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Unforget, Dream, Build

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

In this episode, Laura speaks with Latinx Americans whose work flies in the face of those narratives. They are “unforgetting” histories suppressed...

Bought by KWMR, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer

Food Justice Is About Everything We Do

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

However you put it, food is as political as it gets. Today, we'll hear from farmers, organizers, workers, and seed-keepers who all attended the NES...

Bought by KDNK

Missing Humanities

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Caption: Dr. Homi Bhabha at the Oxford bookstore in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy

The CEO of Tech Mahindra said that the top 10 IT companies in India only take 6% of the engineering graduates. What happens to the other 94% he won...

Reversing Addiction

From: Susanne Bard

Caption: Hitoshi Morikawa., Credit: University of Texas, Austin

Could a drug erase the memories that keep addicts coming back for more?

Bought by WLPR

Historical Speech Acoustics

From: Susanne Bard

Caption: Pericles' Funeral Oration., Credit: Philipp von Foltz/1852

How did historical leaders once address crowds of thousands, unaided by modern amplification

Bought by KENW and WLPR

Measles vs. the Immune System

From: Susanne Bard

Caption: Measles vaccination in Ethiopia., Credit: UNICEF Ethiopia Creative Commons License BY-NC-ND 2.0, via flickr

The measles vaccine protects the immune system from other infectious diseases.

Bought by KENW, KMXT, and WLPR

Virtual Bodyswapping & Racial Bias

From: Susanne Bard

Virtual “bodyswapping” helps people set aside unconscious biases towards others.

MRSA Skin Vaccine

From: Susanne Bard

Caption: SEM of MRSA, Credit: (Janice Carr/Deepak Mandhalapu/M.H.S./CDC)

Researchers are testing a vaccine against life-threatening antibiotic resistant bacteria.

Bought by KMXT and WXDU

Smoker’s Brain Scans

From: Susanne Bard

Caption: Caryn Lerman, Ph.D. led the MRI study of smoker's brains., Credit: Caryn Lerman (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Brain scans can predict a quitter’s likelihood of smoking again.

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Time of Day Medicine

From: Susanne Bard

The outcome of a medical test could be affected by the time of day.

Bought by WXDU

Kidney Allocation

From: Susanne Bard

New guidelines could maximize transplant success by better matching donated kidneys with recipients.

Spotting Liars

From: Susanne Bard

Caption: The Cardsharps, 1594, Credit: Caravaggio

People’s unconscious reactions to liars and truth-tellers are more accurate than their conscious judgments.

Bought by WXDU

Robot Gaze Aversion

From: Susanne Bard

Humans relate better to robots that avert their eyes at well-chosen moments.

Unquiet History 11: the Myth of Rivals

From: Matthew Battles
Series: Unquiet History

Is the Team of Rivals a good idea?

Bought by Remix Radio

Today's Carbon Report

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Catch the news and weather at 10 tonight along with the day's carbon report. Carbon report?

Bought by KMXT

'Shifting Baselines' Breed Creeping Degradation

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Have you ever been really bugged by a new ding in your car, but weeks later, you barely noticed it? We all learn to tolerate negative changes by ad...