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With all the digital text trails we're creating these days, what can we learn about our inner psychology, mental health, and well-being?
- Added: Apr 15, 2016
- Length: 28:32
- Purchases: 2
Environmental issues are mounting, and the stakes are huge. So how might big data be used to tackle the issues of sustainability, climate change, h...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 34:51
Are we addicted to the Internet? Is it even appropriate to use the language of addiction about smartphones and other digital devices?
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 24:30
Your normal, everyday digital footprints can reveal surprisingly intimate facts – like whether your parents are divorced, and whether you own a gun.
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 22:03
Episode topics: Autism and cough medicine.
- Added: Apr 08, 2016
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
Jordy Cernik was diagnosed with Cushing's Syndrome a few weeks after his first child was born. He went through two pituitary operations, an adrenal...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 06, 2016
- Length: 13:36
- Purchases: 1
Episode topics: NY Times writer Jane Brody on health reporting and LASIK surgery.
- Added: Apr 06, 2016
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
Thirty-six-year-old twins Carol Enoch and Katy Panek are physically identical in every way but one: Katy was born without ovaries. She never menstr...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, and KUER
- Added: Apr 05, 2016
- Length: 10:29
- Purchases: 3
Imagine a future where deadly tornadoes are a part of daily life. That's writer Kate Messner's world in "Eye of the Storm." 5th graders from Belved...
- Added: Mar 28, 2016
- Length: 20:10
Simon Clydesdale of GPUK describes fugitive emissions and the prank GPUK pulled trying to frack the PM's house
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 25, 2016
- Length: 01:47
- Purchases: 1
Why Ready Roundup from Monsanto is a very bad idea.Head of GPUS research explains
- Added: Mar 24, 2016
- Length: 03:56
Design Editor at Treehugger.com, Llloyd Alter tells us what makes a building a LEED building. (Hint: bike racks help.)
- Added: Mar 24, 2016
- Length: 01:38
Gill Deacon hosts a CBC radio program and decided to write a book about toxins in makeup.
- Added: Mar 17, 2016
- Length: 02:17
Detox - getting toxins out of your life, your home. It's pretty darn hard because chemicals are being invented at a rate of thousands a year and fr...
- Added: Mar 17, 2016
- Length: 05:28
Did you know that global free trade agreements impact local family farmers, food labeling, and the quality of food on our plates? Join Food Sleuth ...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Feb 12, 2016
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Did you know that farmers’ increasing use of antibiotics to prevent and treat animal diseases and increase growth efficiency contributes to antimic...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jan 28, 2016
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Olivia was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in 2010. Three years later, her best friend, Allison, was diagnosed with the same disease. They talk to e...
Bought by KSKA
- Added: Jan 25, 2016
- Length: 05:45
- Purchases: 1
...for "Packy" the Elephant at The Oregon Zoo. How do you feel about zoos? Nigel Rothfels reads from the book, Elephant House (with Dick Blau, phot...
- Added: Jan 21, 2016
- Length: 01:40
How do you capture the cosmos? The vastness, the distance of cosmic bodies, even the colors? Those are questions for Tawnee Corning, a Bagley area ...
- Added: Jan 21, 2016
- Length: 09:09
Sudden death in young people is rare, but through early detection of inherited heart conditions, better precautions can be taken. Plus, HIV infecti...
Bought by KTSW 89.9, WCNY, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WMUU-LP and more
- Added: Dec 04, 2015
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 6
Pulitzer Prize winner Matt Richtel explores the allure and dangers of texting while driving in his compelling and timely book.
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Nov 06, 2015
- Length: 29:59
- 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
Profile of New Brunswick, Canada researcher and environmental health advocate Inka Milewski
- Added: Oct 24, 2015
- Length: 29:42
A sensitive discussion among medical professionals about infant loss
- Added: Oct 10, 2015
- Length: 29:00
Elaine Fuchs is ahead of the curve in skin stem cell biology. She's a professor at Rockefeller University, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute invest...
- Added: Sep 25, 2015
- Length: 01:04:45
