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Bonnie J. Addario: An Urgent Need to Impact Lung Cancer Care in a Big Way
From: Peter Hofland
Series: The OncoZine Brief
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Each year, 1.4 million people are diagnosed with lung cancer worldwide. The 5-year survival rate for these patients is only 15.9%. In this episod...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2017
  • Length: 29:51
Developing Novel Therapies for HER2-positive Advanced or Metastatic Breast Cancer: An Interview with Daichi Sankyo's Antoine Yver
From: Peter Hofland
Series: The OncoZine Brief
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In this interview during the 2017 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, or ASCO, which took place June 2nd to 5th in Chicago...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2017
  • Length: 39:02
Active Learning in Computer Science
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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We talk strategies for teaching computer science (CS), with Dr. Cynthia Taylor, a computer science professor at The University of Illinois at Chica...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2017
  • Length: 37:10
Big Talk! w/ Michael Glab: Caty Pilachowski
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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Indiana University Astronomy Department Professor and Kirkwood Chair Caty Pilachowski talks with Michael Glab about this month’s once-in-a-century ...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 08:42
Transgendered - 2012 Full Hour Program
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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This is the full hour generational discussion on Transgendered featuring an older, middle and younger guest.

  • Added: Aug 04, 2017
  • Length: 51:27
Alzheimer's Disease: A Psychiatrist's Personal Perspective -- Parts One & Two
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with clinical psychiatrist, Dr. Betty J. Lacy, whose focus is the prevention, care and treatment of dementia, including Alzh...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2017
  • Length: 58:02
Clinical Research, Big Data and Advocacy: an Interview with Nancy Brinker
From: Peter Hofland
Series: The OncoZine Brief
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This episode of The Onco'Zine Brief is an interview with Nancy Brinker, founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. This program was originally recorde...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2017
  • Length: 24:22
A Cosmic Voyage with Astronomer Sandra Faber
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: • New Very Large Telescope image of galaxy Messier 77 , Credit: • European Southern Observatory
Veteran astronomer and cosmologist Sandra Faber has just been awarded the Gruber Prize for Cosmology, honoring more than forty years of pioneering ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WTJU, KWMR, WMUU-LP, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
The I-SPY Clinical Trial Program: Building a Pipeline of Novel Anticancer Agents
From: Peter Hofland
Series: The OncoZine Brief
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This episode of The Onco'Zine Brief is an interview with Angela M DeMichele, MD MSCE, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the Perelman School...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2017
  • Length: 33:31
Thomas Edison, Eclipse Chaser!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: "American Eclipse" by David Baron, Credit: Liveright/W.W. Norton
The great inventor was just one of many men and women who made their way across the American West to view and document the total solar eclipse of 1...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, WJSU, KISU, Kansas Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 21, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
Cancer Research and Treatment (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Repairing cancer-causing genes - A new app designed to make more informed patients

Bought by WJCT, WXDU, WCQS, WUGA (part of GPB), KMUN and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 10
Conna-Lee Weinberg:  Conscious Direction of Your Spine
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Conna-Lee Weinberg, author of “Mindful Spine: Movement from the Inside Out – Connecting the Brain and the Spinal Vertebrae.”

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Jun 14, 2017
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Everything You Want to Know About Population: Bill Ryerson #213
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Population Media Center President Bill Ryerson corrects misconceptions, debunks myths, and shares a variety of surprising facts about overpopulatio...

Bought by KTRL, KMUD, and KTRL


  • Added: May 16, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Big Talk! w/ Michael Glab: Heather Bradshaw
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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Michael Glab talks with Heather Bradshaw about the active compounds in marijuana and how they may or may not be useful as medicines on this week’s ...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2017
  • Length: 08:49
Sy Montgomery, author of "The Soul of an Octopus"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Sy Montgomery about her bestselling book.

  • Added: Feb 27, 2017
  • Length: 30:30
64: Deb Liu of Facebook is Developing More Women in Tech; Dr. Shruti Naik of The Rockefeller University is Keeping More Women in Science
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Shruti Naik
Deb Liu is VP of Platform and Marketplace at Facebook. As one of few female executives in technology, she is working to address the challenges that...

Bought by KUT, KUAF Public Radio, WLPR , WRGY, KUNM and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Ice, Snow and Lava: Exploring Antarctica’s Mount Erebus
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Rosaly Lopes on the slopes of Antarctica's Mt. Erebus, Credit: Michael Carroll
Earth’s southernmost active volcano may also be its most remote. Rosaly Lopes and Michael Carroll recently spent a few frigid days on the slopes o...

Bought by KVSC, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan Leaves NASA
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Outgoing NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan, Credit: NASA
For well over three years, planetary scientist Ellen Stofan has worked directly with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden to help coordinate and expan...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP, KRZA, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Lynn Sherr, author of "Sally Ride"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra interview Lynn Sherr about her book about America's first woman in space.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Dec 22, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
59: America The Anxious; Cooperative Games; Negotiate in "Man Pants"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Ruth Whippman
Lauren's guests this week are Ruth Whippman, author of "America the Anxious. How The Pursuit Of Happiness Is Making Us A Nation of Nervous Wrecks";...

Bought by KWMR, KKRN, KKRN, WGBH Radio Boston, CHSR-FM 97.9 and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2016
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 10
Big Talk: Betsy Stirratt
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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The director of the IU Grunwald Gallery of Art, Betsy Stirratt, joins Michael Glab on this week's edition of Big Talk!

  • Added: Oct 13, 2016
  • Length: 09:10
(Natural) Childbirth
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Illustration from Obstetric tables depicting the correct use of forceps in 1850., Credit: Spratt, G. (George). Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Once upon a time all births were natural. A lot has happened since then.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2016
  • Length: 01:01:12
Terrie Williams, author of "The Odyssey of KP2"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra interviews marine biologist Terrie Williams about her book about an endangered monk seal.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
48:Nancy Santiago Negrón, Lending To The Poor & Simine Vazire, Changing Research Approaches
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Nancy Santiago Negrón
Nancy Santiago Negrón of the Opportunity Finance Network shares why it took three calls from the White House for her to join the Women's Bureau at ...

Bought by KKRN, KSJD, KWMR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Lynn Sherr, author of "Sally Ride"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra talks with longtime ABC broadcaster Lynn Sherr about her book, "Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space."

  • Added: Aug 09, 2016
  • Length: 30:31