
Health & Science
Autumnal Equinox arrives at 10:29 pm Monday, 9/22. Since it takes quite a bit of time for water to heat up, it also tak ...
Air Date: September 15, 2014
ListenWednesday’s full moon is this year’s Harvest Moon – way out ahead of Autumnal Equinox by 14 days. Nex ...
Air Date: September 10, 2014
ListenReal family solutions with Dr. Stephen Treat
Fewer people are getting married, the divorce rate remains just below 50% which means there are more stepfamilies, sometimes 3 stepfamili ...
Air Date: September 8, 2014
ListenFor the first time – scientists have identified a second generation star – one made up of the remnants of the earliest stars ...
Air Date: September 2, 2014
ListenEveryone has experienced yawning when someone else yawn or else has walked into a room full of people where the mood was light and cheerf ...
Air Date: September 1, 2014
ListenOne small year for a Mars rover…
The Mars Rover Curiosity has spent now one Martian year on Mars (which equals two Earth years), traveled 5.5 miles and taken over 178,000 ...
Air Date: August 26, 2014
ListenPeace psychology: Conversations
The journal American Psychologist has published a special issue on peace ...
Air Date: August 25, 2014
ListenDog days retrieve longer nights
Close planet conjunction – Jupiter and Venus very close in tomorrow’s pre-dawn sky . Watch the moon slide down to join them t ...
Air Date: August 19, 2014
ListenMindfulness at work: How do you come across?
Dr. Daniel Ames from Columbia Business School did a ...
Air Date: August 18, 2014
ListenThe annual Perseid Meteor Shower peaks early this week. The Rosetta spacecraft, now in orbit around Comet Churyumov-Gerisimenko after a 1 ...
Air Date: August 11, 2014
ListenWhen we hear the word wisdom, most of of think of the qualities of reflection, compassion, and cognition. We think of a type of knowledge ...
Air Date: August 11, 2014
ListenLet it gush, let it gush, let it gush
Count of geysers seen on Saturn’s moon Enceladus up to over 100 – No question about composition of jets, definitely water as ...
Air Date: August 4, 2014
ListenFeedback for how we and what we are doing is everywhere. It can be direct, or indirect. It can be verbal, or non-verbal. It can come from ...
Air Date: August 4, 2014
ListenTime keeps on slippin’, slippin’ slippin’ …
Amount of daylight is slowly receding. . . Sunset was at 8:33, now it’s 8:22; Sunrise is 5:52, was 5:33. We’ll really feel th ...
Air Date: July 29, 2014
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