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A look at stats and stories to help us better understand the value of art in everyday life--from the National Endowment for the Arts
- Added: Jun 14, 2022
- Length: 06:08
The color of a leaf is a dance as one molecule exits and others make their way to center stage.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Monarch Radio
- Added: Sep 04, 2017
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 2
Animals have a vocabulary. Scientists can understand the language of prairie dogs by slowing down their chirps.
- Added: Sep 02, 2017
- Length: 02:00
We keep time by measuring repeating patterns, like a swinging pendulum or the earth's rotation. But, the best way to measure time is with atoms ins...
- Added: Sep 02, 2017
- Length: 02:00
Will this Star Trek technology be a reality soon?
- Added: Sep 02, 2017
- Length: 02:00
For those just starting out in a field, Katherine Neville recommends asking a simple question of your supervisors after completing a project: “How ...
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- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 1
As a woman as well as an immigrant to the United States, Valerie Fremont has faced particular challenges in her career. She discusses America’s “cu...
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 04:18
After struggling with bench research Claire Skentelbery realized her true calling was science communication. She talks about the importance of gett...
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 04:26
After years of relentlessly pursuing her career, some simple words from her four-year-old daughter shook Dawn Hocevar to the core. From that moment...
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 03:10
From: Distillations
Don’t delay being happy in your career, says Sherri Oslick. Finding the right path requires talking to a lot of people, and it also means listening...
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- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 04:09
- Purchases: 1
To what degree are we born a blank slate, and how much are we a result of our influence by our environment? Consensus: Nature or nurture is the wr...
- Added: Sep 27, 2013
- Length: 07:20
Have you ever traveled to a new place and suddenly, randomly, you experience this overwhelming sense of familiarity with what you’re seeing, like y...
- Added: Sep 25, 2013
- Length: 07:20
In school it’s usually the men who are encouraged in science, says April Quarles. Though women continue to face negative social influences when pur...
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- Added: Aug 21, 2013
- Length: 03:17
- Purchases: 1
From: Distillations
To avoid being perceived as aggressive, says Lynn Johnson Langer, women often qualify their thoughts. Phrases like “it’s just my opinion” are used ...
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- Added: Aug 13, 2013
- Length: 03:58
- Purchases: 1
The job market for highly skilled positions is more competitive now than in previous generations, says Savannah Sullivan. Learning outside your cho...
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- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 03:10
- Purchases: 1
A chemistry set with “really nice stuff in it” sparked Anna Wilson’s lifelong interest in chemistry, but her passion made her a bit of an oddball i...
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- Added: Jul 29, 2013
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s not all about career, says Laura McCunn. Marriage and family need to be considered when choosing a path, she says, and she credits a lot of he...
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 03:03
In 1941 Helen Free was studying to be a Latin and English teacher—that is, until Pearl Harbor changed her fate. With the country’s young men being ...
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 03:50
After getting her master’s degree Kristine Chin found herself working in industry as the first woman in an all-male lab. It was a challenging exper...
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- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 03:16
- Purchases: 1
In the mid-1980s only 10 of the 100 on-scene coordinators at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were women. Mary Ellen Ternes was one of thi...
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- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 02:53
- Purchases: 1
From: Distillations
After the launch of Sputnik in 1957 the new emphasis on science education in the United States helped spark an interest in a young Mary Jo Nye. She...
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 04:33
For Wendy Young Reed, life is too short for disliking a job. To find a career you enjoy, she says, the key is to network the old-fashioned way: wit...
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 03:29
When navigating the career path, advises Cynthia Palmer, make sure the jobs you take are the ones you actually want. She talks about the importance...
- Added: Jun 10, 2013
- Length: 03:27
It was a tough decision, she says, but Terri Taylor left grad school to become a high-school chemistry teacher. She talks about the importance of f...
- Added: Jun 10, 2013
- Length: 03:30
From: Distillations
Marinda Wu chose her particular graduate program because she wanted to work for a famous professor. But when she arrived, she was told the professo...
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- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 04:00
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