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Self-help has existed in some form since the dawn of human civilization and has grown into a robust industrial complex. But does self-help really m...
- Added: Jan 04, 2024
- Length: 58:23
The Nocturnists teams up with two shame experts to investigate the nature of shame, and its role in the culture of medicine.
- Added: Sep 27, 2022
- Length: 24:25
Let’s make equations musical. Instead of visualizing equations on a graph, let’s listen to them on the piano, merging all our math and music knowl...
- Added: Dec 29, 2020
- Length: 49:30
As healthcare workers, many of us have had to leave our home and go wherever our profession takes us. This week we asked you to reflect on what hom...
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- Added: Oct 19, 2020
- Length: 31:03
- Purchases: 1
How does the COVID-19 pandemic end? Does it end in a bang, or just fizzle out? What we know for sure is that this story is far from over.
In today...
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- Added: Jun 12, 2020
- Length: 30:01
- Purchases: 1
It takes surprisingly little for the human psyche to come undone. We know that the virus can’t survive when we isolate ourselves, the question is, ...
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 30:47
Over the past few weeks, there have been so many news articles about healthcare workers as heroes, or soldiers fighting the battle of coronavirus. ...
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 31:40
What is it like to be a healthcare worker forced to stand on the sidelines during a global pandemic? This week, you’ll hear from diarists from Cali...
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 26:29
This week, we continue with audio diaries from healthcare workers around the country who speak about ventilator hacks, breathing tubes, search and ...
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 30:55
In this episode of The Nocturnists: Stories from a Pandemic, you will hear diary entries from healthcare workers from New York, California, Massach...
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 31:10
What do our voices say about us? On this edition we explore voice and identity. We'll hear from someone who nearly lost their voice as well as the ...
- Added: Oct 03, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
In our second compilation, we bring together voices from the Leopold Leadership Program to investigate the changing nature and changing goals of co...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 23:16
Two stories about that key life moment many of us spend a lifetime dreading. It's a key life event that none of us live to tell about. The moment. ...
Bought by Aspen Public Radio, KOSU, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 27, 2012
- Length: 28:31
- Purchases: 3
Minus 15 Percent Fat Free Milk Is Theoretically Possible
Bought by KUT
- Added: Sep 03, 2010
- Length: 01:37
- Purchases: 1
We read that pollutants are causing a sex change in fish.
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- Added: Jun 18, 2010
- Length: 01:13
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jun 16, 2010
- Length: :50
- Added: Jun 03, 2010
- Length: 01:06
- Purchases: 1
- Added: May 16, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Do people who live together gradually acquire the same habits?
- Added: May 14, 2010
- Length: 01:41
Putting a blind man's tooth in his eye enables him to see.
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Mar 31, 2010
- Length: 01:21
- Purchases: 1
One gets news of medical breakthroughs by email
- Added: Mar 08, 2010
- Length: 02:16
25 rats trained for a pilot medical project in Africa have identified 300 cases of early-stage TB - infections missed by lab technicians with their...
- Added: Dec 30, 2009
- Length: 01:12
You heard about the woman who had the wrong embryo implanted. Because a scientist made a mistake it warranted a spot on the national news.
- Added: Sep 21, 2009
- Length: :39
When it comes to formulating an opinion on global warming, would you be more inclined to believe an MIT professor who has studied climate change or...
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- Added: Jun 29, 2009
- Length: :58
- Purchases: 1
In the next 10 years your electricity bill will at least double
- Added: Jun 03, 2009
- Length: 01:47