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Nearly everyone swears - whether it's over a few too many drinks, in reaction to a stubbed toe, or in flagrante delicto. And yet we sit idly by as words are banned from television and censored in books. We insist that people excise profanity from their vocabularies, and we punish children for yelling the very same dirty words that we'll mutter in relief seconds after they fall asleep. Swearing, it seems, is an intimate part of us that we have decided to selectively deny.

All We Can Save illuminates the expertise and insights of dozens of diverse women leading on climate in the United States - scientists, journalists, farmers, lawyers, teachers, activists, innovators, wonks, and designers, across generations, geographies, and race - and aims to advance a more representative, nuanced, and solution-oriented public conversation on the climate crisis. These women offer a spectrum of ideas and insights for how we can rapidly, radically reshape society.

Welcome to Prevention Over Prescription, hosted by Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng, an ICU physician, health advocate, and thought leader in healthcare transformation. After years of witnessing the consequences of preventable health crises, Dr. K brings you insights, strategies, and stories to empower you to take control of your health and avoid the ICU.From nutrition and movement to stress management and community building, this podcast explores the pillars of prevention while highlighting innovative ways to improve healthcare delivery. Whether you're looking to optimize your own health or gain ...

Whether it’s brusque, convincing, fraught with emotion, or dripping with innuendo, language is fundamentally a tool for conveying meaning - a uniquely human magic trick in which you vibrate your vocal cords to make your innermost thoughts pop up in someone else’s mind. You can use it to talk about all sorts of things - from your new labradoodle puppy to the expansive gardens at Versailles, from Roger Federer’s backhand to things that don’t exist at all, like flying pigs.

Quite Curious is a science communication podcast illuminating findings in biology, neuroscience, cognition, brain studies, aging, and more! Dr. Ariel Frame, PhD, speaks with authors of new and upcoming research about their science.As a neurobiology researcher, Ariel hosts enlightening discussions providing researchers a taste of work they plan to read more about while enabling folks of any vocation to learn about fascinating science.

One of the greatest adventures in the future of humanity will be to construct, work, and live in space based structures. In this book we look at the history of ideas for living in space, proposed space colony designs, and technology. The details of current life support technology on the International Space Station is reviewed, and what technologies will be required for development of large scale space colonies.

Now on the race’s centennial, award-winning author David K. Randall tells the story of this riveting, long-forgotten race. Through larger-than-life characters, treacherous landings, disease, and ultimately triumph, Into Unknown Skies demonstrates how one race returned America to aviation greatness. A story of underdog teammates, bold exploration, and American ingenuity, Into Unknown Skies is an untold adventure tale showing the power of flight to bring the world together.

磐田市竜洋昆虫自然観察公園の館長 こんちゅうクンが、独自の視点で昆虫にフォーカスしたり、リスナーの皆さんのお悩みを昆虫的視点で解決（？）したり、“むしのいい”解釈で、昆虫の魅力を発信！毎週木曜日13:37～K-MIXで放送中

Skeptics with a K is the podcast for science, reason and critical thinking from the Merseyside Skeptics Society. Each episode features Mike Hall, Michael Marshall, and Dr Alice Howarth chatting about the things which interest them, often from a skeptical angle.

Humans have been farming for thousands of years, and yet agriculture has undergone more fundamental changes in the past 80 years than in the previous several centuries. In 1900, 30 million American farmers tilled the soil or tended livestock; today there are fewer than 4.5 million farmers who feed a population four times larger than it was at the beginning of the century.

Like many of us, journalist David K. Randall never gave sleep much thought. That is, until he began sleepwalking. One midnight crash into a hallway wall sent him on an investigation into the strange science of sleep. In Dreamland, Randall explores the research that is investigating those dark hours that make up nearly a third of our lives.

Captivated by a chance meeting with a falconer's peregrine as a child, the indelible memory leads the author to flying a peregrine falcon of her own and discovering that the journey is not as much about training the falcon as what it is the falcon has to teach her. Exploring themes of predator and prey, finding tribe, forgiveness and femininity, Lift asks universal questions through the unique perspective of a woman chasing her heart in the wake of a wayward falcon.

Of all the natural disasters that could befall us, only an Earth impact by a large comet or asteroid has the potential to end civilization in a single blow. Yet these near-Earth objects also offer tantalizing clues to our solar system's origins, and someday could even serve as stepping-stones for space exploration. In this book, Donald Yeomans introduces listeners to the science of near-Earth objects - its history, applications, and ongoing quest to find near-Earth objects before they find us.

Welcome to the Curiosity Killed the K’s podcast. For your listening pleasure, we bring you stories on covert government operations, quantum physics, unsolved mysteries, divination, and everything in between. There is something for everyone on this not so family friendly show. Thank you for being here and HAVE THE DAY YOU DESERVE! Cheers, Katie & Kelly

The Dr. Sylvia K Show is where mindfulness meets brain science with a dash of spirituality. This podcast is all about igniting the fire of possibility and self-awareness so that true change and healing can happen. Dr. Sylvia K is a Ph.D. level therapist with a zest for well-being and discovering your inner spark. She's worked with all kinds of clients from celebrities to your next door neighbor - women, men, and teens who have spent a lot of time feeling anxious, lonely, and stuck. Dr. Sylvia's mission is to show each listener what’s truly possible. If you’re ready to move past ...

This podcast is the recordings from the live K-12 Science Virtual Teachers' Lounge. Each Monday at 4:00 pm EST science educators from all grade levels get together to chat about something or nothing. If you would like to join the live meeting, check out the K-12 Science calendar for the next week's link. https://www.purdue.edu/science/K12/calendar.html The K-12 Science Virtual Teachers' Lounge is a program from Purdue University Superheroes of Science.

Cultural and material analysis of the influence of occultism on media by Alyssa, an anthropologist and Jordi an archaeologist. Check us out on Instagram and tell us what you would like to hear us talk about! @MagickbehindtheMagic

This podcast will discuss current events, issues and crises around the world. It will discuss suggested possible solutions to the problem the world is experiencing, including breakthroughs within medical, science, climate change, socio and geopolitical as well as all branches of research institutions aiming to develop and improve our way of life around the globe 🌎.

A raccoon bite on the arm doesn’t seem that serious, but it soon becomes a life-or-death medical crisis for Melissa Loomis. After days of treatment for recurring infection, it becomes obvious her arm must be amputated. Rewired is the inspirational, miraculous story of Dr. Ajay Seth’s revolutionary surgery that allows Melissa to not just move a prosthetic arm simply by thinking, but to actually feel with the prosthetic hand, just as she would with her natural arm. This resulted in what others have recognized as the world’s most advanced amputee.

The enormous human and economic toll of the rapidly spreading COVID-19 disease offers a vivid reminder that infectious disease pandemics are one of the greatest existential threats to humanity. This book provides an accessible explanation of how viruses emerge to cause pandemics, how our immune system combats them, and how diagnostic tests, vaccines, and antiviral therapies work - concepts that are a foundation for our public health policies.