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This week on the show: For some people, the BA.5 situation's looking... more manageable than expected? And also, what we maybe shouldn't have said ...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Why you will probably choose to live with the wrong person. It is perhaps the most important decision we make in our lives...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: The coronavirus is spreading in Germany like never before. And restrictions are vanishing as if the pandemic didn't exist....

  • Added: Mar 26, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Just as a pandemic 'ends,' a (potentially cataclysmic) war of aggression begins — with no end in sight.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Mass viral infections have consequences. What will omicron's be?

  • Added: Jan 21, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: There really are two different pills you'll be able to take soon if you catch the coronavirus. Also, why don't people trust...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Online Conspiracies & Virtual Cults Part 2: Celebrity Makes the World Go Flat
Do we live in an age where online conspiracies and cults proliferate ever more frequently and powerfully? We continue to explore this question by f...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2021
  • Length: 27:48
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This week on the show: Can vaccines stop the mutations? According to a large-scale study out of Israel, it appears the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine can...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Efficacy, side effects, dosage, intervals: It seems like every day we're bombarded with new information about COVID-19 vac...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Remember those jokes about "2020 vision"? Well a new study suggests that stay-at-home measures during that year may have ca...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: We are told that contagious mutations of Sars-CoV-2 have ushered in a new phase in the pandemic. How important are anti-vir...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Swine flu, bonkers 'science' & who shouldn't be vaccinated - Which lessons should — and shouldn't — be drawn from the H1...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Dec 09, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: What, exactly, is behind the frightening surge in Europe's COVID-19 numbers? And are we blaming the wrong groups of people ...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Just how does COVID-19 impact the brain? A look at human brain organoids connects the dots. Also, we hear the latest from ...

Bought by WRKF


  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: "rapid tests" are on the way, but how — and where — will we actually get our hands on them? Also, why countries in Africa h...

Bought by WRKF


  • Added: Sep 11, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Can science help persuade those who are stubborn about rejecting science? What cat medicine have to do with developing a ne...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: The biggest numbers yet & what they actually mean In this episode, Germany's R number triples, the world sets a (bad) coro...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Good vs. bad medicine & the mood in Germany - In this episode, we look at a new German medicine that could be better tha...

  • Added: May 21, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Being Reasonable
An Ordained Interfaith Minister/Physician reconciles her beliefs. Also, a Troposphere Astronaut works through his general lack of a strong belief....

  • Added: Jan 15, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: Being Reasonable
A Mindfulness Teacher Considers Managing One's Mindset, An Educator Discusses the Importance of Protecting Childhood and a Poet Contemplates his Sp...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: Being Reasonable
Tahli Kentoff, a former pharmaceutical sales rep and now certified master herbalist, expresses her belief that all pharmaceuticals, including vacci...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:00
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For over 20 years, Jerry Taylor was a leading spokesperson for climate skepticism. He waged TV battles against climate activists on the likes of CN...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2017
  • Length: 41:51
Caption: Research Vessel Atlantis
An American scientific research ship responds to a sinking boat full of refugees in the Mediterranean.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 08, 2016
  • Length: 08:31
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jim Collins
Unspun honors local environmental advocates, Peggy Rebol and Dr. Jim Collins, as we look at our relationships with Mother Earth and current environ...

Bought by 'The Sea' and KMUD


  • Added: Apr 17, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
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When you look up at the sky the last thing you probably think about is the law. But space is exactly where the next frontier of law is being played...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KALW, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 24, 2015
  • Length: 14:42
  • Purchases: 3