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The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic are behind us and it’s time for an early reckoning of our successes and failures. An epidemiologist shares...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 21:30
After the news headlines, Dr. Vandenberg talks about her work studying the techniques big companies use to undermine science and create doubt.
- Added: Oct 16, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Jess speaks from her experience conducting deep ocean research to answer questions raised by UCS scientists and staff about the recent disasters of...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 19:00
There’s growing excitement that artificial intelligence can make health care better by speeding up care, improving diagnoses and easing the burden ...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: May 26, 2023
- Length: 18:27
- Purchases: 1
An immunosuppressed physician explains what navigating her life – and her workplace – is like in this COVID-fatigued world.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 07, 2022
- Length: 14:43
- Purchases: 1
Every 5 years, the FDA has to renegotiate billions of dollars in user fees with the drug and medical device companies it regulates. Congress has to...
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 18:33
In this episode, we discuss vaccines – the science that has brought us such an incredible solution to public health crises; the human response to v...
- Added: Feb 16, 2022
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we explore where we’re at with the COVID-19 pandemic - regionally, nationally, and internationally - and begin to assess where we’...
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- Added: Jul 02, 2021
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, we explore carbon offsets, and how their promise as a way to mitigate carbon emissions - and thus climate change - have not yet pa...
- Added: Jun 23, 2021
- Length: 29:30
There’s a lot we don’t know about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus but there is a consensus that it came from animals. This is called zoonosis. H...
- Added: May 14, 2021
- Length: 04:18
In this episode, we discuss the current state of California’s climate - how it’s changed in recent years, and what we face in 2021, including a sig...
- Added: Apr 30, 2021
- Length: 29:30
We’re looking at the variant that emerged in South Africa: 501Y.V2. This variant is not only more transmissible, but has demonstrated the troubling...
- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 04:00
In this episode, we explore California’s dynamic and shifting climate, which impacts so much across the Bay area, region, and state, including our ...
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- Added: Aug 27, 2020
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
Topic 1: Downstairs at the White House. Topic 2: A new way to counter the generic drug shortage.
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 49:49
Topic 1: Many states allow children under 18 to get married with parental consent. Should that be illegal? Topic 2: Brain scans in the criminal jus...
- Added: Jan 30, 2020
- Length: 48:25
Topic 1: Ads for you. Topic 2: Training cats. Topic 3: Prejudice against disabled persons.
- Added: Jan 09, 2020
- Length: 49:54
Topic 1: Thawing permafrost. Topic 2: Healthy anger. Topic 3: SIDS.
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- Added: Jan 08, 2020
- Length: 50:06
- Purchases: 1
At a clinic in Everett, Washington, a nurse pushes his patients to work hard, and the patients embark on their road to recovery. This episode we're...
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- Added: Oct 15, 2019
- Length: 25:34
- Purchases: 1
This week we discuss brachycephalic dogs, maize, and birth control.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 38:41
This week we talk about the net-casting spider, space junk, and Kessler syndrome.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 42:04
E-cigarettes are growing more popular, and now being used for illicit drugs - Menthol makes cigarettes more addictive and more harmful
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- Added: Jan 20, 2017
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 10
China has built and is operating the world's largest Radio telescope.
Bought by Radio Newark, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KGUA, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more
- Added: Oct 27, 2016
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 9
In this pilot episode of the World Affairs podcast we are looking at diseases: how they are spread, how they are contained, how they are cured. We ...
- Added: Sep 10, 2015
- Length: 12:42
For reasons yet unknown, more and more Americans each year have been contracting asthma. In spite of the fact that 17% of black children now have...
- Added: May 26, 2011
- Length: 02:00
In a new, entertaining 2 min. weekly module, former Time Magazine health journalist Janice Horowitz, provides the cure for contradictory medical ne...
- Added: Jun 30, 2010
- Length: 02:02
