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Taxonomists are scientists (usually in museums) who classify life. They're field has open boundaries which creates tension for the Taxonomists and ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2018
- Length: 01:08:52
Sociologist Ariela Schachter investigates how Americans think about race, immigration, assimilation, and what it means to be ‘similar.’
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 05, 2018
- Length: 12:15
- Purchases: 1
In an indigenous Mayan community in highland Guatemala, sociocultural anthropologist Kedron Thomas noticed a trend that led her to investigate inte...
- Added: Oct 05, 2018
- Length: 18:47
A sociologist of education breaks down some common myths about charter schools and offers her advice for newly appointed education secretary Betsy ...
- Added: Oct 05, 2018
- Length: 15:08
Sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfeld documents the pervasive and often subtle ways that successful black men – people like doctors, lawyers, and engine...
Bought by WDBM
- Added: Oct 05, 2018
- Length: 12:48
- Purchases: 1
When conducting research for his acclaimed book "Klansville, USA," sociologist David Cunningham encountered the work of a journalist who, in the 19...
- Added: Oct 05, 2018
- Length: 16:45
Sociologist Jake Rosenfeld discusses the growing wealth gap between rich and poor Americans, decreasing labor union membership, and considers what ...
- Added: Oct 05, 2018
- Length: 13:42
The theme of this episode is the brain.
- Added: Jul 23, 2018
- Length: 52:00
The theme of this episode is the mental health of our children.
- Added: Jun 29, 2018
- Length: 52:00
Host Marcos Nájera introduces us to the Zeta podcast series. Who is Oscar Zeta Acosta? If you know, you are way ahead of Nájera who admits the US p...
- Added: Jun 08, 2018
- Length: 13:29
The theme of this episode is the body image, aging, and acceptance.
- Added: May 21, 2018
- Length: 52:00
The theme of this episode is the national opioid epidemic and what doctors and organizations are doing to combat it.
Bought by WSKG and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Apr 23, 2018
- Length: 51:59
- Purchases: 2
Chemist Gary Patti shares how the emerging field of metabolomics, the study of metabolism, may hold clues for cancer research.
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 12:27
- Purchases: 1
A professor of history and philosophy of science invites us to see pain as a social experience that comes with moral and ethical dimensions.
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 13:39
- Purchases: 2
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria is spreading around the world; chemist Tim Wencewicz explains what his lab is doing to solve the problem.
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 15:48
- Purchases: 1
How is human milk different in the Himalayan highlands than in the United States, and what can these differences reveal about what moms and babies ...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 16:40
- Purchases: 1
Treated for her first eating disorder at 11, Rebecca Lester now studies eating disorders as an anthropologist and psychotherapist.
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 15:10
- Purchases: 1
A historian shares the story of the Nazis' obsession with natural foods, and discusses how their ideas about nutrition compare with how we think ab...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 13:38
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 15:57
- Purchases: 1
A doctoral student in education seeks to discover solutions to health inequities in the St. Louis region and beyond.
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 12:15
How can we deal with data better? How can we teach kids to deal with data better? Sarah Morris from the nonprofit Nuclear Learning Network has some...
- Added: Jan 21, 2018
- Length: 25:06
How can teachers expose their students to more engineering role models? What do they do if they don’t have time to arrange visits and field trips? ...
- Added: Oct 01, 2017
- Length: 15:22
Teen Soul (The Doo-Wop Years) Chronicles the preteen and teenage acts during the 1950s and the early 1960s.
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WUFT, and KZYX
- Added: Jul 13, 2017
- Length: 01:01:38
- Purchases: 3
After years of unusual episodes dating back to her childhood, Anita went to the doctor and was told there was nothing medically wrong with her. "Sh...
- Added: Mar 07, 2017
- Length: 42:40
