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Step into the mysterious world of forests in this week’s episode featuring a conversation with ecologist Dr. Suzanne Simard, who talks to us about ...
- Added: May 07, 2024
- Length: 52:06
Psychiatrist Pooja Lakshmin speaks about her book "Real Self-Care", which challenges mainstream notions of self care and offers a new framework for...
- Added: Dec 21, 2023
- Length: 53:06
Critical care physician Hannah Wunsch speaks about her book The Autumn Ghost, which tells the story of a polio epidemic in Copenhagen in the 1950s,...
- Added: Dec 19, 2023
- Length: 54:03
It is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organisms have profoundly transformed our planet over the long course of its history. Elemental reve...
- Added: Sep 25, 2023
- Length: 41:55
Anne-Marie Oomen talks with author Anna Quindlen
Bought by WNED Buffalo, WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR
- Added: Jan 13, 2023
- Length: 54:30
- Purchases: 4
Interview with PBS Public Editor, Ricardo Sandoval Palos, about misinformation, disinformation, confirmation bias and how that effects programming ...
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- Added: Aug 29, 2022
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
Do scientific research articles sometimes sound like another language? To K-12 students, very often it’s yes. Tanya Dimitrova tried to help solve...
- Added: Feb 03, 2022
- Length: 48:59
Thousands of people are heading to Glasgow, Scotland for COP26, the annual U.N. Climate Change Conference, and among them are two local indigenous ...
- Added: Oct 28, 2021
- Length: 29:30
Climate scientist Dr. Rachel Licker discusses how climate change will affect outdoor worker’s health and earnings.
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- Added: Aug 17, 2021
- Length: 57:01
- Purchases: 1
We talk with journalist Nina Burleigh about Trump’s failure on Covid and what that says about our public health system—and capitalism. Her book is ...
- Added: Jul 16, 2021
- Length: 58:59
Quick, what’s your sexuality? Most of us know roughly where we fall on the Kinsey scale that goes from 0 to 6. But have you considered the asexual ...
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- Added: Jun 07, 2021
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
We talk with Carey Gillam about her page-turning follow-up to Whitewash, The Monsanto Papers: Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption, and One Man’s S...
- Added: Jun 03, 2021
- Length: 59:00
The Silicon Valley Education Foundation (SVEF) is a nonprofit running several programs in K-12 STEM education, including its Computer Science Insti...
- Added: May 24, 2021
- Length: 35:39
We talk with Eliot Peper about his Cli-Fi novel, Veil. It’s about what happens when a tech CEO decides to geo-engineer the climate—in secret.
Then...
- Added: Apr 21, 2021
- Length: 59:03
From: Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future
Series: Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future
Series: Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future
Leadership plays a vital role in professional sports, not just the corporate boardroom. Mark Shapiro, CEO of the Toronto Bluejays, shares his lead...
- Added: Mar 29, 2021
- Length: 45:47
LEDs, or light-emitting diodes, have changed the world – and continue to do so. This energy-efficient electronics technology came from decades of ...
- Added: Mar 05, 2021
- Length: 53:11
These teachers know tech. Steve Dembo and Victoria Thompson teach in K-12 and are also educational technology consultants. Steve is a middle scho...
- Added: May 11, 2020
- Length: 01:11:32
In this episode I chat with Aran de la Peña of Pro Puppet Makers about how he constructed the giant puppets for Disney/Pixar’s A Celebration of the...
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- Added: Apr 23, 2020
- Length: 57:28
- Purchases: 1
My guest this episode is David Stephens of All Hands Productions. David creates family friendly, one person puppets shows that tour all across the ...
- Added: Apr 23, 2020
- Length: 01:19:14
Casey Lamb and Roger Horton work with the nonprofit organization Schools That Can. Schools That Can aims to promote real-world learning in educati...
- Added: Mar 11, 2020
- Length: 52:13
Architectural and civil engineers are using rich digital tools to simulate constructed buildings. Similar tools are also being used in digital vide...
- Added: Oct 26, 2018
- Length: 54:23
Brantley Hargrove is the author of "The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras.” It’s a true story of a Denveri...
- Added: Aug 23, 2018
- Length: 09:56
From 1933 until the end of World War II, a number of Nazi units known as the Kuntschutz, plundered gold, silver and important art works from all ov...
- Added: Apr 25, 2018
- Length: 58:37
In Storied States, we examine the shift in how humans lived, moving from hunter-gatherers to sedentary farmers. And contrary to official narrative ...
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 58:03
From Alexander the Great's "pillow book" (The Iliad) to the Mayan Popul Vuh; from Gilgamesh to Harry Potter by way of Goethe and the notion of “wor...
- Added: Jan 03, 2018
- Length: 59:01