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Temple Grandin enlightens listeners about “visual thinking” and stresses the importance of leveraging diverse cognitive styles. She is an author, ...

  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 27:22

  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 02:00

  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
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HOUR ONE: "Being body conscious" - When you look at your body in the mirror, do you love what you see? Do you pick out the things you don’t like? M...

  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
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Science unscripted got an email this week about orgasms. What's more, someone wrote to let us know why a dying countess in a classic German novel w...

  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
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Did you know that heavily subsidized biogas digesters pose a risk to rural communities and are not the climate-change solution they’re made out to ...

  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
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Ubiquitous, microscopic worms, nematodes kill insects, infest plants and provide startling insights into human health. They also inspire joy!

  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
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Happiness is a complex emotion and mental state that can be achieved through virtue or pleasure. But should it be for the good of the individual or...

  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
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This time on The Children's Hour, we learn about one of the planet's most ancient species that's still around today: lungfish. Dr. Irene Salinas is...

  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
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Brian Dunning touches on the myriad rip-offs claiming health benefits with no real science to back them up. In this first volume of "Consumer Ripof...

  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Just in time for your continued planning, plotting, and planting in order to grow the earliest and the latest and the biggest and the longest produ...

  • Added: May 15, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Mark Plotkin, Credit: Courtesy Richie / Amazon Conservation Team
As we hurtle into the Sixth Age of Extinctions, we face the cataclysmic loss of half the world’s biological diversity. 80% of the remaining biodive...

  • Added: May 15, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
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Thank you to all of our listeners for a fantastic first season of This Is Science with Jess Phoenix! We are grateful for your support, and stay tun...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: :32
Caption: The Play's the Thing, Credit: Seth Shostak
Has children’s play become too safe? Research suggests that efforts to prioritize safety harms children’s mental and physical development during pl...

Bought by WRGY, KZUM, WMUU-LP, KBBI Alaska, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 12
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After discussing the environmental news, Patti & Doug talk about how and why to protect your baby from wireless radiation.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 1
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Dr. Steve Koonin, a former U.S. Secretary of Science, and Dr. Michael Greenstone, Director of the Energy Policy Institute at University of Chicago,...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 26:02
  • Purchases: 1
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We talk to Utah dust expert Kerry Kelly, who has a plan for countering the impact of hazy skies on our health -- and on our kids' health.

  • Added: May 12, 2024
  • Length: 18:25
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Oil Giants May Have to Pay for Climate Damage. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report.

Bought by KMXT, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: May 12, 2024
  • Length: 06:19
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Enceladus, Credit: ESA
Life on Earth appears to have formed in our oceans. Scientists are thus on the hunt for other worlds which have oceans of liquid water and thus po...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WTIP, KGLP and more


  • Added: May 12, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Plastics are everywhere. And while we’ve known for a long time that plastics and our environment aren’t a good mix, it's becoming apparent that the...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 9
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Plastics are everywhere. And while we’ve known for a long time that plastics and our environment aren’t a good mix, it's becoming apparent that the...

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 58:56
Caption: Liberty on the Redding, CA nest with Sol and Luna, Credit: Terri Lhuillier
Bald and golden eagles are some of the most magnificent birds in North America. Dave is joined by Michelle Hawkins, Director of The California Rapt...

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Her family had to swear on paper to be entirely white in order to have civil rights. Rachel Webster, recalibrates everything she thought she knew a...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WYAP


  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on The Children’s Hour, how do cities and towns ensure the water coming out of our tap is clean, and where does it come from? Then, when ...

  • Added: May 08, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Benjamin Caplan discussed his book, The Doctor-Approved Cannabis Handbook.

Bought by KDX Worldround Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., RadioFreePalmer, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 08, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4