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E-cigarettes are growing more popular, and now being used for illicit drugs - Menthol makes cigarettes more addictive and more harmful
Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KMUD, KKRN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more
- Added: Jan 20, 2017
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 10
Deer weren't always common along the North Shore of Lake Superior. With the increase in their population, the plants that make our landscape so app...
- Added: Nov 17, 2016
- Length: 07:17
Nathan Drillot and Jeff Petry talk spectrums, hugs, and rewriting a classic..
- Added: Oct 24, 2016
- Length: 13:38
Rachel Toor explains the origins of our misunderstandings about rats and reads from her book 'Misunderstood: Why the Humble Rat May Be Your Best Pe...
Bought by 'The Sea', KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Aug 12, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
Graduate students Lerman-Sinkoff and Tyler Schlichenmeyer share their excitement about the brain and explain why science should be shared.
- Added: Jun 01, 2016
- Length: 10:09
Episode topics: Eat fat, get thin diet and health insurance for young adults.
- Added: May 16, 2016
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
Dr. Theresa Betancourt, Director of the Research Program on Childran and Global Adverty at the Harvard School of Public Health and Affiliated Facul...
- Added: Apr 26, 2016
- Length: 01:00
Recent studies show that Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD, may not be a real disorder after all.
- Added: Apr 05, 2016
- Length: 04:37
A 12-year-old girl in blue jeans probably isn’t the first thing you picture when you hear the word paleontologist. But in 1979, young India Wood di...
- Added: Mar 31, 2016
- Length: 58:59
Detoxing kids toys. Which toxin to watch out for in the bathroom. We celebrate "Talk Like William Shatner Day."
- Added: Mar 13, 2016
- Length: 12:46
FLYING INTO METHANE (5:10 – 13:40) Boulder’s Scientific Aviation director, Steve Conley, talks about how his company’s painstaking and nauseating ...
- Added: Mar 04, 2016
- Length: 25:20
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Mar 04, 2016
- Length: 24:03
- Purchases: 1
Imagine Katrina was just the first of a series of ever-more devastating hurricanes. New Orleans has been walled off because of a deadly disease. Th...
- Added: Feb 23, 2016
- Length: 21:10
Casey is just four, but he already has an imaginary grandson. What does science say about what imaginary friends do for kids and the adults they be...
- Added: Jan 26, 2016
- Length: 09:39
Olivia was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in 2010. Three years later, her best friend, Allison, was diagnosed with the same disease. They talk to e...
Bought by KSKA
- Added: Jan 25, 2016
- Length: 05:45
- Purchases: 1
Flight nurses Wilson Matthews and Jeanne Yeatman talk about their work aboard emergency response helicopters and their attempts to save a child who...
Bought by WTJU and Blue Mountain Radio
- Added: Jul 24, 2015
- Length: 02:08
- Purchases: 2
California eighth graders are ranked 45th in the country in math, according to the most recent scores on the National Assessment of Educational Pro...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and Radio Newark
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 07:05
- Purchases: 2
The early days of neuroscience relied on tragedy to strike before doctors could peek inside the brains of humans. Today advanced technology helps s...
- Added: May 28, 2015
- Length: 43:39
A pair of lovers get ready to welcome a new addition to their movie marathon dates.
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 02:58
Music-induced hearing loss and the shifting borders between noise and music.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KRZA
- Added: Apr 10, 2015
- Length: 11:00
- Purchases: 2
Controversial British wunderkind, Johann Hari, reads from his lauded new book, Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs. It'...
- Added: Feb 26, 2015
- Length: 01:40
Dr. Margaret Haney, a Professor of Neurobiology in Psychiatry and Co-Director of the Substance Use Research Center at the Columbia University Medic...
- Added: Jan 28, 2015
- Length: 30:20
It’s a weekly ritual for some girls—stopping by the make-up counter to check out the latest beauty lines. At 19, Youth Radio’s Joi Morgan makes it ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 05:27
- Purchases: 1
On today's show, we hear two stories about a brain condition called synesthesia. That's when the stimulation of one pathway in the brain leads to a...
Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network and KUOW
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 11:09
- Purchases: 2
