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Edna the Engineer and National Security
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
Caption: Secretaries, housewives, waitresses, women from all over central Florida are getting into vocational schools to learn war work. Typical are these in the Daytona Beach branch of the Volusia county vocational school., Credit: National Archives and Records Administration
A recent science test showing that American girls are lagging behind boys has brought women in science back into the national conversation. More th...

Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Radio Newark, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 4
Edna the Engineer: Who Gets to be a Scientist?
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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You know the stereotype: white guy in a lab coat with crazy hair and an experiment gone awry. But the picture of science is changing. In this episo...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, WFHB, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
"Olcott Center: Terri Acton"
From: WFHB
Series: My Health Matters
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Terri Acton, registered nurse and cancer educator, speaks with host Nicole Motz about raising cancer awareness through the Olcott Center for Cancer...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 05:12
The Myth of Sex Addiction Parts One & Two
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Does sex addiction catch your attention, spark your imagination or stir your libido? Radio Curious visits with Dr. David Ley, author of “The Myth o...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Aug 07, 2012
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 1
I've Got Rhythm—Does Cancer?
From: With Good Reason
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About 12 percent of women develop breast cancer. But years of studies have shown that for female flight attendants, nurses, factory workers, and ot...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
My Saints Alive
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A man whose wife died of breast cancer manages to find love again. But then he learns the woman who will be his second wife is diagnosed with breas...

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Underwear Drawer
From: Radio Rounds
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We discuss work-life balance with Dr. Michelle Au, an anesthesiologist and acclaimed author. Since medical school, she has penned “The Underwear Dr...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 29:30
Mountain gorillas save researchers from militia gunfire
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: AFRICA'S WILDEST STORIES
Caption: Silverback Kabirizi, Credit: Paula Kahumbu
Fewer than 800 Mountain Gorillas remain making them one the world's most endangered species. For more than 20 years people around the world have be...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2012
  • Length: 11:06
WorldCanvass: Women, Hysteria and Medicine
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 01:52:09
Distillations Episode 147: Babies
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Remember when I leeched all the calcium from your bones?, Credit: Flickr user paparutzi.
Big eyes, soft skin, squeezable cheeks. No doubt, babies are adorable. But in this episode we take a break from our cooing to examine some more ser...

  • Added: May 16, 2012
  • Length: 13:43
Conversations
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Conversations with people who take a DIY approach to science and to life: DIY biologists working to democratize the lab, a single mom who says some...

Bought by XRAY.fm, KUT, KUOW, WYSO, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Apr 19, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
Oakland clinic offers free, alternative medicine to women with cancer
From: KALW
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Cancer treatments can leave a patient in intense pain, or cause nausea, fatigue, and loss of appetite. For people with low incomes or without healt...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2012
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 2
Amazing 'James Barry'
From: Documentary on One - RTE, Ireland
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The woman who became a man so she could become a doctor.

Bought by KMUN, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 21, 2011
  • Length: 09:18
  • Purchases: 3
Surrogacy Among Friends
From: Karen Brown
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A woman carries a baby to term for her best friend, whose chronic disease would make pregnancy hazardous.

  • Added: May 27, 2011
  • Length: 06:58
Sexual Identity and Social Media -- Groks Science Show 2011-05-25
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Melissa Gilliam joined us to discuss sexual health in young people

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WRNC-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: May 25, 2011
  • Length: 32:13
  • Purchases: 3
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
The Male Brain, the Female Brain-There is a Difference
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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This week Radio Curious speaks with neuropsychiatrist, Dr. Louann Brizendine, founder of the Women’s Mood and Hormone Clinic at the University of C...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 28, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
The Junkie Mind
From: The Tibet Connection
Series: Open Mind
Caption: Venerable Robina Courtin, Buddhist nun, Credit: fpmt.org
What's the difference between an addict's mind and our own? According to the Buddha, not much… We're all addicted to all kinds of things. So says V...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 07:19
  • Purchases: 1
Culture Zone: Is Rolfing Torture?
From: Heidi Lang
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Rolfing practitioner Sukie Baxter dispels the myths and shares the benefits of this increasingly popular healing technique.

  • Added: Oct 01, 2010
  • Length: 15:27
Hot Math -- Groks Science Show 2010-09-08
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Danica McKellar discussed hot math.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KMXT


  • Added: Sep 08, 2010
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 2
Is Grilling Dangerous For Your Health?
From: Patricia Raymond MD
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Laughter really IS the best medicine! The 2-minute health interstitial your station has needed!

  • Added: Sep 02, 2010
  • Length: 01:59
Ladies, Can Lack Of Sleep Hurt Your Heart?
From: Patricia Raymond MD
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Laughter really IS the best medicine! The 2-minute health interstitial your station has needed!

  • Added: Sep 01, 2010
  • Length: 01:59
Cranberry Juice & Urinary Tract Infections: Is more better? You bet!
From: Patricia Raymond MD
Caption: YourHealthChoice Radio
Laughter really IS the best medicine! The 2-minute health interstitial your station has needed!

  • Added: Aug 27, 2010
  • Length: 01:59
Access to Advancement, Part 2: Patricia Walsh
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: Access to Advancement: An Audio Exploration of the National Effort to Increase the Role of Women with Disabilities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
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Patricia Walsh is a successful computer scientist. However, there was a time during college when she struggled with her grades and questioned her e...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 04, 2010
  • Length: 07:54
  • Purchases: 1
Access to Advancement, Part 2: Jennifer
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: Access to Advancement: An Audio Exploration of the National Effort to Increase the Role of Women with Disabilities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
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Jennifer, a PhD candidate in biomedical engineering at Columbia University, decided to pursue an advanced degree to study the brain after her own b...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2010
  • Length: 10:18

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