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026: What human eggs are worth: egg donors share their stories, 3/8/2024
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied
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Egg donation in the U.S. is a multibillion dollar industry designed to provide infertile folks with the eggs they need to conceive. But how do we d...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
Beyond the mask: Conversations with psychopaths
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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Meet two people who are psychopaths on this episode of Audacious. Learn about common misunderstandings about their inability to bond or experience ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Restoration on the Range
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
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Rangelands are vast, natural grasslands, shrublands, woodlands, wetlands, and deserts that support grazing and browsing mammals and they are primar...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2024
  • Length: 21:05
Lady Parts
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Lady Parts, Credit: Molly Bentley
The Supreme Court’s ruling on Roe has ignited fierce debate about bodily autonomy. But it’s remarkable how little we know about female physiology. ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KBBI Alaska, KZUM and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Golden, Kevin Z. — "Lawsuit to Ban Genetically Modified Alfalfa"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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This program was originally broadcast May 7, 2007. The consequences of growing genetically modified alfalfa were deteremined by the United States ...

  • Added: Feb 29, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Twenty Three -- Groks Science Show 2024-02-28
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
We look back at the past and gaze forward to the future of science.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 29, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
‘She Didn’t Want to Die. But She Didn’t Want to Suffer’
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Steven Petrow (R) and Jay Petrow (L) kiss their sister Julie Petrow-Cohen. Julie used New Jersey’s medical aid in dying law after a six-year battle with ovarian cancer., Credit: Courtesy of the Petrow family
A handful of states allow terminally ill people to take life-ending medications prescribed by a doctor instead of waiting for death. This week, we ...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2024
  • Length: 21:12
Working Together for River Conservation
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
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It is well known at this point that humans are using more water out of the Colorado River, then the river can support…for humans as well as other l...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2024
  • Length: 20:29
Tomb with a View
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Tomb with a View, Credit: Seth Shostak
A century ago, British archaeologist Howard Carter opened the only surviving intact tomb from ancient Egypt. Inside was the mummy of the boy king T...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KBBI Alaska, WRGY, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Robot Literati -- Groks Science Show 2024-02-21
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Dennis Yi Tenen discussed his book, Literacy Theory for Robots.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Guru of Healthy Aging
From: Nicole Christina
Series: Zestful Aging Podcast
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Over the past 40 years, Dr. Ken Dychtwald has emerged as a foremost visionary and original thinker regarding the lifestyle, marketing, health care,...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 28:02
Season 1, Episode 15 - 'Being You' feat Anil Seth
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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The science of consciousness.

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 58:08
  • Purchases: 2
Lithium Valley
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Lithium Valley, Credit: Molly Bentley
The discovery of a massive amount of lithium under the Salton Sea could make the U.S. lithium independent. The metal is key for batteries in electr...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KBBI Alaska, WRGY and more


  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Hope, Hype or Harm? What We Know About New Cancer-Screening Tools
From: Tradeoffs
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Companies claim they can catch cancer sooner with new blood tests and full-body MRI scans. What are the risks and benefits?

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 18:02
  • Purchases: 1
Testing for Toxins with Leah Segedie
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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Mamavation is the leading site for independent testing of consumer products. We talk with founder Leah Segedie.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 28:11
  • Purchases: 1
Dreaming, Psychedelics, and Primary Consciousness with Steve Elfrink
From: Katherine Bell
Series: The Dream Journal
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A conversation about psychedelics with holistic facilitator Steve Elfrink of Om Terra Psychedelics. How dreams and psychedelics shift consciousness...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 54:52
[Simulated Part Two] In bed with machines: a real-life and sci-fi exploration of sex robots
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied - Specials
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Sex robots have been a sci-fi staple since the genre’s birth. Now that more advancements in technology are bringing early generation bots to life, ...

Bought by KWGS and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 16, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 2
The Space between the Mountains
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
Series: Science Moab
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Sagebrush once stretched across almost 500,000 square miles from the Dakotas to California. Each year, a million acres is lost to invasive species,...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2024
  • Length: 20:13
Sports Analytics -- Groks Science Show 2024-02-14
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Tim Chartier discussed his new book, Get in the Game.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., RadioFreePalmer, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 14, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Tradeoffs LIVE! Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Tradeoffs host Dan Gorenstein, ONC Director Micky Tripathi and Oracle Health Government Services Chief Health Officer James Ellzy onstage in Washington, D.C., at the ONC Annual Meeting on Dec. 15, 2023.
A live conversation between a top federal health official and a health care executive about how they must work together to keep AI from exacerbatin...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2024
  • Length: 24:19
Alien Says What?
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Alien Says What?, Credit: Seth Shostak
Whales are aliens on Earth; intelligent beings who have skills for complex problem-solving and their own language. Now in what’s being called a bre...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KBBI Alaska, WRGY and more


  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
Stephen Most – "The Klamath River"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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River of Renewal, Myth & History in the Klamath Basin Since the last Ice Age ended about 12,000 years ago, human beings have traveled along the Kl...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Sugar Sugar -- Groks Science Show 2024-02-07
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Maria Dello discusses health issues arising from excessive sugar consumption.

Bought by KICI Iowa City and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 07, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
The State of the Science
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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Dr. Mindy Romero, founder of the Center for Inclusive Democracy at the University of Southern California, talks with Jess about current election sc...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
The Wrong Stuff
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: The Wrong Stuff, Credit: Seth Shostak
By one estimate the average American home has 300,000 objects. Yet our ancient ancestors had no more than what they could carry with them. How did ...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KBBI Alaska, WRGY and more


  • Added: Feb 05, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15

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