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Hacking Climate Change
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Can we hack our way toward solutions for climate change? While governments dither, Congress negates and the world warms, how about deploying privat...

Bought by KTSW 89.9 and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 05, 2014
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Congressman Lamar Smith on Planetary Science
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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The Chairman of the powerful Science, Space and Technology Committee in the US House of Representatives joins us for a talk about planetary science...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2014
  • Length: 28:50
Cannabis Radio News #11
From: Cannabis Radio News
Series: Cannabis Radio News - weekly show
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Mason Tvert, Communications Director Marijuana Policy Project, tells us his group has taken the first step in getting a legalization initiative on ...

Bought by KVMR and KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 25, 2014
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
Food Sleuth Radio, Jeff Ritterman Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide has been linked to a mysterious fatal kidney disease among farmers in Central America, Sri Lanka and India. Join Food...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Harold Goldstein Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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The beverage industry spends billions of dollars each year convincing us that sugary beverages will make us “happy.” In reality, sugar-laden drink...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Tyrone Hayes - Rebel WITH a Cause
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents Rebel WITH a Cause - Dr. Tyrone Hayes is a Harvard trained biologist that has courageously stuck to his research find...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2014
  • Length: 28:35
Food Sleuth Radio, John Pastor Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Politicians and analysts mark progress by quarterly earnings, but scientists who study life cycles in the real world may need years to document cha...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 18, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
60-A Close Visit With A Message
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small asteroid, capable of causing human injuries if it entered the Earth's atmosphere, passed between the Earth and Moon. It was detected only a...

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


  • Added: Jul 10, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
59-Spotting Travelers In The Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Travelers In The Night from outer space are closer than you may imagine.

Bought by RADIOLEX, Simply Beautiful, KRSC, WTIP, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more


  • Added: Jul 10, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
57-Hold A Traveler In The Night In Your Hand
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Look for and find a celestial Traveler In The Night.

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


  • Added: Jul 03, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Food Sleuth Radio, Steve Suppan Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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The size of a nanometer -- one billionth of a meter – is hard to imagine, but a sheet of newspaper is 100,000 nanometers thick. Nanoscale materia...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
56-A Whopper or A Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A newly discovered near Earth object is either a huge asteroid or a comet. We will just have to wait and see.

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


  • Added: Jun 26, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Sebastian Thrun: MOOCs, Angry Birds, and Lifelong Learning (Excerpt)
From: Open Source
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We’re speaking with a hot name in disruptive innovation, Sebastian Thrun. He’s part of our conversation on hacking higher education. He’s the foun...

Bought by Radio Newark and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 2
Pathways to Exploration: Space Analyst John Logsdon on the National Research Council Human Spaceflight Report
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Gemini Spacewalker, Credit: NASA
The National Research Council released its long-awaited report June 4th. Distinguished space policy analyst John Logsdon returns to Planetary Radi...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Jun 17, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 2
Sebastian Thrun: MOOCs, Angry Birds, and Lifelong Learning
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re speaking with a hot name in disruptive innovation, Sebastian Thrun. He’s part of our conversation on hacking higher education. He’s the foun...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 26, 2014
  • Length: 11:54
  • Purchases: 1
What Do We Make of The Big Bang?
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We're clearing the deck to listen to wisdom of the physicists: where did we come from, what are we made of, what happens next, and why? And what do...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2014
  • Length: 58:34
Richard Rhodes: Is the Knowledge of Nukes Enough?
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Richard Rhodes is the go-to analyst of nuclear weapons for most of thirty years now ever since the publication of his acclaimed history of the Manh...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2014
  • Length: 22:23
Food Sleuth Radio, Kathrynne Holden Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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April is Parkinson’s Awareness Month. Did you know that farmers who use pesticides are at greater risk for developing Parkinson's Disease (PD)? Or ...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
Rites of Passage: Docs and Nurses in the Developing World
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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A new rite of passage is taking hold among ambitious young doctors entering modern practice in a new century. It can take a year or two after medic...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 1
A conversation with director Jeff Orlowski
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jeff Orlowski, Credit: courtesy of Chasing Ice
Jeff Orlowski goes to the Arctic to film James Balog’s documentation of the rapidly disappearing glaciers. We hear all about it.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 30:20
How Personal Intelligence Shapes Our Lives: A Conversation with John D. Mayer
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
Caption: Emotional and Personal Intelligence
John D. Mayer, or Jack as he likes to be called, is the renowned psychologist who co-developed the groundbreaking theory of emotional intelligence ...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2014
  • Length: 52:30
Catching Cosmic Rays
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Out There: The Science of Exploring the Universe
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In December 2012, a two-ton instrument built to detect cosmic rays ascended into the Antarctic sky, carried by a balloon the size of a football fie...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 14:00
Food Sleuth Radio Benny McLean Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Benny McLean has been working in the Florida citrus industry ever since he was 10 years old. Today he is production manager for Uncle Matt’s Organ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
15-Suppose An Asteroid Is On A Collision Course With Earth
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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What are our options when we discover that an asteroid is on a collision course with Earth?

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


  • Added: Feb 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Food Sleuth Radio Doug Gurian-Sherman Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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The Union of Concerned Scientists reports that herbicide-resistant weeds have reached epidemic proportions, infesting 61 million acres and growing....

  • Added: Feb 13, 2014
  • Length: 28:00