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2404: The Mysterious Timelessness of Math, 1/23/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Is math like an abstract painting—beautiful equations, with no connection to the world—or is it more like a blueprint for the universe?

  • Added: Jan 10, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
2403: Frege and the Language of Reason, 1/16/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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What is—or should be—the relationship between logic and thought?

  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
How Einstein Understood E=mc Squared
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Poetry Month and Einstein creating E=mc squared

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 05, 2024
  • Length: :55
  • Purchases: 1
Sustainable Aluminum -- Groks Science Show 2024-01-03
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Saleem Ali discussed his book, Soil to Foil.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KDX Worldround Radio, RadioFreePalmer, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 03, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Doctors turn to AI and wearable monitors to measure the effects of burn pits on veterans' health
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: At his office on Long Island, New York, Dr. Anthony Szema models the smart ring that tracks health data for veterans who were exposed to fumes from toxic burn pits overseas., Credit: Desiree D'Iorio / American Homefront
A long-term study hopes to shed light on an array of vague symptoms that can affect veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Bought by KTEP, Texas Public Radio, KPBS, WHRV, KUT and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2024
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 8
Planetary Insides -- Groks Science Show 2023-12-27
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Sabine Stanley discussed her book, What's Hidden Inside Planets?

Bought by KDX Worldround Radio, RadioFreePalmer, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 27, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Will the Future Be Abundant?
From: Open to Debate
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Today, humanity is thriving, but there are fears the good times will not last. Will tomorrow be better than today? Those arguing “yes” say people h...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 21, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
2023-12-22 Ben Santer: 2023 Schneider Award Winner
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Ben Santer has spent decades researching and identifying the human fingerprints on the climate system changes we’re now all seeing. He was lead aut...

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 10
231222: Ben Santer: 2023 Schneider Award Winner, 12/22/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Ben Santer has spent decades researching and identifying the human fingerprints on the climate system changes we’re now all seeing. He was lead aut...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
Technological Marketing -- Groks Science Show 2023-12-20
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Technological advances in areas such as artificial intelligence are informing creative decisions in marketing. How will this affect businesses and...

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
016: Stuttering out loud: embracing speech diversity and fighting shame around stuttering, 12/29/2023
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied
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Stuttering has long been the butt of many jokes. People who stutter are working to change that.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2023
  • Length: 58:23
2023-12-17 Impossible Worlds
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What’s the difference between the merely surprising and the truly impossible?

Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 18, 2023
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 3
2351: Impossible Worlds, 12/19/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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What’s the difference between the merely surprising and the truly impossible?

  • Added: Dec 13, 2023
  • Length: 53:58
Surgeon Maverick -- Groks Science Show 2023-12-13
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Simon Pearson and Fiona Gorman discussed their new biography, A Surgeon and a Maverick.

Bought by KDX Worldround Radio and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
A Sonnet for the Quantum Mechanics of Poetry
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "...to a wider grasp...", Credit: Susan J Cook
Poetry best helps us grasp the Quantum Mechanics topic of the latest Nobel Prize in Physics.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 09, 2023
  • Length: 01:03
  • Purchases: 1
Her Spacetime -- Groks Science Show 2023-12-06
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Shohini Ghose discussed her new book, Her Space, Her Time.

Bought by KDX Worldround Radio, RadioFreePalmer, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
2023-12-03 In Awe of Wonder
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is there a purpose to our sense of wonder, or is it gloriously useless?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 04, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Cosmic Chaos -- Groks Science Show 2023-11-29
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. C. Renee James discussed her book, Things That Go Bump in the Universe.

Bought by KDX Worldround Radio, RadioFreePalmer, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 29, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
More Hospitals Move to Confront Medical Errors Head On
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: PRX default Piece image
One out of every four Medicare patients in the hospital is the victim of a medical error. Over the past 20 years, a growing number of hospitals hav...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2023
  • Length: 22:59
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 11/14/23
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The future of weather forecasting — and our listeners had some really interesting things to say about tattoos.

Bought by WFHB and Central Florida Public Media


  • Added: Nov 17, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Do We Have Free Will?
From: Open to Debate
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The idea of free will, or humans having the ability to make their own choices and determine the direction of their fates, is as old a question as h...

Bought by WMUU-LP and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Nov 16, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 2
Universe Purpose -- Groks Science Show 2023-11-15
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Philip Goff discussed his new book, Why? The Purpose of the Universe.

Bought by KDX Worldround Radio, RadioFreePalmer, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Facing Death -- Groks Science Show 2023-11-08
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Brad Stuart discussed his new book, Facing Death.

Bought by KDX Worldround Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
2346: Your Brain on Literature, 11/14/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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How do writers and filmmakers exploit our cognitive biases to surprise and delight us?

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
EE 23-45: Who sets the menu for the animals at the zoo?, 11/3/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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Everybody eats, including animals at the zoo. Producer Toby Foster talks with the Curator of Nutrition at the Cincinnati Zoo.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 54:01

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