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Today we talk with neuroscientist and Smithsonian Associate Kevin Mitchell about how research into the brain’s inner workings has complicated the w...
- Added: Sep 23, 2023
- Length: 30:17
Hollywood has been slow to include climate in its stories. Executives fear it won’t sell – that it’s too overwhelming or depressing. Apple TV+ has ...
Bought by Maine Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KGUA and more
- Added: Apr 27, 2023
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 10
Hollywood has been slow to include climate in its stories. Executives fear it won’t sell – that it’s too overwhelming or depressing. Apple TV+ has ...
- Added: Apr 27, 2023
- Length: 58:56
Can our sense of smell tell us things that our other senses can’t?
Bought by KMUN, WNED Buffalo, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, KTSW 89.9 and more
- Added: Mar 27, 2023
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 6
- Added: Mar 10, 2020
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
The incredible never-before-heard sounds of the AFSMPT (Amazing Futuristic Scanning Machine Process Technology) :48
- Added: Oct 10, 2019
- Length: :47
How can we harness the power of games for education? In Part 1 of the episode, the podcast explores how the PAX South 2017 gaming conference inspi...
- Added: May 05, 2018
- Length: 40:18
Celebrating the world's most famous theoretical physicist, author of A Brief History of Time and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Camb...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Mar 20, 2018
- Length: 58:54
- Purchases: 1
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
The star... the origin and history of the Christmas tree... and oh, it's a wonderful life!
- Added: Dec 11, 2017
- Length: 02:27:46
A sci-fi television series that debuted ahead of Star Trek in 1966... and a settlement constructed by gold miners in 1850 in a brand new state, sti...
- Added: Aug 15, 2017
- Length: 02:22:46
Live from the floor of the Javitz Center for Star Trek 50 New York
- Added: Sep 27, 2016
- Length: 54:00
Biocontrol feels like the pinnacle of human arrogance. We’re trying to play God, taking a delicately balanced ecosystem and stomping all over it w...
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- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 29:35
- Purchases: 1
Psychologist Jeffrey Zacks explains why people (even psychologists!) get so emotionally involved in movies.
Bought by KUER, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 25, 2016
- Length: 12:00
- Purchases: 4
It's the sequel! Psychologist Jeff Zacks returns to explain how our eyes and brains make sense of continuous movie edits.
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 25, 2016
- Length: 11:39
- Purchases: 3
He developed a prevailing theory of gravity and labored over calculations concerning the end of the world, but had no use for women! Sir Isaac Newton
- Added: Sep 23, 2015
- Length: 02:52:14
Can you remember what it was like for you to learn your native language? Probably not, but why is that?
As humans, we begin learning to speak our...
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- Added: Sep 12, 2014
- Length: 07:20
- Purchases: 1
Ever wonder what Westeros looked like long before the Starks, Baratheons, Lannisters, or Targaryens roamed its surface? How far back can we really ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 10, 2014
- Length: 05:07
- Purchases: 1
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
So how do we define delusion? Well, actually, like most other things, that definition can be left up to the person who is doing the defining. Mer...
- Added: Nov 28, 2013
- Length: 07:20
Failure is a scary word that carries a very negative connotation. “I’m a failure.” “He’s a failure.” “I don’t want to be a failure.” The word ‘...
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- Added: Oct 18, 2013
- Length: 08:00
- Purchases: 1
One month after the Mayan apocalypse of 2012, the Generation Anthropocene team of Leslie Chang, Mike Osborne, and Miles Traer chat about the relati...
- Added: Apr 14, 2013
- Length: 23:30
Prerna Gupta, a vocalist and the Chief Product Officer of Smule, a startup that creates digital tools for singers like Songify and AutoRap, talks a...
- Added: Mar 04, 2013
- Length: 58:59
Episode 3 - 2/23/13 - What would happen if someone stole the One True Kilogram? How would the world go about replacing – or displacing – it? Today,...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 12:52
Temple Grandin is considered one of the 100 most influential people in the country. SQ Radio presents an interview with Temple Grandin at her home ...
- Added: Dec 20, 2011
- Length: 24:56
