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You know the stereotype: white guy in a lab coat with crazy hair and an experiment gone awry. But the picture of science is changing. In this episo...
Bought by WAMC
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Until recently, most researchers believed the brain stopped developing cognitive ability after a certain age. But a new study suggests otherwise.
- Added: Jun 11, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Does more melanin equal genetic superiority?
Bought by KRUA, Nevada Public Radio, KKRN, KUOW, KMUN and more
- Added: Feb 21, 2012
- Length: 01:57:58
- Purchases: 6
In honor of Black History Month, we reveal the lesser known accomplishments of George Washington Carver, and also pull from our oral history collec...
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 11:57
A conversation with science blogger Danielle Lee about the ways she’s using hip hop songs and backyard wildlife to reach out to young people in und...
- Added: Aug 03, 2011
- Length: 09:46
A conversation with science blogger Danielle Lee about the ways she’s using hip hop songs and backyard wildlife to reach out to young people in und...
- Added: Aug 03, 2011
- Length: 03:41
For reasons yet unknown, more and more Americans each year have been contracting asthma. In spite of the fact that 17% of black children now have...
- Added: May 26, 2011
- Length: 02:00
There is perhaps no disease that better illustrates the limits of medicine than Alzheimer's. Decades of research and billions of dollars spent in p...
Bought by KWIS 88.3 FM
- Added: Jul 07, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
We owe a major step in the eradication of polio, and a host of other diseases, to one unsung person. I'd say hero, but this person never knew what ...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:27
- Purchases: 2
The unlikely story of Civil Rights and the Space Program.
Bought by KHNS, KUNM, WKMS, WESM 91.3 FM, WXXI and more
- Added: Oct 22, 2009
- Length: 59:18
- Purchases: 37
- Added: Oct 05, 2009
- Length: 09:35
- Purchases: 3
From: WAMC
Series: The Sounds of Progress: The Changing Role of Girls and Women in Science and Engineering
Series: The Sounds of Progress: The Changing Role of Girls and Women in Science and Engineering
Researchers conducting a longitudinal study on the effectiveness of the STEM scholarship program at Norfolk State University have some results. Ear...
- Added: Sep 19, 2008
- Length: 10:26
From: WAMC
Series: The Sounds of Progress: The Changing Role of Girls and Women in Science and Engineering
Series: The Sounds of Progress: The Changing Role of Girls and Women in Science and Engineering
Norfolk State University (NSU) created a scholarship program to encourage African American students to pursue degrees in STEM. African American wom...
- Added: Sep 19, 2008
- Length: 12:10
- Added: Mar 03, 2008
- Length: 03:28
The Prometheus Project helps develop community low-powered radio stations
- Added: Aug 24, 2007
- Length: 09:12
From: Jenny Attiyeh
ThoughtCast speaks with Princeton philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah about his new book, "Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers" -- followe...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN
- Added: Jul 09, 2007
- Length: 57:01
- Purchases: 1
