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Why do some patients cry after anesthesia?
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Listen 5:45Twenty-five years ago, President George Herbert Walker Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act, bettering the lives of many Ameri ...
Air Date: July 20, 2015
Listen 00:52:16Geophilus Hadesi discovered in Croatian caves – more than half a mile below the earth’s surface! These ‘extrem ...
Air Date: July 13, 2015
Listen 00:05:19Your baby is born prematurely… a nightmare of unknowns. We talk with Deanna Fei ...
Air Date: July 13, 2015
Listen 00:52:16Night Sky Fireworks Beyond the 4th
Call this Venus Week! Friday, Venus shows its greatest illuminated portion – and it will be at its brightest for this year on Sunda ...
Air Date: July 6, 2015
Listen 00:06:04Independence Day/Independent Life
At this time of year when we think about our nation’s independence, let’s look at what independence means in our lives. Your first s ...
Air Date: July 6, 2015
Listen 00:52:16The Sun will be at its furthest annual distance from the Earth next Monday afternoon – 94,506,507 miles. Heading outdoors to ...
Air Date: June 29, 2015
Listen 00:06:00Determination, individualism – work hard you’ll get ahead and get a piece of the American pie. Those are hallmarks of our society ...
Air Date: June 29, 2015
Listen 00:52:16Our region reached the maximum hours of daylight for the year yesterday. We lose two seconds today; a minute by the end of the week, and ...
Air Date: June 22, 2015
Listen 00:13:11Understanding Male Bonds and Codes
Bro-mances, buddy films –that’s the Hollywood picture of male friendship — but what do men really need to have an intimate rela ...
Air Date: June 22, 2015
Listen 00:52:16If we lived on a planet that orbited a lone star outside of a galaxy, a starless night sky would be possible. Now astronomers have discov ...
Air Date: June 15, 2015
Listen 00:12:31Fatherhood will be celebrated this month on Father’s Day. For many, fathers and father figures are key to supporting and raising childr ...
Air Date: June 15, 2015
ListenNASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is closing in on Pluto. Ahead of the July 14th close approach; astronomers recently learned more abo ...
Air Date: June 8, 2015
Listen 00:06:34Some of us are fortunate to have good neighbors. They’re the folks we chat with, invite over, borrow a cup of sugar from, and do f ...
Air Date: June 8, 2015
ListenLooking For Life In All The Right Places
NASA plans to send a three-year orbital mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa as early as 2022. It’s at the top of the list of mos ...
Air Date: June 1, 2015
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