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"To Save California, Read Dune." With Andrew Leonard
From: David Schulman
Series: NAUTILUS podcast from PRX
Caption: Dan Fernandez with a fog-catcher in Santa Cruz. Writer Andrew Leonard sees in fog-catchers a real-world analog to the fictional dew-catchers of Dune., Credit: Jeremy Dalmas
The sci-fi epic of "Dune" takes place on a desert planet. There, the water in even a single tear is precious. Can Dune offer lessons for the drough...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 30, 2015
  • Length: 20:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ideas Books: Gavin Francis, Adventures in Human Being
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
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An in-depth conversation with author Gavin Francis about his book, the human body and his life as a doctor. A beautiful conversation about celebrat...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Sep 11, 2015
  • Length: 24:05
  • Purchases: 1
NASA's LADEE spacecraft explores our moon
From: Carrie Nugent
Series: Spacepod
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Dr. Sarah Noble talks about NASA's LADEE mission to the moon and an epiphany she had in graduate school.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Sep 01, 2015
  • Length: 12:24
  • Purchases: 1
It's a Jungle Out There (Half Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Over the past 50 years, the Amazon rainforest has lost nearly 20% of its forest cover. We talk with the Amazon expert who coined the term “biodiver...

Bought by WJCT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMUD, KVSC, WKCC and more


  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
It's a Jungle Out There (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Over the past 50 years, the Amazon rainforest has lost nearly 20% of its forest cover. We talk with the Amazon expert who coined the term “biodive...

Bought by WCNY, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WTJU, KEDT, and WABE


  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 5
#8 Brian Greene
From: How To Be Amazing
Caption: Brian Greene
Theoretical physicist and string theorist, Brian Greene understands some of the world's most difficult mathematic equations and, here's a neat tric...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2015
  • Length: 36:23
Fugitive Red (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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We go in search of the origins of a "perfect red," which once eluded scientists, pirates, and kings. Plus, how scientists are now tracking down rar...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, WABE, and KKRN


  • Added: Jul 17, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 4
Fugitive Red (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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We go in search of the origins of a "perfect red," which once eluded scientists, pirates, and kings. Plus, how scientists are now tracking down rar...

Bought by WJCT, KVSC, WABE, WKCC, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
Native Orchid Hunting in Colorado
From: Hannah Leigh Myers
Caption: Calypso Bulbosa fairy slipper orchid, Credit: Hannah Leigh Myers
This sound rich piece takes listeners into the forests of Colorado on a hunt for native and exotic orchid species.

  • Added: Jul 10, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
What Would You Do? (Hour long version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In this hour we talk about ethics and we explore the world's oceans for zooplankton and follow a roving tick robot. (And more...)

Bought by WCNY, WFAE, KPVL, WTJU, and KKRN


  • Added: Jun 19, 2015
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 5
What Would You Do? (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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If you swipe a stranger’s car and nobody sees, what do you do? In this week's show we talk about ethics (and more...).

Bought by WJCT, WNMU-FM, KKRN, KVSC, WKCC and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
Who Gets the Credit for the Modern World? David McCullough & "The Wright Brothers"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Orville and Wilbur, DIY scientists, were bicycle mechanics at the turn of the 20th century in Dayton, Ohio before they changed our world. David Mc...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 17, 2015
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
Why We Cheat: Stories of Dishonesty and Human Nature from Dan Ariely and Others
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Impact: Where Business and Ethics Meet
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In this last installment of our three-part series on workplace ethics in collaboration with EthicalSystems.org, we take an honest look at cheating....

  • Added: Jun 10, 2015
  • Length: 30:21
The Sex Education You Wish You Had
From: Gordon Whiting
Series: In Deep with Angie Coiro: Live at Kepler's
Caption: Angie Coiro, Credit: Host, Senior Producer
Show #81 Hour 2 April 18, 2015 | Guests: Julie Metzger and Dr. Robert Lehman, Sex and Health Educators at Great Conversations, Seattle WA.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jun 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:51
  • Purchases: 2
Science fiction writer Paolo Bacigalupi & "The Water Knife"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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This Paonia, Colorado National Book Award finalist describes a thriller version of possible future water wars in the American Southwest. Is this an...

Bought by KRZA, Radio Newark, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 04, 2015
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 3
Measuring Methane
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Lisa Song
When we think of the potential dangers of fracking for natural gas, what may come to mind is the dramatic image of flaming tap-water. But the prosp...

Bought by WMUU-LP, Yellowstone Public Radio, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Old Brains, New Brains: The Human Mind, Past and Present
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Brain illustration , Credit: The Popular Science Monthly, 1894
The early days of neuroscience relied on tragedy to strike before doctors could peek inside the brains of humans. Today advanced technology helps s...

  • Added: May 28, 2015
  • Length: 43:39
The Grey Lady and The EPA
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Joe Romm
For the better part of the past decade, The New York Times and The Environmental Protection Agency have been frequent punching bags of the right wi...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Born to Run: Is Nearly Barefoot Best?
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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As runners gear up for race season, Christopher McDougall's book is timely. He spurred on the barefoot running revolution several years ago with hi...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and Radio Newark


  • Added: May 22, 2015
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 2
6: Shana Rappaport & Amanda Ravenhill; Julia Prochnik, Negotiating Climate Change
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Amanda Ravenhill & Shana Rappaport
Climate change--one view is doom and gloom and destruction. The other is that things could be far more beautiful and regenerative and sustainable a...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WRIR, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 22, 2015
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 3
Daniel Kammen: Electricity For All, Part I
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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How easy it is to take our electrified world for granted. Right now about 1.2 billion people or about 20% of the global population live without acc...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 22, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
#1508- Truth Box Tune-up: Nancy Ellen Abrams
From: Sandburg Media
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
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In this wide-ranging interview, our host David Dault talks with Nancy Ellen Abrams, author of A God That Could Be Real: Spirituality, Science, and ...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
Andrew Revkin: Carbon Divide
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Andrew Revkin
This week on Sea Change Radio we hear from noted environmental journalist, Andrew Revkin, about a recent Yale/Utah State survey and mapping project...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 14, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Meditation For The Rest Of Us: Dan Harris, 10% Happier & Mark Epstein, The Trauma of Everyday Life
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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ABC anchorman and meditator Dan Harris talks about his book, 10% Happier:How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, a...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
Fads and Faith: Belief vs. Fact in the Struggle for Health
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: 1963 CDC poster for the oral polio vaccine., Credit: Wikimedia Commons
In 2014 the United States had 650 reported cases of measles, a disease made preventable by a vaccine introduced 30 years ago. The majority of these...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2015
  • Length: 01:27:06