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Yaupon Tea
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Yaupon tea is brewed from the leaves of Ilex vomitaria., Credit: Mary Vaux Wolcott
Can you get a caffeine fix without growing your carbon footprint?

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Wine's Fruity Nose - Thanksgiving 2014
From: Susanne Bard
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You can thank fruit flies for your favorite wine’s fruity “nose”.

Bought by WVTF, WKSU, and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 23, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
Lactose Intolerance Genetics
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: The practice of cheesemaking goes back many centuries in various cultures around the world. (A page from the 14th century Medieval handbook Taccuino Sanitatis from the Biblioteca Casanatense in Rome, Italy)
Central Europeans developed a dairying culture at least 4,000 years before they evolved the ability to digest milk.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
“Duping Delight” and Who’s Likely to Lie? (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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While lie detectors are highly accurate, they’re also expensive. An expert in cyber security has developed a way to actually predict a person's pro...

Bought by WJCT, KRDP, WLIW, Accessible Media Inc. Station Account, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
Food Sleuth Radio, Robert Kremer Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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The role of soil microbes in human health is largely a mystery. The public is told that we need genetically engineered crops and their related herb...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
Food Sleuth Radio, Karen Collins Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Coffee, tea, meat, fat, raw, cooked ...eat this, don’t eat that. If you’re curious about the latest research on how you can tweak your diet to red...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
Food Sleuth Radio, Michael Graziano Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Can you imagine a world without functioning antibiotics? Sadly, we’re headed in that direction due to overuse and misuse of these precious drugs, ...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
Food Sleuth Radio, Margaret Carrel Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Antibiotics are given to animals living in concentrated feeding operations for two reasons: disease prevention and growth promotion/feed efficiency...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 26, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Jeff Ritterman Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide has been linked to a mysterious fatal kidney disease among farmers in Central America, Sri Lanka and India. Join Food...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Jaydee Hansen Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Consumers may be surprised to learn that nanotechnology is being applied to foods and food related products without labeling, or a full safety revi...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
Expanding agriculture selectively could produce more food, save more carbon
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Dr. Justin Andrew Johnson, an economist with the Natural Capital Project at the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota, spoke ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 36:54
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Harold Goldstein Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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The beverage industry spends billions of dollars each year convincing us that sugary beverages will make us “happy.” In reality, sugar-laden drink...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Courtney White: Grass, Soil, Hope
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Courtney White
What if the solution for reducing our collective carbon footprint were right under our feet? Our guest this week on Sea Change Radio believes it is...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2014
  • Length: 29:20
Intoxication & Civilization: Beer's Ancient Past
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Solid Comfort, 1906., Credit: Library of Congress
This show takes on the frothy subject of beer, and explores the science, culture, and history behind the suds.

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 30:45
  • Purchases: 1
Why the Chicken Became a Nugget and Other Tales of Processed Food
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Crisco and chicken nuggets, Credit: CHF collections and Evan Amos, Wikimedia Commons.
Have you ever wondered how chicken nuggets are made? Or what propylene glycol monostearate, monocalcium phosphate, or other listed ingredients are ...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WTJU, RadioFreePalmer, and WYAP


  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 27:24
  • Purchases: 4
Food Sleuth Radio, John Pastor Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Politicians and analysts mark progress by quarterly earnings, but scientists who study life cycles in the real world may need years to document cha...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 18, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
It's not rocket science...it's food science for rockets! Feeding people on deep space missions
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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How do you feed a six-person crew on a three-year mission to Mars? WTIP's Buck Benson spoke recently with Dr. Grace Douglas, project scientist on A...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2014
  • Length: 14:55
Would you like a side of crickets with that? The future of insects as 'people food'
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Biochemist and entomologist Dr. Aaron Dossey is the founder/owner of All Things Bugs, a Georgia company dedicated to insect-based applications incl...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2014
  • Length: 22:07
How The Tractor Ruined Farming
From: Erik Olesund
Caption: Matt and his dad Larry on the combine. Colorado, 1979
Food has become cheaper and more abundant in the last 150 years, largely thanks to technological advances. Irrigation, fertilizer, pesticides, and ...

Bought by KSJD


  • Added: Jun 29, 2014
  • Length: 22:01
  • Purchases: 1
Shellfish
From: Hillary Sanders
Series: Peril on the Salish Sea
Caption: Shellfish larvae at Penn Cove Shellfish Farm., Credit: Hillary Sanders
Shellfish farmers, researchers, and chefs share their concerns about water contamination in the Sound and the danger is poses to shellfish.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 29, 2014
  • Length: 07:52
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Steve Suppan Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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The size of a nanometer -- one billionth of a meter – is hard to imagine, but a sheet of newspaper is 100,000 nanometers thick. Nanoscale materia...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Obsession
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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This week on State of the Human, we're looking at obsessions, the helpful and the debilitating.

Bought by WMUU-LP, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:46
  • Purchases: 3
Food Sleuth Radio, Robert McCaleb Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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With so many herbal products and supplements on the market, it’s easy to be confused and overwhelmed. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered D...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Work of Art, For Your Mouth
From: Meisa Salaita
Series: Small Matters
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You’ve probably heard of fusion restaurants that combine two different types of cuisine in their cooking. Well, this story’s about a restaurant th...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 17, 2014
  • Length: 05:23
  • Purchases: 3
The GMO Deception
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: JUNE 2014
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Are we being told the truth about GMO foods in our midst? Sheldon Krimsky is Editor/reader here and Ralph Nader wrote the foreword to this informat...

  • Added: May 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:40

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