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017: You 2.0: where the self-help industry succeeds, and where it misses the mark, 1/5/2024

From: Embodied
Series: Embodied

Self-help has existed in some form since the dawn of human civilization and has grown into a robust industrial complex. But does self-help really m...

853: Off The Map / 854: Thinking With Animals, 12/9/2023

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Off The Map" - Remember what maps were like when you were a kid? Well, Google Maps now makes finding everything from an obscure coffees...

What's Science Fiction is Prologue

From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix

Some science fiction authors have an almost uncanny ability to see what’s coming down the road. Jess talks with Chuck Wendig, whose writing is both...

Bought by WORT

Beyond Earth’s Edge: A Celebrity Space Poetry Jam!

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: The moon and Earth's edge, photgraphed from the International Space Station., Credit: NASA

Creators of an outstanding new collection of poems about spaceflight and exploration join Mat Kaplan to talk about the book as Bill Nye and other n...

Bought by WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioStPete Florida, KWMR, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more

507: Outside The Mental Illness Box / 508: Should You Delete Facebook?, 8/15/2020

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Outside The Mental Illness Box" - There must be another way to treat mental illness. Exercise? Horror movies? LSD? This hour, think outs...

Books and Gifts for Your Favorite Space Nerds

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Senior Editor Emily Lakdawalla visits Mars rover Curiosity at JPL., Credit: Mat Kaplan

Our own Emily Lakdawalla, Planetary Society senior editor and book lover, shares her 2019 list of favorite space books. She also presents a list of...

Bought by KDNK, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WMUU-LP, KWMR, KRZA and more

Presence Mechanism

From: Emily T Griffiths
Series: Device

Caption: Still from PC game Auralux: Constiellations , Credit: E McNeill

In Time Out Of Joint, Phillip K. Dick envisioned the same future that NASA did, even if we didn't get there. San Diego Air and Space Museum provide...

Andy Weir’s New Novel Puts a City on the Moon

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Andy Weir’s Artemis is the new novel set in a city on the Moon. , Credit: Crown Publishing

The author of #1 bestseller The Martian is back with Artemis, a superbly-researched, rollicking adventure in the first city on the Moon. You might ...

Bought by WTJU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more

Our Father Frankenstein

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

Mary Shelley’s novel of 1818, Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus, seems to me to clang like a hammer blow against a bell that tolls our self-i...

Bought by KPIP-LP

Who Gets the Credit for the Modern World? David McCullough & "The Wright Brothers"

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

Orville and Wilbur, DIY scientists, were bicycle mechanics at the turn of the 20th century in Dayton, Ohio before they changed our world. David Mc...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio

Red Devil 4

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

The year is 2053. Neurosurgeon and scientist, Dr. Hagan Maerici, is to designing "neuromorphic artificial intelligence." This is the setting for Dr...

Bought by KCBX