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- https://www.wri.org
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- Science and Technology
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- Agriculture, Development Studies, Environmental Studies, Food, Geography, Nature
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Databases, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
WRI is a global research organisation with over 700 experts and staff whose work focuses on six critical issues at the intersection of environment and development: climate, energy, food, forests, water, cities and transport, and ocean. The WRI produces short videos to communicate their research and impact. They serve as visual, non-technical entry-point into the work they do. The site also offers access to three other vast resources: Presentations, where experts talk about their research; Data Library with maps, charts, data sets, infographics and other visual resources which can be searched by type, topic or geography; and Data Platforms, which provides open access to reliable data for those interested in monitoring forests with satellites, tracking the drivers of climate change, understanding indigenous communities’ land rights, planning for water scarcity, and examining the cross-section of global environmental issues.
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- https://loe.org/index.html
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- Science and Technology
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- Environmental Studies
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Located at the School for the Environment at the University of Massachusetts/Boston and hosted by Steve Curwood, this is a weekly environmental news and information programme distributed by Public Radio International. This means that every week approximately 250 USA Public Radio stations broadcast the programme’s news, features, interviews and commentary on a broad range of ecological issues. Shows can be listened in their entirety or in segments; transcripts are also available. The website is easy to navigate and browse; three sections stand out: This Week, Show Archives and Special Features
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- https://www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/astronomy-podcasts
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- Science and Technology
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- Astronomy, General Science
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Podcasts from the Naked Scientists team at the University of Cambridge aimed to help the general public to understand and engage with the world of astronomy. Episodes include the latest news from the stars and planets, and interviews with professional astronomers. There is also a blog with answers to your space science questions. The description of content is comprehensive and full transcripts are available for all episodes.
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- https://www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/naked-neuroscience
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- Science and Technology
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- Medicine
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Podcasts from the Naked Scientists team at the University of Cambridge aimed to help the general public to understand and engage with the latest research news about the brain and the nervous system. Each episode includes a comprehensive description of content and full transcripts.
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- https://cosmicshambles.com/
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- Science and Technology
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- General Science
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Blogs, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Cosmic Shambles creates and curates entertaining content about the universe through science, art, history, philosophy, music, literature and comedy. The site was borne out of The Incomplete Map of Cosmic Genome, Utter Shambles and Book Shambles online magazines. A selection of the content from them is now available for free via Cosmic Shambles, but to access the entire back catalogue, which includes over 160 films, exclusive interviews and contributions from 150 well-known names in science, a paid subscription is needed. The free content in the Cosmic Shambles site is presented in the form of podcasts, documentaries, interviews and several blogs. The range of subjects covered is impressive. For example, neuroscientist Dr Dean Burnett explains differences in taste (why some of us love jazz and other hate it?); the life and work of physicist Richard Feynman is celebrated in the documentary All Genius, All Buffoon: 100 Years of Richard Feynman; there is also an in-depth interview with plastic surgeon Fiona Wood who invented the ‘spray on skin’ for burns victims.
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- https://theconversation.com/uk/podcasts/the-anthill
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- General Science, Medicine, Psychiatry, Psychology, Social Studies, Technology
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
The Anthill is The Conversation UK’s podcast service devoted to bring to light some of the best research from the world of academia. Each episode, which lasts around 45 minutes, focuses on a theme and invites academics from different disciplines to share their expertise on it. Themes explored so far include Time, Humour, The Future, Memory, Unexplored places, Games and Dark matter. The podcasts, co-hosted by two experienced content editors from The Conversation, are recorded in the studios of the Department of Journalism at City University London, and have the bonus of sounding like high quality radio programmes.
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- http://theengineeringcommons.com/
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- Science and Technology
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- Engineering, Technology
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- Radio/Sound
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- Streaming/Download
Entertaining and informative engineering podcast from the USA, with practical advice for engineers. Maintains a balance between industry and academia and follows a magazine format.
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- http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- History, Politics and Government, Psychology
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Bi-weekly podcast produced by a group called The New York City Skeptics, covering aspects of critical thinking, philosophy, science and ethics, with forays into history, politics and psychology. The podcast features guests from a wide range of academic disciplines. The podcasts are free and are accompanied by full transcripts.
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- https://player.fm/series/origin-stories
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
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- Archaeology
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Monthly podcast from the Leakey Foundation. Broadly about human evolution the programme covers anthropology, human origins, primatology and biology.
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- https://www.npr.org/2015/09/03/437264048/about-hidden-brain
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- Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Economics, Psychology, Social Studies
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- Radio/Sound
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- Streaming/Download
This podcast looks at everyday human behaviour and uses ideas from the social sciences - economics, psychology and sociology - to explain why people do what they do. The podcast is aimed at a popular audience and is presented by NPR’s science correspondent Shankar Vedantam, whose laudable aim is to help people understand how what they do on a daily basis is based on underlying patterns of human behaviour based on rigorous scientific research.
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