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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
Caption: Baynard Woods
Baynard Woods, writer for The Guardian and Editor-At-Large for City Paper, joins us to talk about his experience getting a vasectomy, reflected on ...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2017
  • Length: 29:39
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
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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
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An hour long special featuring a 2016 year in review, nutrition studies and infertility.

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Dec 19, 2016
  • Length: 51:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
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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
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
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Anyone who thinks women can't do computers and science needs to meet my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Rose Matheny.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , Radio Newark, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Episode topics: Prenatal genetic testing and cosmetic dermatology.

Bought by WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, and WRIR


  • Added: Sep 05, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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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
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Women might more readily fall in love with people of any gender... because of our fluid sexual nature and where love is in our brain.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2016
  • Length: 17:11
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
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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
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Some studies suggest that one out of 10 women in her 30s is peeing herself. Others say the numbers could be much much higher. But it’s tough to tal...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2016
  • Length: 09:40
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On page 148 of Gubar’s latest book, Reading & Writing Cancer: How Words Heal, published this May by W. W. Norton, she writes: “It seems unlikely th...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Aug 02, 2016
  • Length: 58:47
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Vanessa Silva-Welch (left) and Arnaldo Silva (right)
Arnaldo Silva and his daughter, Vanessa, have battled breast cancer together. At StoryCorps they discuss their past and current fights with the dis...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Aug 01, 2016
  • Length: 02:11
  • Purchases: 1
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-American men and women have maintained close friendships since our country’s founding. -When it comes to racism or sexism, why aren’t good intenti...

Bought by WCNY, KEDT, WMUU-LP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KRDP and more


  • Added: Jul 22, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 6
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Victoria Herrmann's a woman on a mission - and what a mission it is. The 25 year old climate change specialist is a Bill and Melinda Gates Cambridg...

Bought by WCNY and CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: May 20, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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An hour-long look at Breast Cancer -- its diagnosis, its treatment, its history as a public policy issue and its direct impact on patients.

Bought by KUHF, WFAE, KSUT, WCPN, KQED and more


  • Added: May 10, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Roseanna Zia, Assistant Professor, James C. and Rebecca Q. Morgan Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University. Credit: Cornell University., Credit: Cornell University
Cornell researcher Roseanna Zia simulates gel behavior with XSEDE, Stampede supercomputer.

  • Added: May 03, 2016
  • Length: 11:18
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In this special Mother’s Day episode, Michelle talks with her mom about what it was like raising a space-obsessed daughter in Wisconsin and watchin...

Bought by KPIP-LP, Radio Newark, and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: May 02, 2016
  • Length: 14:56
  • Purchases: 3
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Women are the main caretakers of the sick and the majority of nurses all around the world are women; therefore, women are more exposed to some infe...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2016
  • Length: :59
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Today’s episode will introduce you the immortal cells of Henrietta Lacks.

Bought by KFOI Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 25, 2016
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Dr. Dava Newman, Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Dr. Dava Newman, the Deputy Administrator of NASA has a goal to usher in the next mission to Mars. Will this next mission be one giant step for wom...

Bought by WRIR, KUT, KSJD, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 20, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 4