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About 12 percent of women develop breast cancer. But years of studies have shown that for female flight attendants, nurses, factory workers, and ot...
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 09, 2012
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 2
Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.
- Added: May 03, 2012
- Length: 01:58:40
Hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Robert Wallace on his report "Living Well With Chronic Illness: A Call for Public Action".
- Added: Mar 07, 2012
- Length: 24:21
NASA psychologist Al Holland describes the mental challenges astronauts might face during a 3-year mission to Mars.
Bought by 91.7 WHUS Storrs, WEZU, WXDU, Radio Newark, KRUA and more
- Added: Apr 22, 2011
- Length: 01:28
- Purchases: 6
Materials scientist Stephen Steiner says that high-speed computers in the future might run on man-made diamonds instead of silicon.
Bought by Radio Newark, KRUA, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 22, 2011
- Length: 01:17
- Purchases: 3
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We dial up researchers investigating climate change in Antarctica; plus, internet guru Clay Shirky explains his answer to this year's Edge Question
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 20, 2011
- Length: 27:59
- Purchases: 1
From: National Press Club
Dr. Miller addresses a National Press Club luncheon about health reform and caring for low income and Medicaid patients.
- Added: Jul 09, 2010
- Length: 54:51
Oil spills and how getting your hair cut could help to clean them up.
- Added: May 20, 2010
- Length: 10:12
Inside every kid is a scientist just waiting to get out and play.
Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA
- Added: Apr 30, 2010
- Length: 13:05
- Purchases: 1
In honor of National Poetry Month, Distillations looks at Lord Byron and his classic Don Juan. Also, opium and The Age of Wonder.
- Added: Apr 09, 2010
- Length: 11:41
What do Isaac Newton, yeast, and Harold Urey have in common?
- Added: Apr 07, 2010
- Length: 12:28
In this episode, host Meir Rinde and guest co-host Gigi Naglak give us a tour of the Chemical Heritage Foundation's new exhibit Marvels and Ciphers.
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Apr 05, 2010
- Length: 10:30
- Purchases: 1
Reduce, reuse, recycle! This episode focuses on waste that has become a product of its own. Enter Jell-O and Vaseline.
- Added: Mar 12, 2010
- Length: 11:29
Get the skinny on trans fats and learn why a popular crash diet is not likely to help you shed pounds.
- Added: Feb 18, 2010
- Length: 12:15
The nose and its powers. In this episode, learn about how your body's scent can act like a fingerprint and how an iPhone app combines scent and song.
- Added: Feb 15, 2010
- Length: 12:00
We learn about solar power, the history of light bulbs, and seasonal affective disorder.
- Added: Feb 08, 2010
- Length: 11:57
The Firefox browser represents the pinnacle of open source software, this commentary explains the open source movement.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:27
Most power plants waste much energy because they are so inefficient. Moving them closer to where their power is used would waste much less energy
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:21
While VOIP is popular it is a difficult problem to make it work with 9-1-1.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:44
Jack Kilby invented the microchip, and thus, indirectly, helped me to learn to dance.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:15
A pothole is a uniquely American phenomenon. Drive the highways of South Africa, Germany or France and you'll find few ruts and divots. Why pothole...
Bought by Delta College Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:47
- Purchases: 3
Adam Osborne marketed the first successful a compact computer: A 24-pound portable computer!
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:43
- Purchases: 1
Commentary that argues that to be environmentally friendly we want products designed so that the high value materials can be removed - reserving re...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:48
The story of Barbara McClintock's Nobel Prize winning work
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:24
The story of Willard Gibbs who revolutionized chemistry
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:49
