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Addiction expert Dr. Nick Kardaras, author of the best-selling book "Glow Kids" talks about how our kids are suffering psychologically from too muc...
- Added: Jan 15, 2023
- Length: 28:24
After the news of the week, former Pro Publica food reporter Helena Evich talks about the failure of the FDA to handle food safety, the controversy...
- Added: Jan 15, 2023
- Length: 28:15
Former EPA whistleblower Dr. Kyla Bennett explains why the EPA is unlikely to protect public health from dangerous chemicals.
- Added: Dec 12, 2022
- Length: 28:26
Ball bearings — these mechanisms are all around us, inside our wheels and motors. Hidden away, we rarely see them, and most people don’t even know ...
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- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 28:24
- Purchases: 1
By design, ballot initiatives require coalitions that cross party lines to secure the votes needed to win. Some campaign organizers view this rule ...
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 35:48
An online community of adoptees fight for their birth records in 1990s Oregon - framing the issue around civil rights instead of parent/child relat...
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 35:25
In the words of one expert, California has “gone crazy for propositions.” In this episode, we tell the story of one of the state’s most notorious b...
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 30:41
In My Body Odyssey’s (MBO) first episode, we meet Ultimate Mark – uber-competitive weekend warrior in Ultimate Disc: “If it hurts me but helps the ...
- Added: Jul 27, 2022
- Length: 18:49
Sarah Humphreys lives in Lehi, Utah, and is a die-hard fantasy nerd that can’t stop talking about dragons and anime. At 18 years old, she is trying...
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 12:48
Mary Elizabeth Jackson is a bestselling author in the collaborative anthologies The Fearless Entrepreneurs, Invisible No More, Invincible Forever M...
- Added: May 09, 2022
- Length: 16:49
“BFF or NRF (Not Really Friends): A Girl’s Guide to Happy Friendships takes a thoughtful and joyful approach that appeals to young teens and tweens...
- Added: Apr 28, 2022
- Length: 13:21
Pain is inescapable. Suffering is a choice.
Azrael, the Angel of Death, knows pain. The deaths of his mother and sister, as well as his harsh expe...
- Added: Apr 27, 2022
- Length: 15:12
Of Song and Water’ is a journey along the currents of music, nature, and healing. This is a story for anyone who wants to discover a path to healin...
- Added: Apr 25, 2022
- Length: 16:22
A lot of the changes needed to keep global heating below 1.5 degrees have to occur at a huge, international level. But nearly a fifth of carbon emi...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Apr 04, 2022
- Length: 01:24:16
- Purchases: 1
America’s largest health insurance companies moonlight as obscure middlemen, managing billions in health care spending for many of the country’s bi...
- Added: Mar 31, 2022
- Length: 26:58
This is Threshold Season 4: “Time to 1.5.” In this episode, we look at what climate chaos could do to our ability to meet our basic needs and live ...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Mar 01, 2022
- Length: 54:40
- Purchases: 1
Dr. Lidar Sapir-Hen of Tel Aviv University introduces us to a celebrity piglet. Discovered in a Jerusalem home from the 8th century BCE, it challen...
- Added: Feb 24, 2022
- Length: 08:46
In this episode, we explore the mass acceleration of nearly every process on earth that began in Britain in the 1700s during the Industrial Revolut...
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- Added: Feb 15, 2022
- Length: 48:25
- Purchases: 1
Mary McLeod Bethune was the daughter of former slaves and a founder of Bethune-Cookman University. She was often the only woman of color with a sea...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Feb 15, 2022
- Length: 05:02
- Purchases: 1
The following audio is a shortened segment featuring the story of preservationist, banjoist and fiddle player Bascom Lamar Lunsford, as told in the...
- Added: Jan 26, 2022
- Length: 08:23
Alzheimer's disease used to be a rare diagnosis. But today, more than 5.8 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's and this number is projecte...
- Added: Jan 14, 2022
- Length: 45:47
Cally shares the back story on the famous phrase!
Bought by WXXI Rochester
- Added: Nov 07, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Today we're headed to the Junction neighborhood in Toledo, Ohio to talk to Alicia Smith. She's the executive director of The Junction Coalition, a ...
- Added: Jun 01, 2021
- Length: 06:13
Why is the cowboy, the most iconic of American settlers, so central to white masculine identity when Latinx vaqueros and Diasporic formerly enslave...
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 14:06
As economic gaps rise, students are often the most affected. In Utah, one school is finally taking a stand for less fortunate students.
- Added: Apr 23, 2021
- Length: 02:30