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This week on the show: What can we learn from a bunch of rhesus macaques playing video games and 'choking' under the pressure? Also, it may be be...
- Added: Sep 18, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Are you the kind of person who takes the last piece of cake? Or would you leave it there for someone else instead? Also, we...
- Added: Sep 11, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: New research from Germany suggests that letting people choose whether or not to vaccinate may ultimately improve the overal...
- Added: Sep 03, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Get ready to roll up that sleeve again, because early data makes a clear case for a 3rd injection of the Pfizer-BioNTech va...
- Added: Aug 30, 2021
- Length: 30:00
There are many many examples of malice these days. And then there are the opportunities to do good.
- Added: Aug 22, 2021
- Length: 03:28
This week on the show: Have you ever seen a video of someone floating, just like in space, except it looks like they're inside an airplane? Well,...
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- Added: Jul 10, 2021
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: Among those who haven't vaccinated (but also among some who have), there's a real fear that COVID-19 vaccines could have s...
- Added: Jul 02, 2021
- Length: 30:00
In this episode, we explore where we’re at with the COVID-19 pandemic - regionally, nationally, and internationally - and begin to assess where we’...
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- Added: Jul 02, 2021
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, we explore carbon offsets, and how their promise as a way to mitigate carbon emissions - and thus climate change - have not yet pa...
- Added: Jun 23, 2021
- Length: 29:30
This week on the show: Will mutations change our vaccination strategy? Also, a controversial step in the fight against Alzheimer's, and how to tel...
- Added: Jun 16, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: If you don't vaccinate, you will get COVID-19 at some point. That's a fact. There's also the social argument. But a lot of ...
- Added: Jun 10, 2021
- Length: 30:00
Yes, there will be millions of collective sighs as the deadliest pandemic in a century begins to abate and a more open summer kicks off. But summer...
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- Added: Jun 08, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Topic 1: Space Debris; Topic 2: Wilderness Survival; Topic 3: Robot Sweating
- Added: Jun 08, 2021
- Length: 51:44
- Purchases: 3
How to keep healthy during the pandemic.
- Added: Jun 03, 2021
- Length: 58:15
This week on the show: What is "black fungus," and how is it related to COVID-19? What are the arguments for — or against — vaccinating pregnant w...
- Added: May 27, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Have an ear for birdsong? Neither do we. But with a couple clues (and a digital tool), we think you can solve our bird quiz...
- Added: May 19, 2021
- Length: 30:00
There’s a lot we don’t know about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus but there is a consensus that it came from animals. This is called zoonosis. H...
- Added: May 14, 2021
- Length: 04:18
This week on the show: The more people who vaccinate, the quicker life goes back to normal. But is there a (proven) way to convince the "on the fe...
- Added: May 13, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: From a risk/reward standpoint, does it make sense to fly to another country to get vaccinated there? Also, is it OK to brea...
- Added: May 06, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Who owns space? -
We dive deep into outer space. Who owns space? Who owns mineral resources and water? The race is on — i...
- Added: Apr 30, 2021
- Length: 29:59
This week on the show: If you’ve happened to hear about an asthma medication that will ameliorate or perhaps prevent COVID-19, think twice before ...
- Added: Apr 30, 2021
- Length: 30:00
In this episode, we discuss the current state of California’s climate - how it’s changed in recent years, and what we face in 2021, including a sig...
- Added: Apr 30, 2021
- Length: 29:30
In this segment of EPIDEMIC, Dr. Celine Gounder looks at disinformation during the pandemic. Specifically, we’re going to look at how the Russian g...
- Added: Apr 29, 2021
- Length: 04:06
Health care in America has always run at a high cost. In Utah, hospitals are taking action to make pharmaceuticals affordable for all.
- Added: Apr 26, 2021
- Length: 02:30
This week on the show: Just how high are the number of COVID-19 infections that happen inside compared to outside? So high that aerosol experts ar...
- Added: Apr 25, 2021
- Length: 30:00
