With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

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Saxis, a tiny fishing community off the east coast, has lost so much shoreline it’s almost an island now.

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  • Added: Dec 16, 2013
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 2
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Whether it’s a traditional hymn or a holiday song from our childhood, many people say Christmas just wouldn’t be Christmas without the music that m...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 53:51
  • Purchases: 34
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During and despite the Great Depression, the entertainment industry produced what some consider the greatest era of popular music. We look at the s...

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  • Added: Dec 19, 2013
  • Length: 53:52
  • Purchases: 2
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The fear of public speaking can be debilitating. For some, it’s the stuff of nightmares, and so many of us avoid doing it altogether.

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  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 53:52
  • Purchases: 2
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You can’t finish something you haven’t started. Francis Bush started running late in life and has now run more than 60 marathons.

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  • Added: Jan 10, 2014
  • Length: 53:50
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What if you could change not just how much you know, but your actual intelligence?

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  • Added: Jan 17, 2014
  • Length: 52:53
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We're looking at the power of curcumin, found in turmeric, in fighting deadly diseases. Plus a new method of treating melanoma. And a simple, cost ...

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  • Added: Jan 24, 2014
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 2
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In this last episode of our 10-part series on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education, we looked beyond traditional classrooms,...

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  • Added: Jan 31, 2014
  • Length: 53:54
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Sonali Gulati’s new film, I Am, chronicles her personal journey to Delhi, India, where she confronts the loss of her mother whom she never came out...

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  • Added: Feb 07, 2014
  • Length: 53:53
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During the 1910s and 1920s, the question of whether one was “highbrow” or “lowbrow” became a concern in the minds of modernist Americans. Brooks He...

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  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 53:54
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Spotting a rainbow requires a bit of luck—you know, being in the right place at the right time. But not if you make them yourself. For over two wee...

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  • Added: May 07, 2013
  • Length: 53:51
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Nobody knows their exact price tag, but the Sochi Olympics were widely hailed as the most expensive Olympic games ever. Is it worth the cost? Plus,...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2014
  • Length: 53:54
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The tribulations of Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, are depicted in the popular film 12 Years a Slave. A soon to be publis...

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  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 53:54
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There are lots of TV shows about the tough men of Alaska, but what about the tough women? We zero in on the nurses who came to tend the sick for a...

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  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 53:54
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With seven unpublished novels wasting away on his hard drive, Tony Vanderwarker was astonished when world-renowned author John Grisham offered to t...

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 53:51
  • Purchases: 1
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In the late 19th century, German medical practices were considered to be the best in the world. But by the start of World War II, German physicians...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 53:55
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Today when we vote, we enter a private space, secretly make our choice, and go about our day. But early voting wasn’t just public; it was a raucous...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Making sense of the most talked about book of all time.

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2014
  • Length: 53:51
  • Purchases: 2
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American-invented hip hop music is now an international phenomenon with rappers in countries like Japan and Senegal. We trace hip hop’s roots, focu...

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  • Added: Apr 18, 2014
  • Length: 53:52
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When it comes to love, jealousy is sometimes thought of as “natural” or even desirable. But a recent survey suggests that women who see jealousy as...

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  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 53:50
  • Purchases: 2