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Brood X: The Trailer
From: WGUC/ WVXU
Series: Brood X: The Cicada Podcast
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This will be the summer of Brood X, the emergence of the 17-year cicadas in trees throughout our area and many parts of the country.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: 02:13
  • Purchases: 1
'Rona Ramadan
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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Many Muslims fast during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. This year, it falls within the coronavirus pandemic and people are curious about the he...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and WYAP


  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Spectrum 07/30/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Hands and feet - You know what's better than five fingers? Six. We look at this strange new research and talk to a "po...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Creed and Credences
From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation
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A philosophical examination about the nature of religious belief, using the example of creationist and a woman who left fundamentalism.

  • Added: May 31, 2018
  • Length: 41:20
Pi Day
From: FOOLY BOO
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March 14th is Pi Day! The irrational number that is the ratio between the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Its Pi day! 3.141592.........

  • Added: Mar 13, 2018
  • Length: 01:09
Taming Energy Vampires
From: Wendy Ring
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The average household has more than 40 appliances that use electricity when they're off. We help you find and subdue them.

Bought by KFOI Radio


  • Added: Feb 07, 2018
  • Length: 23:21
  • Purchases: 1
Back Pain and the Egoscue Method is a Postural & Lifestyle Pain Relief Therapy Re-Shaping the way we move, sit, play and work.
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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The Egoscue Method is a Postural & Lifestyle Pain Relief Therapy Re-Shaping the way we move, sit, play and work. Its a series of movement and postu...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2017
  • Length: 25:52
Episode #3: The Sweet Tooth
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: The Mixing Board
Caption: Quick! Blow out the candles so we can cut the cake!, Credit: Nathan D. Friend
OUCH! Keano's mouth gets burned — by chocolate! Michelle Dutro and Keano Martinez first hear from Lizzie Kirchner's family who explains the process...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 08:20
Episode 8: Stuttering, Dancing, and Detours
From: Faye Reiff-Pasarew
Series: The Art Of Medicine Podcast
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Using creative adaptation to overcome the bugs in our systems

  • Added: Sep 03, 2014
  • Length: 24:35
Two Guys on Your Head: Why We Go Out
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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Human beings are a social species. Part of our natural programming, which has evolved as we’ve evolved with the rest of the planet into our current...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 07:20
Two Guys on Your Head: Learning Styles
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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Are you an auditory learner or a visual learner? If you answered "yes" you would be right. We use all our senses to learn and process information....

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Jan 24, 2014
  • Length: 07:20
  • Purchases: 1
Two Guys on Your Head: Sugar and The Brain
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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Why is it hard to have just one of those delicious slices of pound cake over the holidays? Well, it turns out it has less to do with the creamy but...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Jan 03, 2014
  • Length: 07:20
  • Purchases: 1
Two Guys on Your Head: Words and The Brain
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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The saying, “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me,” is really not as accurate as we would like it to be. Words are a p...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Nov 15, 2013
  • Length: 07:21
  • Purchases: 1
The Poison Squad: A Chemist’s Quest for Pure Food
From: Sruthi Pinnamaneni
Caption: The Poison Squad dining room in the basement of the Bureau of Chemistry, Credit: FDA
Meet Harvey Washington Wiley, the mastermind behind this experiment where young government employees were fed poison-laced foods months on end. He...

Bought by WHYY, New Hampshire Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Hark!, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Jul 16, 2013
  • Length: 08:03
  • Purchases: 8
Maggots are our friends
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: The Amazing World of African Insects
Caption: Mass of maggots
One of the most disgusting creatures is in fact one of the most useful. Join Paula Kahumbu and Dino Martins on a smelly journey of discovery.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 31, 2010
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 2
Technology Gift Guide 2006
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Annual technology gift guide for 2006

  • Added: Dec 07, 2006
  • Length: 05:40