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In this episode, we explore the mass acceleration of nearly every process on earth that began in Britain in the 1700s during the Industrial Revolut...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 48:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Americans on the East Coast were in awe when Brood X, an enormous group of 17-year cicadas, suddenly emerged from underground to mate. Melissa Gerr...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Vaccines Prevent Viruses; What Combats COVID Vax Skepticism? An Interview with Dr. Jeanine Guidry, Director of VCU’s Health & Media Lab
In this episode, the Purple Principle speaks with Dr. Jeanine Guidry, Director of the Media and Health Lab at Virginia Commonwealth University, on ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KSFR, and KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 31:52
  • Purchases: 3
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Music host Paul Ingles welcomes his first repeat guest on his series - Steve Cropper - guitarist, producer, songwriter, and collaborator with most ...

Bought by KUHF, KUHF, and KSJE


  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
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How can we make space for concerns about the vaccine and grapple with a difficult history? Infectious disease specialist Dr. Joyce Sanchez says th...

Bought by WFHB and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Troop 19 addressing Teaneck City Council
Small town environmentalists and a dozen girl scouts won the first local bag ordinances in New Jersey, sparking the strongest state plastic ban in ...

Bought by WFHB and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: A Moment of Science
Bombardier Beetles: Saying "No" to a Hungry Predator

  • Added: Dec 01, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
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How do we turn agriculture from climate pollution to climate solution?

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, and KRZA


  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Ears Adrift's MC2 Sonja Wickard interviews scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory about the advancements in body armor technology.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2020
  • Length: 08:03
Caption: Dr. Andrew Smith UNH Survey Center
How much trust can independent-minded voters place in polling this 2020 election season? It seems not a day goes by without multiple new poll res...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: 18:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Why Not So Great Minds Polarize Alike, with NYU Neural Scientist, Dr. Jay Van Bavel

  • Added: Sep 21, 2020
  • Length: 29:11
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A lot of the technology we associate with the modern day started on anachronistic machines. I'm not talking about mainframes, I'm talking older. To...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2020
  • Length: 48:31
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With a little help, carbon eating, coast protecting marshes are on the mend

Bought by WFHB, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KICI Iowa City, WFHB, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: May 06, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Tracey Wingold,LCSW
Tracey Wingold has worked as a counselor for well over a decade, and she had a sort of head start on the COVID-19 crisis.

  • Added: Apr 07, 2020
  • Length: 08:01
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Are Herpes Simplex 1 and other microbes contributing to, if not causing, the brain changes in Alzheimer's Disease? Prominent Alzheimer's researche...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 28:19
Caption: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch (left) and Kyle Norris work on the first season of Finding Fixes at Anna's dining room table., Credit: Leah Nash for Finding Fixes
We want to answer a question a lot of people ask us: Why are we making this podcast? Why make a podcast about solutions to the opioid epidemic? On...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 11:21
Caption: David Venes (right) poses at the Tacoma Needle Exchange van with his dog, Ethel, and outreach worker, Laura Reynolds., Credit: Amber Cortes
In this episode we look at the idea of harm reduction and focus specifically on needle exchanges. Those are hundreds of places across the US that h...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 22:21
Caption: True Hope Community Church.
At a book group meeting, women went around the circle and introduced themselves. They found out that nearly everyone there had a son addicted to he...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 30:42
Caption: Justina Bauthues (center) poses for a photo with her parents, Lisa and Tom Hilton.
A new approach is linking people with addiction to drug treatment, instead of just sending them out the door when they’re well again. Two doctors, ...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 28:04
Caption: Musician and artist, Becka Baker, at band practice in Tacoma, Washington.
In this episode, we hear personal stories from three women that show just how tightly woven together trauma, pain and addiction are. Also, we hear ...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 32:36
Caption: Robin Guerrero overdosed on black-market fentanyl, but now has found tremendous relief from pain and anxiety by using medical marijuana.
Some people with chronic pain now rely on medical marijuana in place of opioid painkillers. But, in the absence of formal medical guidance, many pa...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 24:49
Caption: Megan and Scarlett coming home from the hospital, Credit: The Swarners
Washington State law around opioid prescribing has recently changed. Reporter Eilís O’Neill follows a couple, Megan and Ben, through the birth of t...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 19:04
Caption: Being Reasonable
Tahli Kentoff, a former pharmaceutical sales rep and now certified master herbalist, expresses her belief that all pharmaceuticals, including vacci...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:00
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Ed Tiryakian of Dying Right NC explores one's right to choose how one dies while Rev Robert Fruehwirth from St. Matthews considers his Christian fa...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:00
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We investigate the dangers of vaping, while listening to the voices of high school administrators, health professionals and students. One thing is ...

Bought by KOSU, WHYY, Prairie Public, WXXI Rochester, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2019
  • Length: 01:05:51
  • Purchases: 12