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Dr. Chileshe Nkonde-Price, Social Media Lab UPENN School of Medicin
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Chileshe Nkonde-Price, Cardiologist and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/US Depart...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Apr 29, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Focus Point – Heart Disease
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Focus Point with Avis Jones-DeWeever
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The discussion about heart disease, the number one killer in women, is the focal point of Avis Jones-Deweever’s topic. The guest informs listeners...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 23, 2014
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 1
Teaching Intelligence (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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As the son of the great civil rights attorney, Oliver Hill Sr., Oliver Hill Jr. knows a thing or two about fighting for equality. He says that toda...

Bought by KENW, WABE, and WXDU


  • Added: Jan 24, 2014
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 3
Can A Dog Be A Racist?
From: David Feldman
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Are some African Americans correct when they insist a dog is racist? We tackle that question and more with Dr. Gregory Berns author of "How Dogs L...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 05:43
Episode #162 - Ruth Brown Pt. 3 (1953-55)
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Ruth Brown was Atlantic Records first big star. She was so successful, racking up 24 R&B hits for the fledging label, that Atlantic was often calle...

Bought by WRNC-LP, WOUB, KPVL, and KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 09, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
Edna the Engineer: Who Gets to be a Scientist?
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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You know the stereotype: white guy in a lab coat with crazy hair and an experiment gone awry. But the picture of science is changing. In this episo...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, WFHB, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Mental Calisthenics for Teenagers
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Until recently, most researchers believed the brain stopped developing cognitive ability after a certain age. But a new study suggests otherwise.

Bought by WJCT and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Distillations Episode 115: Black History Month
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: George Washington Carver., Credit: Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
In honor of Black History Month, we reveal the lesser known accomplishments of George Washington Carver, and also pull from our oral history collec...

Bought by WKSU, Radio Catskill, and WETD


  • Added: Jan 16, 2012
  • Length: 11:57
  • Purchases: 3
St. Louis blogger helps inner city youth find "on-ramp" to science (long)
From: Veronique LaCapra
Caption: Danielle Lee has been blogging about science since 2006., Credit: (Alecia Hoyt Photography - www.aleciahoyt.com)
A conversation with science blogger Danielle Lee about the ways she’s using hip hop songs and backyard wildlife to reach out to young people in und...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 09:46
St. Louis blogger helps inner city youth find "on-ramp" to science (short)
From: Veronique LaCapra
Caption: Danielle Lee has been blogging about science since 2006., Credit: Alecia Hoyt Photography - www.aleciahoyt.com
A conversation with science blogger Danielle Lee about the ways she’s using hip hop songs and backyard wildlife to reach out to young people in und...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 03:41
Asthma Epidemic
From: Judy Lubow
Series: Planet Warning
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For reasons yet unknown, more and more Americans each year have been contracting asthma. In spite of the fact that 17% of black children now have...

  • Added: May 26, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
HeLa Cells
From: William S. Hammack
Series: Stories of Technology
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We owe a major step in the eradication of polio, and a host of other diseases, to one unsung person. I'd say hero, but this person never knew what ...

Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 2
The Time Traveler: a Man, a Dream, a Machine
From: Emily Corwin
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A boy's grief led him to an extraordinary discovery...

Bought by XRAY.fm, WJCT, KUT, KUOW, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Oct 05, 2009
  • Length: 09:35
  • Purchases: 5
Study of STEM Program for Improved Retention, Progression, and Graduation: Part 2 of 2
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: The Sounds of Progress: The Changing Role of Girls and Women in Science and Engineering
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Researchers conducting a longitudinal study on the effectiveness of the STEM scholarship program at Norfolk State University have some results. Ear...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Sep 19, 2008
  • Length: 10:26
  • Purchases: 1
Study of STEM Program for Improved Retention, Progression, and Graduation: Part 1 of 2
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: The Sounds of Progress: The Changing Role of Girls and Women in Science and Engineering
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Norfolk State University (NSU) created a scholarship program to encourage African American students to pursue degrees in STEM. African American wom...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Sep 19, 2008
  • Length: 12:10
  • Purchases: 1
Searching for Roots
From: Philip Graitcer
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Searching for African American ancestors is not easy

  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 03:28
Low Powered FM Radio
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
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The Prometheus Project helps develop community low-powered radio stations

  • Added: Aug 24, 2007
  • Length: 09:12
Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah on "Cosmopolitanism" -- and psychologist Marc Hauser on "The Moral Mind."
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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ThoughtCast speaks with Princeton philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah about his new book, "Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers" -- followe...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 09, 2007
  • Length: 57:01
  • Purchases: 1