Health & Science
Night Eating Syndrome & obesity and depression
We hear so much about what we should eat and how it will make us feel better. But what if its actually the other way around- that when we ...
Air Date: March 31, 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: March 24, 2014
ListenIs ours THE universe … or A universe?
New data collected at South Pole indicates light polarized in a way that can only be caused by gravity waves that were ...
Air Date: March 24, 2014
ListenFocus: The hidden driver of excellence
Attention has come under siege, largely by technologies like email, texts, smartphones and the like. These invite the outside world to im ...
Air Date: March 17, 2014
ListenStar light, star (very) bright
Astronomers get their first glimpse of Yellow Hyperstar (HR 5171) one of the 10 largest known stars – 12,000 lig ...
Air Date: March 17, 2014
ListenGeologists have identified Zircon in ancient sandstones in Australia; Zircons are very hard to destroy or alter and whe ...
Air Date: March 12, 2014
ListenLife as a university of adversity
In his new book The Gift of Adversity: The Unexpected Benefits of ...
Air Date: March 10, 2014
ListenCan you BELIEVE it! – Switch to Daylight Saving Time this Sunday at 2:00 a.m. Tomorrow is Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras ...
Air Date: March 3, 2014
ListenHow others’ stories change our own
Whether we know it or not, hearing someone else’s story changes us. And telling our own story does even more. But the two together ...
Air Date: March 3, 2014
ListenChina Space Agency says reports of Yutu’s Death were premature. There is some kind of mechanical problem, but com ...
Air Date: February 25, 2014
ListenAccording to a report from the Institute of Medicine, Nearly one third of Americans struggle with chronic pain. That’s more than th ...
Air Date: February 24, 2014
ListenResearch tells us the brain is wired to learn quickly from bad experiences, while ignoring good ones. Neuropsychologist Rick Hanson says ...
Air Date: February 17, 2014
ListenWarm wishes from the red planet
Summer arrives this Saturday… on Mars! The season will be six months instead of three, thanks to the planet’ ...
Air Date: February 11, 2014
ListenWith the Winter Olympics here, we’ve all got sports in our minds. But it is the mental fitness of professional athletes that allow ...
Air Date: February 10, 2014
ListenAstronomers now ‘mapping’ brightness variations in stellar atmospheres. T-class “star” Luhman16 ...
Air Date: February 3, 2014
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