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Snaking along the perimeter of an apartment complex, amaranth grows to harken to a peculiar sound emanating from the clothesline as a scar heals th...
- Added: Apr 23, 2020
- Length: 12:53
- Added: Jun 01, 2018
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 4
Close friends show similar brain patterns.
Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, KTSW 89.9, KENW and more
- Added: Feb 02, 2018
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 6
Alex Corbitt interviewed on EdTech Now, a ten-minute podcast about education technology and how it's used in the classroom.
- Added: Apr 28, 2017
- Length: 10:31
A trickle of data from the New Horizons spacecraft is building into a flood of new findings.
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KENW, and WLPR
- Added: Mar 23, 2016
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 3
Scientists take a close look at a single celled creature with a complex eye.
- Added: Jul 20, 2015
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 2
A newly discovered brain structure in parrots hints at new mechanisms in brain evolution.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Jun 27, 2015
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
3-D talking maps use a variety of sensory modalities to help the visually impaired find their way around college campuses and other institutions.
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- Added: Dec 06, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
New guidelines could maximize transplant success by better matching donated kidneys with recipients.
- Added: Mar 31, 2014
- Length: 01:00
For those just starting out in a field, Katherine Neville recommends asking a simple question of your supervisors after completing a project: “How ...
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- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 1
As a woman as well as an immigrant to the United States, Valerie Fremont has faced particular challenges in her career. She discusses America’s “cu...
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 04:18
After struggling with bench research Claire Skentelbery realized her true calling was science communication. She talks about the importance of gett...
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 04:26
After years of relentlessly pursuing her career, some simple words from her four-year-old daughter shook Dawn Hocevar to the core. From that moment...
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 03:10
From: Distillations
Don’t delay being happy in your career, says Sherri Oslick. Finding the right path requires talking to a lot of people, and it also means listening...
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- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 04:09
- Purchases: 1
An experimental treatment for bulimia nervosa may help restore connections within the brain that influence eating behavior in some patients.
- Added: Jan 02, 2014
- Length: 01:00
The current philosophy seems to be the more “friends” that we can amass on Facebook, or the more “followers” that we can attract on Twitter, the be...
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 08:12
In school it’s usually the men who are encouraged in science, says April Quarles. Though women continue to face negative social influences when pur...
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- Added: Aug 21, 2013
- Length: 03:17
- Purchases: 1
From: Distillations
To avoid being perceived as aggressive, says Lynn Johnson Langer, women often qualify their thoughts. Phrases like “it’s just my opinion” are used ...
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- Added: Aug 13, 2013
- Length: 03:58
- Purchases: 1
The job market for highly skilled positions is more competitive now than in previous generations, says Savannah Sullivan. Learning outside your cho...
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- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 03:10
- Purchases: 1
A chemistry set with “really nice stuff in it” sparked Anna Wilson’s lifelong interest in chemistry, but her passion made her a bit of an oddball i...
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- Added: Jul 29, 2013
- Length: 03:00
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It’s not all about career, says Laura McCunn. Marriage and family need to be considered when choosing a path, she says, and she credits a lot of he...
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 03:03
In 1941 Helen Free was studying to be a Latin and English teacher—that is, until Pearl Harbor changed her fate. With the country’s young men being ...
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 03:50
After getting her master’s degree Kristine Chin found herself working in industry as the first woman in an all-male lab. It was a challenging exper...
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- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 03:16
- Purchases: 1
In the mid-1980s only 10 of the 100 on-scene coordinators at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were women. Mary Ellen Ternes was one of thi...
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- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 02:53
- Purchases: 1
From: Distillations
After the launch of Sputnik in 1957 the new emphasis on science education in the United States helped spark an interest in a young Mary Jo Nye. She...
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 04:33
