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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
The Evolution of Evolution
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: The Evolution of Evolution, Credit: Seth Shostak
Move over, Darwin. With genetic engineering, we can make radical changes to species in just one generation. As humans begin to tinker with their ...

Bought by KUNM, XRAY.fm, KVNF, WXDU, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 12, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
When Mountain Lions Are Neighbors
From: Gordon Whiting
Series: In Deep with Angie Coiro: Live at Kepler's
Caption: Angie Coiro, author Beth Pratt Bergstrom and California mountain lion P-22, Credit: Gordon Whiting
Did you know that a mountain lion, known as P-22, lives in the middle of Los Angeles, that the Facebook campus in Silicon Valley provided a home fo...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:01
  • Purchases: 1
Secret of Our Success -- Groks Science Show 2016-08-03
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Joseph Henrich discussed How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 04, 2016
  • Length: 24:50
  • Purchases: 1
Raising the Minimum Age
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Raising the Minimum Age, Credit: Seth Shostak
We all try to fight it: the inexorable march of time. The fountain of youth doesn’t exist, and all those wrinkle creams can’t help. But modern sc...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WRIR and more


  • Added: Jul 18, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Microbes: Resistance is Futile
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Microbes: Resistance is Futile, Credit: Seth Shostak
You have more microbial DNA than human DNA. Find out what questions this raises about what it means to be an individual, how your microbiome can ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRIR, and WRGY


  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Surfeit of the Vitalist
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Surfeit of the Vitalest, Credit: Seth Shostak
In the century and a half since Charles Darwin wrote his seminal On the Origin of the Species, our understanding of evolution has changed quite a b...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WRIR, and WRGY


  • Added: Apr 11, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Your Brain on Stories: part one
From: Battery Radio
Series: Your Brain on Stories
Caption: Cave art in Lascaux, France
Your Brain on Stories examines how storytelling could have given early humans a critical evolutionary advantage. Is homo sapiens really homo fictus...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 19, 2016
  • Length: 52:01
  • Purchases: 2
Your Brain on Stories: part two
From: Battery Radio
Series: Your Brain on Stories
Caption: Cave art in Lascaux, France
Your Brain on Stories examines how storytelling could have given early humans a critical evolutionary advantage. Is homo sapiens really homo fictus...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 19, 2016
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 2
Who's Controlling Whom?
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Who's Controlling Whom?, Credit: Seth Shostak
Ants exhibit the kind of swarm behavior that is the model for the next generation of tiny robots. But biology can get hijacked: a fungus can seize...

Bought by WUFT, RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WRIR, and WRGY


  • Added: Mar 14, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Why Are Plants Green?
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The dominance of green chlorophyll on Earth may have come after a more purple period.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KENW, WEZU, and WLPR


  • Added: Feb 29, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 4
Giant Armadillos
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: An extinct glyptodont., Credit: Carl Buell
DNA evidence reveals that the enormous armored glyptodont, an extinct South American mammal, was a close cousin to modern armadillos.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KENW, and WLPR


  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
Dance: It's Only Human
From: Katie Burke
Caption: Oxford University evolutionary psychologist Bronwyn Tarr with Carimbó dancers., Credit: José Roberto Corrêa
Evolutionary neuroscientist Bronwyn Tarr was in a remote area of Brazil to begin an experiment. On her first night there, she heard distant drumbea...

Bought by PRX Remix and KUER


  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 09:30
  • Purchases: 2
Apt to Adapt
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Apt to Adapt, Credit: Seth Shostak
Humans are changing their environment faster than their genes can keep pace. This has led to a slew of diseases, from backache to diabetes, says o...

Bought by KUNM, WRGY, WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer, and WRIR


  • Added: Jan 11, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
You Think; You're So Smart
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: You Think; You're So Smart, Credit: Seth Shostak
Sure you have a big brain; it's the hallmark of Homo sapiens. But that doesn't mean that you've cornered the market on intelligence. Michael Pol...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WRIR, WRGY and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Birds are Evolving Rapidly--Today
From: BirdNote
Caption: House Finches, Credit: Larry Selman
House Finches are evolving rapidly and visibly. In 1941, some captive House Finches from California escaped near NYC. They spread rapidly and are n...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2015
  • Length: 01:45
Happily Confused
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Happily Confused, Credit: Seth Shostak
Do you feel happy today? How about happily disgusted? Maybe sadly surprised, or sadly disgusted? Human emotions are complex. But at least they’...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRIR and more


  • Added: Nov 30, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Skeptic Check: Paleo Diet
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Paleo Diet, Credit: Seth Shostak
Followers of the Paleo diet say we should eat what our ancestors ate 10,000 years ago, when our genes were perfectly in synch with the environment....

Bought by WRGY, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer, and WRIR


  • Added: Nov 16, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Smiley Virus
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Smiley Virus, Credit: Gary Niederhoff
For many, the word virus is a synonym for disease – diseases of humans, plants, and even computers. And yet the vast majority of viruses are not o...

Bought by WMUU-LP, 91.7 WHUS Storrs, WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer, WRGY and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Civil rights lawyer & ordained minister Barry W Lynn, author of “God and Government”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
Piece image
A central player in every major church-state-separation battle for decades, the author describes political issues of the day, the new influence of ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 14, 2015
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 1
Skeptic Check: What, We Worry?
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: What, We Worry?, Credit: Seth Shostak
We all have worries. But as trained observers, scientists learn things that can affect us all. So what troubles them should also trouble us. Fro...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, WUFT, KKWE Niijii Radio, WYAP, KREV-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Stranded
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Stranded, Credit: Seth Shostak
Imagine not knowing where you are – and no one else knowing either. Today, that’s pretty unlikely. Digital devices pinpoint our location within ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, 91.7 WHUS Storrs, WMUU-LP, WRIR, WRGY and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Pest of Us
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: The Pest of Us, Credit: Seth Shostak
Picture a cockroach skittering across your kitchen. Eeww. Now imagine it served as an entrée at your local restaurant. There’s good reason these ...

Bought by 91.7 WHUS Storrs, WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer, WRIR, WRGY and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Skeptic Check: Are You Sure You're Sure?
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Are You Sure You're Sure?, Credit: Seth Shostak
You know what you know. But you probably don’t know what you don’t know. Few of us do. Scientists say we’re spectacularly incompetent at recogni...

Bought by WVTF, KSKQ, 91.7 WHUS Storrs, RadioFreePalmer, KRPS and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Bats & Pitcher Plants
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The echo of a pitcher plant helps bats find safety and helps the plant get food.

Bought by KENW and WLPR


  • Added: Jul 12, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2