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92,000 Transgender People Took This Survey. Here’s What We Learned
From: Tradeoffs
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As lawmakers around the country take aim at transgender rights, we dig into findings from the largest survey ever of trans Americans.

  • Added: May 22, 2024
  • Length: 18:33
Tradeoffs LIVE! Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Tradeoffs host Dan Gorenstein, ONC Director Micky Tripathi and Oracle Health Government Services Chief Health Officer James Ellzy onstage in Washington, D.C., at the ONC Annual Meeting on Dec. 15, 2023.
A live conversation between a top federal health official and a health care executive about how they must work together to keep AI from exacerbatin...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2024
  • Length: 24:19
What White House COVID Coordinator Ashish Jha Learned on the Job
From: Tradeoffs
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Ashish Jha shifted from the role of academic theorizing about health policy into a calm, reassuring voice leading the White House’s COVID response....

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 21, 2023
  • Length: 16:54
  • Purchases: 1
Top of Mind - Children under Fire, Money to the Homeless, Brown Fat
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Even amidst the pandemic, gun violence persisted across the US. Topic 2: What if we just gave newly-homeless people several thousand dolla...

Bought by RADIOLEX, RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KOWS, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 8
Videojuegos por una causa
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Edición Especial de la Pandemia en Español
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¿Te pasas la cuarentena jugando a videojuegos? Aprende como tú y tu ordenador podéis ayudar a los científicos a encontrar una cura para el nuevo co...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Nov 07, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Metales poderosos
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Edición Especial de la Pandemia en Español
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¿Quieres protegerte de una pandemia? Aprende de la historia y comienza a trabajar con ... ¡cobre!

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 14, 2020
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Mighty Metals
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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Want to protect yourself from a pandemic? Take a page out of history’s book and start working with... copper!

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Panicked Purchases
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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Why would a pandemic lead to toilet paper hoarding? Uncertain times result in irrational decisions when faced with the aisle of a grocery store. Th...

Bought by KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Protecting the Herd
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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All contagions come to an end. But how? Herd immunity is inevitable. How we get there is up to us.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Gaming For a Cause
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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Spending your quarantine gaming? Learn how you and your computer can help scientists search for a cure to the new coronavirus! All while you sleep!

Bought by KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
S2 Ep 8: Needle exchanges and harm reduction
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: David Venes (right) poses at the Tacoma Needle Exchange van with his dog, Ethel, and outreach worker, Laura Reynolds., Credit: Amber Cortes
In this episode we look at the idea of harm reduction and focus specifically on needle exchanges. Those are hundreds of places across the US that h...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 22:21
S2 Ep 6: Treating addiction from the ER
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: Justina Bauthues (center) poses for a photo with her parents, Lisa and Tom Hilton.
A new approach is linking people with addiction to drug treatment, instead of just sending them out the door when they’re well again. Two doctors, ...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 28:04
S2 Ep 5: Treating the wounds of trauma
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: Musician and artist, Becka Baker, at band practice in Tacoma, Washington.
In this episode, we hear personal stories from three women that show just how tightly woven together trauma, pain and addiction are. Also, we hear ...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 32:36
Rearranging the Numbers
From: Martine Chaussard
Caption: Ted Davis’ completed (and oddly shaped) Sudoku puzzles from a book called “Tricky Sudoku”
Pat and Ted Davis have been married for more than fifty years. But since Ted started showing signs of depression and dementia, he has become so qui...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 10:52
Life of the Law #100: LIVE LAW NSF: Translating (law and social) Science
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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To celebrate Life of the Law’s 100th Episode, Life of the Law and the National Science Foundation brought five NSF funded scholars to the NSF Headq...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2017
  • Length: 01:07:16
Life of the Law Episode #69: Bit of an Edge
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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In real life, the business of jury selection is a 400 million dollar industry. So in a world of high priced jury consultants what does a jury of ou...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2015
  • Length: 24:42
SECOND OPINION: LAETRILE AT SLOAN-KETTERING -- Eric Merola and Dr. Ralph Moss Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Dr. Ralph Moss and Eric Merola, San Francisco, CA 9/11/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Eric Merola and Dr. Ralph Moss talk deliberate misdirection, the relativity of statistics, and going for the gold.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2014
  • Length: 49:38
The Mikie Show #43, Sarah
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Hurrah, it’s another show about stuff I don’t know! Yes, this episode we speak with Sarah Mattson, planetary photographic cartographer, you know, I...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Nov 01, 2011
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1
Arctic Ice Melt
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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In recent years, sea ice in the Arctic has been melting at an alarming rate, and scientists are asking why. The science community has recently take...

Bought by KENW and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 2
The New Great Lakes Goby Fish Gang
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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In April of 1990, biologist David Jude pulled a little bug-eyed fish from the Saint Claire River near Detroit. It was a Round Goby.

Bought by WYOU


  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
It Pays to Cry Wolf
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The reintroduction of gray wolves to Yellowstone National Park marked the return of a symbol of the American West. The recent shooting of one in O...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Save the Whales
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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One of the most successful conservation campaigns in history was launched back in the 1970s, when bellbottoms were still in style.

Bought by KMXT and KUAC


  • Added: Sep 25, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 2
Up the Creek!
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Have you ever wanted to help "green up" your town, but the project seemed too daunting? This inspiring story is about how a handful of folks in Tac...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1