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The Examined Year: 2012
From: Philosophy Talk
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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
Livestrong and the YMCA: Take the Wheel and Control How You Feel about Cancer
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
Caption: The Emotion Roadmap to Inspired Performance
Cancer, the word terrifies us. When we hear someone we love has cancer, we panic, feel angry and fearful. Having personally had skin cancer, and kn...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2012
  • Length: 44:44
Episode 4-Climate One
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One Radio
Caption: Jay Friedland: EV advocate with Plug In America, Credit: Ed Ritger, Photographer
Today we delve into the global auto industry. Sales and profits are up and carmakers are starting to chart a future beyond oil. This spring sales o...

Bought by KWMR-FM


  • Added: Sep 24, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 2-Climate One Radio
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One Radio
Caption: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr: Environmental advocate and author, Credit: Ed Ritger, Photographer
Today we look at the shadow side of the economic growth that’s propelled the American economy since World War II, including the health impacts of c...

Bought by KWMR-FM


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Mikie Show #48, George
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Here it is, another new show! This time we speak with George Bradley. He is a master of herpetology, meaning he collects, manages, identifies and p...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
Fade To Darkness: The Age Of Alzheimer's (hour special)
From: 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station
Caption: Bernice Osborne Pollard and her 74-year-old mother, Mary Osborne, who is in the late stages of Alzheimer's disease, Credit: Deb Becker/WBUR
Alzheimer’s is the incurable disease that destroys memory, speech and function. Scientists say the number of Americans with Alzheimer's may triple...

Bought by WNYC, KQED, KZYX, and Maine Public Broadcasting Network


  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
DO YOU REMEMBER (Alzheimer Awareness Dedication)
From: BRICK CASEY
Caption: DO YOU REMEMBER (Alzheimer Awareness Cd Cover)
NOVEMBER: National Alzheimer's Awareness Month!__This piece; "DO YOU REMEMBER" is dedicated to the families and organizations that seek to further ...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2011
  • Length: 03:47
The Mikie Show #43, Sarah
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Hurrah, it’s another show about stuff I don’t know! Yes, this episode we speak with Sarah Mattson, planetary photographic cartographer, you know, I...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Nov 01, 2011
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1
RISE: Part I Sounding the Waters
From: Claire Schoen
Series: RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities
Caption: Rising sea levels and extreme weather conditions threaten the nation's coastal towns, Credit: Jan Sturmann
The San Francisco Bay is a place of beauty and biological diversity. But sea level rise and extreme weather will change human life along its coastl...

Bought by KVMR, North Country Public Radio, WXXI, Prairie Public, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
RISE: Part II Facing the Rising Tide
From: Claire Schoen
Series: RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities
Caption: Steve Mello is a farmer on Tyler Island in the San Francisco Bay Delta, Credit: Jan Sturmann
Rising waters threaten the lands of a farmer and of a developer, yet they and their families dismiss all warnings of danger. Why are so many of us ...

Bought by KVMR, North Country Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXXI, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
RISE: Part III Chuey’s Story
From: Claire Schoen
Series: RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities
Caption: Chuey Cazares and his family live in the tiny coastal town of Alviso at the southern tip of the San Francisco Bay, Credit: Jan Sturmann
Adapting to climate change will be a messy and painful business. And in the short term there will be winners and losers. Chuey Cazarez’s family is ...

Bought by North Country Public Radio, KUOW, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXXI, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Living with Hypochondria: The Real Costs of Imagined Illness
From: Karen Brown
Caption: Sheila Murphy
Woody Allen made hypochondria famous as a source of self-deprecating humor, but this clinical condition can be seriously debilitating for individua...

Bought by Jazz 91.9 WCLK


  • Added: Jul 11, 2011
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
The Life and Work of Dr. Calvin Fremling
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
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Today on Don't Cha Know - A tribute and recognition to the life's work of Dr. Calvin Fremling. One of the foremost authorities on the endangered en...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 16:03
Clever Apes Special
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
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Over this hour, we'll bring you highlights from the show's first half-year. We’ll learn about why kids play with fire, how vibrations let us peer ...

Bought by KUT and KZYX


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2
Humankind: The Green Economy
From: David Freudberg
Caption: VAN JONES, founder of Green for All, Credit: Courtesy Richard Hume, Experience Life magazine
Environmental visionary Van Jones, former White House special adviser for green jobs, is featured

Bought by KBBI, Moab Public Radio, KWIT, Marfa Public Radio, KUNM and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 11
Engineers of the New Millennium: Robots For Real
From: Spectrum Radio
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In this program, listeners will hear how robots are not just science fiction anymore. They will learn that robots can help with household chores, ...

Bought by KTEP, WFIU, KUT-HD, WCAI / WNAN, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 16, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Learning Barge
From: With Good Reason
Caption: The Learning Barge, Credit: Phoebe Crisman, UVa
The world’s first floating wetlands classroom comes to the aid of one of the country's most polluted waterways.

Bought by WFIU and KVSC


  • Added: Aug 24, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 2
Sexology -- Groks Science Show 2009-05-20
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Sharon Moalem discussed how sex works.

  • Added: May 20, 2009
  • Length: 29:52
To Test or Not to Test
From: With Good Reason
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If you could have your DNA screened for your risk for disease, would you do it?

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 14, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
NJ Medical Marijuana - Chuck Kwiatkowski: Multiple Sclerosis Patient
From: Chris Goldstein
Caption: Kwiatkowski
An interview with a medical marijuana patient, Chuck Kwiatkowski, who testified before the NJ Senate Health Committee. Chuck suffers from MS.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2009
  • Length: 09:03
Sustainability
From: WFYI
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Hosted by Barbara Bogaev, and produced by Richard Paul, Sustainability looks at what is being done to address our energy needs and environmental c...

Bought by WAMC, KUOW, KGNU, WFPL News, WEKU and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 59:08
  • Purchases: 25
What is Salvia?
From: WHPC
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An investigative look at Salvia, and it's potential as a drug

  • Added: Sep 09, 2008
  • Length: 10:26
Double Bill on ThoughtCast! An hour with Alex Vilenkin and Jay Allison
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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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
Tales...Story 9: Fish Grow on Trees
From: Soundprint
Series: Tales from Urban Forests
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The relationship between trees and salmon in the northwest, and how one city is embarking on an ambitious plan to save both.

Bought by KZYX, WCQS, WKNO, Yellowstone Public Radio, KUOW and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2005
  • Length: 04:20
  • Purchases: 7