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In this interview, we learn from James Holland Jones how diseases emerge and spread as humans encroach into the wilderness, and how the patterns wi...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 37:41
Peter Kareiva, the chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, discusses his definition of nature and challenges the assertion that nature is fragi...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 29:43
Spirited biologist Rodolfo Dirzo discusses the complex interplay of climate change with other systems, and his personal relation to the Anthropocen...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 46:56
Conservation biologist Terry Root discusses the road to triage and her somewhat controversial approach to saving species in the face of climate cha...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 37:16
Luis Zambrano discusses preserving Aztec culture through a rare salamander in the Mexico City wetlands, and compares emerging conservation battles ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 22:05
Sinclair McKay joins us to discuss The History of the Wartime Codebreaking.
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KMXT
- Added: Nov 07, 2012
- Length: 30:20
- Purchases: 2
In this feature, WTIP North Shore Community Radio reporter/producer Carah Thomas accompanies Dr. Moore on an electrofishing survey of Susie Island,...
Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and KSRQ
- Added: Aug 24, 2012
- Length: 09:35
- Purchases: 2
Ron Capps helps returning service members write their way home. [27:06]
Bought by KPIP-LP and WRVO Public Media
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 27:38
- Purchases: 2
Radio Rounds hosts discuss the events that took place on September 11, 2001 with two physicians whose perspectives offer unique insight into the de...
- Added: Jun 21, 2012
- Length: 29:30
The only thing more powerful than human will is Mother Nature. At San Francisco’s Ocean Beach, the two forces have done battle for years over wave ...
Bought by Listenwise
- Added: Apr 22, 2012
- Length: 07:14
- Purchases: 1
In its 2001 report on global climate, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations prominently featured the “Hockey Stick,” ...
- Added: Apr 17, 2012
- Length: 28:59
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
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
The San Francisco Bay is a place of beauty and biological diversity. But sea level rise and extreme weather will change human life along its coastl...
Bought by WHRV, KAAD-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WHRV, WRIR and more
- Added: Sep 09, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 20
Rising waters threaten the lands of a farmer and of a developer, yet they and their families dismiss all warnings of danger. Why are so many of us ...
Bought by WHRV, KAAD-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WHRV, WRIR and more
- Added: Sep 09, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 18
Adapting to climate change will be a messy and painful business. And in the short term there will be winners and losers. Chuey Cazarez’s family is ...
Bought by WFHB, CI Dolphin Radio, WHRV, KAAD-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more
- Added: Sep 09, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 20
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
Nursing is a hot career. The federal government says it will create more new jobs than any other profession in the coming years … almost 600,000 jo...
- Added: Jun 17, 2011
- Length: 03:36
The country is facing a nursing shortage. But schools in our region can’t keep up with the demand for nursing education. Changing Gears is a projec...
- Added: Jun 17, 2011
- Length: 03:42
Now more than just a battery that powers your car, 22 year-old engineer Hunter Wu is implementing a plan to install electric pads into the nation's...
- Added: Jun 13, 2011
- Length: 29:30
Two young women build a robot.
- Added: Jun 02, 2011
- Length: 04:52
- Purchases: 2
On this edition of "Culture Clique" Gerise Thompson, Regional director for the Alzheimer's Association visits with KQAL's Terese Tenseth.
Chances a...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 01, 2011
- Length: 46:19
- Purchases: 1
Not THAT Martha Washington, but a 29-year-old Passenger Pigeon who spent her entire life in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. Of billions of birds f...
- Added: Apr 19, 2011
- Length: 03:00
David Eagleman suggests prejudices may be hard-wired into our brains; a new real-time film celebrating 50 years since Yuri Gagarin went into space;...
- Added: Apr 08, 2011
- Length: 28:53
- Purchases: 2
Crockett has a PhD in Applied Physics from the prestigious Caltech. He considers this to be the greatest accomplishment of his 20s. He was diagnose...
- Added: Mar 09, 2011
- Length: 24:24
