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Imagine waiting to catch a train. You show up at the station and wait for the familiar clanking of wheels and squealing of brakes. This time, howev...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
It was early morning, November first, nineteen fifty-two. The scientists who had gathered on the beautiful Enewetak (A-ne-we-tak) Atoll in the Sout...
- Added: Jun 03, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Are we being told the truth about GMO foods in our midst? Sheldon Krimsky is Editor/reader here and Ralph Nader wrote the foreword to this informat...
- Added: May 30, 2014
- Length: 01:40
The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Dr. David Carpenter, author of numerous scholarly articles including Public health implicat...
- Added: May 26, 2014
- Length: 28:34
The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Dr. David Carpenter, author of numerous scholarly articles including Public health implicat...
- Added: May 26, 2014
- Length: 28:36
By the middle of the 20th century electromagnets were common and engineers had begun experimenting with using them to levitate vehicles, including...
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Taking the listeners back into the early history of the universe, this introductory episode explains what fusion is, how it powers stars, and how i...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
We live in an age where everything we do online can now be tracked, recorded, and analyzed. How has our sense of our own information footprint ! ch...
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Diabetes is one of the first recorded diseases. When was it first treated by physicians and how prevalent was it?
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
The study of gestures in American Sign Language sheds surprising new light on Autism Spectrum Disorders.
- Added: May 12, 2014
- Length: 10:52
In this episode, Bo and Kim interview Dr. Michael Shermer. Dr. Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the Executive Direct...
- Added: May 07, 2014
- Length: 53:24
The Living Well Show presents:
A two part interview with Dr. Sandra Steingraber, award winning author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal...
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- Added: Apr 21, 2014
- Length: 28:41
- Purchases: 1
“Natural” gas may sound like a clean alternative to foreign oil, but natural gas extraction utilizing hydraulic fracturing (fracking) increases the...
- Added: Apr 04, 2014
- Length: 28:00
The nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011 should provide the United States with lessons learned, however, the carefully nurtured tale that technology w...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 26, 2014
- Length: 28:41
- Purchases: 1
Ever have those moments when you just can’t find the right words to express your thoughts? They happen. Articulation isn’t always easy.
Sometimes,...
- Added: Mar 21, 2014
- Length: 07:20
Bestselling author Craig Nelson provides an in depth examination of the history of the Atomic age from x-rays to the 2011 meltdown in Japan.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 20, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
While California is experiencing one of it’s driest seasons, the east and south are having one of the coldest and wettest. Is this climate change, ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Adapting to Climate Change explores the ambitious plans that engineers, scientists, government officials, business leaders, NGOs, and community gro...
Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KRCB 104.9, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KTSW 89.9 and more
- Added: Feb 20, 2014
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 39
Are you an auditory learner or a visual learner? If you answered "yes" you would be right. We use all our senses to learn and process information....
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Jan 24, 2014
- Length: 07:20
- Purchases: 1
Pediatric cancer strikes a relatively small number of victims, and market incentives do not provide clear financial motivation for investors to fun...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 21, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Dr. Timothy Mousseau, a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the Universit...
- Added: Oct 07, 2013
- Length: 28:33
When we make big decisions in life, such as buying a house or getting married, we often consider those decisions to have been based on a ‘gut feeli...
- Added: Sep 13, 2013
- Length: 07:20
Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Robert Duke explain more about the ways advertising works, and why it’s important to understand the madness behind the “Mad...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Aug 30, 2013
- Length: 08:00
- Purchases: 1
Only a farmer can describe the boots-on-the-ground realities of raising our nation's food supply. Howard Vlieger is a farmer and crop nutrition ad...
- Added: Aug 02, 2013
- Length: 28:00
What happens when visual information is sent to the hearing centers in the brain? Hear about this interesting experiment and more generally, why th...
- Added: Jun 16, 2013
- Length: 09:52
