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Time Blindness: Jack Alpert #222

From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth

Frustrated at the abysmal rate of adoption when seatbelts were introduced into cars in the 1960s, Jack Alpert quit his job as an automotive enginee...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio and KTRL

Added: Jul 18, 2017
Length: 28:29
Purchases: 2

Near-Term Human Extinction: Guy McPherson #218

From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth

Award-winning scientist Dr. Guy McPherson has concluded that for human civilization, the end is near. He advises the rate of change of our climate ...

Bought by KTRL

Added: Jun 20, 2017
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 1

Surviving a Hostile Climate on Local Food: Michael Brownlee #216

From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth

A scaled-up local food system may be the only way we can feed ourselves as we weather the storm of climate change. Until now, CSAs, urban gardens a...

Bought by KTRL

Added: Jun 06, 2017
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 1

Episode 68: All the Time in the World

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

The “body farm” at Texas State University is a place almost no one except researchers and law enforcement is able to see, because it’s one of very ...

Added: Jun 05, 2017
Length: 31:13

Everything You Want to Know About Population: Bill Ryerson #213

From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth

Population Media Center President Bill Ryerson corrects misconceptions, debunks myths, and shares a variety of surprising facts about overpopulatio...

Bought by KTRL, KMUD, and KTRL

Added: May 16, 2017
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 3

Moral Basis for Small Families: Travis Rieder #206

From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth

With human activity disrupting the climate, do we have a moral imperative not to have children, or to have only one child? Bioethicist Travis Riede...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KTRL, and WGRN-LP 94.1

Added: Mar 28, 2017
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 3

Trickle-Down Consumption: Brian Czech #205

From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth

How can policymakers be persuaded to abandon the most widespread public policy goal on Earth? In our last episode, Brian Czech explained that econo...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KTRL, WSLR, and WGRN-LP 94.1

Added: Mar 20, 2017
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 4

Ornithophobia

From: Eric Winick

Caption: Tippi Hedren in "The Birds" (1963)

There was something about the flamingo area at Marineland that attracted four year-old Megan Whitman.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Dec 11, 2016
Length: 07:21
Purchases: 1

Food Sleuth Radio, Keeve Nachman Interview

From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio

Did you know that industrial agricultural practices, such as the use of antibiotics and arsenic in poultry production, pose health risks to workers...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer

Added: Jul 29, 2016
Length: 28:00
Purchases: 1

Episode 6: In The Beginning, God Created The Heavens And The Earth And The Allosaurus

From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature

Erin Jones thought the answers were written in stone. But a summer internship at a remote dinosaur quarry eroded her certainty.

Bought by KUER, KSFR, and KRZA

Added: Jan 21, 2016
Length: 13:09
Purchases: 3

Where Have All the FEMA Trailers Gone?

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

Caption: FEMA trailer with bicycles. , Credit: Courtesy of Akasha Rabut

Ten years later and thousands of miles away, Hurricane Katrina lives on.

Added: Dec 02, 2015
Length: 27:58

Economic Heresy: Herman Daly #113

From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth

Robust economic growth has become the Holy Grail of public policy and politics. But some economists and many scientists have come to believe growth...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Bandon Community Radio, WMUU-LP, and KCMJ Community Radio

Added: Nov 17, 2015
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 4

Food Sleuth Radio, Margaret Carrel Interview

From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio

Antibiotics are given to animals living in concentrated feeding operations for two reasons: disease prevention and growth promotion/feed efficiency...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer

Added: Sep 26, 2014
Length: 28:00
Purchases: 1

Food Sleuth Radio, Kelly Tappenden Interview

From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio

It may seem hard to imagine, but we have more microbial cells in our guts than we have human cells in our bodies. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and R...

Added: May 01, 2014
Length: 28:01

Food Sleuth Radio, Mark Kopecky Interview

From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio

Soil. We treat it like dirt, yet it holds vibrant communities of microscopic organisms that affect public health. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and ...

Added: Sep 06, 2013
Length: 28:00

Scat-sniffing dogs help researchers study, protect wildlife

From: WTIP

Buck Benson of WTIP chatted recently with Dr. Sam Wasser, director of the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington, about an...

Bought by KVSC

Added: Oct 10, 2012
Length: 21:52
Purchases: 1

The Guardian's Science Weekly: David Eagleman and 50 years in space

From: [redacted] [redacted]

Caption: David Eagleman, Credit: eagleman.com

David Eagleman suggests prejudices may be hard-wired into our brains; a new real-time film celebrating 50 years since Yuri Gagarin went into space;...

Bought by PRX Remix and KVSC

Added: Apr 08, 2011
Length: 28:53
Purchases: 2

The Guardian's Science Weekly: Mathematics special + Brian Cox = science squared

From: [redacted] [redacted]

Caption: An equation graph, Credit: websters-online-dictionary.org

Bowing to popular demand, here's our mathematical special; plus Brian Cox, the most famous man in science, pops into the Guardian. No calculators a...

Bought by KUER and PRX Remix