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The Remarkable Resilience of Zebrafish
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Dr VootYin survived the Cambodian genocide as a child and has gone on to become a leading scientist in the field of cardiac regeneration.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and Radio Newark


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 07:14
  • Purchases: 2
Fogs of War: The Many Lives of Chemical Weapons
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Gas mask exercise, Scott Field, Illinois.1942. , Credit: Library of Congress
Chemical weapons have played a chilling role in human history ever since World War I. As accounts of recent uses permeate the news, we decided to f...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2014
  • Length: 44:21
#1402- Emerging, Emergence, Emergent, Part 2
From: Sandburg Media
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Phyllis Tickle on science, faith, and The Great Emergence; Katy Scrogin on Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury after War.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 42:12
Drawing History: Telling the Stories of Science through Comics and Graphic Novels
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Real Heroes comic book from 1942
How do you show what the inside of an atom looks like? Or how a scientist feels in the moment of discovery? We decided to approach the human storie...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 21:15
  • Purchases: 1
PTSD: Diagnosis and Identity in Post-empire America - part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: PTSD book cover, Credit: Lexington Books
This is a continuation of a conversation with sociologist Jerry Lembcke. His book, -PTSD: Diagnosis and Identity in Post-empire America.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 26, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
PTSD by any other name
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Ed Ayers talks with psychotherapist Edward Tick about the history of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD.

Bought by KVNF and Radio Newark


  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 11:00
  • Purchases: 2
99% Invisible #80- An Architect's Code
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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Some architects say there are just some buildings that should never have been built: buildings that violate human rights by design.

Bought by MPR News Stations, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and The Story


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 16:47
  • Purchases: 3
Fly Away Drones
From: War News Radio
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News and features on global conflict.

  • Added: May 23, 2013
  • Length: 07:39
Distillations Episode 167: Cold War Chemistry
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: A relic of the infamous space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. , Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
During decades of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union over the course of the Cold War, both sides wielded science as a weapon. F...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 15:04
The Decline in Violence & The Pursuit of Dignity (Peace Talks Radio) [59:00 / 54:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Two Harvard scholars with recent books are featured on this edition of PEACE TALKS RADIO. First Steven Pinker, talks about his 2011 book "The Bett...

Bought by KSJE, KUOW, KUOW, KUOW, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 5
Life at Bletchley Park -- Groks Science Show 2012-11-07
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Sinclair McKay joins us to discuss The History of the Wartime Codebreaking.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 07, 2012
  • Length: 30:20
  • Purchases: 2
Tinnitus
From: Elaine Vitone
Series: Pitt Medcast
Caption: Some tinnitus sufferers experience their phantom frequencies as buzzing or chirping sounds, like the song of a cicada (here, converted mathematically into graph form)., Credit: Photo Researchers
This dramatic soundscape uses interviews, narration, sound effects, and music to explain the emerging neuroscience of tinnitus - a ringing, buzzing...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Oct 19, 2012
  • Length: 09:40
  • Purchases: 1
Military suicide rate at unprecedented high
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Dr. Timothy Lineberry, Mayo Clinic psychiatrist & suicide expert for the Army, spoke recently with WTIP's Bob Carter about the alarming increase in...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2012
  • Length: 17:07
A Conversation with Veteran and Writer, Ron Capps
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Ron Capps helps returning service members write their way home. [27:06]

Bought by KPIP-LP and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 27:38
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with Art Therapist, Melissa Walker
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Melissa Walker discusses healing wounded service members through art at Walter Reed. [25:44]

Bought by KPIP-LP and WABE


  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 25:45
  • Purchases: 2
Steve Pinker’s “Better Angels”: Dodging Our Own Bullet?
From: Open Source
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My guest this hour is Steven Pinker, who has written a game-changer on the little matter of how quickly humanity is headed for hell or redemption. ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 13, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
146: Navy Unmanned
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Unmanned systems to meet the changing modern challenges of security at sea.

  • Added: Nov 10, 2011
  • Length: 04:39
Soviet Germ Warfare Part 1 & Part 2
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Dr. Ken Alibeck, author of "Bio-Hazard: The Chilling Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World ...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2011
  • Length: 57:58
MT Silvia, producer and director of documentary film, Atomic Mom
From: susan galleymore
Caption: from Atomic Mom, Credit: MT Silvia
Film maker MT Silvia's mother, Pauline Silvia, was a US Navy biologist conducting research on the effects of radiation on mice and dogs from 1952 t...

  • Added: May 05, 2011
  • Length: 30:02
Babysitting
From: Nate DiMeo
Series: the memory palace
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In which we hear the story of Don Hornig. A 25 year old scientist asked to babysit the A-Bomb during the night before the Trinity test changed ever...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KPIK-LP, WABE, Louisville Public Media, KUT and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2010
  • Length: 04:53
  • Purchases: 8
I am Become Death
From: andy boyd
Series: Stories that Take Place in Space and End in Death
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Ruminations on legacy, death, and imperial policy.

  • Added: Feb 06, 2010
  • Length: 01:54
Projecticles
From: William S. Hammack
Series: Stories of Technology
Caption: PRX default Piece image
How the technology of accurate throwing separates humankind from the rest of the animal kingdom.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:36
Medicine
From: Steve Clark
Series: Virginia: Colony to Commonwealth
Caption: At the surgeon's tent, Credit: Jamestown Yorktown Foundation
In the eighteenth century the state of medical care and medical theory was undergoing a transition. Historian Edward Ayers. Not understanding the c...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2009
  • Length: 02:44
Star Wars: Take 2
From: Voices of Our World
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The weaponization of space will certainly jeopardize peaceful uses of satellites such as weather prediction, global positioning services, ATM funct...

  • Added: May 04, 2007
  • Length: 28:00
Iraq Power Grid
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Spectrum Radio visits Iraq's power stations under development.

Bought by War News Radio and WFUV


  • Added: Jan 07, 2006
  • Length: 06:52
  • Purchases: 2