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1 week ago | 
wrvo.org | Emily Kwong |Rachel Carlson |Rebecca Ramirez
Around 40 million people around the world have bipolar disorder, which involves cyclical swings between moods: from depression to mania. Kay Redfield Jamison is one of those people. She's also a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and has written extensively about the topic, from medical textbooks to personal memoirs. In fact, Jamison penned one of the first memoirs ever written by a medical doctor living with bipolar,An Unquiet Mind.
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1 week ago | 
wrvo.org | Emily Kwong |Hannah Chinn |Rebecca Ramirez
This is the first episode of Nature Quest, a monthly Short Wave segment that answers listener questions about your local environment. Every month, we'll be bringing you a question from a fellow listener who is curious about how nature is changing – how to pay attention to the land around us – and make every day Earth Day. Alessandra Ram is a journalist. She covers the climate crisis, and its impacts on everyday people. And she just had a kid.
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1 week ago | 
tpr.org | Emily Kwong |Hannah Chinn |Rebecca Ramirez
This is the first episode of Nature Quest, a monthly Short Wave segment that answers listener questions about your local environment. Every month, we'll be bringing you a question from a fellow listener who is curious about how nature is changing – how to pay attention to the land around us – and make every day Earth Day. Alessandra Ram is a journalist. She covers the climate crisis, and its impacts on everyday people. And she just had a kid.
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1 week ago | 
wrvo.org | Emily Kwong |Regina Barber |Hannah Chinn |Rebecca Ramirez
Happy Memorial Day, Short Wavers! This holiday, we bring you a meditation on time ... and clocks. There are hundreds of atomic clocks in orbit right now, perched on satellites all over Earth. We depend on them for GPS location, Internet timing, stock trading and even space navigation. In today's encore episode, hosts Emily Kwong and Regina G. Barber learn how to build a better clock. In order to do that, they ask: How do atomic clocks really work, anyway? What makes a clock precise?
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4 weeks ago | 
wrvo.org | Emily Kwong |Regina Barber |Hannah Chinn |Rebecca Ramirez
In 2018, computer scientist Sasha Luccioni was an AI researcher for Morgan Stanley — and couldn't shake this existential worry. "I essentially was getting more and more climate anxiety. I was really feeling this profound disconnect between my job and my values and the things that I cared about," Luccioni told NPR. So Luccioni quit her job.
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1 month ago | 
wrvo.org | Emily Kwong |Regina Barber |Hannah Chinn |Rebecca Ramirez
As the tech industry has grown, so too have data centers. Data centers are enormous buildings filled with hundreds of thousands of computers that store cloud data and power artificial intelligence. To keep up with computing demands, data centers use electricity and sometimes chilled water to keep those computers cool. The result? A surge in energy and water use that has caught the attention of scientists and lawmakers.
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1 month ago | 
wrvo.org | Regina Barber |Nell Greenfieldboyce |Rachel Carlson |Rebecca Ramirez
Some scientists are convinced that beyond Neptune, there's a planet they've yet to see. This so-called "Planet 9" is so far away, it would be a faint object. The stretch of sky researchers would have to search is huge. But a new astronomical facility on a mountaintop in Chile could help tackle the search. The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has been under construction for years.
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1 month ago | 
wrvo.org | Jonathan Lambert |Emily Kwong |Hannah Chinn |Rebecca Ramirez
A fish walks into a pharmacy ... It's the start of a joke – with echoes in reality. Sort of. Fish aren't being prescribed anti-anxiety drugs. But they are experiencing the effects. That's because fish and other aquatic creatures are being affected by increasing levels of drug pollution – from human waste or pharmaceutical factory runoff – that then seep into our waterways. Researchers have found more than 900 different pharmaceutical ingredients in rivers and streams around the world.
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1 month ago | 
tpr.org | Hannah Chinn |Emily Kwong |Rebecca Ramirez
This is the first episode of Nature Quest, a monthly Short Wave segment that answers listener questions about your local environment. Every month, we'll be bringing you a question from a fellow listener who is curious about how nature is changing – how to pay attention to the land around us – and make every day Earth Day. Shai Tsur lives in Oakland, California. He's used to seeing flowers bloom in his neighborhood: pear trees, plum trees, California poppies. But not in January.
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1 month ago | 
wrvo.org | Hannah Chinn |Emily Kwong |Rebecca Ramirez
This is the first episode of Nature Quest, a monthly Short Wave segment that answers listener questions about your local environment. Every month, we'll be bringing you a question from a fellow listener who is curious about how nature is changing – how to pay attention to the land around us – and make every day Earth Day. Shai Tsur lives in Oakland, California. He's used to seeing flowers bloom in his neighborhood: pear trees, plum trees, California poppies. But not in January.
