
Health & Science
Real 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
ListenEach of us knows that negative inner voice – the one that tells us we can’t do something new, we can’t get that promoti ...
Air Date: July 28, 2014
ListenWhen the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie – that’s a supermoon!
Supermoon? – Ridiculous! Invented by Astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979. Difference in size between these full moons and other full m ...
Air Date: July 22, 2014
ListenTeaching children empathy through the arts
Empathy is an essential skill to connect with the people and world around you. It is also so much more than even compassion- to be truly ...
Air Date: July 18, 2014
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