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851: How Should We Tell Our History? / 852: Searching For Order In The Universe, 12/2/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "How Should We Tell Our History?" - Debates over history are front-page news, from critical race theory to AP history classes. How should...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:01
Meteorite!
From: Matt Hill
Series: Today In History - with The Retrospectors
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The first meteorite to crash land into Earth - and have its date recorded - impacted the hamlet of Ensisheim (in modern-day France, then Austria) o...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 09:33
Top of Mind - Who Owns Our Cultural Heritage? — Museums, Repatriation, and Appropriation
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Who should decide how stories and artifacts of a cultural heritage are shared? What's the difference between appropriation and appreciation?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KOWS, KMXT, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 5
Skin Deep
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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Happy Halloween! Jess talks with UCLA librarian Megan Rosenbloom about the spooky science of uncovering what makes some old books extra rare.

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ghostly Encounters of a Third Kind Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: ILLUSTRATION, Credit: by Doug Dobey
More ghostly encounters of a Third Kind with a woman named Sarah who seems to have something of a shine.

  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 25:23
2023-10-22 Elisabeth of Bohemia
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How did a 17th-century princess challenge Descartes' mind-body dualism?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 23, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
839: Luminous: Can Psychedelics Be Decolonized? / 840: Living With Loneliness, 10/21/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Luminous: Can Psychedelics Be Decolonized?" - Psychedelics are a multi-billion dollar industry. But many come from plant medicines first...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:59
2343: Elisabeth of Bohemia, 10/24/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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If the mind and body are distinct substances, how could they ever interact?

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2342: The Lives and Ideas of the Vienna Circle, 10/17/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Wouldn’t it be great if our society were based on sound logical principles instead of outdated superstition?

  • Added: Oct 15, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Journalist Taras Grescoe's "THE LOST SUPPER. Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past."
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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⁠Host Diana Korte speaks with Canadian journalist Taras Grescoe, author of “THE LOST SUPPER. Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of th...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2023
  • Length: 10:49
Henrietta Lacks' Immortal Cells
From: David Kattenburg
Caption: Henrietta Lacks, Credit: Courtesy: Lacks family & Estate
David Kattenburg speaks about Henrietta Lacks and medical racism in America with Dorothy Roberts. Roberts is Professor of Law and Sociology at the ...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2023
  • Length: 34:56
833: Being Body Conscious / 834: The Hidden Geometry Of Everything, 9/30/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Being Body Conscious" - When you look at your body in the mirror, do you love what you see? Do you pick out the things you don’t like? M...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
Falling Into Autumn
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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This time on The Children’s Hour we are falling into autumn in the northern hemisphere. We learn the science about equinox, and hear from 5th grade...

Bought by KTNA, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), RadioFreePalmer, KRSC, Allegheny Mountain Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 11
20230911: Falling Into Autumn, 9/11/2023
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This time on The Children’s Hour we are falling into autumn in the northern hemisphere. We learn the science about equinox, and hear from 5th grade...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
AMOS 23-170: The Invisible World of Manuscripts, 8/25/2023
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
The Invisible World of Manuscripts

  • Added: Aug 15, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
Oppenheimer’s omission and other secrets of the Atomic Age
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Caption: Paul Pino of Carrizozo, New Mexico., Credit: Nate Hegyi
From NHPR's Outside/In comes two stories that shed light on unseen consequences of America's nuclear ambitions.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Vermont Public, and Valley Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 01, 2023
  • Length: 56:30
  • Purchases: 4
815: Taking Pop Seriously / 816: Secrets Of Alchemy, 7/29/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'Taking Pop Seriously" - Korean pop music has been breaking global charts and hearts, selling millions of records every year. Is is time ...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:59
Destroyer of Worlds
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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Jess speaks with Oppenheimer biographer Kai Bird about one of Earth's most influential humans and his scientific and political legacies.

  • Added: Jul 25, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
2332: What Has Replaced Freud?, 8/8/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Freud may have laid the groundwork for a science of the unconscious, but didn’t he get most of it wrong?

  • Added: Jul 20, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
BD - Here Begins The Dark Sea: a conversation with author Meredith F. Small on the Fra Mauro map
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
Caption: The Fra Mauro World map created c. 1450, Credit: Museo Correr, Venice4
Dave visits with best-selling author and award winning anthropologist Meredith F. Small to talk about her new book, Here Begins The Dark Sea: Venic...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Jul 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Constant Wonder - Body, Soul & Memory: What would you do with a lock of George Washington's hair?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Clippings of Washington's hair were, for some, like a "selfie." For others, they were used to claim racial superiority.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jun 14, 2023
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 2
BD - Mark Catesby in the New World and California's massive snowpack
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
Caption: Aerial view of the High Sierra snowpack in 2023, Credit: Airborne Snow Observatories Inc.
Dave visits with author Patrick Dean about his new book, Nature's Messenger: Mark Catesby and his adventures in a new world. Dean's book reveals th...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Jun 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
My Iron Lung
From: Radio Diaries
Caption: Martha Lillard in an iron lung in the 1950s., Credit: Courtesy of Martha Lillard
Martha Lillard is one of the last two people in the United States who depend on an iron lung to breathe.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 12:41
  • Purchases: 2
Conversations: Ricardo Nuila, MD
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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Emily speaks with writer and physician Ricardo Nuila about his debut book The People's Hospital, a love letter to Ben Taub Hospital in Houston, Tex...

  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 46:06
The End of Smallpox
From: Radio Diaries
Caption: Rahima Banu and her mother in 1975, Credit: Daniel Tarantola/WHO
Only one human disease has ever been completely eradicated: Smallpox. Rahima Banu, a woman from rural Bangladesh, was the last person in the world ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: May 19, 2023
  • Length: 09:37
  • Purchases: 1

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