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Ronny Dawson discusses alien home invasion and contactee experiences

From: Ray Samuels

In this episode of The Etiquette Show, Ronny Dawson discusses an alien home invasion and his close encounter experiences.

Big Rockets and Little LightSails

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Space Launch System on the Launchpad, Credit: NASA

Digital editor Jason Davis is a lucky guy. He follows and reports on human spaceflight progress, as well as the progress of the LightSail solar sai...

Bought by WRGY, KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP and more

“Duping Delight” and Who’s Likely to Lie? (Half Hour Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

While lie detectors are highly accurate, they’re also expensive. An expert in cyber security has developed a way to actually predict a person's pro...

Bought by WJCT, KRDP, WLIW, Accessible Media Inc. Station Account, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more

Saving the Bay starting with the Clapper Rail

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Caption: A California Clapper Rail at Arrowhead Marsh, MLK Regional Shoreline, Oakland, CA., Credit: Len Blumin

The California Clapper Rail is a bird that likes to be heard, but not seen. But today, on this windy morning at Arrowhead Marsh in Oakland, they ar...

Healing Power of Curcumin (Feature)

From: With Good Reason
Series: news features

Some people eat ginger to calm their stomachs, and Peter Rabbit’s mother gave him a dose of chamomile tea to cure his ailments. One Virginia resear...

Bought by KENW, WABE, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WXDU

Teaching Intelligence (Feature)

From: With Good Reason
Series: news features

As the son of the great civil rights attorney, Oliver Hill Sr., Oliver Hill Jr. knows a thing or two about fighting for equality. He says that toda...

Bought by KENW, WABE, and WXDU

Nuts and Bolts: Our Brains on STEM (Half Hour Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

What if you could change not just how much you know, but your actual intelligence?

Bought by WJCT and KVSC

East Coast Volcanoes (Feature)

From: With Good Reason

Hundreds of millions of years ago, tectonic plates were shifting and volcanoes erupted along the Eastern Coast of the United States. But discoverie...

Bought by PRX Remix

Edna the Engineer and National Security

From: With Good Reason
Series: news features

Caption: Secretaries, housewives, waitresses, women from all over central Florida are getting into vocational schools to learn war work. Typical are these in the Daytona Beach branch of the Volusia county vocational school., Credit: National Archives and Records Administration

A recent science test showing that American girls are lagging behind boys has brought women in science back into the national conversation. More th...

Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Radio Newark, and New Hampshire Public Radio

International Testing in Science and Math

From: With Good Reason
Series: news features

In response to international tests that show American students lagging, a number of programs supporting the study of science, technology, engineeri...

Bought by KENW, KFAI Minneapolis, and New Hampshire Public Radio

Brain Injury and Couples

From: With Good Reason

Five times as many people get a brain injury than are diagnosed with breast cancer, and the aftermath of a traumatic brain injury can be devastatin...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh

West Nile and Birds

From: With Good Reason
Series: news features

This year’s outbreak of the West Nile virus is breaking records, with over 1500 cases reported so far. One researcher believes that decreasing the ...

Bought by KENW