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The bubonic plague forced a young Isaac Newton from his studies. How did he turn catastrophe into a year of wonders? For one, he didn’t have Netflix!
Bought by KSQM 91.5 FM
- Added: Apr 06, 2020
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 1
Is washing our hands with soap really the best we can do to protect ourselves from coronavirus? Let's take a look at the history and chemistry of s...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSQM 91.5 FM
- Added: Apr 06, 2020
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
2020 has felt like one disaster after another. Is there light at the end of this tunnel? Luckily, history suggests calamities spark innovations tha...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSQM 91.5 FM
- Added: Apr 06, 2020
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
Loh Down on Science host Sandra Tsing Loh intros the Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
Bought by KSQM 91.5 FM
- Added: Apr 06, 2020
- Length: 02:40
- Purchases: 1
In music, depending on who you ask, "indie" can mean a variety of different things. Residents of Northampton, Mass., give their takes on what this ...
- Added: Apr 01, 2020
- Length: 01:59
The music sound familiar and you probably have heard their names; Dr. John, H-Bomb Ferguson, Russ Conway, Horace Parlan, Edward Frank, and Roy Carr...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jan 13, 2020
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 1
That frog is not frenetic; it floats and is diamagnetic. This is Episode 79 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinati...
- Added: Sep 20, 2019
- Length: 06:09
Distributed systems rule much of new technology today, as software programs exist across multiple computers, servers, phones, and smart devices. Ho...
- Added: Aug 12, 2019
- Length: 27:55
This week Mike McGrath so successfully answers the QUESTION OF THE WEEK; "Sowing Success When You Sow Seeds!" And of course, your Successful Phone...
- Added: Apr 23, 2019
- Length: 54:59
The all-out op-ed battle over the U.S. Constitution.
- Added: Mar 18, 2019
- Length: 28:23
- Purchases: 3
The educational technology company Robolink is coming out with a new robotics platform for teaching kids the fundamentals of programming artificial...
- Added: Feb 25, 2019
- Length: 44:17
Neuroscience research needs help from many fields, including engineering. Dr. Talia Lerner describes some of the engineering tools that she uses to...
- Added: Apr 13, 2018
- Length: 31:00
This is not normal. This is episode 45 of a series about engineering vocabulary, phrases, acronyms, jargon, and slang.
Bought by WETD
- Added: Nov 21, 2017
- Length: 03:51
- Purchases: 1
The creators of Momma Tried Magazine describe orbeez and the online ASMR culture.
- Added: Jul 28, 2017
- Length: 03:05
Sun-soaked piazzas, gardens and olive trees, they're all here at "Cecilia", the WMNR villa in Tuscany.
- Added: Mar 18, 2017
- Length: 05:50
On this episode of Culture Clique, we visit with Dr. Dean Peterson, Director of the Precambrian Research Center and the University of Minnesota Du...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 28:12
- Purchases: 1
From the renaissance of Americana culture, 1950 to 1970s when we were searching for a uniquely American musical identity in the 20th century that c...
- Added: Oct 21, 2015
- Length: 02:50:46
In the second our of our annual Covers Special, we have a curated playlist of music that includes covers from my favorite era of music, 90s alt-roc...
- Added: Aug 06, 2015
- Length: 59:02
Our annual Covers Special returns with new cover songs from Iron & Wine and Ben Bridwell's latest release, Amanda Palmer takes on Radiohead using h...
- Added: Aug 06, 2015
- Length: 59:01
Host, Richard Hadlock devotes an entire program to the Blues featuring creative guitarists including the late BB King and Leadbelly among others.
Bought by WJAB
- Added: Jun 25, 2015
- Length: 57:43
- Purchases: 1
San Francisco's legendary club, the Black Hawk located at Turk and Hyde street presented a who's who of Jazz luminaries from Dizzy Gillespie, to Bi...
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 01:00:10
Another live show, another drink and dash on the bar tab. Then I had to hide out from the police so I went to the radio station and did the 3am to...
- Added: May 23, 2015
- Length: 05:58:03
Join Void Captain Tenali for another voyage into the quizzical wonders of life. We’ll explore a plethora of sound and thought, venturing straight o...
- Added: May 21, 2015
- Length: 01:53:17
Music you wouldn’t expect to find in a regular radio playlist either because it doesn’t fit a particular style or genre, or due to being instrument...
- Added: Feb 19, 2015
- Length: 59:02
The new film 'Mood Indigo' is based on a novel by Boris Vian - so who was Vian? One of France's most popular authors of the 20th Century, musician,...
- Added: Jul 18, 2014
- Length: 28:30
