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559: Rewriting The Romance Script / 560: Love + Evolution (Live), 2/13/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Rewriting The Romance Script" - Love is in the air, as it has been every Valentine's Day since 496. And we're still trying to get it rig...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:58
Lucy
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Is autism a disability...or an evolutionary adaptation?

Bought by KFCF FM, KWMR, KMUN, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 25
Handling the Holidays
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Handling the Holidays, Credit: Seth Shostak
The stress of the holidays can make you want to hide under the covers with a warm cup of cocoa. From gift buying to family gatherings, the holiday...

Bought by WUFT, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KTXK, KZUM, WUFT and more


  • Added: Dec 21, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
Fire Clouds and Ice-teroids
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
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Upcoming asteroid missions will bring back samples from Bennu, and get up-close and personal with seven other small bodies to tell us how the solar...

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


  • Added: Dec 14, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Sex Post Facto
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Sex Post Facto, Credit: Seth Shostak
Birds do it, bees do it, but humans may not do it for much longer – at least not for having kids. Instead, babies will be made in the lab, with ge...

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


  • Added: Nov 16, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
525: Democracy On The Ballot / 526: Worshipping Waterfalls, 10/17/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Democracy On The Ballot" - We’re getting close to the next presidential election. And if you feel like the stakes are higher this time, ...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:58
521: Eye-To-Eye With Animals / 522: Magical Thinking, 10/3/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Eye-To-Eye With Animals" - Have you ever locked eyes with an animal in the wild? It can be a shattering experience. HOUR TWO: "Magical...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:58
Rebel Cell -- Groks Science Show 2020-09-02
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Kat Arney discussed her new book, Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution, and the Science of Life's Oldest Betrayal.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
The X-Flies
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
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Insects populations are declining. But before saying “good riddance,” consider that insects are essential to many ecosystems. Find out what might ...

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


  • Added: Aug 24, 2020
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 15
Skeptic Check: Know-It-Alls
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Know-It-Alls
Think you’re some kind of expert? Join the club. It’s one thing to question authority; another to offer up your untrained self as its replacement. ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, KUAC, KMUN, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Something in the Air
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Something in the Air, Credit: Seth Shostak
Our response to the virus is changing the air in unexpected ways. A pandemic-driven pause on travel has produced clear skies and a world-wide air q...

Bought by KUAC, KMUN, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRGY, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jul 20, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
COVID Curiosities
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: COVID Curiosities, Credit: Danielle Futselaar
Some dogs and cats have become sick with COVID. But it’s not just domestic critters that are vulnerable: zoo animals have fallen ill too. There’s m...

Bought by KMUN, CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, Royalton Community Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jul 13, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
Creative Brains
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Creative Brains, Credit: Seth Shostak
Many animals are industrious and clever, but humans are unique in their creative and inventive impulses. Composer Anthony Brandt and neuroscientist...

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


  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Animals Like Us
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Animals Like Us, Credit: Seth Shostak
Laughing rats, sorrowful elephants, joyful chimpanzees. The more carefully we observe, and the more we learn about animals, the closer their emoti...

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, KMUN, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Race and COVID
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Race and Covid
While citizens take to the streets to protest racist violence, the pandemic has its own brutal inequities. Black, Latino, and Native American peopl...

Bought by KWMR, CHSR-FM 97.9, KMUN, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 08, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Soap, Skin, Sleep
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Soap, Skin, Sleep, Credit: Seth Shostak
Some safeguards against COVID-19 don’t require a medical breakthrough. Catching sufficient Z’s makes for a healthy immune system. And, while you wa...

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, KMUN, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Gained in Translation
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
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Hey, Alexa, why don’t you laugh at my jokes? Teaching a computer to recognize humor is difficult because no clear definition of humor exists. Send...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WUFT, CHSR-FM 97.9, KMUN, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more


  • Added: May 25, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
To the Bat Cave
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: To the Bat Cave
To fight a pandemic, you first need to understand where a virus comes from. That quest takes disease ecologist Jon Epstein to gloomy caverns where ...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, KTRT RADIO INC, KMUN, WUFT, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: May 11, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
Let's Take a Paws
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Let's Take a Paws, Credit: Seth Shostak
Humans aren’t the only animals stressed-out by social distancing. Narwhals send out echolocation clicks to locate their buddies and ease their lon...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., CHSR-FM 97.9, WRGY, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Mar 30, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
How Bad Does It Have to Get?
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
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“Climate change at warp speed” is the way one scientist described the coronavirus outbreak. Recorded before a live audience at the Seattle AAAS mee...

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, Royalton Community Radio, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Spectrum 03/17/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: What would you ask a Neanderthal? - We can bring Neanderthals back, a la Jurassic Park, with technologies we have today....

  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
Skeptic Check: Pandemic Fear
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Pandemic Fear, Credit: Seth Shostak
Contagion aside, coronavirus is a powerful little virus. It has prompted a global experiment in behavior modification: elbow bumps instead of hand...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, Royalton Community Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRGY and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 21
AMOS 20.48: How Butterflies Found a Place in the Sun, 3/6/2020
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
How Butterflies Found a Place in the Sun

  • Added: Feb 21, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
455: Outside The Mental Illness Box / 456: Love + Evolution (Live), 2/15/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Outside The Mental Illness Box" - There must be another way to treat mental illness. Exercise? Horror movies? LSD? This hour, think outs...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:57
453: Eye-To-Eye With Animals / 454: Is Capitalism Broken?, 2/8/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Eye-To-Eye With Animals" - Have you ever locked eyes with an animal in the wild? It can be a shattering experience. HOUR TWO: "Is Capi...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:57