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Season 1, Episode 15 - 'Being You' feat Anil Seth
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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The science of consciousness.

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 58:08
  • Purchases: 2
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 16
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
Caption: Sandra Witelson, Credit: David Kattenburg
Powerful new antibiotics discovered using artificial intelligence. Sitting in a restaurant, staring at a piece of fish. Is it really that expensive...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:52
Black Pills
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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If there is no such thing as biological race, why do we have race-specific drugs?

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 54:18
Episode 1: Mapping the Coastal Oceans
From: David Levin
Series: Deep Soundings: Stories from the Ocean Floor
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When it comes to mapping the seafloor, the hardest spots to see are the ones just off the coast. In this episode, find out why that's the case—and ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 14:52
AMOS 20.250: Bombardier Beetles: Saying "No" to a Hungry Predator, 12/15/2020
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Bombardier Beetles: Saying "No" to a Hungry Predator

  • Added: Dec 01, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
Analog Computing and the Automatic Totalisator
From: Sean Haas
Series: Advent of Computing
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A lot of the technology we associate with the modern day started on anachronistic machines. I'm not talking about mainframes, I'm talking older. To...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2020
  • Length: 48:31
Exploring Alzheimer's
From: Hold That Thought
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David Holtzman, professor and chairman of the neurology department at the Washington University School of Medicine, explores Alzheimer's disease an...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 11:09
  • Purchases: 1
Too Much Of A Good Thing
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Stem Cells - Self-help health care
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For most of human history, famine was only a single bad harvest away. Now, thanks to modern agriculture and fertilizers, we’ve almost eliminated hu...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
Electrifying Transportation
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Maglev - Hi-speed transportation
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Believe it or not, electric vehicles used to be more popular than gasoline engines. The first practical electric car in 1884, and for decades many ...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
32: 52 Hz (Extended cut)
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
Caption: Pinball the Humpback whale, Credit: Craig Shank
52 Hz is the name given to a mysterious whale that vocalizes at a different frequency than other whales. Some refer to him as "The World's Lonelies...

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Jul 18, 2013
  • Length: 15:17
  • Purchases: 1
Space Dives
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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This week on Into It, Andrew Bales explores space dives, an extreme jump that tests the limits of technology and the wills of dare devils.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
The Living Fossil
From: Veronica Simmonds
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Every drug we take is tested with crab blood. And it all started with a walk on a beach.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Dec 04, 2012
  • Length: 07:23
  • Purchases: 3
the Edwards Particle Accelerator
From: Chris Tomazic
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Inside the Edwards Particle Accelerator Laboratory at Ohio University.

  • Added: Apr 12, 2006
  • Length: 04:35