, 2009
  • Length: 02:03
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Winooski High School science teacher talks about his religious beliefs

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Jul 07, 2008
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 1
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Syphilitic skulls, racial science, and some of the oldest non-western music recordings in history - come explore the beauty and pathos that is the ...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2008
  • Length: 32:55
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Studies show that many areas of your brain process music.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2008
  • Length: 03:04
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Could this be end of the digital media disks such as CDs and DVDs?

  • Added: Jan 25, 2008
  • Length: 04:59
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Jenny Attiyeh speaks with cosmologist Alex Vilenkin about the search for other universes, followed by a talk with public media guru Jay Allison

  • Added: Jul 09, 2007
  • Length: 57:42
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Russian cosmologist Alex Vilenkin on the search for other universes, and the end of our own "O-region" -- on ThoughtCast!

Bought by WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Jun 30, 2007
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Mining in Eastern Kentucky dries up water supply

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Apr 12, 2007
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 1
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Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann believes the middle is a good place to be, both in life and in science.

Bought by KJZZ


  • Added: Oct 06, 2006
  • Length: 04:43
  • Purchases: 1