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Episode 5
From: Don Hill
Series: Haunted House, Haunted Mind
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Not your usual ghost story. Journalist & broadcaster Don Hill investigates a haunted house—his own.

  • Added: Sep 18, 2022
  • Length: 13:45
Episode 4
From: Don Hill
Series: Haunted House, Haunted Mind
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Not your usual ghost story. Journalist & broadcaster Don Hill investigates a haunted house—his own.

  • Added: Sep 18, 2022
  • Length: 19:34
Episode 2
From: Don Hill
Series: Haunted House, Haunted Mind
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Not your usual ghost story. Journalist & broadcaster Don Hill investigates a haunted house—his own.

  • Added: Sep 18, 2022
  • Length: 32:31
Episode 1
From: Don Hill
Series: Haunted House, Haunted Mind
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Not your usual ghost story. Journalist & broadcaster Don Hill investigates a haunted house—his own.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2022
  • Length: 20:50
The Future of Learning: What Do We Know About the Brain Today?
From: After the Fact
Series: The Future of Learning
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In the first part of our new series, you’ll travel with guest host Ray Suarez to the Brainwave Learning Center, a partnership with Stanford Univers...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jul 08, 2020
  • Length: 20:46
  • Purchases: 1
Jasmine Lock
From: KXCI
Series: Thesis Thursday
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My name is Jasmine Lock and I am studying neuroscience and cognitive science at the University of Arizona. I work in Dr. Zelieann Craig’s lab which...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2019
  • Length: 04:03
Enchanted Hour -- Groks Science Show 2019-01-23
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Meghan Cox Gurdon discussed the power of reading aloud.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2019
  • Length: 24:06
Rerouting... Rerouting
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Rerouting... Rerouting, Credit: Seth Shostak
With GPS, we can navigate unfamiliar cities. Without GPS, we might not find our way home. Scientists say that our reliance on dashboard devices is...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer, KCSB-FM, WUFT and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Sleepyhead -- Groks Science Show 2018-09-12
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Henry Nicholls discussed the neuroscience of sleep.

  • Added: Sep 11, 2018
  • Length: 30:56
Time on Your Side
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Time on Your Side, Credit: Seth Shostak
Time passes like an arrow, but what if flew like a boomerang? Find out how scientists are working to reverse time’s most relentless march: aging. ...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., Royalton Community Radio, KBBI Alaska, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCSB-FM and more


  • Added: May 28, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Tracing Brain Circuits for Mental Health
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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Neuroscience research needs help from many fields, including engineering. Dr. Talia Lerner describes some of the engineering tools that she uses to...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2018
  • Length: 31:00
Brain Dust
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Brain Dust, Credit: Seth Shostak
The brain is a hot research topic, but despite all efforts, your grey matter largely remains a black box – an indecipherable web of neurons with a ...

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


  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Friendship on the Brain
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
Caption: Close friends show similar brain patterns., Credit: Pexels/CC0
Close friends show similar brain patterns.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, KTSW 89.9, KENW and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 6
Are Animals Really That Smart?
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Are Animals Really That Smart?, Credit: Seth Shostak
Find out how housecats manage to wrap their owners around their paws, and primatologist Frans de Waal on the surprising smarts of chimps, elephants...

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, WUFT, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 19
DIY Diagnosis
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: DIY Diagnosis, Credit: Seth Shostak
You can use your DNA to explore your genetic health – but are you ready for what you might find when your genome is sequenced? Plus, practitioners...

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, WMUU-LP, Royalton Community Radio, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Dec 25, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
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
They Know Who You Are
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: They Know Who You Are, Credit: Seth Shostak
You’re a private person. But as long as you’re on-line and have skin and hair, you’re shedding little bits of data and DNA everywhere you go. Fin...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer, KTSW 89.9, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Aug 22, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Skeptic Check: After the Hereafter
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: After the Hereafter, Credit: Seth Shostak
There are few enduring truths, but one is that no one gets out of life alive. What’s less certain is what comes next. Does everything stop with d...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KREV-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer, and WRGY


  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Science Fiction True
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Science Fiction True, Credit: Seth Shostak
Don’t believe everything you see on the screen. Science fiction film is just a guess as to how our future might unfold. But sometimes fantasy be...

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


  • Added: Jul 04, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Shocking Ideas
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Shocking Ideas, Credit: Seth Shostak
Innovation in the use of electricity continues long after the days of Edison and Tesla. Find out why the invention of the blue LED was worthy of a...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer, WRIR, and WRGY


  • Added: May 09, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Replace What Ails You
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Replace What Ails You, Credit: Seth Shostak
Germs can make us sick, but we didn’t know about these puny pathogens prior to the end of the 19th century. Germ theory and antibiotics created a...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRGY, RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WRIR and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
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
A Neuron Channel Makes You Dumb
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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New research reveals a strange fact – a special type of neuron channel (HCN) makes us dumb. Hear about basic neuron mechanics and the supposed func...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 22, 2015
  • Length: 07:18
  • Purchases: 2
Forget to Remember
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Forget to Remember, Credit: Seth Shostak
You must not remember this. Indeed, forgetting may be key to having a healthy brain. Our gray matter evolved to forget things, yet we’re building...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, KSFR, WRGY, WPSU and more


  • Added: Jul 13, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
How We Hurt Learning
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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A short episode about the things that hurt the learning process: why distractions are distracting and the conflict your brain encounters when given...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 03, 2015
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 2