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Interview with Dan Levitt, author of What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner.
From: KRCL
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This is a 1 on 1 interview with Author Dan Levitt, and Radioactive's Nick Burns. From Levitt's Website "For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse ...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2023
  • Length: 12:04
Destroyer of Worlds
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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Jess speaks with Oppenheimer biographer Kai Bird about one of Earth's most influential humans and his scientific and political legacies.

  • Added: Jul 25, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Shame in Medicine: 1. Hello, Shame
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Shame in Medicine: The Lost Forest
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The Nocturnists teams up with two shame experts to investigate the nature of shame, and its role in the culture of medicine.

  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 24:25
F-Word: Build Back Green, Not Gray
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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"MacArthur 'genius award'winning landscape designer Kate Orff believes that gray infrastructure, like levees and flood gates and sea walls, can on...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 03:30
Vaccination Verification: Ticket to Ride or Social Divide?
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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How do you let people who are fully vaccinated get back to normal life without creating super-spreader events for those who haven’t yet been vaccin...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2021
  • Length: 04:19
Synchronicity
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Paul Halpern
There always seems to be a peculiar twist in understanding our world. How it works. Just when we think of have a grip on it, like a greased pig, it...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Growing Young
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Marta Zaraska
Humankind seems to be on eternal search for an answer on how to live longer. Our efforts naturally lead us to spirituality. But then we take pills ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 5: Our Future With Fire
From: North State Public Radio
Series: California Burning
Caption: Brennan Byrd holding a piece of Cob building material
On the fifth and final episode of California Burning, we look for solutions that address the many different factors associated with the wildfires p...

Bought by Capital Public Radio, KVCR, WMRA, KSKA, KALW and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
S1 E1 Recognition
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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Ben Lerman, an emergency medicine physician, describes how his ability to empathize with his patients deteriorated throughout his medical training,...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 29:31
Dr. Anthony Ferrante, Physician Scientist At Columbia Institute of Human Nutrition
From: Louis Erlanger
Series: Scientists Are Human
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Dr. Anthony Ferrante is a physician scientist at the Columbia University Institute of Human Nutrition, where he studies fat and its effects on the ...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2018
  • Length: 34:49
Pain: A Cultural History
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Health & Healing
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A professor of history and philosophy of science invites us to see pain as a social experience that comes with moral and ethical dimensions.

Bought by KVSC and KRZA


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 13:39
  • Purchases: 2
Alvin Toffler and Margaret Mead: Future Shock, Innocence and Innovation
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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Alvin Toffler and Margaret Mead: an author and an anthropologist who endeavored to understand the impact of scientific invention. In this episode o...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KSFR, KVSC, and KSFR


  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 16:07
  • Purchases: 4
Rise of the Robots
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Rise of the Robots jacket cover, Credit: Basic Books Jason Gabbert
We’re on the cusp of another revolution: A technology revolution. This one, however, is vastly different from its predecessor: The industrial revol...

Bought by WDBM, KVSC, and KCBX


  • Added: Oct 07, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Cornucopian Myth: William Catton #107
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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“The age of growth and the age in which growth is going to be considered a good thing is coming to an end.” The late sociologist William R. Catton ...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Bandon Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 06, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 6
188-Deep Listen
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Will 100 million dollars in grant funds be enough for humans to discover a tiny needle in the cosmic haystack?

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WYAP, KREV-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Cruel Hoax: Stephanie Mills #106
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Stephanie Mills made headlines in the Spring of 1969 when she vowed, in her commencement address (titled The Future is a Cruel Hoax), to conceive n...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Bandon Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, WMUU-LP, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
185-So Many Possibilities
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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New research has revealed a truly mind boggling number of potentially habitable locations in the Universe.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, and KENW


  • Added: Sep 24, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Art of De-Extinction
From: Britt Wray
Caption: Will the woolly mammoth face another day?, Credit: Tyler Ingram
A group of scientists are now trying to bring extinct animals - like the woolly mammoth and passenger pigeon - back to life, in a movement called D...

Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2015
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 3
62-From Big Dark Asteroid To Beautiful Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A large dark asteroid becomes a beautiful comet as it approaches the Sun.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WKCC and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Humanist Hour #103: “Repairing” Gays Through Therapy with Dr. Michael LaSala
From: Bo Bennett
Series: The Humanist Hour
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In this episode, Bo interviews Dr. Michael LaSala on the topic of reparative therapy—an attempt on converting primarily gay men and lesbian women t...

Bought by KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jun 18, 2014
  • Length: 53:24
  • Purchases: 1
The Humanist Hour #101: Exploring Naturalism with Tom Clark
From: Bo Bennett
Series: The Humanist Hour
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In this episode, Bo interviews Tom Clark from naturalism.org. Tom is currently a research associate at the Institute for Behavioral Health, Helle...

Bought by KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jun 04, 2014
  • Length: 53:24
  • Purchases: 1
The Age of Radiance
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Craig Nelson
Bestselling author Craig Nelson provides an in depth examination of the history of the Atomic age from x-rays to the 2011 meltdown in Japan.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 20, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Julia Oxenreider - "False Hope"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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The literal translation of Julia Helene Oxenreider is: Youthful, changing soft-haired sunlight riding ox. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Min...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2013
  • Length: 03:40
Episode 6: Matt Stone/180 Degree Health - Bobby Pickles' Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
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Bobby speaks with, author and independent health researcher, Matt Stone about his contrarian views in regards to many fad diets and his new book, "...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2012
  • Length: 41:40
Radio Berkman 138: My Friend the Robot
From: The Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Series: Radio Berkman
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What if a robot could be your closest friend?

  • Added: Dec 02, 2009
  • Length: 28:06