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Chickens can communicate emotions (like exasperation), and we humans can understand it. Also, our listeners have a wild variety of new status symbo...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WMFE, and WFHB


  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Kinetic Sculpture Race Contestant
We're revisiting one of my favorite interviews: from 2013--Behind the scenes of the Kinetic Sculpture Race, Grand Championship, where art and scien...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
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Emergency medicine and helicopter flight physician Mike Abernethy recounts an unexpected run-in at his local Walmart that made him feel as if he’d ...

  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 46:55
Caption: Deborah and Roger Fouts
In Western civilization, human beings are considered the exceptional species and uniquely intelligent. Yet science is consistently revealing our in...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
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Forget raccoons digging into your trash cans, Australia has giant parrots snacking out of trash bins. Some family groups of Sulfur-crested cockatoo...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Nov 29, 2021
  • Length: 05:27
  • Purchases: 1
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It's the Civil War and you're in the medical tent. It's dark and the man next to you has wounds glowing an eerie blue. Turns out, the men who had t...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jun 14, 2021
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 2
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There's a long tradition of Japanese folklore around the possible relationship between large mushroom harvests and lightning. Researchers decided t...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jun 14, 2021
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 2
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What do those rain percentages they give you on the news really mean? Why does the snow in Europe sometimes turn orange? Have you ever heard of a f...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2019
  • Length: 15:41
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The 29th Ig Nobel Prize ceremony took place on September 12 at Harvard University.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 16:33
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The story of a tornado, from three perspectives.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 03, 2018
  • Length: 08:21
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Learn how to change behavior
Learn how the Emotion Roadmap helps leaders and others to get changes in behavior.

  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 45:01
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Communicating about science through comics.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, Spokane Public Radio, KENW and more


  • Added: Jul 02, 2017
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: The medical podcast for your cortex and your funny bone, Credit: Foolyboo Inc
It's the HOLIDAYS! What could possibly go wrong? This week we bring you a Holiday Special about some of the festive season's worst case scenarios. ...

Bought by KSTK, WART FM, and KMUD


  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 32:02
  • Purchases: 3
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Just how fast and how far can a human go? This week on This Won't Hurt A Bit, the physiology and stories of extreme runners.

Bought by KVSC, WART FM, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jan 18, 2016
  • Length: 33:16
  • Purchases: 3
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Join us for an interesting and fun conversation with planetary astronomer, Alessondra Springmann. She’s working on NASA’s Osiris project and could ...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: 28:02
Caption: Doopsies
For a show about embarrassment, my co-anchor Molly and I interviewed UW Sociology Professor Edward Gross.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 04:58
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Why everything you know about the placebo effect is wrong?

  • Added: Sep 03, 2014
  • Length: 24:35
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The sounds of childhood: jokes and playground songs.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
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Join us for episode sixty-eight, an enlightening conversation with Paul Carrick Ph.D., teacher of philosophy at Gettysburg College. He’s also a bio...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:02
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It’s the sixty-seventh episode of The Mikie Show! You won’t want to miss this one: We speak with Deirdre Barrett Ph.D., author, psychologist and te...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2014
  • Length: 28:02
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WTIP's Buck Benson chatted recently with Marc Abrahams of Improbable Research, which publishes a magazine and awards the IgNobel Prizes for researc...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 24, 2013
  • Length: 16:50
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: James Richardson
Poet James Richardson has called himself an "accidental aphorist," but his well-crafted works are no accident. He reads from his 2010 book, BY THE ...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Jul 18, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The sounds of childhood: jokes and playground songs.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 16:28
  • Purchases: 1
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In the news: Moody's and Standard & Poor's to be responsible for rating new drugs.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2012
  • Length: 06:07
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We discuss work-life balance with Dr. Michelle Au, an anesthesiologist and acclaimed author. Since medical school, she has penned “The Underwear Dr...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 29:30