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Air quality has definitely improved during the pandemic. Air monitoring stations in Rhode Island and the greater Northeast have seen about a 30% de...
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- Added: May 26, 2020
- Length: 03:56
- Purchases: 1
Today we’re going to focus on some positive news — a bright spot. Scientists have noticed something remarkable about blue whales— after years of ne...
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- Added: May 25, 2020
- Length: 04:00
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- Added: May 22, 2020
- Length: 02:27
- Purchases: 1
Americans are in a strange and unusual news cycle. For example, someone can state that hydroxychloroquine is a potential cure for COVID-19. Fox New...
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- Added: Apr 28, 2020
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
The Blue Zones are five small areas in the world where people outlive the American and western European average life span by about a decade. The 10...
- Added: Apr 26, 2020
- Length: 09:46
Tracey Wingold has worked as a counselor for well over a decade, and she had a sort of head start on the COVID-19 crisis.
- Added: Apr 07, 2020
- Length: 08:01
A thirty minute Pandemic overview featuring the latest information, health warnings and preventative measures, mixed with music from a variety of m...
- Added: Mar 17, 2020
- Length: 29:16
There is no question that we live troubling times: pathogenically and economically speaking. We haven’t seen a market so skittish and volatile in m...
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- Added: Mar 10, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Researchers are investigating a method of creating power from fast moving streams in Nepal. Sometimes these micro-hydro minigrids work and sometime...
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- Added: Jan 14, 2020
- Length: 16:08
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, hear from people who grew up in the shadow of a crippling disease—among them, “polio pioneers,” schoolkids from the clinical trial...
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- Added: Dec 18, 2019
- Length: 17:14
- Purchases: 1
Chris McDougall’s “Running with Sherman: The Donkey with the Heart of a Hero” introduces us to a small farm in rural Pennsylvania and the McDougal...
- Added: Dec 17, 2019
- Length: 09:57
Very few issues cause heated debate like the vaccination controversy. From their introduction, vaccines have created concern and skepticism.
- Added: Dec 09, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
In this piece we hear the process of musicians and scientists who collaborated to turn deep sea research into a song. Produced in Woods Hole, MA, ...
- Added: Nov 29, 2019
- Length: 11:46
This week in space, Blue Origin gets ahead of the competition by, well, not competing, nobody can find India's lunar lander, and we discuss how ast...
- Added: Nov 01, 2019
- Length: 16:54
Most of us don’t spend a lot of time thinking about how much time we spend online. We might even ask if it really matters. The digital world is so ...
- Added: Oct 23, 2019
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
The incredible never-before-heard sounds of the AFSMPT (Amazing Futuristic Scanning Machine Process Technology) :48
- Added: Oct 10, 2019
- Length: :47
We’re obsessed with predicting the future. Most of the time, though, we get it wrong. On the other hand, we can predict a specific event with near ...
- Added: Sep 10, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
How we deal with the possibilities of tomorrow are very dependent on how we handle those possibilities today. Sounds simple, however, even when we ...
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
With jazz coming on the scene in the 1920s, composers began reaping big rewards. The public simply couldn’t get enough of the new music, and anyone...
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- Added: Aug 01, 2019
- Length: 59:00
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After seeing ads for home DNA tests on TV, John decided to give it a try. Just spit into a cup—what did he have to lose… or gain?
- Added: Jul 22, 2019
- Length: 13:23
We’re use to hearing about how much humans have impacted the earth. Scientists have given a name for this period to recognize human dominance over ...
- Added: Jul 16, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
We have entered a brand new era of persuasion. This is completely untested water’s. In a world of everything computer, a world where our household ...
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- Added: Jun 24, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Diversity is the product of nature’s creativity. It also turns out that creativity in nature and culture follow very similar fundamental principles.
- Added: Jun 18, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Season 2 of The Nocturnists, hosted by physician Emily Silverman, explores stories from the world of medicine.
- Added: Jun 07, 2019
- Length: 01:23
Science deniers and attacks on science are more prevalent today. Interestingly, America leads the world in the sheer number of people who have cont...
- Added: May 03, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
