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What is the main focus of the study under discussion?

What point does the study make about the high-volume setting of some music devices?

What is true about youngsters who regularly listen to personal music devices at high volumes?

According to the report, which allows the greatest sound exposure and is therefore riskier to use?

What does the European Union intend to do, now that the risk has been identified?

What is the main focus of the radio segment?

What insects were used in earlier training experiments?

What have scientists trained bees to do?

What did scientists find significant about the ability of the bees to detect TATP?

Why are scientists so enthusiastic about their research?

What term does Gene Shaw use to describe misleading claims about a product's environmental benefits?

Why are more and more companies so eager to appear green?

According to Gene Shaw, what might happen if the Federal Trade Commission does not act in a timely fashion to establish stricter standards for green advertising?

Which of the following is NOT true of the Greenwashing Index website?

What point does Gene Shaw leave his listeners with?

What misconception do many people have about the Venus flytrap?

Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a potential threat to the plant?

What does Helen Hall make about poachers?

According to the representative of the US Fish & Wildlife Service, why is it so difficult to get people excited about protecting Venus flytraps?

What common problem is referred to by two of the agencies that Helen spoke to?

What prevents a penny from gathering deadly speed when it is thrown from a great height?

What is the grain of truth contained in the first urban legend that Mark Constantine discusses?

What point does Mark make about derailments caused by pennying train tracks?

Why does Mark mention his grandfather?

What thought does Mark leave his listeners with?

According to John Seaberg, what was so scary about the MIT professors findings?

What is it that John Seaberg feels most people dont understand about carbon emissions?

Of the carbon dioxide emitted the previous year, how much of it remained trapped in the atmosphere?

What simple fact should the MIT students have understood?

In Johns opinion, what does the problem require?

What is the underlying purpose behind the Solar Decathlon?

Who provides the largest amount of funding for the teams project?

Why is the term decathlon used to describe the competition?

In addition to being completely self-powered, what other green element did all of the entries incorporate?

What impressed the speaker about the interior of the University of Darmstadt entry?

How many Californian condors remains when experts decided to take drastic measures to them?

According to Ethel Miller, what is currently the main obstacle to the condors survival?

What measure was finally taken in California in 2007 to protect the endangered bird?

What did William Cornatzer and a radiologist find when they conducted CAT scans on packages of ground deer meat?

What final thought does Ethel Miller leave her listeners with?

According to Tim Reynolds, what is true of wildfires and building fires?

Which of the following is NOT a predictable characteristic of wildfires?

Where would you expect experts to begin their investigation?

Which of the following indicates to investigators that they are getting closer to a fires point of origin?

What point does Tim Reynolds make about finding the fires point of origin?

What term does Simon Richie use to describe the distance that food travels from farm to plate?

For what reason do some people attempt to maximize their consumption of locale grown foods?

Which percentage is associated with agricultural and industrial practices related to the growing and harvesting of food?

According to Simon Richie, which of the following statements is true?

In Simon Richies view, what is the main strength of the Carnegie Mellon study?

In what month of 2007 did park rangers discover that the lake had disappeared?

Which of the following was NOT related to scientists theory that an earthquake had caused the lakes disappearance?

What technical term does Margaret Wentworth use to describe a natural dam made of ice, rock and sediment?

To what did scientists eventually attribute the lakes disappearance?

Why does Margaret Wentworth mention the appearance of the lake at the end of the broadcast?

According to Colin Lyons, for what reason were narwhals so valued in the old days

Why are researchers do keen to learn about the narwhals wintering territory?

How do scientists plan on collecting data in this part of the ocean?

According to Colin Lyons, why is tagging narwhals so challenging?

What point does Colin Lyons make at the end of the program?

What astonished Marcia Trent when she began to read The Unnatural History of the Sea??

Which factor has NOT contributed to the dramatic rise in the global demand for fish?

Of the following, which does Marcia Trent say has provided the global fishing industry with the financial means to bring world fisheries to the brink of collapse?

According to statistics mentioned in rhe passage, what percentage of fish stocks around the world are currently overfished?

Which of the following best sums up the idea that Marcia Trent leaves with her listeners?

What does William Anderson say about students who do NOT ride buses to school?

