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Caption: Rwandan genocide museum, Credit: David Kattenburg
Bacteria in your gut tweak your brain. Sometimes friendly, sometimes not. The hundred-day genocide in Rwanda -- recalling the mayhem on its 29th an...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2023
  • Length: 58:49
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Nothing woolly-headed or Utopian about it: A universal, guaranteed basic income. A hundred years later, memories of war that do not fade. And, one ...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:14
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The trauma of war and intergenerational PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) is discussed. And how state of the art ‘telepresence’, a technology ...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 24:40
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HOUR ONE: 'Is War Ever Worth It?' - On the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, photographer James Nachtwey reflects on his life as a war photographer, a...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:01
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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
Caption: On Defense, Credit: Seth Shostak
The military is a dangerous calling, but researchers are trying to make it safer for troops. Writer Mary Roach investigates how scientists work to...

Bought by KUNM, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 09, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Caption: Emile Bruneau
We talk with two experts about how advances in the field of neuroscience may transform conflict resolution on an individual and global scale.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Apr 20, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
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We talk with two experts about how advances in the field of neuroscience may transform conflict resolution on an individual and global scale.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KRZA, and KUNM


  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Phyllis Tickle on science, faith, and The Great Emergence; Katy Scrogin on Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury after War.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 42:12
Caption: Real Heroes comic book from 1942
How do you show what the inside of an atom looks like? Or how a scientist feels in the moment of discovery? We decided to approach the human storie...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 21:15
  • Purchases: 1
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Two Harvard scholars with recent books are featured on this edition of PEACE TALKS RADIO. First Steven Pinker, talks about his 2011 book "The Bett...

Bought by KSJE, KUOW, KUOW, KUOW, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 5
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My guest this hour is Steven Pinker, who has written a game-changer on the little matter of how quickly humanity is headed for hell or redemption. ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 13, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Unmanned systems to meet the changing modern challenges of security at sea.

  • Added: Nov 10, 2011
  • Length: 04:39