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Fossil Refusal: Local Models not Global Markets
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Despite the difficult picture painted by the news, there is hope for our planet. We cover several fights against refineries and market based soluti...

Bought by WVAS and WRIR


  • Added: Oct 18, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Sport Fandom: Why we care about sports
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sport
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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
Who's Emptying Canada's Lakes?
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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Wasting water? Is it your long showers or something else? Shirley Camia explores who is emptying Canada's lakes.Your long shower is nothing compare...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2016
  • Length: 10:40
Cocktail Effect Remix
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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In this remix, you’ll hear updated information, restructured content, and a new mix to explain how we parse voices and music in a noisy scene. Mu...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 13, 2016
  • Length: 15:19
  • Purchases: 1
Why We Pay Attention
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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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
A Neuron Channel Makes You Dumb
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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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
Improve Learning
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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Stop filling your head like a vessel and ignite your flame of learning! Hear what improves learning from a University of Columbia neuroscientist an...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KSFR, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 26, 2015
  • Length: 11:52
  • Purchases: 3
Music and Noise
From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Sound and Violence - Work by NYU Students
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Music-induced hearing loss and the shifting borders between noise and music.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KRZA


  • Added: Apr 10, 2015
  • Length: 11:00
  • Purchases: 2
Synaptic Pruning
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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How do we get better at tasks? In this short episode, we describe an important mechanism of learning: pruning away neural connections.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 3
No Inoculation Without Representation!
From: Luke Quinton
Caption: Freedom Trail tour guide, Matt Wilding, in costume as Ebenezer Mackintosh, giving a tour of Boston's historic North End neighborhood, Credit: Christina Gustafson
How long would you guess vaccination has been around? 50? 100 years? In fact, it's an idea that's older than this country. In 1776 America's at war...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 09:04
  • Purchases: 3
The Resurgence of Records
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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Digital music is the furthest we’ve come from running needles through intricate grooves, but record orders keep coming in.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 1
The Living Fossil
From: Veronica Simmonds
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Every drug we take is tested with crab blood. And it all started with a walk on a beach.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Dec 04, 2012
  • Length: 07:23
  • Purchases: 3
Define Life
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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What is life? In the first installment of our "origin of life" topic, hear various attempts to define life and ponder the life of the internet.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 14:59
  • Purchases: 2
Pigments
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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From Victorian parlors to Starbucks, pigments have defined and connected societies.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 01:51
  • Purchases: 1
Invaders from Another Ecosystem
From: Making Contact
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We visit wetlands around the San Francisco Bay, where scientists are waging a scorched-marsh campaign against a devastating kind of East Coast grass.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2008
  • Length: 29:00