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We did it. My family finally bought an electric car. What’s it like? Should you get one too? Here to help me explain is my husband, Ryan T Conaty.
Bought by PRX Remix, Raven Radio, WRFA-LP, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Aug 07, 2023
- Length: 03:48
- Purchases: 4
In an ambitious “extra-planetary” project, six Israelis entered a small container in the middle of the Negev Desert, and pretended they were on Mar...
- Added: Feb 17, 2021
- Length: 21:07
HOUR ONE: "Deep Tracks (Live In Studio)" - How do you harmonize during a pandemic? Operas on Zoom? DJs on Instagram? We'll share our favorite in-ho...
- Added: Jan 01, 2021
- Length: 01:58:58
Forty years after Carl Sagan’s ‘Golden Records’ began their long voyage into the depths of outer space, Eyal Gever - an Israeli high-tech-wunderkin...
- Added: Oct 29, 2020
- Length: 31:11
HOUR ONE: "Deep Tracks (Live In Studio)" - How do you harmonize during a pandemic? Operas on Zoom? DJs on Instagram? We'll share our favorite in-ho...
- Added: Apr 24, 2020
- Length: 01:58:57
Cook County is home to one of the darkest skies in the nation, and adventurers, artists, and photographers from around the world travel here to exp...
- Added: Dec 20, 2019
- Length: 22:16
Can hope co-exist with cataclysmic realities like climate change? We conclude our "Hope" series with a look at the future.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KTRT RADIO INC, KICI Iowa City, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KBIA
- Added: May 07, 2019
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 5
HOUR ONE: "Hope: Are We Really Doomed?" - Can hope co-exist with cataclysmic realities like climate change? We conclude our "Hope" series with a lo...
- Added: May 03, 2019
- Length: 01:58:58
This week on the show: Drawing the line -
What we smell influences our intestines, how a "smart school" in China spies on its pupils, and facial...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Mar 06, 2019
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: You sound emotional -
We human beings make a lot of strange sounds with our mouths, and if you listen carefully, a lot o...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WNMU-FM
- Added: Feb 28, 2019
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
On this week’s show: how artificial intelligence is seeping into peculiar corners of medicine, why we should keep an early eye out for dementia, ...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Nov 22, 2018
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
For those just starting out in a field, Katherine Neville recommends asking a simple question of your supervisors after completing a project: “How ...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 1
As a woman as well as an immigrant to the United States, Valerie Fremont has faced particular challenges in her career. She discusses America’s “cu...
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 04:18
After struggling with bench research Claire Skentelbery realized her true calling was science communication. She talks about the importance of gett...
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 04:26
After years of relentlessly pursuing her career, some simple words from her four-year-old daughter shook Dawn Hocevar to the core. From that moment...
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 03:10
From: Distillations
Don’t delay being happy in your career, says Sherri Oslick. Finding the right path requires talking to a lot of people, and it also means listening...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 04:09
- Purchases: 1
Early in her career Dimitra Georganopoulou thought the ratio of men to women in science was pretty level. But then she began to rise up the ladder.
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 03:34
In school it’s usually the men who are encouraged in science, says April Quarles. Though women continue to face negative social influences when pur...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Aug 21, 2013
- Length: 03:17
- Purchases: 1
From: Distillations
To avoid being perceived as aggressive, says Lynn Johnson Langer, women often qualify their thoughts. Phrases like “it’s just my opinion” are used ...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Aug 13, 2013
- Length: 03:58
- Purchases: 1
The job market for highly skilled positions is more competitive now than in previous generations, says Savannah Sullivan. Learning outside your cho...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 03:10
- Purchases: 1
A chemistry set with “really nice stuff in it” sparked Anna Wilson’s lifelong interest in chemistry, but her passion made her a bit of an oddball i...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Jul 29, 2013
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s not all about career, says Laura McCunn. Marriage and family need to be considered when choosing a path, she says, and she credits a lot of he...
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 03:03
In 1941 Helen Free was studying to be a Latin and English teacher—that is, until Pearl Harbor changed her fate. With the country’s young men being ...
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 03:50
After getting her master’s degree Kristine Chin found herself working in industry as the first woman in an all-male lab. It was a challenging exper...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 03:16
- Purchases: 1
In the mid-1980s only 10 of the 100 on-scene coordinators at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were women. Mary Ellen Ternes was one of thi...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 02:53
- Purchases: 1
