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Gender Bias in the Lab
From: Suki Wessling
Series: Babblery Minibabbles
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Three women scientists discuss the issues that women face in the classroom and workplace.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 07, 2023
  • Length: 23:16
  • Purchases: 1
Terrapins and Terriers (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In the early 20th century, terrapins–a kind of turtle–were a culinary delicacy. Then humans nearly hunted them to extinction.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KXCV, WRMU and more


  • Added: Aug 04, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
Terrapins and Terriers (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the early 20th century, terrapins–a kind of turtle–were a culinary delicacy. Then humans nearly hunted them to extinction.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, WYAP, and KHEN-LP


  • Added: Aug 04, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
Terrapins and Terriers (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the early 20th century, terrapins–a kind of turtle–were a culinary delicacy. Then humans nearly hunted them to extinction.

Bought by WTJU, KXCV, WMUU-LP, KEDT, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Aug 04, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Terrapins Terriers (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In the early 20th century, terrapins–a kind of turtle–were a culinary delicacy. Then humans nearly hunted them to extinction.

Bought by WABE, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Aug 04, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
The Hard Problem
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Tom Stoppard's deep dive into altruism and the nature of consciousness.

Bought by KMUN, WPCA-LP, Spokane Public Radio, KFCF FM, KWMR and more


  • Added: Aug 02, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 17
Oppenheimer’s omission and other secrets of the Atomic Age
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Caption: Paul Pino of Carrizozo, New Mexico., Credit: Nate Hegyi
From NHPR's Outside/In comes two stories that shed light on unseen consequences of America's nuclear ambitions.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Vermont Public, and Valley Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 01, 2023
  • Length: 56:30
  • Purchases: 4
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 21
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 20
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Artificial Intelligence -- existential threat to humanity, or just to basic civil rights? Personal DNA testing – you never know what you’ll find. ...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2023
  • Length: 58:54
Is the FDA Too Cautious?
From: Open to Debate
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While the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) needs to approve safe and effective drugs as quickly as possible to patients who need them, it must al...

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 20, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
2332: What Has Replaced Freud?, 8/8/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Freud may have laid the groundwork for a science of the unconscious, but didn’t he get most of it wrong?

  • Added: Jul 20, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 19
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
Caption: Crawford Lake, Credit: David Kattenburg
After years of study, a scientific panel proposes a formal definition of the Anthropocene, naming the spot where humanity’s fingerprints are best o...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:05
episode 6: glacier thread
From: Theresa Soley
Series: Ice and Fire
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In the last full episode of the season, we travel to the Greenland ice sheet and hear from a researcher who collects data at the face of tidewater ...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2023
  • Length: 23:22
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 18
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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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
RESCUE, part 25: How to Transform the Ocean Apparat
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with a proposed solution to advance successful connection and communication within and with thos...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2023
  • Length: 10:25
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 17
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Humanity’s impact on Planet Earth has a name: the Anthropocene. The start of Earth’s human age can be pinpointed in ice and biological cores, and t...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jul 04, 2023
  • Length: 59:33
  • Purchases: 1
2023-07-02 Democracy By Numbers
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is it mathematically (im)possible to create a true democracy?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
Special Episode - Under Pressure
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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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
2327: Democracy By Numbers, 7/4/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Is it mathematically (im)possible to create a true democracy?

  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
episode 5: acoustic refuge
From: Theresa Soley
Series: Ice and Fire
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We hear what makes tidewater glacier habitat an acoustic refuge, and why glaciers are important to other species in the ecosystem.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 19:11
episode 4: roping up
From: Theresa Soley
Series: Ice and Fire
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We listen to part of the glacier travel story shared in the book "Do Glaciers Listen?" Frank Olive, from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, shares...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 08:30
episode 3: glacier walkers
From: Theresa Soley
Series: Ice and Fire
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We hear from Judy Ramos in Lingít Aaní. She tells us about the history of glacier travel in the region, and about the Spirit of the Glacier.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 24:28
episode 2: ablation stake
From: Theresa Soley
Series: Ice and Fire
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Theresa reports from atop the Kennicott Glacier in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park with Dr. Eric Petersen and his field team.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 17:09
Orientation and Impact of Wind Energy
From: KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
Series: Environmental Voices
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Impact and Orientation

  • Added: Jun 21, 2023
  • Length: 06:33
Facts About Wind Energy
From: KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
Series: Environmental Voices
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35 facts

  • Added: Jun 21, 2023
  • Length: 09:54

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