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Legendary LEDs, with Dr. Russ Dupuis
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
Caption: Dr. Russell Dupuis, Credit: Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
LEDs, or light-emitting diodes, have changed the world – and continue to do so. This energy-efficient electronics technology came from decades of ...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 53:11
Creature Discomforts
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Creature Discomforts, Credit: Creature Discomforts
We love them, fear them, use them – and sometimes eat them, too. But how well do we really know animals? Our impressions are often simplistic. T...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KBBI Alaska, WXXI Rochester, WRGY and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
Mars Attracts
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Mars Attracts, Credit: Seth Shostak
In a historic trifecta for space exploration, spacecraft of three countries will arrive at Mars in February. We talk to the science lead for the Em...

Bought by WRGY, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WHCP-LP Cambridge, WMUU-LP, KMXT and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Study evaluates the electric vehicle use needed to meet renewable energy goals in Nevada
From: Brian Bahouth
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To better understand the level of electric vehicle adoption needed for Nevada to meet CO2 emissions goals, the Natural Resources Defence Council, S...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2021
  • Length: 17:15
Advanced Humanities Institute at SFI
From: KUNM
Series: Augmented Humanity
Caption: Simon DeDeo
Philosopher David Kinney, an Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellow at The Santa Fe Institute, and SFI External Professor Simon DeDeo, a cognitive scientist a...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Supercomputer Showdown
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Supercomputer Showdown, Credit: Seth Shostak
Do you have a hard-to-answer question? The Summit, Sierra, Trinity, Frontier, and Aurora supercomputers are built to tackle it. Summit tops the pet...

Bought by WCNY, KMUN, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRGY, WYAP and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Skeptic Check: Betting on Pseudoscience
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Betting on Pseudoscience, Credit: Seth Shostak
Psychics may not be able to predict the future or sense your thoughts. Nonetheless, they rake in big bucks. But the harm from pseudoscience can go ...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KBBI Alaska, WMUU-LP, WRGY and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Covid-19
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Book cover, Credit: Jacket design Danielle Allyssa
In March of 2020, after months of downplaying of COVID by officials, the death rate could no longer be ignored. By late fall, as many Americans wer...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
NM Historic Sites Holidays, 2020 Edition
From: KUNM
Series: Augmented Humanity
Caption: Jemez Ruins
Join Patrick Moore and Timothy Roberts, the director and deputy director of New Mexico Historic Sites, who together with interpreters and educators...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
What's Old Is New Again: Going Medieval on the Cult of Innovation (2015)
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: The astrolabe was a marriage of the planisphere and dioptra, effectively an analog calculator capable of working out several different kinds of problems in astronomy.
It’s December 29th. For our last show of 2020 we’ll turn back to a program from July 2015 as an attempt to hit the reset button. While the book of ...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
For Good Measure
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
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The reign of Le Grand K has come to an end. After 130 years, this hunk of French metal sitting in a vault will no longer define the kilogram. The n...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Fire Clouds and Ice-teroids
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
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Upcoming asteroid missions will bring back samples from Bennu, and get up-close and personal with seven other small bodies to tell us how the solar...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, KMUN, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRGY, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Top of Mind - Vietnam Stories, Artificial Intelligence Friend
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 and 2 - “The Mountains Sing”: Trauma, Resilience and the Legacy of War in Vietnam, Topic 3 - An App That’s Designed to Be Your BFF

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 30, 2020
  • Length: 52:07
  • Purchases: 3
Future Rising
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Andrew Maynard
Most of us spend a good part of our time in the future. That is, we ponder what tomorrow brings. Or, even later today. Though we only have a snapsh...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 23, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sex Post Facto
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Sex Post Facto, Credit: Seth Shostak
Birds do it, bees do it, but humans may not do it for much longer – at least not for having kids. Instead, babies will be made in the lab, with ge...

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, KMUN, WRGY, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
Planetary Health
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Howard Frumkin
Recent events around the globe clearly demonstrates the interconnectedness of human health and the health of our planet. Heat waves in California, ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Time Travel Agents
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Time Travel Agents, Credit: Seth Shostak
Hey, let’s meet last week for coffee. Okay, we can’t meet in the past… yet. But is it only a matter of time before we time travel? Physicists have ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, WUFT, WRGY and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2020
  • Length: 54:03
  • Purchases: 16
201002: Tech to the Rescue?, 10/2/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Technology has helped the world survive, thrive and stay connected through the COVID-19 lockdown. As countries look toward re-opening in a post-pan...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
2020-10-02 Tech to the Rescue?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Technology has helped the world survive, thrive, and stay connected through the COVID-19 lockdown. As countries look toward re-opening in a post-pa...

Bought by KIYU-FM, WDSE, WMUU-LP, KCPW Salt Lake City, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
Prison By Any Other Name
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Maya Schenwar
There is a litany of names for what is understood to be substitutes for jail or prison. Electronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment facilitie...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Life on Venus?
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Life on Venus?, Credit: Seth Shostak
Have scientists found evidence of life on Venus? Known for its scorching temperatures and acidic atmosphere, Earth’s twin hardly seems a promising ...

Bought by KMUN, CHSR-FM 97.9, WRGY, KBBI Alaska, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Space: Why Go There
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Space: Why Go There, Credit: Seth Shostak
It takes a lot of energy and technology to rocket into space. Find out why it’s worth it, from the practical importance of satellites to the thril...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, CHSR-FM 97.9, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUAC and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Listen and Learn: Making an Audio Course in Science for Kids
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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How do you make an audio-based course to teach science topics to kids? Podcast creator, teacher, and musician Marshall Escamilla explains. Marsha...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2020
  • Length: 44:13
The Coming of Neo Feudalism
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Joel Kotkin
Feudalism. Now that’s a word you don’t hear very often. It’s been a long time since we’ve had a structured society of that nature. But, even more c...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 25, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The X-Flies
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
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Insects populations are declining. But before saying “good riddance,” consider that insects are essential to many ecosystems. Find out what might ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, KUAC, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2020
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 15

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