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After the news headlines, Dr. Vandenberg talks about her work studying the techniques big companies use to undermine science and create doubt.
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Born To Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture
In the past 50 years, the advent of television as a medium for advertising has ...
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- Added: Dec 22, 2022
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes talks with water law expert John McClow.
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- Added: Dec 06, 2018
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Why are so few people talking about the risky operation starting at the ruined Fukushima nuclear plant?
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The gargantuan Three Gorges Dam over the Yangtze River in China is the largest hydroelectric project in the world and is a poster child for China's...
- Added: Jun 22, 2011
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Remember the days when kids hiked into the woods? Caught tadpoles in a stream, and played tag on the playground? Well, those days are fading fast.
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According to scientists from all over the world approximately 1 million people die of malaria every year.
The world community spends billions of d...
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What happens to our consumer electronics after they've served their useful life? Discarded computer monitors often get shipped to Asia or Africa.
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In the groovy 60s we were singing “Where have all the flowers gone?” Could a day come when we’ll sing the same about the honeybees?
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Ocean dead zones. Air and water pollution worldwide. All this bad news is enough to cause “Eco-phobia.”
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What is the precedent set by the arrests of journalist at the conventions?
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A beached whale is a heartbreaking sight. And while nobody's sure exactly why "beachings" occur, scientists have offered several theories.
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- Added: Aug 19, 2008
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Interview with Doug Blackmon, author: Slavery By Another Name
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When rain refills a dried out pond, life soon returns to normal. Frogs croak, algae grows and dragonflies dart back and forth. But...that's only pa...
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Here's a question for you aspiring ornithologists out there. Why does the Spoon-billed Sandpiper have a spoon-shaped bill?
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For over 200,000 years, the Iriomote Cat lived in isolation on a tiny island between Taiwan and Japan. More recently, however, Iriomote Island has...
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These days, Americans are driving three times as many miles per capita as they did in 1980. Not only are longer commutes driving us crazy, they're...
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Why can't members of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization sleep at night? They're counting fish instead of sheep.
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Remember Pete Seeger's song, "Where have all the flowers gone?" He blamed their disappearance on young girls picking them.But with eight thousand f...
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Remember these lyrics from Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi? "Don't it always seem to go, That you don't know what you got till it's gone?" Unfortun...
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In April of 1990, biologist David Jude pulled a little bug-eyed fish from the Saint Claire River near Detroit. It was a Round Goby.
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If you're wondering how our penguin friends in the Antarctic are doing these days, here are the cold, hard facts. Their poo is getting mighty pollu...
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Sea turtles have been around for more than a hundred million years, so you'd have to call them survivors. But sea turtles may have met their match...
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Religious policy at the Air Force Academy.
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