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Technology advances at breakneck speed, so why hasn’t the electric grid changed in 60 years? This week’s episode explores things, that for one rea...
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 56:28
Tyler Armstrong is 12-years-old. He loves video games, laser tag, and he wants to become the youngest person to summit Mount Everest. In this episo...
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 58:29
Ever since becoming a reporter, Sam has heard stories about a secret hunting reserve in New Hampshire, stocked with elk and 200-pound wild boar. I...
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 56:28
Thought and Action are much more connected than we typically think: Simply imagining or watching actions can influence how you perform similar acti...
- Added: Sep 20, 2016
- Length: 05:56
The best athletes are experts at automatizing their movements. When monitored correctly, they experience peak performances. Hear psychologists and ...
- Added: Aug 26, 2016
- Length: 12:55
As sport fans, we subject ourselves to anxiety and depression nearly every week. Why do we do it? This episode explores the reasons why we care so ...
Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Jul 14, 2016
- Length: 15:07
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jun 01, 2016
- Length: 11:00
- Purchases: 1
Neuroscientist Eric Herzog shares the importance of increasing diversity in his field and his efforts to encourage local students.
- Added: Jun 01, 2016
- Length: 14:39
- Purchases: 2
Graduate students Lerman-Sinkoff and Tyler Schlichenmeyer share their excitement about the brain and explain why science should be shared.
- Added: Jun 01, 2016
- Length: 10:09
Physical therapist Catherine Lang explains her research on ischemic conditioning and its exciting potential for helping patients recover from stroke.
- Added: Jun 01, 2016
- Length: 10:15
- Added: Jun 01, 2016
- Length: 12:00
- Purchases: 1
In the 1970s, a geochemist and a biologist banded together to solve a mystery at Lake Oneida in upstate New York. What they found is changing the w...
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- Added: Apr 21, 2016
- Length: 14:03
- Purchases: 1
Sports occupy our thoughts, drive emotions, and move our lives. What are they?
Hear the controversy, definitions, and statistics that build to a p...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 12:43
- Purchases: 1
Psychologist Tim Bono describes how willpower is like a muscle and provides some research-driven tips for resisting temptation.
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 11:54
Psychologist Tammy English discusses a few common strategies for managing emotions and working toward long-term happiness.
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 12:00
Cultural anthropologist Dredge Kang explains how political economics and other societal influences sometimes play as Cupid's arrows.
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 15:57
Pull our your compass, because researcher Deanna Barch is about to guide us through the Human Connectome Project.
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 12:51
- Purchases: 1
Psychologist Jeffrey Zacks explains why people (even psychologists!) get so emotionally involved in movies.
Bought by KUER, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 25, 2016
- Length: 12:00
- Purchases: 4
It's the sequel! Psychologist Jeff Zacks returns to explain how our eyes and brains make sense of continuous movie edits.
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 25, 2016
- Length: 11:39
- Purchases: 3
Glenn Stone explores the controversies around genetically modified crops and the effects of biotechnology on farmers in India.
- Added: Jan 04, 2016
- Length: 10:30
Profile of New Brunswick, Canada researcher and environmental health advocate Inka Milewski
- Added: Oct 24, 2015
- Length: 29:42
Hear neuroscientist, Jacqueline Gottlieb, discuss some of the cutting-edge questions in neuroscience: What is attention on a neuronal level? How do...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Aug 19, 2015
- Length: 08:50
- Purchases: 1
New research reveals a strange fact – a special type of neuron channel (HCN) makes us dumb. Hear about basic neuron mechanics and the supposed func...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 22, 2015
- Length: 07:18
- Purchases: 2
A short episode about the things that hurt the learning process: why distractions are distracting and the conflict your brain encounters when given...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 03, 2015
- Length: 06:55
- Purchases: 2
To understand rocks like banded iron formations, researcher Steven Chemtob has to approach the ancient formations in a variety of ways.
- Added: Jun 10, 2015
- Length: 09:12
