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Christie Aschwanden is the author of "GOOD TO GO: What The Athlete In All Of Us Can Learn From The Strange Science Of Recovery."
Christie lives in...
- Added: Feb 16, 2019
- Length: 09:49
Cancer is the second leading cause of death in children from 1 to 14 years old. According to the American Cancer Society more than 10,000 children ...
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- Added: Dec 18, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Sleep. It’s one of the most mysterious things about life. No one fully understands why we sleep. Yet, we make things even more confusing when we co...
- Added: Oct 11, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Yale University ornithology professor Richard Prum’s newest book is "Evolution of Beauty. How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the ...
- Added: Aug 23, 2018
- Length: 09:53
Brantley Hargrove is the author of "The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras.” It’s a true story of a Denveri...
- Added: Aug 23, 2018
- Length: 09:56
Nature writer Craig Childs is the author of Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America. It’s a travelogue of places and people, just like us...
- Added: Aug 23, 2018
- Length: 09:56
Artificial Intelligence will drastically change our lives. The technology is expected to advance cyber security, finance, energy, military applicat...
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- Added: Jul 04, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Very few realize the significance of Virtual Reality. Yet, VR will change how we work, how we experience entertainment, how we feel emotions, and h...
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- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Using the Grand Canyon as the trailhead for his book, journalist Stephen Nash sounds an alarm of urgency for protecting our national parks.
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- Added: Apr 11, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The village of Mals, Italy is on the eastern Swiss boarder in the shadow of the Alps. It’s been known as the breadbasket of the Tyrol. Recently, th...
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- Added: Feb 13, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In November, 2017, over fifteen thousand scientists from 184 countries issued a warning to humanity.
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- Added: Feb 08, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
It was an unexpected, auspicious meeting. Originally, the mentor and student were not even assigned to work together.
- Added: Jan 24, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The iconic image of Rosie the Riveter is cemented in America’s history and imagination. Meanwhile the book and movie Hidden Figures ignited an inte...
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- Added: Dec 07, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Florida is an ever-changing landscape. With little warning, what was once land, becomes water, and what was once water becomes land. Frequently. E...
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- Added: Nov 01, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
“From the forests perspective, there is no such thing as a bad fire.” Dr Dominick DellaSalla Calls wild fires “natures phoenix” and discusses the i...
- Added: Oct 24, 2017
- Length: 50:36
Following the Mexico City 7.1 earthquake, we are again hearing about the need to stay alert in California and Washington. In reality, though, that ...
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- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 29:00
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Professor Crosby talks candidly about her bicycle accident via her
memoir “A Body Undone: Living on With Great Pain.”
- Added: Sep 15, 2017
- Length: 29:00
WSKG radio manager Greg Keeler talks candidly about his struggles with weight loss and his eventual decision to have bypass surgery,
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 29:00
Interview with feminist MD, KAREN KIM about her path into a medical career
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 29:00
From: Out of Bounds
Award-winning naturalist, poet & author discusses her most recent book "The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us"
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 29:00
From: Out of Bounds
Karen Joy Fowler talks about her compelling and heart breaking novel "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves."
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 28:00
It probably won’t surprise you but boys and girls are not on a par with STEM programs: That’s the shorthand term for science, technology, engineeri...
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- Added: Aug 02, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
We have a choice to fight the change, or be part of the change.
That has never been more apparent than when we are watching ice caps melt, heat tha...
- Added: Jul 25, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
If we were on a ship at sea, and learned of the impending tsunami, we’d do everything we could to prepare for the collision.
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- Added: Jul 03, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Renée Fleming along with other musicians and scientists look at the remarkable ability of music to make us whole.
- Added: Jun 16, 2017
- Length: 29:29
- Purchases: 3
