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In a new, entertaining 2 min. weekly module, former Time Magazine health journalist Janice Horowitz, provides the cure for contradictory medical ne...
- Added: Mar 02, 2010
- Length: 02:01
What's a significant threat to the survival of captive gorillas? Surprisingly it's heart disease.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
If you’re wondering how our penguin friends in the Antarctic are doing these days, here are the cold, hard facts. Their poo is getting mighty pollu...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
What does rain forest conservation have to do with preventing malaria? In the Amazon rainforest, the means to these two ends are virtually one in t...
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Ever think to yourself, “California and Iceland sure have a lot in common”? Probably not. But if you dig beneath the surface, they both harbor lots...
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
For many who are environmentally-minded, the mere mention of DDT sets them on edge. After all, it disrupted ecosystems around the globe crashing bi...
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Huffington Post blogger and former Time Magazine health journalist Janice Horowitz, provides the cure for contradictory medical news.
- Added: Jan 25, 2010
- Length: 01:59
In the race to energy efficiency it looks like CFLs, or compact florescent lightbulbs, are slowly gaining on traditional incandescents. But, there’...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Oct 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Cool lemonade under a shade tree? Priceless. Well, not quite priceless. Shade has a value, and it’s a lot more than a lemon.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Oct 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Oct 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
The forests of America face double jeopardy these days. First, there’s pressure to harvest wood from native forests...And second, some non-native t...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Oct 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
A boy's grief led him to an extraordinary discovery...
Bought by XRAY.fm, WJCT, KUT, KUOW, and Remix Radio
- Added: Oct 05, 2009
- Length: 09:35
- Purchases: 5
Did you know bananas might soon slip into history? That's because from Paris to Peoria, we all eat only one variety, and it's vulnerable to a fungu...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Sep 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Remember these lyrics from Joni Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi? "Don’t it always seem to go,
That you don’t know what you got till it’s gone?"
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Sep 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Veterinarians at the San Diego Zoo who breed white rhinoceroses are finding themselves, well, on the horns of a dilemma.
- Added: Sep 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
Hurricane Katrina demonstrated just how destructive wind and water can be. New research into the genesis of these powerful storms could help coasta...
- Added: Sep 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
Animated Polar Bears are the cutest creatures. Remember the commercial with the adorable Polar Bear drinking a soda? In the real world though, Pola...
- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
It took ten years, but one of the country’s worst toxic waste sites is clean.
- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
In recent years, scientists have watched in dismay as large parts of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef have died off. Fortunately, they’re beginning t...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
These days, Americans are driving three times as many miles per capita as they did in 1980. Not only are longer commutes driving us crazy, they’re...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Cheetahs are fast, but time is catching up with them. Their numbers are dwindling due to a small gene pool that makes these graceful Big Cats vulne...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Veterinarians made a house call on the world’s rarest cat recently to give it a high-tech medical examination. It was one of thirty Amur leopards b...
- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
A story of the surprising healing power of sound.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KGOU, SALTcast Podcast, and KUOW
- Added: Jun 22, 2009
- Length: 06:59
- Purchases: 4
"Unleaded, super unleaded, or tree fungus." It could be an option someday!
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
