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Richard Alley, a climate researcher and the host of PBS’s Earth: The Operators’ Manual, discusses rapid changes in Earth’s climate through history ...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 27:55
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Michael Shellenberger addresses climate change through the eyes of his Breakthrough Institute and offers up some ideas that some see as controversi...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 19:48
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In this interview, we learn from James Holland Jones how diseases emerge and spread as humans encroach into the wilderness, and how the patterns wi...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 37:41
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Spirited biologist Rodolfo Dirzo discusses the complex interplay of climate change with other systems, and his personal relation to the Anthropocen...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 46:56
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Conservation biologist Terry Root discusses the road to triage and her somewhat controversial approach to saving species in the face of climate cha...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 37:16
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The surprising history of the earth and life's impact on it. Also, a new perspective on the future of the planet: earth will likely be in constant ...

Bought by KUT and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Sep 26, 2012
  • Length: 14:32
  • Purchases: 2
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The history of aquaculture from the mid-20th century to the present.

  • Added: Jun 13, 2012
  • Length: 16:26
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A psychologist and education specialist is finishing up a major study that looks at how teenage brains respond to mental exercises. His findings su...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
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In recent years, sea ice in the Arctic has been melting at an alarming rate, and scientists are asking why. The science community has recently take...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 1
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A multiyear study begun at Harvard follows shy babies into adulthood. As producer Kelley Libby reports, 15 to 20 percent of us grow up to be shy.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 01, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Leech expert Mark Siddall explains why leeches can survive on nothing but blood.

Bought by Radio Newark, KRUA, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 01:14
  • Purchases: 3
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Materials scientist Stephen Steiner says that high-speed computers in the future might run on man-made diamonds instead of silicon.

Bought by Radio Newark, KRUA, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 01:17
  • Purchases: 3
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History is happening all the time... listen to it.

  • Added: Oct 23, 2008
  • Length: 02:49
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Review of a recent medical report on the prevalence of heavy metal contamination in Ayurvedic medicines sold on the internet.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2008
  • Length: 02:35
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This piece reviews World Health Organization statements about lifestyle and health and discusses a study looking at how many Americans actually liv...

Bought by KISU


  • Added: Sep 20, 2008
  • Length: 03:04
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Carl Stiansen and Sir Patrick Moore
Sir Patrick Moore talks about his life in astronomy, life on Mars, and playing music with Einstein.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2008
  • Length: :18
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3 Generations discussing the importance of Astronomy to their cohert group and the world.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 08, 2007
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Liposuction is generally safe, but there are real pitfalls

  • Added: Apr 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:46
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The plusses and minuses of CT scanning for lung cancer

  • Added: Apr 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:24
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Stomach stapling surgery is not just for obesity anymore - now it can reverse diabetes

  • Added: Apr 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:42
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Doctors used to remove kids' tonsils to prevent sore throats....now they do it to correct sleep problems

  • Added: Apr 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:50
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Guadeloupe uses Geothermal heat to create islands' energy source

  • Added: Jan 29, 2007
  • Length: 07:59
Caption: Inside Technology
A look at our emailing habits

  • Added: Dec 07, 2006
  • Length: 05:06