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This week on the show: Is there such a thing as "clean cobalt"? Cobalt is one of the most important raw materials used to make batteries for smar...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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I interviewed David Grisman and his wife, Tracy Bigelow, in October 2018 prior to their performance of a benefit concert at Goddard College, where ...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:40
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This week on the show: Syrian refugees tickle taste buds in Berlin. Riding on Vienna's food-free underground. How the Chinese are refining their...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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This week on the show: What would you ask a Neanderthal? - We can bring Neanderthals back, a la Jurassic Park, with technologies we have today....

  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: An invisible enemy - Invisible, oderless, and it could be anywhere — the novel coronavirus has the perfect "ingredients" ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Fighting slavery worldwide - In this edition: Millions of people are forced to toil in forms of modern slavery across the ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: It's here - Forget Wuhan. If a respected virologist is correct, most will Germans get the novel coronavirus at some poin...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: You need more sleep - No, you’re not the only one in zombie mode. A sleep deprivation "epidemic" is getting measurably ...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Ghana's missing doctors - Once they have completed their medical degree, many Ghanaian doctors prefer to move to Europe...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2020
  • Length: 29:58
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This week on the show: Who decides what's healthy? Private donors impacting WHO's health policies - The current Corona virus outbreak highli...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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We're easing you into the New Year with a gorgeous listen on this week’s Living Planet - a trip to New Zealand's Waipoua Forest. It's one of the o...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRZA, and WFIU


  • Added: Jan 03, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
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From natural sounds to artificial ones and even something in-between — this week's show is all about the indelible link between sound and the envir...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Is this really the place to look back at gravitational waves, AI and gene editing advancements? No, it isn't. Instead, we ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Don't open until Christmas - Want to give the perfect gift, but also receive it? There's some surprisingly rich science...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: New Peers Review takes on AI - Ever wondered what Sci-Fi movies have to do with AI and robots in real life? Or how AI a...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Dec 12, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: New Peers Review takes on neurodegeneration - The roving science game show returns to challenge two brave neuroscientists...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Dec 04, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The cover art for this episode comes from Gilbert Toyne’s 1925 Australian patent on the rotary clothesline., Credit: Australian Government patent system.
Like much of the world, Australian educators are increasingly embracing STEM education for younger students. Chris Perkins is one such teacher at K...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2019
  • Length: 55:37
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This week on the show: Looking for evidence - Cyborgs are real, they're here already, and we'd love to introduce you to them. Also, if you lik...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: How to feed the world in times of Climate Change - How wheat Farmers and scientists in Canada are dealing with changing c...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Can you taste where a wine came from? - Volcanic soils, limestone bedrock, steep slate slopes — isn’t it lovely to imagi...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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The incredible never-before-heard sounds of the AFSMPT (Amazing Futuristic Scanning Machine Process Technology) :48

  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: :47
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This week on the show: Enemies of the state? - Tanzania's President John Magufuli has turned pregnant teenagers into enemies of the state, clai...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Deep dive into food waste - Why do we waste so much food? And what can we do about it? Neil King and Gabe Borrud get to...

Bought by WRGY, KRZA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WFIU


  • Added: Oct 03, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
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This week on the show: Alexander von Humboldt is still alive - He was the most famous scientist in the world when he was alive. And then he was ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Sep 10, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Why Indonesia is a target for tobacco companies Indonesian households spend almost as much on cigarettes as they do on ri...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 29:59