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Our ideas about how the anatomical differences in male and female brains explain the behaviors of men and women may be based on bias rather than sc...
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- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 01:00
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On August 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at the CERN particle accelerator in Switzerland, announced the debut of the World Wide Web, marking...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
What should consumers do who worry their data is being misused?Whose job is it to educate people about their responsibilities?Does privacy mean any...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
In the past few years medical companies have been producing a range of devices to help aging people keep track of their vital statistics: pulse rat...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Today, corporations and governments are using a vast array of tools to gather information on us. What trails are people leaving and do they even know?
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Imagine waiting to catch a train. You show up at the station and wait for the familiar clanking of wheels and squealing of brakes. This time, howev...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Are we being told the truth about GMO foods in our midst? Sheldon Krimsky is Editor/reader here and Ralph Nader wrote the foreword to this informat...
- Added: May 30, 2014
- Length: 01:40
Taking the listeners back into the early history of the universe, this introductory episode explains what fusion is, how it powers stars, and how i...
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- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
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We live in an age where everything we do online can now be tracked, recorded, and analyzed. How has our sense of our own information footprint ! ch...
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Diabetes is one of the first recorded diseases. When was it first treated by physicians and how prevalent was it?
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
The literal translation of Julia Helene Oxenreider is: Youthful, changing soft-haired sunlight riding ox. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Min...
- Added: Oct 01, 2013
- Length: 03:40
Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Robert Duke explain more about the ways advertising works, and why it’s important to understand the madness behind the “Mad...
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- Added: Aug 30, 2013
- Length: 08:00
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American's have been hitting the bottle a lot lately -- to the tune of 9 billion gallons of water in 2007.
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- Added: Sep 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
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Engineers at Ohio State University are cracking up over a new way of separating gasses. And they've possibly created a new process to produce a cle...
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- Added: Feb 28, 2008
- Length: 01:32
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Although less "charismatic" than whales, the Monkeyface, Threehorn Wartyback, and Pink Heelsplitter, deserve our attention too!
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- Added: Feb 28, 2008
- Length: 01:32
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- Added: Feb 28, 2008
- Length: 01:32
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There's now a shortcut between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, courtesy of climate change.
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- Added: Feb 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
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Bringing countries together to protect our natural environment looks good on paper...The book, "Peace Park" is a collection of articles written by ...
- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
McLean Psychiatric Hospital to research effectiveness of life coaching
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- Added: Jan 09, 2008
- Length: 04:43
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Pick up your toys! That's what mom used to say... So why not do the same in a forest? After a company logs an area, they ought to pick up after the...
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- Added: Dec 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
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In 2007, an expedition sponsored by the Wildlife Conservation Society explored a remote area in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Team members were...
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- Added: Dec 19, 2007
- Length: 01:28
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Fill 'er up with: Algae 100 - you know, the gas that's made from those golden brown or green plants growing along our coasts...
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- Added: Nov 19, 2007
- Length: 01:32
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Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the biggest polluter of them all? Is it the company with the biggest smoke-stacks? Or, as a recent study suggests...
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- Added: Aug 27, 2007
- Length: 01:32
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The African Stenocara beetle has learned a thing or two about water conservation. Living in the Namib desert, it uses its wings to capture water va...
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- Added: Aug 27, 2007
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Trend-setting California is once again leading the way - this time, on efforts to combat climate change.
- Added: Apr 16, 2007
- Length: 01:32