What problematic trend does the University of Illinois document?

What sets the University of Illinois study apart from other recent studies?

According to the study, what should schools focus their efforts on to ensure that healthy food options are available to students?

What do the researchers think could be done to address the problem at the community level?

According to Neil Reynolds, why are athletes who exercise outside significantly more at risk than sedentary people?

Of the following three health problems, which does Neil Reynolds consider the least serious?

What is tPA?

According to one expert, which condition would pose more risk to a runner?

What is the main gist of the message Neil Reynolds leaves with his listeners?

Why are officials at the World Health Organization so excited about the Safer Surgical Checklist?

What point does Julia Framingham make when she cites statistics from studies done in the United Kingdom?

On average how many patients a year die in the United Kingdom due to treatment error?

Statistically speaking, exactly how effective has the checklist been in reducing the number of deaths and complications in the 8 health centers that piloted the program?

How far-reaching are the World Health Organizations plans for the checklist in the near future?

At the start of the program, what American institution does Ted David say has become endangered?

In the view of family psychologists that Ted David interviewed, what is it that helps bring families together?

What is it that 137 countries have the United States lack?

From Ted Davids perspective, why is it that Americans who do have paid-vacation benefits often choose not to take the full amount of time they are entitled to?

Which of the following best sums up the point that Ted David makes in the closing portion of the program?

According to Barry Rivers, who are the unsung heroes of the natural world?

Which of the following was the inspiration for an energy-efficient fan that is now starting to be used in computers and air conditioners?

What point does Barry Rivers make about extinctions?

What impact has the collapse of the mussel population had in the Chesapeake Bay area?

Which of the following best sums up Barry Rivers view of the Endangered Species Act?

What problem related to bottled water does Jeremy Turnbull say he would rather NOT focus on in todays broadcast?

Worldwide, on average, how many tons of plastic go into the making of plastic water bottles each year?

What is the main point that Jeremy Turnbull makes about the overall process of producing and transporting bottled water?

Why does Jeremy mention the BIOTA company?

According to Jeremy, what is it that most people dont realize about bottles made from recycled plastic?

According to Ann Struthers, what piece of conventional wisdom has recently been verified by scientific evidence?

At which meal during the 2004 study did subjects eat the most?

In the 2006 study, what happened when the subjects slowed down their rate by chewing each mouthful 20 times?

Approximately how long does it take the body to signal the brain that it has had enough food?

According to the scientific explanations, what must happen before the body alerts the brain that it is full?

What is the medical name for the crusty material that forms inside the walls of the arteries as a result of atherosclerosis?

What may result if some of this crusty material breaks away from the walls of the artery?

Which of the following is something that is not yet completely understood by the medical community?

Why did the researchers decide to focus on calcium build-up in the arteries of their diabetic subjects?

From what the results of the study showed, which group would be least likely to benefit from the program of intensive glucose control?

What is true regarding the sinking of the Explorer off the coast of Antarctica?

What point does Ronald Dolan make about the growth of ship tourism to Antarctica?

According to Ronald Dolan, what impact has the sinking of the Explorer had on Antarcticas fragile ecosystem?

What makes it particularly difficult to control tourism in Antarctica or make plans for rescue operations or environmental clean-ups, should they become necessary? In the opinion of the observers that Ronald Dolan interviewed, which of the following could make the most impact in terms of establishing strict guidelines for tourisms in the area?

According to the often-quoted medical saying mentioned at the beginning of the program, what is the best way to reduce the length of a common cold?

What did the two studies demonstrate about nasal sprays containing alpha-interferon?

According to Dana Hodgkins, what is the major drawback of the treatment?

Which group is least likely to experience the benefits of alpha-interferon in the near future?

Which of the following besr summarizes the main idea discussed in the last part of the program?

What technical-sounding name do experts give to the vast expanse of rubbish floating around the Pacific Ocean?

What is one of the points that Tom Fields makes about the plastic in the vast expanse of garbage?

According to oceanographer Charles Moore, what must happen to prevent the Great Pacific Garbage Patch from doubling in size over the next decade?

What are nurdles?

Which of the following best summarizes the main idea discussed in the last part of the program?

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