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"What gives me hope is watching the sparkle in the eye of a child, a young
mother, a middle-aged business person, or an elderly person when they im...
Bought by WOJB
- Added: Apr 22, 2024
- Length: 58:02
- Purchases: 1
The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic are behind us and it’s time for an early reckoning of our successes and failures. An epidemiologist shares...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 21:30
Nothing woolly-headed or Utopian about it: A universal, guaranteed basic income. A hundred years later, memories of war that do not fade. And, one ...
- Added: Jul 09, 2023
- Length: 59:14
On this show we sit down with the creators of the five-part documentary series, “Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops.” Narrated by Richard Gere, this...
- Added: Aug 01, 2022
- Length: 58:00
Why are a growing number of private insurance companies starting to invest in medical respite — a decades-old way of caring for homeless people?
- Added: May 17, 2022
- Length: 18:14
In this episode, the Purple Principle speaks with Dr. Jeanine Guidry, Director of the Media and Health Lab at Virginia Commonwealth University, on ...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KSFR, and KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 31:52
- Purchases: 3
We want to answer a question a lot of people ask us: Why are we making this podcast? Why make a podcast about solutions to the opioid epidemic?
On...
- Added: Jan 20, 2020
- Length: 11:21
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
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
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
Some people with chronic pain now rely on medical marijuana in place of opioid painkillers. But, in the absence of formal medical guidance, many pa...
- Added: Jan 19, 2020
- Length: 24:49
Washington State law around opioid prescribing has recently changed. Reporter Eilís O’Neill follows a couple, Megan and Ben, through the birth of t...
- Added: Jan 19, 2020
- Length: 19:04
Addiction hits home for the top dog of a disaster-prone county. An old-school cop gets a wake-up call and learns “handcuffs and a trip to jail” jus...
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 26:39
At a clinic in Everett, Washington, a nurse pushes his patients to work hard, and the patients embark on their road to recovery. This episode we're...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Oct 15, 2019
- Length: 25:34
- Purchases: 1
Health researchers are planting 8,000 trees in Louisville to learn how trees prevent cardiac death. No crystals and woo woo. This is solid scienc...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, WFHB, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and 'The Sea'
- Added: Jul 09, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 4
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
What causes Alzheimer’s Disease?
What causes cancers to form?
Can we make jet fuel and plastics out of germs?
To get these answers, scientists ...
Bought by WAMU, KQED, WCPN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KCPW Salt Lake City and more
- Added: Jul 24, 2017
- Length: 57:59
- Purchases: 6
The nuclear industry pays a fraction of the cost of an accident and in Canada taxpayers pick up the balance.
- Added: Mar 13, 2016
- Length: 01:14
Science magazine named it as their Breakthrough of the Year for 2015. It's a game-changing new gene editing tool, called CRISPR. And it has the pot...
- Added: Jan 06, 2016
- Length: 30:18
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
Ideal for broadcast around Earth Day (4/22/15), produced in association with WGBH/Boston. This documentary examines different sides of the new deba...
Bought by KQED
- Added: Mar 26, 2015
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
Bobby podcasts via Skype with Ronnie Lee Smith aka Roland A. Duby, stand-up comedian, social media personality, and self-proclaimed healer of cance...
- Added: Feb 25, 2014
- Length: 29:17
Two historic jewels: New Orleans & Venice, Italy are struggling to plan for sea level rise, in cities that already routinely flood because of quest...
Bought by WZEN.org and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
Scientists predict fish stocks worldwide will collapse by mid-century unless drastic changes are made to humankind's impact on the oceans.
- Added: Sep 20, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Hosted by Barbara Bogaev, and produced by Richard Paul, Sustainability looks at what is being done to address our energy needs and environmental c...
Bought by WFHB, WNIJ, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUOW, KGNU Community Radio and more
- Added: Mar 09, 2009
- Length: 59:08
- Purchases: 27
