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Climate Change: Affecting The Seasons?
From: Robert Frederick
Series: The Conjectural
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Climate scientist and MacArthur "Genius" award-winner Ben Santer says scientists don't yet know if climate change is affecting the timing of the se...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 20, 2015
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 1
Climate Change: It's Not Just The Sun
From: Robert Frederick
Series: The Conjectural
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Climate scientist and MacArthur "Genius" award-winner Ben Santer on how scientists know that climate change is not just due to the Sun.

  • Added: Jul 17, 2015
  • Length: 04:02
Music and Noise
From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Sound and Violence - Work by NYU Students
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Music-induced hearing loss and the shifting borders between noise and music.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KRZA


  • Added: Apr 10, 2015
  • Length: 11:00
  • Purchases: 2
Unspun Revisits Climate Change with Dr. Michael Mann
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Michael Mann
Dr. Doug Craig co-hosts with me, as Unspun revisits the most serious issue of our time, Climate Change (of course), with Dr. Michael Mann. Dr. Mic...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 58:25
Unspun Talks with Anne Petermann, Director of Global Justice Ecology Project and Coordinator of the Campaign to Stop GE Trees
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Anne Petermann
Unspun sits down with Anne Petermann, Ex. Dir. of the Global Justice Ecology Project. Long time forest protection and indigenous rights activist. ...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2015
  • Length: 58:52
Could a once-a-day pill end the HIV epidemic in San Francisco?
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Mural portrait of Esteban Cuaya-Muñoz at the Oakland Museum of California, by artist Brett Cooke
In November, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors approved legislation allocating $300,000 to help San Franciscans who want PrEP to get access to i...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2015
  • Length: 05:21
Asteroid miners prepare to harvest outer space
From: Audrey Quinn
Caption: Rick Tumlinson of Deep Space Industries and Dr. Glenn Lightsey discuss future missions at the Texas Spacecraft Lab, Credit: Audrey Quinn
It currently costs $10,000 a pound to transport material from Earth into space. If humans want to live in space someday, those transport costs alon...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 4
Fire on the Mountain: Climate Change, Fire, and the Ecological Future of the American West
From: Aengus Anderson
Caption: In the summer monsoon season, grass carpets the Chiricahua foothills., Credit: Aengus Anderson
In the wake of a catastrophic fire, researchers use Arizona's Chiricahua Mountains to look centuries into the future of climate change and ask "wha...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Aug 25, 2014
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 2
How Could Plastic Surgery Alleviate Migraines? And Why Are Some Neurologists Wary?
From: Michael Miller
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Some plastic surgeons are touting an unexpected benefit of cosmetic surgery: it may help alleviate migraine pain. But neurologists are skeptical a...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 11:01
  • Purchases: 1
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - new research, new hope?
From: Teresa Woodcraft
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a debilitating mental health condition that affects 1-2% of us. Now neuroscientists at University of London have ...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2014
  • Length: 05:11
The GMO Deception
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: JUNE 2014
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Are we being told the truth about GMO foods in our midst? Sheldon Krimsky is Editor/reader here and Ralph Nader wrote the foreword to this informat...

  • Added: May 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
Will we be safe when our cars drive themselves?
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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You may have already seen some of these driverless cars zipping around Bay Area roads. Automotive scientists predict similar cars will be available...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 1: A New Disaster
From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf
Caption: Researchers prepare to take samples of the ocean floor using a multicore device.
Biologist Steve Murawski is leading a new team of researchers trying to figure out the long-term impact of the Deepwater Horizon spill—not just on ...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Nov 05, 2013
  • Length: 08:03
  • Purchases: 1
Surveillance
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A generational discussion on surveillance issues

  • Added: Sep 12, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Sailing The High Seas 2.0
From: Jason Albert
Caption: Wing sails on San Francisco Bay, Credit: Jason Albert
90% of the world's goods are carried by cargo ships. And the oceans they sail on are streaming with wind: High tech wing sails used on America's Cu...

Bought by Hark!, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTIP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 15, 2013
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 5
Senate Immigration Bill Calls For A Drone-Patrolled Border
From: Fronteras Desk
Series: Fronteras: Immigration Reform
Caption: PRX default Piece image
To secure the border, the Senate committee says we need more drones. But it has been widely reported that drones on the border are ineffective.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 04:12
Knocked Out
From: American Student Radio
Caption: Knocked Out, Credit: Daniel Brown
This award-winning story profiles one student athlete who suffered a sports-related concussion, and it follows the physical, emotional, & mental tr...

  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 19:21
Confusion at the gas pump: which grade is best?
From: KALW
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Gas prices in California are always a big problem. And this year, the average price per gallon is set to hit four dollars – the highest average eve...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:10
199: More Answers for Sandy
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Image: Trains stand in a flooded Metro-North's Harmon Yard, Oct. 31, 2012, on the Hudson Line, in Croton-on-Hudson, New York in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, Credit: AP Photo | Metropolitan Transportation Authority
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss the New York Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance and their exemplary five-point st...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Nov 28, 2012
  • Length: 06:56
  • Purchases: 1
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
The Field Trip Podcast: Wildfires
From: The Field Trip Podcast
Caption: The Field Trip Podcast logo, Credit: Mike Smith
Here's the first episode in our “Summer Dispatches” series, in which reporter Megan Molteni braves the scarred landscape of Colorado Springs after...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2012
  • Length: 13:57
The Route to the Origin of Life
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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How to build life from scratch… seriously! Hear the various steps in the process. Warning: This episode is chemically intense.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 26, 2012
  • Length: 09:43
  • Purchases: 1
West Nile and Birds
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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This year’s outbreak of the West Nile virus is breaking records, with over 1500 cases reported so far. One researcher believes that decreasing the ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Sep 07, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
Warming World Spells Trouble for Elderly
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
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When you think of climate change, you might think of melting ice shelves. Heat waves. Shrinking habitat for animals and plants. You might not think...

Bought by Aspen Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 10, 2012
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 3
Taking another look at eyewitness testimony
From: KALW
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Shows like CSI have taught us that a lot can be gleaned from clues left at a crime scene, and painstakingly pieced together by investigators. What ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 19, 2012
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 2