Health & Science
Now for our feature presentation: we’re going to explore the science of movie magic as seen on the big screen and behind the scenes ...
Air Date: October 14, 2016
Listen 51:39What to say to a parent whose child Is born with a disability
Last month, A & E’s reality show “Born This Way” took home an Emmy Award ...
9 years ago
Fact or cartoon fiction: Can the ‘double conk’ cure amnesia?
Mary Spiers runs the website neuropsyfi.com, which is devoted to how brain science is depicted i ...
9 years ago
Listen 9:27My 9-year-old has insomnia; here’s what I learned
Our 9-year-old son has recently been battling insomnia, lying awake each night until 10 or 11 p.m. The rare nights he falls asleep easily ...
9 years ago
Parents, researchers fight to stamp out smoking on the big screen
Some kid movies are kicking the smoking habit. When a movie hero strikes a match and lights a cigarette, it means something. ...
9 years ago
Listen 5:50Human voice is key to unlocking movie magic for the blind
There’s a movement underway to make movies Oscar-worthy for people who can’t see. I met up with Sarita Kimble in the l ...
9 years ago
Listen 5:23Digital demands paradigm shift in film archiving
At the Library of Congress Packard Campus of Audio-Visual Conservation, vaults burrow into Mount Pony on a 45-acre campus surrounded by b ...
9 years ago
Listen 7:34On October 13 at 9:24 pm, Orbital Sciences will launch from Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia, sending 2,400 kilos of supplies ...
Air Date: October 10, 2016
Listen 00:05:13First, evidence has been discovered supporting a subsurface salt-water ocean at Pluto! It would have the right mass to account for how Pl ...
Air Date: October 3, 2016
Listen 00:06:44I might have Asperger’s Syndrome, but do I really want to know?
People just don't seem to understand the way I think, so when they can follow my train of thought, it feels like I have superpowers.
9 years ago
The Bloom Comes Off The Rosetta
Last Saturday Rosetta completed its final orbit and began its direct descent to the comet’s surface. It should impact on Friday in a re ...
Air Date: September 26, 2016
Listen 00:05:11First, Dave Heller and Dr. Derrick Pitts discuss the Autumnal equinox, which is this Thursday at 10:21am. Next stops? Halloween, th ...
Air Date: September 19, 2016
Listen 00:04:56Come with us as we step inside a time capsule of life on earth — the natural history museum. On this specia ...
Air Date: September 15, 2016
Listen 50:13The Brain Scoop and the sloppy business of learning
The story of how one YouTube educator is reshaping natural history. This piece is a part of our s ...
9 years ago
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