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HOUR ONE: "Our Time Of Mourning" - The pandemic is waning in many places. But before we go back to normal life, let's not forget to mourn our loss...
- Added: Jun 18, 2021
- Length: 01:59:01
HOUR ONE: "The Resilient Brain" - In 1848, an explosion drove an iron rod through the skull of a railroad foreman. Find out how it changed science ...
- Added: Jun 11, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
How do you let people who are fully vaccinated get back to normal life without creating super-spreader events for those who haven’t yet been vaccin...
- Added: Jun 10, 2021
- Length: 04:19
HOUR ONE: "Secrets Of Alchemy" - The leading science of the 17th century was alchemy, the transformation of matter. What was it really? Could we st...
- Added: Jun 04, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Why Do We Have So Much Stuff?" - From baby showers to estate sales, we fill our lives with material possessions. Why do we do it? HOUR...
- Added: May 28, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
Our show is about the legal status of nonhuman animals - are they subjects or objects, persons or things? And currently those are the only options ...
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- Added: May 11, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: "Weird World Of Mushrooms" - They can heal you. They can also kill you. This hour, take a trip into the wild world of toadstools. HOUR ...
- Added: May 07, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Searching For Order In The Universe" - The universe is full of mystery. This hour, what do fish and eels have to do with the maddening s...
- Added: Apr 23, 2021
- Length: 01:59:02
HOUR ONE: "The Power Of Pleasure And Joy" - Joy, pleasure and delight feel good. But are they also politically powerful? HOUR TWO: "Making Waves...
- Added: Apr 16, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
The concept of climate disruption is abstract, and in many ways, distant. Inaction creates paralysis. Much like the five stages of grief coined by ...
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- Added: Apr 06, 2021
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: "Music On Your Mind" - Doctors say a simple song can awaken the minds of Alzheimer's patients. This hour, music as medicine. HOUR TWO: ...
- Added: Apr 02, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Rewriting The Romance Script" - Love is in the air, as it has been every Valentine's Day since 496. And we're still trying to get it rig...
- Added: Feb 12, 2021
- Length: 01:58:58
HOUR ONE: "Hope: Are We Really Doomed?" - Can hope co-exist with cataclysmic realities like climate change? We conclude our "Hope" series with a lo...
- Added: Feb 05, 2021
- Length: 01:58:58
HOUR ONE: "Hope: Where Does It Come From?” – We begin our three part series on hope. Is it something we’re innately born with or something we can c...
- Added: Jan 22, 2021
- Length: 01:58:58
There is one working lithium mine in the United States, the Silver Peak brine mine located near Goldfield, Nevada. Last Friday, the US Bureau of La...
- Added: Jan 19, 2021
- Length: 18:40
HOUR ONE: "The Vaccine Trackers" - As vaccination against COVID-19 begins, what's it like to get one? This hour, the biggest mass immunization camp...
- Added: Jan 15, 2021
- Length: 01:58:57
In March of 2020, after months of downplaying of COVID by officials, the death rate could no longer be ignored. By late fall, as many Americans wer...
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- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: "Finding Meaning In Desperate Times" - The pandemic isn't just a health crisis, it's an x-ray into our psyches. This hour, how COVID-19 i...
- Added: Dec 25, 2020
- Length: 01:58:58
HOUR ONE: "Plants As People" - Take a walk. Notice the plants and trees around you? What if you thought of them as people? HOUR TWO: "Wintering I...
- Added: Dec 18, 2020
- Length: 01:58:58
Thousands of new chemicals have been developed and released into the global environment during the last four decades. Yet, most of those chemicals ...
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- Added: Dec 15, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: "Living In Skin" - All over America, people have stopped touching faces and hugging friends. This hour, explore the inner life of your sk...
- Added: Dec 11, 2020
- Length: 01:58:58
Most of us spend a good part of our time in the future. That is, we ponder what tomorrow brings. Or, even later today. Though we only have a snapsh...
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- Added: Nov 23, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Recent events around the globe clearly demonstrates the interconnectedness of human health and the health of our planet. Heat waves in California, ...
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- Added: Nov 10, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: "Rituals Of Fear" - The dread, the fear, the horror of it all. Maybe it's good for you? This hour, why we need Halloween. HOUR TWO: "Ev...
- Added: Oct 30, 2020
- Length: 01:58:58
HOUR ONE: "Everything Is Exhausting" - Staying productive is harder than ever these days. When everything is exhausting, how do we stop the burnout...
- Added: Oct 23, 2020
- Length: 01:58:58
