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Tech in Check
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Tech in Check, Credit: public domain
Worried that AI will replace you? It may not seem like the Hollywood writers’ strike has anything in common with the Luddite rebellion in England i...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KBBI Alaska, WRGY, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Iron, Coal, Wood
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Iron, Coal, Wood, Credit: Seth Shostak
The first coal-fired stoves changed domestic life, and that changed society. We take you back to that that era, and to millennia prior when iron wa...

Bought by Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KZUM, KBBI Alaska, WRGY, CHSR-FM 97.9 and more


  • Added: Dec 25, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Destroyer of Worlds
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
Piece image
Jess speaks with Oppenheimer biographer Kai Bird about one of Earth's most influential humans and his scientific and political legacies.

  • Added: Jul 25, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Measure For Measure
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Measure For Measure, Credit: Seth Shostak
Whether in miles or pounds, meters or kilograms, we take daily measure out our lives. But how did these units ever come to be, and why do we want t...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, CHSR-FM 97.9, WRGY, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KSKQ and more


  • Added: Jul 24, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Ethnocide -- Groks Science Show 2023-07-12
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Barrett Holmes Pitner discussed ethnocide.

Bought by KDX Worldround Radio and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 12, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Ice -- Groks Science Show 2023-06-21
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Amy Brady discussed the history of ice.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Ears Have It
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: The Ears Have It, Credit: Seth Shostak
What’s the difference between a bird call and the sound of a pile driver? Not much, when you’re close to the loudest bird ever. Also, how everyda...

Bought by KIYU-FM, CHSR-FM 97.9, WRGY, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Jun 12, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Origin Stories
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
Piece image
How race was invented to support racism.

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 33:44
Suffrage -- Groks Science Show 2023-04-26
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Ellen Carol Dubois discussed her new book, Suffrage.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Skeptic Check: Understanding UAPs
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Understanding UAPs, Credit: Adobe Stock free image
The newest Pentagon report on UAPs – or Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon – reflects long standing public interest about what’s in our skies. Now, NAS...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], CHSR-FM 97.9, WRGY and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Headed for Trouble
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Headed for Trouble, Credit: Seth Shostak
The stone heads on Easter Island are an enduring mystery: why were they built and why were they abandoned and destroyed? The old ideas about cultu...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, WRGY, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KZUM and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2023
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 12
AMOS 23.011: Vitamines and Vitamins, 1/16/2023
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Vitamines and Vitamins

  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
Karluk Expedition -- Groks Science Show 2022-12-28
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Buddy Levy discussed his new book, Empire of Ice and Stone.

Bought by KDX Worldround Radio and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 28, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Pirate Evolution -- Groks Science Show 2022-11-23
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Rebecca Simon discussed her book, Why We Love Pirates.

Bought by KDX Worldround Radio and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
American Demon -- Groks Science Show 2022-09-21
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Daniel Stashower discussed his new book, American Demon.

Bought by KDX Worldround Radio and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Skeptic Check: Shared Reality
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Shared Reality, Credit: Seth Shostak
One of the many shocking aspects of the Capitol attack was that it revealed how thoroughly the nation had cleaved into alternate realities. How did...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WLPR , WGBH Radio Boston, KCPW Salt Lake City, WVTF and more


  • Added: Jul 25, 2022
  • Length: 54:04
  • Purchases: 21
December 41 -- Groks Science Show 2022-07-06
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
William Martin discusses his new book, December '41.

Bought by WYAP and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 06, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Timekeeping History -- Groks Science Show 2022-03-02
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Chad Orzel discussed his book, A Brief History of Timekeeping.

Bought by KNCT FM and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Radical Cosmology
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Radical Cosmology, Credit: Seth Shostak
400 years ago, some ideas about the cosmos were too scandalous to mention. When the Dominican friar Giordano Bruno suggested the existence of plan...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, KZUM, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRGY, WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Pump -- Groks Science Show 2021-10-13
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Bill Schutt discussed his new book, Pump.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 13, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Water History -- Groks Science Show 2021-09-22
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Giulio Boccaletti discussed the history of water.

Bought by WYAP and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 22, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Skeptic Check: Science Denial
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Science Denial, Credit: Seth Shostak
Climate change isn’t happening. Vaccines make you sick. When it comes to threats to public or environmental health, a surprisingly large fraction...

Bought by WVTF, CHSR-FM 97.9, WRGY, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Sep 20, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
True Grit
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: True Grit, Credit: Seth Shostak
Without sand, engineering would be stuck in the Middle Ages and Silicon Valley would be, well, just a valley. Sand is the building material of mod...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WVTF, CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRGY and more


  • Added: Aug 30, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
New Water Worlds
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: New Water Worlds, Credit: Seth Shostak
The water is coming. By century’s end, the oceans could be anywhere from 2 to 6 feet higher, threatening millions of people and low-lying property....

Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, KAZU Seaside, Calif., Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Plagued -- Groks Science Show 2021-06-16
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. John Froude discussed the history of pandemics in his new book, Plagued.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WYAP, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3