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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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One month after the Mayan apocalypse of 2012, the Generation Anthropocene team of Leslie Chang, Mike Osborne, and Miles Traer chat about the relati...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 23:30
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It’s the end of 2012, and producers Mike Osborne, Leslie Chang, and Miles Traer get together to chat about the past year of Generation Anthropocene...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 31:18
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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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Bobby speaks with, author and independent health researcher, Matt Stone about his contrarian views in regards to many fad diets and his new book, "...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2012
  • Length: 41:40
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Kevin Zepper teaches at the University of Minnesota State - Moorhead. His poem "Fossils" first appeared on the National Council for Teachers of Eng...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 03:38
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Daily routines can become monotonous, but when dealing with mental illness these tasks can feel insurmountable. Student producer Alanna Duncan take...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 02:19
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Peter Morgan can decide what he wants to do in his dreams. A research psychiatrist at Yale University, Dr. Morgan studies and practices lucid dream...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 11:56
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In our second compilation, we bring together voices from the Leopold Leadership Program to investigate the changing nature and changing goals of co...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 23:16
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The Periodic Table knew what our universe was made out of even before we did.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Colony of American oyster catchers., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Some 40 years ago the Nature Conservancy began buying up the barrier islands of Virginia and the riparian areas on the mainland. Today they own all...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 27:13
Caption: Getting cultural theory out of the books and putting it into your ears!
The Tympanic Eclipse is an audio series that brings cultural theory out of its stuffy scholarly tomes, and puts it into your ears. Together with e...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 49:12
Caption: A sculpture of a tumor made by caraballo-farman for Object Breast Cancer , Credit: caraballo-farman
A pair of artists came up with a new approach to representing breast cancer that's very different from pink ribbons. They use MRI scans to sculpt b...

Bought by Public Radio Remix, KUOW, and WAMC


  • Added: Sep 20, 2012
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 3
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Aaron Wenger is a retired educator. He is an engineer that became an educator. He is KAXE's staff physicist, and a poet. A daily reminder that, in...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2012
  • Length: 02:37
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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: Mary-Charlotte Domandi
Mary-Charlotte Domandi talks to the 42-year-old writer and amateur cyclist Andrew Tilin about injecting himself with "youth in a syringe," and what...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2012
  • Length: 26:45
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Two stories about that key life moment many of us spend a lifetime dreading. It's a key life event that none of us live to tell about. The moment. ...

Bought by Aspen Public Radio, KOSU, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jun 27, 2012
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Dr. Inoue and his "Shinya Scope". , Credit: Photo by Chris Inoue
Dividing cells are what make up all life. The idea of cell division was first published in 1855, but for nearly a century scientists debated, “How?...

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 07:33
  • Purchases: 1
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Melissa Walker discusses healing wounded service members through art at Walter Reed. [25:44]

  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 25:45
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An exploration into the life and legacy of Richard Buckminster Fuller

Bought by KFAI


  • Added: Jun 01, 2012
  • Length: 15:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Genesis mission set out to bring pieces of the sun back to the Earth. Unfortunately, luck favored the literal interpretation. , Credit: NASA/Genesis Mission
What is the most expensive thing in the world?

Bought by WAMC and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
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A deeper look into the recent news of the Goldwater Scholarship Award being given to Prashant Rajan, and using that as a vehicle to further explore...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 04:05
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Conversations with people who take a DIY approach to science and to life: DIY biologists working to democratize the lab, a single mom who says some...

Bought by KUOW, WYSO, and WRVO


  • Added: Apr 19, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3