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01 - Brain Traps
From: FOOLY BOO
Series: Shabam!
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Your brain is a wonderfully complex piece of organic equipment that's supposed to tell you the truth about the world around you.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 26:03
  • Purchases: 1
Freight Train
From: JoAnne Maffia
Series: ReFoundSound an audio blog
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Freight train off of US1, St. Augustine, FL. Recorded while driving in the car, window down, mic following along. Late afternoon. January 2017. EQ...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2018
  • Length: 01:04
A Toad's Solo
From: JoAnne Maffia
Series: ReFoundSound an audio blog
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Landscape Ambience: a southern toad (buffo terrestris) singing solo over a chorus of toads and frogs that erupted after 3 weeks of rainfall. Northe...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:14
Frogs & Toads, an evening chorus
From: JoAnne Maffia
Series: ReFoundSound an audio blog
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Landscape Ambience: 11:45 pm, a chorus of toads and frogs erupted after 3 weeks of rainfall. St. Augustine, Northeast Florida. Original clip. EQ,...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2018
  • Length: 11:47
Heavy rain, wind, frogs & toads (Hurricane Irma)
From: JoAnne Maffia
Series: ReFoundSound an audio blog
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Field recording of Hurricane Irma just as it was hitting St. Augustine, FL.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2018
  • Length: 05:20
Math Anxiety
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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Anxiety in engineering education sometimes comes from doing math. What does math anxiety feel like? What are its causes and effects? How do you dea...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2018
  • Length: 27:40
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
Drowned at Sea
From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation
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This week, we look at how a religious cult of number worshipers on the Italian coast gave rise to modern science, mathematics, philosophy, and musi...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 30:09
  • Purchases: 1
Data Visualization Tips and Tricks
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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How can we deal with data better? How can we teach kids to deal with data better? Sarah Morris from the nonprofit Nuclear Learning Network has some...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2018
  • Length: 25:06
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From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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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
Are All-Girls Engineering Classes Different?
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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Teachers at all-girls schools might have insights on how to engage more young people – especially girls – into engineering. Several teachers at The...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2017
  • Length: 52:36
Sex prescribed as Medicine with Dr Nicole Prause Phd. a Neuroscientist researching human sexual behavior and the physiology of sexual response
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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Sex prescribed as Medicine with Dr Nicole Prause Phd. a Neuroscientist researching human sexual behavior and the physiology of sexual response. Th...

Bought by WCNY and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Oct 16, 2017
  • Length: 27:04
  • Purchases: 2
Visiting Engineers Virtually
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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How can teachers expose their students to more engineering role models? What do they do if they don’t have time to arrange visits and field trips? ...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2017
  • Length: 15:22
Active Learning in Computer Science
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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We talk strategies for teaching computer science (CS), with Dr. Cynthia Taylor, a computer science professor at The University of Illinois at Chica...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2017
  • Length: 37:10
Autism in the Engineering Classroom
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
Caption: The cover art for this episode is full of origami cranes, and it is inspired by “the birds activity” from past podcast guest Ellen Browne, which Melanie describes at the end of this episode; it is also inspired by the colored puzzle pieces historically us, Credit: Pios Labs
In the big push for more engineers today, can we get them from autistic students? Research has shown that college students with autism spectrum dis...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWMR


  • Added: Aug 27, 2017
  • Length: 40:45
  • Purchases: 2
What Exists?
From: Closer to Truth
Series: Closer To Truth Radio Hour
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Quantum Mechanics seems to be at the bedrock of reality, but it’s tricky to study – because observing things in the quantum world affects them. In ...

Bought by WCNY, KGOU, CHSR-FM 97.9, WPSU, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 53:52
  • Purchases: 6
How Did the Universe Begin?
From: Closer to Truth
Series: Closer To Truth Radio Hour
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How did the Universe start? And where is it going? The answers may help us assess whether the Cosmos has meaning and purpose. In part one, we ask: ...

Bought by WCNY, KGOU, CHSR-FM 97.9, WPSU, WCPN and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 53:50
  • Purchases: 6
Can ESP Reveal a New Reality?
From: Closer to Truth
Series: Closer To Truth Radio Hour
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Extra-sensory perception seems like the stuff of fantasy, but should the possibility be taken seriously? In part one we ask, Can ESP Reveal a New R...

Bought by WCNY, KTSW 89.9, KGOU, CHSR-FM 97.9, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 53:52
  • Purchases: 7
Can Mind Heal the Body?
From: Closer to Truth
Series: Closer To Truth Radio Hour
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It’s common to think of Brain and Mind as two separate things that can influence each other. But is that right? And how far can such influence go? ...

Bought by KGOU, CHSR-FM 97.9, WPSU, WCPN, and KWMR


  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 53:52
  • Purchases: 5
How are Brains Structured?
From: Closer to Truth
Series: Closer To Truth Radio Hour
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The Brain is an unfathomably complex organ, and science continually reveals more fascinating information about it. In part one, we ask: How Are Bra...

Bought by KGOU, CHSR-FM 97.9, WPSU, KREV-LP, KVNF and more


  • Added: Jul 10, 2017
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 7
Is Free Will an Illusion?
From: Closer to Truth
Series: Closer To Truth Radio Hour
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We all feel like free agents on the inside: in control of our behavior, our decisions, our lives. But does that feeling reflect reality? In part on...

Bought by KGOU, CHSR-FM 97.9, WPSU, KWMR, and WCPN


  • Added: Jul 10, 2017
  • Length: 53:52
  • Purchases: 5
What Would an Infinite Cosmos Mean?
From: Closer to Truth
Series: Closer To Truth Radio Hour
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We know that our Universe is unfathomably large, but could it be literally infinite in size? In part one, we ask: What Would an Infinite Cosmos Mea...

Bought by KGOU, CHSR-FM 97.9, WPSU, KWMR, and WCPN


  • Added: Jul 07, 2017
  • Length: 53:52
  • Purchases: 5
How Many Universes Exist?
From: Closer to Truth
Series: Closer To Truth Radio Hour
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Could it be that our Universe is not the only one? In fact, many scientists believe it is not. In part one, we ask: How Many Universes Exist? If we...

Bought by KGOU, CHSR-FM 97.9, WPSU, WCPN, KREV-LP and more


  • Added: Jul 07, 2017
  • Length: 53:51
  • Purchases: 6
Will the Universe Ever End?
From: Closer to Truth
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It’s hard to imagine that everything we see and know – the entire, vast, incomprehensibly large universe – might one day cease to exist. In part on...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2017
  • Length: 53:51
The Knee Show! Surgery or not to Surgery?! With Evan Peck MD Cleveland Clinic Sports Medicine Orthopedics , along side Physical Therapy Experts Lisa Fossett & Holly Whitford
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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The Knee Show! Surgery or not to Surgery?! With Evan Peck MD Cleveland Clinic Sports Medicine Orthopedics division , along side Physical Therapy Ex...

Bought by WCNY and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 06, 2017
  • Length: 26:56
  • Purchases: 2