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Pugs
From: Colin Wright
Series: Let's Know Things
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This week we discuss brachycephalic dogs, maize, and birth control.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2017
  • Length: 38:41
AMOS 17.092: Purple Earth, 5/9/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Purple Earth

  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
Thinking About Thinking
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Thinking About Thinking, Credit: Seth Shostak
Thoughts about thinking: how scary-smart crows fashion tools and can recognize you by sight … scientists who simulated, neuron-by-neuron, a piece ...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WMUU-LP, XRAY.fm, WRIR, WRGY and more


  • Added: Feb 20, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
AMOS 17.089: Calypso Orchid: A Lure and a Tease, 5/4/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Calypso Orchid: A Lure and a Tease

  • Added: Feb 14, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 17.088: Ancient Birds vs. Giant Insects, 5/3/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Ancient Birds vs. Giant Insects

  • Added: Feb 14, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 17.087: Distracted from Survival, 5/2/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Distracted from Survival

  • Added: Feb 14, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
Going All to Species
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Going All to Species, Credit: Seth Shostak
The fossilized bones of Homo naledi are may hold a special place in our ancestry: a link between us and our ape-like ancestors. Some anthropologis...

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  • Added: Feb 13, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 26
AMOS 17.085: Ancient Sailors, 4/28/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Ancient Sailors

  • Added: Feb 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 17.069: Parrots in Siberia, 4/6/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Parrots in Siberia

  • Added: Feb 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 17.058: A Hyena's Sibling Rivalry, 3/22/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
A Hyena's Sibling Rivalry

  • Added: Feb 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 17.075: First Dinosaur Brain Fossil Discovered, 4/14/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
First Dinosaur Brain Fossil Discovered

  • Added: Feb 03, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 17.070: Earth's First Mass Extinction, 4/7/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Earth's First Mass Extinction

  • Added: Feb 03, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 17.068: Bloodthirsty Brains, 4/5/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Bloodthirsty Brains

  • Added: Feb 03, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 17.064: Plants Arming Themselves, 3/30/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Plants Arming Themselves

  • Added: Feb 03, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 17.049: Cockroach Milk, 3/9/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Cockroach Milk

  • Added: Jan 19, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 17.048: Cheating Cheetahs, 3/8/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Cheating Cheetahs

  • Added: Jan 19, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 17.043: Death by Thirst: Last of the Woolly Mammoths, 3/1/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Death by Thirst: Last of the Woolly Mammoths

  • Added: Jan 19, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 17.037: Coextinction, 2/21/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Coextinction

  • Added: Jan 19, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
How to Clone a Mammoth -- Groks Science Show 2017-01-18
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
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Beth Shapiro explains the science of de-extinction.

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  • Added: Jan 17, 2017
  • Length: 31:46
  • Purchases: 1
The Light Stuff
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: The Light Stuff, Credit: Seth Shostak
The light bulb needs changing. Edison’s incandescent bulb, virtually unaltered for more than a century, is now being eclipsed by the LED. The cre...

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  • Added: Jan 02, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 19
Skeptic Check: Fear Itself
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Fear Itself, Credit: Seth Shostak
Shhh. We have to make this quick. There are a lot of scary events going on in the world. You may also worry about the stuff they might not be tel...

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  • Added: Dec 19, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
What Lies Beneath
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: What Lies Beneath, Credit: Seth Shostak
What you can’t see may astound you. Beneath the oceans’ churning surface, oceanographers have recently discovered the largest volcano in the world...

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  • Added: Nov 28, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 24
Hidden History
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Hidden History, Credit: Seth Shostak
Archeologists continue to hunt for the city of Atlantis, even though it may never have existed. And paleontologists now suspect that it wasn’t jus...

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  • Added: Oct 31, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 18
Moral's Law
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Moral's Law, Credit: Seth Shostak
“If it bleeds, it leads” they say in the news biz. Indeed, headlines are often no more than a long list of moral atrocities. Yet one man argues t...

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  • Added: Oct 24, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 18
Sex Post Facto
From: Gary Niederhoff
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 KAZU Seaside, Calif. and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 19, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2