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Bio Hackers versus Big Pharma: Tackling the Rising Cost of Insulin
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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As the cost of insulin continues to skyrocket patients are dying from trying to ration their medication. It's an extreme example, but not unusual -...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fossil Refusal: Local Models not Global Markets
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Despite the difficult picture painted by the news, there is hope for our planet. We cover several fights against refineries and market based soluti...

Bought by WVAS and WRIR


  • Added: Oct 18, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Palliative Care: The Search For Comfort And Healing In The Face Of Death
From: JoAnn Mar
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For those who are dying, palliative medicine can go a long way in relieving the pain and suffering that often accompanies the final stages of death...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Apr 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Rules of Life
From: Richard Paul
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What causes Alzheimer’s Disease? What causes cancers to form? Can we make jet fuel and plastics out of germs? To get these answers, scientists ...

Bought by WAMU, KQED, WCPN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Jul 24, 2017
  • Length: 57:59
  • Purchases: 6
What is Nuclear Liability and What Does it Mean?
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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The nuclear industry pays a fraction of the cost of an accident and in Canada taxpayers pick up the balance.

  • Added: Mar 13, 2016
  • Length: 01:14
Inside a coal fired power plant
From: Reid Frazier
Caption: The Homer City Generating Station in Pennsylvania., Credit: Reid Frazier
How do you clean up 100,000 tons of air pollution? Boatloads of air filters, and some basic high school chemistry. This story takes the listener in...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 1
SECOND OPINION: LAETRILE AT SLOAN-KETTERING -- Eric Merola and Dr. Ralph Moss Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Dr. Ralph Moss and Eric Merola, San Francisco, CA 9/11/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Eric Merola and Dr. Ralph Moss talk deliberate misdirection, the relativity of statistics, and going for the gold.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2014
  • Length: 49:38
In a Gas Boom, Looking for Answers on Health Questions
From: Reid Frazier
Series: Breaking the Land: Marcellus Shale and the Gas Age
Caption: Amy Pare, a plastic surgeon in heavily-drilled Washington County, Pa. She's found arsenic, benzene, and other drilling-related contaminants in the urine of her patients., Credit: Photo: Reid R. Frazier
Thousands of wells have been drilled in the Marcellus shale, using new types of drilling methods. But there are questions about the safety of these...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: May 18, 2012
  • Length: 09:50
  • Purchases: 1
Cities Underwater: Venice and New Orleans Seek Solutions
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Two historic jewels: New Orleans & Venice, Italy are struggling to plan for sea level rise, in cities that already routinely flood because of quest...

Bought by WZEN.org and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 19, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
The Mikie Show #43, Sarah
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Hurrah, it’s another show about stuff I don’t know! Yes, this episode we speak with Sarah Mattson, planetary photographic cartographer, you know, I...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Nov 01, 2011
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1
Condor Rescue
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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A condor refuge recovers after a wildfire, and volunteers prepare for a dramatic release.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 03, 2008
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 2
Why Don't Kids Learn Science Anymore?
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Despite high-tech hubs like Silicon Valley, California's science literacy is in steep decline.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 03, 2008
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 1
Hayward Fault
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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The big quake is coming

  • Added: Oct 20, 2008
  • Length: 04:47
How to ID a Bullet
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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What if every bullet could tell you who fired it?

Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 14, 2008
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 2
Waiting for California's High Speed Rail
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Getting from San Francisco to LA in two-and-a-half hours -- and a $10 billion ticket price

  • Added: Oct 14, 2008
  • Length: 08:08
DIY Green Building
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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On the frontiers of green building

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 01, 2008
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
It's Not Easy Going Green
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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It's one thing for a city to set environmental goals -- another thing entirely to meet them.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 04:54
Stamping Out the Light Brown Apple Moth
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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How should we be of the light brown apple moth?

  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 05:15
Sewage Happens
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Think your city has a sewage problem? You haven't seen the half ot it.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
Quest_Graywater Guerillas
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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A report from the frontlines of D.I.Y eco-plumbing.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2007
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 1
"Creation Museum" Opens in Kentucky
From: John Hingsbergen
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Coverage of the opening of the controversial "Creation Museum" in Kentucky

  • Added: Jun 06, 2007
  • Length: 04:04