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The BabySafe Project with Patti Wood
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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After discussing the environmental news, Patti & Doug talk about how and why to protect your baby from wireless radiation.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 1
Conversations: Pooja Lakshmin, MD
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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Psychiatrist Pooja Lakshmin speaks about her book "Real Self-Care", which challenges mainstream notions of self care and offers a new framework for...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2023
  • Length: 53:06
Conversations: Hannah Wunsch, MD
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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Critical care physician Hannah Wunsch speaks about her book The Autumn Ghost, which tells the story of a polio epidemic in Copenhagen in the 1950s,...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2023
  • Length: 54:03
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 13
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Long Covid -- a complex ailment driving lots of people down. Moms, babies and bacteria -- the relationship starts before you’re born, then you’re c...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2023
  • Length: 57:27
Photograph 51
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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For Women's History Month: The unsung hero of a scientific odyssey.

Bought by KKRN, WKMS, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFCF FM, KMUN and more


  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:06
  • Purchases: 33
Active Learning in Computer Science
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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We talk strategies for teaching computer science (CS), with Dr. Cynthia Taylor, a computer science professor at The University of Illinois at Chica...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2017
  • Length: 37:10
Everything You Want to Know About Population: Bill Ryerson #213
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Population Media Center President Bill Ryerson corrects misconceptions, debunks myths, and shares a variety of surprising facts about overpopulatio...

Bought by KTRL, KMUD, and KTRL


  • Added: May 16, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
291-Rose Rules
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Anyone who thinks women can't do computers and science needs to meet my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Rose Matheny.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , Radio Newark, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Gender and Infectious Disease - Martha Anker - PHM
From: Public Health Minute
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Women are the main caretakers of the sick and the majority of nurses all around the world are women; therefore, women are more exposed to some infe...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2016
  • Length: :59
237-Lost
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The asteroid named for Mildred Shapley Matthews was lost in the solar system for 75 years.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KRWG and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
She's Going to Mars!
From: Peter Johnson
Series: THE AUTHOR'S CORNER ON PUBLIC RADIO: NOVEMBER, 2015
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Would you like to go? People are signing up for this trip to colonize Mars. Author and indie entrepreneur Hal Niedzviecki reads from his new book, ...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
Infant Loss
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A sensitive discussion among medical professionals about infant loss

  • Added: Oct 10, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
Effects of Trauma on Women’s Health - Gretchen Clum - PHM
From: Public Health Minute
Series: Public Health Minute
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Women who have experienced abuse and violence and have mental health problems are more likely to engage in health-risk behaviors. Bill Latimer find...

  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: :59
Intimate Partner Violence Against Men - Denise Hines - PHM
From: Public Health Minute
Series: Public Health Minute
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An estimated 1 in 5 US men experience physical, sexual, or psychological intimate partner violence in their lifetimes. Bill Latimer finds out on Pu...

  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: :59
Psychiatrist Judith Orloff with "Ecstasy of Surrender"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Orloff is an Asst. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA who incorporates energy medicine in her practice. In her fifth book she invites reader...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jun 26, 2014
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 2
Behavioral biologist Karen Pryor, the scientist who brings out the best in dogs
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Karen's latest book is “Reaching the Animal Mind.” Having started out as the world’s foremost dolphin trainer, Pryor is responsible for developing ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 2
Edna the Engineer and National Security
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
Caption: Secretaries, housewives, waitresses, women from all over central Florida are getting into vocational schools to learn war work. Typical are these in the Daytona Beach branch of the Volusia county vocational school., Credit: National Archives and Records Administration
A recent science test showing that American girls are lagging behind boys has brought women in science back into the national conversation. More th...

Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Radio Newark, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 4
I've Got Rhythm—Does Cancer?
From: With Good Reason
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About 12 percent of women develop breast cancer. But years of studies have shown that for female flight attendants, nurses, factory workers, and ot...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
Barbara McClintock - Nobel Laurate
From: William S. Hammack
Series: Stories of Technology
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The story of Barbara McClintock's Nobel Prize winning work

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:24
Housework
From: William S. Hammack
Series: Stories of Technology
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The introducation of technology has not reduced the amount of time spent on housework.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:18
Terry Bicycles
From: William S. Hammack
Series: Stories of Technology
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Men and women are built differently and thus their bicycles should reflect these differences.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:30
Glo-sheet
From: William S. Hammack
Series: Stories of Technology
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Ten year old Becky Schroeder, one of the world's youngest inventors, create "glo-sheets" - glowing paper.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:24
Hazel Bishop
From: William S. Hammack
Series: Stories of Technology
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Hazel Bishop, a chemist, build a multi-million dollar cosmetics company based on smear-proof lipstick.

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 1
Science of Love
From: Christopher Moyer
Series: PsychRadio
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Findings from the "Love Lab."

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Jul 13, 2009
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 1
Women in Chemistry
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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Women scientists, past and present.

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and WTJU


  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 12:27
  • Purchases: 2