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From: Distillations
Zafra Lerman is the president and founder of Methods Integrating Music, Science, Art and Dance. Here she shares some thoughts about her collaborati...
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 04:09
Sarah Widder, a research engineer at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), shares her experience as a young...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 03:49
- Purchases: 1
Marye Anne Fox, recipient of the 2010 National Medal of Science, had her first child while working toward her Ph.D. Here, she shares thoughts about...
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 03:06
Juana Acrivos, professor emeritus of chemistry at San Jose State University, reminds us that sometimes we must leave our expectations at the door—w...
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 02:37
From: Distillations
Carolyn Ribes, a business analytical leader for the Dow Chemical Company, emphasizes knowing what you want and using that knowledge to create a ful...
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 03:26
Cheryl Baldwin Frech, professor of chemistry at the University of Central Oklahoma, talks about her lifelong mentor and the importance of pace when...
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 03:15
Lesley Yellowlees, the first woman president of the Royal Society of Chemistry in the United Kingdom, shares her secret to maintaining ambitious, h...
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 04:51
Melanie Szulczewski, assistant professor of environmental science at the University of Mary Washington, shares her decision to take the scenic rout...
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 03:16
Carmen Drahl, senior editor of Chemical and Engineering News, used her Ph.D. in chemistry as a springboard into the career she envisioned for herse...
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 03:39
June Wispelwey, executive director of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), shares what she's learned from a challenging career.
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 04:47
Madeleine Jacobs, executive director and CEO of the American Chemical Society, tells the story of how she got her first job at Chemical & Engineeri...
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 04:18
Nearly everyone has strong emotional connections to music, and one man realized that our relationship to music might improve the quality of life fo...
- Added: Feb 14, 2013
- Length: 15:46
A conversation with Barbara Arrowsmith Young, born with a severe and unusual language disability, who fixed it by effectively 're-wiring' her brain.
Bought by WXXI Rochester and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 53:24
- Purchases: 2
Neil Books tells is about his time flying a 727.
- Added: Oct 11, 2012
- Length: 04:12
A conversation with journalist Ian Brown, author of 'The Boy in the Moon'. Ian Brown talks about life with his son Walker; born with an extremely r...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Sep 17, 2012
- Length: 53:26
- Purchases: 1
Across the country, a renaissance of local food, local farming and place based culinary traditions is taking hold. Yet, something small, critically...
- Added: Aug 07, 2012
- Length: 28:57
Dr. David Levy, neurosurgeon and author, discusses the role that prayer can play in the healing relationship between physician and patient.
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 29:29
We discuss work-life balance with Dr. Michelle Au, an anesthesiologist and acclaimed author. Since medical school, she has penned “The Underwear Dr...
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 29:30
Fewer than 800 Mountain Gorillas remain making them one the world's most endangered species. For more than 20 years people around the world have be...
- Added: Jun 20, 2012
- Length: 11:06
I remember going to my first rock show, the Alkaline Trio, I was 12, a tall 12-year-old. I left there a mess. I had been hit in the face, my shir...
Bought by PRX Remix, Vocalo.org, and KUOW
- Added: Mar 21, 2012
- Length: 09:16
- Purchases: 3
Radio Curious discusses psychosocial and cultural genomics-a healing process that connects the mind-body to emotional and physical recovery by acti...
- Added: Jan 17, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Whether it’s preventing illness by vaccines or avoiding germs, this episode is about getting sick and staying healthy.
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 12:09
Neurosurgeon Lee Buono and his eighth grade science teacher, Al Siedlecki, remember reconnecting after more than 15 years.
- Added: Dec 27, 2011
- Length: 01:52
- Purchases: 2
In Part I of our series, Tipping the Scales, we look at how obesity affected one young man's life -- and how he got a grip on it.
- Added: Sep 29, 2011
- Length: 05:41
This week's stories are about changes that can happen in moments, years, or even lifetimes. Anne Perry is pulled into a bloody predicament, Rod Lor...
Bought by PRX Remix, KFOK-LPFM, and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: Jul 22, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
