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Will we make it to a safer age? Humanity balances between two paths: self-destruction or self-revelation. Our guest, Christine Barrington describes...
- Added: Apr 29, 2024
- Length: 57:16
Scott Mason recently went through a serious health crisis during which he had a profound, life-changing dream. Scott gives a riveting description o...
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 56:58
“Gender is queer for everyone,” says author and professor Kathryn Bond Stockton. She doesn’t mean “queer” only in the LGBTQIA+ sense — she means t...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Oct 06, 2021
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
Whether you’re shopping for a t-shirt, bedsheets, or q-tips, you might have noticed that cotton products are more expensive if they’re organic. We ...
- Added: Aug 17, 2020
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 2
Florida is an ever-changing landscape. With little warning, what was once land, becomes water, and what was once water becomes land. Frequently. E...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 01, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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
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
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
It’s called “colony collapse disorder” or CCD.
A number of years ago US beekeeping operations realized they lost between 30 and 90 percent of their...
- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
You’d have to go back more than 160-years to land upon the beginning of the story of the gene.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 06, 2016
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Dr. Kelsi Singer shares some of the incredible discoveries that she and the NASA New Horizons team are making. We also discuss a contentious issue—...
- Added: May 12, 2016
- Length: 14:35
"That’s inevitable that humans would project their hopes and fears upon the cosmos" - Carl Sagan on October 4, 1985, as told to Studs Terkel. The p...
Bought by KZYX, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZMU Moab Community Radio, PRX Remix and more
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 12:53
- Purchases: 6
We interview the only person from Alaska to make the first cut for the Mars ONE program and also speak to a scientist who thinks sending humans to ...
- Added: Feb 15, 2016
- Length: 29:01
Researchers are changing the way we experience our world. They’re engineering scents that stimulate lost memories, they’re searching for the elusiv...
- Added: Jan 06, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
American is standing on the brink of an extraordinary revolution: an energy revolution.
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- Added: Dec 29, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Everyone has heard of the story of DNA as the story of Watson and Crick and Rosalind Franklin, but knowing the structure of DNA was only a part of ...
- Added: Nov 05, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Cultural critic and entrepreneur Hal Niedzviecki poses the question, “What is it like to live in a society utterly focused on what is going to happ...
- Added: Oct 21, 2015
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
We’re on the cusp of another revolution: A technology revolution.
This one, however, is vastly different from its predecessor: The industrial revol...
- Added: Oct 07, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Those who are shaping the future have a pretty good idea of how it is going to look. One of those is David Rose. He’s an award winning entrepreneur...
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- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Human Genomes are almost 100 percent identical. There is one prominent exception. Instead of a matching pair of X chromosomes, men carry a single X...
- Added: Jan 06, 2014
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
We’ve all heard the stories of self-driving cars and 3D printers, but it’s the folks like futurists Simon Anderson and Jack Uldrich who make a care...
- Added: Jul 16, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
The late 19th century was an age of rapid technological change. It’s happening again today. Through interviews with experts such as Willaim Gibson,...
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- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
Jessica Wapner, freelance journalist, open her book in 1959 when a chromosomal mutation, christened “the Philadelphia Chromosome.” Was discovered. ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 08, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
In her newest work, cognitive scientist Alexandra Horowitz turns her attention to humans with an investigation into human perception and a look int...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 22, 2013
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 1
My guest this hour is Steven Pinker, who has written a game-changer on the little matter of how quickly humanity is headed for hell or redemption. ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Dec 13, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
