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The Pursuit of Happiness: Virtue or Pleasure?
From: Open to Debate
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Happiness is a complex emotion and mental state that can be achieved through virtue or pleasure. But should it be for the good of the individual or...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
2024-01-21 The Mysterious Timelessness of Math
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is math like an abstract painting—beautiful equations, with no connection to the world—or is it more like a blueprint for the universe?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KICI Iowa City, KSKQ, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and more


  • Added: Jan 22, 2024
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 12
Conversations: Michael Stein, MD
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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Physician, public health professor, and author Michael Stein speaks about his recent book Me vs. Us: A Health Divided, which explores the differenc...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 49:38
Is Carbon Capture Essential to Fighting Climate Change?
From: Open to Debate
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When it comes to carbon dioxide, 2022 was a record year. So...what can be done? One potential method is called carbon capture and storage, a techno...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WNED Buffalo, and KUNM


  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
2023-04-30 The Power of Prediction
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is your brain a camera that records the world, or a projector that imposes pictures on it?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN, KKWE Niijii Radio, WVTF, KSKQ and more


  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
2023-03-19 Science and Skepticism
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Our understanding evolves over time—how can we explain that to impatient people who don't trust science?

Bought by WNED Buffalo, KTSW 89.9, RadioStPete Florida, KICI Iowa City, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
2312: Science and Skepticism, 3/21/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Our understanding evolves over time – how can we explain that to impatient people who don't trust science?

  • Added: Mar 14, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2021-05-30 The Psychology of Cruelty
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Are people cruel to others despite -- or because of -- their victims' humanity?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KTSW 89.9, KMUN, KSKQ, KNVC Carson City Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 31, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Permian Extinction
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
Series: Science Moab
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A unique combination of events came together at the end of Permian time (250 million years ago)that resulted in the extinction of more the 90% of l...

Bought by KDXI - Radio St George


  • Added: Oct 31, 2020
  • Length: 31:05
  • Purchases: 1
2021-04-04 Does Science Over-reach?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Are there questions that science is powerless to answer?

Bought by KMUN, KICI Iowa City, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KTSW 89.9, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jul 23, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
Even if it smells bad, this researcher loves solving mysteries
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: Leo S. Morales loves his job as a researcher of minority health at the University of Washington., Credit: KUOW PHOTO/TORI ZIVKOVIC
People sometimes take unlikely paths to get where they're going. This is the story of an unlikely scholar.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
Transgendered - 2012 Full Hour Program
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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This is the full hour generational discussion on Transgendered featuring an older, middle and younger guest.

  • Added: Aug 04, 2017
  • Length: 51:27
(Episode #15) Social Spheres: Academia and Pop Culture
From: Odegaard Writing and Research Center
Series: Character Development
Caption: Odegaard Writing and Research Center, Credit: OWRC
Riding on the heels of the recent release of Captain America: Civil War, the Character Development team gathers three OWRC tutors—our creative dire...

  • Added: May 15, 2016
  • Length: 19:45
How to Measure Learning
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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How do we measure learning? Hear neuroscientists and teachers describe how it's done in the lab and at school.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 27, 2015
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 2
The Humanist Hour #101: Exploring Naturalism with Tom Clark
From: Bo Bennett
Series: The Humanist Hour
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In this episode, Bo interviews Tom Clark from naturalism.org. Tom is currently a research associate at the Institute for Behavioral Health, Helle...

Bought by KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jun 04, 2014
  • Length: 53:24
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 17 (2013-01-23)
From: Ruji C.
Series: Ruji C.'s "The Meta-Podcast"
Caption: Ruji C., Credit: Ruji C.
Klaatu from the podcast "GNU World Order" interviews me about e-cigarettes, and we get some unintentional vocal effects on his track due to feedbac...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2013
  • Length: 21:08
Clever Apes: Nature and human nature
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
Caption: Megan Bang helped incorporate systems-level thinking into the design of an early education classroom., Credit: (WBEZ/Gabriel Spitzer)
We go back to one of the first lessons kids learn about science, and what it says about how human minds develop. As children discover the natural w...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, PRX Remix, KUT, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 05, 2012
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 5
Paradoxes
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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Paradoxes - What are they? What do they mean? How should we think about them? Experts weigh in.

Bought by KGOU


  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 36:09
  • Purchases: 1
NOVA Minute: The Art of Archaeology
From: NOVA
Series: NOVA Minute
Caption: Mark Lehner, Credit: pbs.org/nova
Archaeologist Mark Lehner says that his field is really about the art of observation.

Bought by WEZU, Radio Newark, KRUA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 01:16
  • Purchases: 4
Coral Bleaching
From: Tom Niemisto
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Ocean biology is threatened by Climate Change

  • Added: Feb 08, 2009
  • Length: 01:46
Intelligent Design?
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Unconventional Wisdom
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Fred Flaxman destroys the theory in only two minutes using his usual tongue-in-cheek approach.

  • Added: Jan 01, 2009
  • Length: 02:03
The End of Our Universe, and other timely topics
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Russian cosmologist Alex Vilenkin on the search for other universes, and the end of our own "O-region" -- on ThoughtCast!

Bought by KPVL and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 30, 2007
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 2
The last wild place
From: Edward May
Series: Alaskan Life Portraits
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Wildlife cinemaphotographer Steve Kroschel tells us how his career began, his move to Alaska and about the wild creatures that share his home and l...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2004
  • Length: 19:34