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The Journey of Kevin Ortiz: From Punishment to Politics

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

How do you think your life would be different if you had spent your first five years as an adult incarcerated? This week on Sea Change Radio, we sp...

Language Peeves: Inner Grammandos vs. Inner Wordies

From: Paul VOGELZANG
Series: Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, Not Old Better Show

Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series, Credit: Paul Vogelzang

🌟📚 Dive into the Evolution of English with us! 📚🌟 🎙️ This week on The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates interview series. We're thrilled ...

California Termites and the Atmosphere

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

California is famous for its picturesque sunsets, year-round mild weather, excellent surf, and largely progressive politics, including forward-thin...

Rod Graham: The Case For Legacy Preference in College Admissions

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

Legacy students, applicants whose families attended the school, comprised 36 percent of Harvard’s class of 2022. Notably, 77% of students admitted ...

A Mythic Psychedelic Journey with Scott Mason

From: Katherine Bell
Series: The Dream Journal

Dream Journal guest Scott Mason shares revelations from a transformative, mythic-level psychedelic journey which he frames as a quest to find his o...

Raksha Vasudevan: Rocky Mountain Ways

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

Denver, Colorado’s majestic mountains, green space, and reputation as an ecologically advanced city draw people into this growing metropolis. But t...

John Stoehr: Betting On Biden

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

Sometimes it seems as though Democrats are more determined to "fall in love" than to win elections. Lately I've been hearing, from both pundits and...

The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women - HERO Training Africa’s New Female Leaders

From: Rob Sachs

In this episode, we learn about two efforts to increase the number of women politicians in Africa. We begin with a surprising reality TV show in Ke...

Bought by KJZZ, WABE, KUT, WHFR, WYPR and more

Chris Nelder on Energy Transitions

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

The transition from fossil fuels to a cleaner energy future is perhaps the most important human adaptation of our lifetime. This week on Sea Change...

The Rise of the New Labor Movement

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Brunswick cafe, Little Dog, where workers organized a union., Credit: Alex Spear, Bowdoin Orient

On the forefront of the next labor revolution, we visit a coffee shop in Maine called Little Dog whose workers start to organize a union and we tal...

Bought by WUWM, KMUN, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and RadioFreePalmer

Lauren Kim: Young Evangelicals for Climate Action

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

A study from 2022 found that people who identified as non-religious or atheist were more likely to identify as pro-environment, as compared with re...

Christine Yoo: 26.2 To Life

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

For many of us, the holiday season presents an opportunity to spend some time thinking about people less fortunate than ourselves. This week on Sea...

Zealous Founder Scott Hechinger

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

It’s that time of year when as the weather gets colder we warm ourselves with thoughts of gratitude and giving, which, for many, includes charitabl...

Smithsonian Associates: The Culture Wars: How Can We Lower the Temperature?

From: Paul VOGELZANG
Series: Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, Not Old Better Show

Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series

As the US nears its 250th anniversary, cultural conflicts risk overshadowing this milestone. Smithsonian Associate Clay Jenkinson, a public humanit...

Oceans of Energy

From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast

Tapping Earth’s largest source of clean energy -- its oceans. Ocean waves, tides and heat. A massive resource. Then, there’s salt gradient energy. ...

David Ho on Carbon Offsets: Much Ado About Nothing?

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

Carbon offsets are often touted as a solution to humanity’s bad habit of emitting an awful lot of CO2. But how many of us actually know what things...

Bought by KMUN

Israeli Entrepreneur and Philanthropist Ziv Aviram on the EcoBridge Initiative

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

Have you ever thought about what you'd do to save the planet if you were a billionaire? Well, this week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with billiona...

John Stoehr on the Dangers of Illiberal Politics

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

If you’ve happened to tune in to MSNBC or CNN on a day when a massive hurricane is not pummeling a coastal region, you might think that the only ma...

Subsurface granite on the Moon? The anatomy of a lunar hot spot

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Matt Siegler from the Planetary Science Institute shares his team's surprising findings about the granite formation that might lie beneath Compton-...

Bought by KIYU-FM, KVSC, RadioStPete Florida, WJCU, KWMR and more

An essential ingredient for life in the oceans of Enceladus

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Chris Glein, a lead scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, joins Planetary Radio to talk about the discovery of phosphorus in the oceans of...

Bought by KIYU-FM, WJCU, WMUU-LP, RadioStPete Florida, KRZA and more

Mars' Axial Tilt: A Key to Gully Formation

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caltech and Brown University’s Jay Dickson joins Planetary Radio to discuss the mysterious formation of gullies on Mars.

Bought by KVSC, KIYU-FM, WJCU, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WMUU-LP and more

Comparing the rivers of Earth, Mars, and Titan

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Sam Birch, an assistant professor at Brown University, explores what we know about the alluvial rivers of Earth, Mars, and Saturn's moon Titan.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, KVSC, KIYU-FM, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more

Humans to Mars by the 2030s? NASA Associate Administrators weigh in

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: NASA's Curiosity rover captured this view from atop Mont Mercou, a rock formation at the base of Mt. Sharp on Mars, during its 3086th sol, Martian day, of exploration., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

Planetary Radio, Mat Kaplan, senior communications adviser at The Planetary Society, takes us to the 2023 Humans to Mars Summit in Washington, D.C....

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, KVSC, KIYU-FM and more

2Fast 2Curious: Finding the source of the fast solar wind

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

James Drake from the University of Maryland joins Planetary Radio to talk about the latest results from NASA's Parker Solar Probe as it soars close...

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KIYU-FM, KVSC, KWMR and more

The disappearing act of Saturn's young rings

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Richard Durisen and Paul Estrada join Planetary Radio to discuss their research on the surprisingly recent formation of Saturn's rings and why they...

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KVSC, KIYU-FM, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more

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