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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
One woman's heartbreaking story of her husband's brain cancer diagnosis, and why cell phone manufacturers warn users never to hold the phone agains...
- Added: Oct 23, 2023
- Length: 28:17
- Purchases: 2
In 2021, University of Minnesota health economist Hannah Neprash listened to a Tradeoffs story on ransomware in health care and was inspired to stu...
- Added: Oct 06, 2023
- Length: 24:29
Patti and Doug discuss the week's news, then investigative reporter Justin Noble explains why fracking produces lots of radioactive waste.
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 28:27
Ellen Marks' husband spent years with a cell phone held against his head. Then he got brain cancer. Coincidence? Maybe not.
- Added: Dec 12, 2022
- Length: 28:45
Starting July 16, 2022, anyone in the U.S. experiencing a mental health crisis will be able to dial 988 for help. We explore what it will take for ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 03, 2022
- Length: 25:04
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: Schools open, antibodies fall & horses and llamas help -
In this episode, co-host Gabe returns from the worst-hit coun...
- Added: Aug 20, 2020
- Length: 30:00
JPL astrophysicists Alina Kiessling and Jason Rhodes were brought together by their fascination over the mystery of dark energy. They talk with Pla...
Bought by KRZA, WYAP, KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WTJU and more
- Added: Aug 09, 2017
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 8
When city planner Jay Primus first moved out to San Francisco’s Richmond district, he made an easy mistake: he hopped onto the 2 Clement to make hi...
- Added: Jul 16, 2015
- Length: 09:06
When the NUMMI auto factory in Fremont closed five years ago, close to 5,000 people lost their jobs. An estimated 20,000 others were also out of w...
- Added: Jul 16, 2015
- Length: 28:37
In Episode 19 of Behind The Thread, we go inside the 7-year energy crisis that has beleaguered Pakistan's vital textile industry and see what is be...
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 46:30
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Recent Attacks Targeting Canadian Soldiers Offer Politicians Rationale to ...
- Added: Oct 30, 2014
- Length: 29:00
Northeast Ohio is considering building a new gasification plant. don't call it trash burning.
- Added: Mar 12, 2012
- Length: 28:38
Perhaps Jay Walljasper’s recent book title is more definitive than some convoluted dissertation. It is, simply, All That We Share. And that is what...
- Added: Oct 06, 2011
- Length: 57:54
The snow has started to fall. What does the internet offer for amusement in the winter? Matisyahu, Charlie Brown, and curling in the same audio pla...
- Added: Feb 19, 2010
- Length: 19:42
Are mashups the new metaphors– combining rather than comparing unlike things — as a commentary on our culture? How have mashups influenced and chan...
- Added: Feb 19, 2010
- Length: 23:37
BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 11, 2009
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
A data retention bill introduced in Congress may create problems for libraries.
- Added: Feb 22, 2009
- Length: 02:40
Commentary on the recent decision in Kansas to restrict library books.
- Added: Feb 22, 2009
- Length: 02:47