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How to build life from scratch… seriously! Hear the various steps in the process. Warning: This episode is chemically intense.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 26, 2012
- Length: 09:43
- Purchases: 1
In the news: Moody's and Standard & Poor's to be responsible for rating new drugs.
- Added: Aug 23, 2012
- Length: 06:07
The CIGARETTE is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. Few discoveries have been so consequential. So begins the work by his...
- Added: Aug 19, 2012
- Length: 28:54
George Adamson could think like a lion and be like a lion. David Coulson describes a terrifying experience with George and Maggie and Dennis? Maggi...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 05:19
Across the country, a renaissance of local food, local farming and place based culinary traditions is taking hold. Yet, something small, critically...
- Added: Aug 07, 2012
- Length: 28:57
We’re very excited to have a return visit from our dear friend Glenn Berger PhD. Yes, he’s back for another discussion about us, our minds, how we ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2012
- Length: 28:02
NASA's Chief historian, Bill Barry discusses the impact each generation has had on the space program.
Bought by KVSC and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Jul 23, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
How small and how large can life be? Hear scientists consider various answers to these questions and even attempt to convince you that life can be ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 19, 2012
- Length: 10:49
- Purchases: 2
Join us as we speak with paleoecologist extraordinaire, Margaret B. Davis. She is one of the world’s foremost scholars of palynology, a branch of p...
- Added: Jul 11, 2012
- Length: 27:59
What is life? In the first installment of our "origin of life" topic, hear various attempts to define life and ponder the life of the internet.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 09, 2012
- Length: 14:59
- Purchases: 2
Fewer than 800 Mountain Gorillas remain making them one the world's most endangered species. For more than 20 years people around the world have be...
- Added: Jun 20, 2012
- Length: 11:06
The history of aquaculture from the mid-20th century to the present.
- Added: Jun 13, 2012
- Length: 16:26
Ever wonder why some leaders appear unwilling to pay attention to others' feelings? Ever wonder why a particular person really upsets you and you c...
- Added: May 20, 2012
- Length: 54:01
IEEE Spectrum Radio takes your listeners around the globe to find the fastest things on earth.
Bought by KTSW 89.9, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KMXT, Marfa Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more
- Added: May 17, 2012
- Length: 59:03
- Purchases: 13
The story of the late Dr. Robert Baker, famous food scientist at Cornell, who invented the chicken nugget.
- Added: May 07, 2012
- Length: 21:53
Pharmaceutical companies, according to Dr. David Healy, have hijacked healthcare in America, and the results are life threatening. Healy looks at t...
- Added: May 01, 2012
- Length: 29:00
In its 2001 report on global climate, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations prominently featured the “Hockey Stick,” ...
- Added: Apr 17, 2012
- Length: 28:59
Into the national conversation about climate change and our planet's natural resources comes The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing About ...
- Added: Apr 10, 2012
- Length: 28:40
What do the poisoned Emperor Claudius, the Aztec storm deity Quetzacotl and a 5,500 year old Ice Man have in common? They were all crazy about mush...
- Added: Mar 14, 2012
- Length: 01:02:07
- Purchases: 3
If you click the little play arrow down there you’ll be able to join us as we speak with Sheril Kirshenbaum, author and science writer. Besides bei...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Feb 22, 2012
- Length: 28:03
- Purchases: 1
Here it is, another new show! This time we speak with George Bradley. He is a master of herpetology, meaning he collects, manages, identifies and p...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Feb 08, 2012
- Length: 28:03
- Purchases: 1
We stroll through the history of causal thought in medicine (and science) and entertain an alternative approach that is getting some traction in ph...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 30, 2011
- Length: 12:08
- Purchases: 2
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
Why can’t you predict the weather in a few days in advance? In this short, we explore the fundamental unknowable nature of chaotic systems. Then we...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 19, 2011
- Length: 14:51
- Purchases: 1
My guest this hour is Steven Pinker, who has written a game-changer on the little matter of how quickly humanity is headed for hell or redemption. ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Dec 13, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
