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Laugh and then think: What it's like to win the Ig Nobel Prize
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, meet three Ig Nobel Prize winners! Their achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.

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  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
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Science unscripted (Spectrum) 11/23/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Forcing people to vaccinate is not an appealing option — at all. It might happen anyway.

  • Added: Nov 26, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 11/16/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: There really are two different pills you'll be able to take soon if you catch the coronavirus. Also, why don't people trust...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 10/19/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The evidence is in. Just by focusing your thoughts every day, you really can reduce the stress inside your body. Also, a wi...

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  • Added: Oct 22, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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Science unscripted (Spectrum) 10/05/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: How do astronauts deal with their sex drives when they're up in space for months on end? And why is it so embarrassing to ...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 06/22/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Is it fair to say you've been outraged by some of the risky things you've seen people doing during this pandemic? And is it...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 06/15/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Will mutations change our vaccination strategy? Also, a controversial step in the fight against Alzheimer's, and how to tel...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 04/20/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Just how high are the number of COVID-19 infections that happen inside compared to outside? So high that aerosol experts ar...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 11/24/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Gabe makes a house call with Conor in quarantine to find out he's tested negative for the coronavirus. But he's not out of ...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum 08/27/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Intercourse and the art of communication - People who are good with emojis have more sex, but hold your emoji horses befo...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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Spectrum 08/20/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Just imagine it - A new study shows you can "imagine" your way toward liking a place more than you do right now, how to i...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum 07/30/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Hands and feet - You know what's better than five fingers? Six. We look at this strange new research and talk to a "po...

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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Spectrum 07/10/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Spectrum: All bugs are just dust in the wind - An unbelievable collection of data gathered by the entomological society in Krefeld shows that ...

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  • Added: Jul 11, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
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Spectrum 07/03/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Spectrum: Marijuana, sex, soccer and sleep - On this week's show: If Marijuana can make old mice brains younger, does that work with humans too?...

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  • Added: Jul 04, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
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Spectrum 03/27/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Spectrum: Things you have to think about when eating in zero gravity - Can you eat rice in space? Do we digest food differently in zero g's? An...

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
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Job Talk Episode 19
From: Paul Russell
Series: Job Talk
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Today we study the tricks of writing bad letters of recommendation and Dave & Doug talk to a professor of psychology about meeting the needs of her...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2017
  • Length: 23:12
Spinoffs! Sharing NASA Technology
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA Spinoff 2016 Book, Credit: NASA
In its nearly five decades, NASA has created or improved thousands of technologies, processes and innovations. Dan Lockney is in charge of making ...

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  • Added: Sep 05, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
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Sailing the Canyons of Titan
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Cassini radar image of flooded canyons on Titan, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/Cornell
Steep canyons on Saturn's moon Titan are filled with liquid methane. That's the discovery just announced by an international team of Cassini scient...

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  • Added: Aug 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
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The Royal Observatory, Greenwich and the Quest for Longitude
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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Come with us on a visit to the home of the prime meridian for a conversation with the curator of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich about the race to...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
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Planetary Radio Live-New Horizons Phones Home From Pluto!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Mat Kaplan and guests at KPCC waiting for New Horizons to phone home from Pluto., Credit: Southern California Public Radio
Join our live audience for highlights of an amazing evening, featuring Jim Bell, Bruce Betts, Mike Brown, Emily Lakdawalla and Bill Nye the Science...

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
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Getting Humans to Mars with Chris Carberry
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The first human steps onto Mars in this illustration from the 2015 Humans to Mars Report., Credit: Explore Mars, Inc.
Explore Mars revealed the 2015 Humans to Mars Report at a recent conference in Washington. CEO Chris Carberry gives us a quick tour of this realist...

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  • Added: Jun 01, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
The Honourable Timothy Palmer on Dung Beetles
From: Blanche Girouard
Series: English Enthusiasts
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Oral historian Blanche Girouard talks to the Hon Timothy Palmer about his enthusiasm for dung beetles.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2015
  • Length: 28:25
Recipe for a Small Planet
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of exoplanet Kepler -186f., Credit: Wikipedia
Astronomer and planetary scientist Courtney Dressing is the lead author of research that may have found the formula for the mass and composition of...

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
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A MESSENGER From Mercury-Principal Investigator Sean Solomon
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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MESSENGER is the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging mission that has been orbiting the innermost planet for more than thr...

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
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That Water in Your Glass May be Older Than the Sun
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Researchers have theorized that up to half of Earth's water is older than the sun. It likely formed in the cold molecular cloud that spawned our solar system., Credit: Bill Saxton, NSF/AUI/NRAO
Ilse Cleeves is lead author of a paper that concludes up to half of our solar system’s water is older than the solar system itself. The implication...

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  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:50
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