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NanoArchaeology
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: A 17 cm carved stone figurine shown inside the SEM chamber ready for non-destructive imaging and analysis, Credit: (Timothy Rose/Smithsonian)
Modern technology reveals ancient techniques used in the production of purloined antiquities.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 23, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lactose Intolerance Genetics
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: The practice of cheesemaking goes back many centuries in various cultures around the world. (A page from the 14th century Medieval handbook Taccuino Sanitatis from the Biblioteca Casanatense in Rome, Italy)
Central Europeans developed a dairying culture at least 4,000 years before they evolved the ability to digest milk.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Brave Genius
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Writing from History
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Evolutionary biologist Sean B. Carroll shares his findings on the friendship between writer Albert Camus and biologist Jacques Monod.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 13:25
Superspreaders
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Mary Mallon, aka "Typhoid Mary, Credit: From the The New York American newspaper, dated June 20, 1909.
Learning about the immune system from people who catch germs but don’t get sick.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Wake up and Smell the Story: Sniffing out Health and Sickness
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Illustration of a nose., Credit: Wikimedia Commons
If you asked people which of their senses they most feared losing, they'd probably say sight or hearing. But what about the ability to smell? We ex...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Sep 25, 2014
  • Length: 43:58
  • Purchases: 1
Transgenerational Obesity
From: Susanne Bard
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Did now-banned pesticides contribute to the obesity epidemic?

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WLPR , KMXT, and WXDU


  • Added: Jul 26, 2014
  • Length: 01:05
  • Purchases: 4
Intoxication & Civilization: Beer's Ancient Past
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Solid Comfort, 1906., Credit: Library of Congress
This show takes on the frothy subject of beer, and explores the science, culture, and history behind the suds.

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 30:45
  • Purchases: 1
Alchemy's Rainbow: Pigment Science and the Art of Conservation
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: An Alchemist in his Studio, Thomas Wijck. , Credit: CHF Collections
This episode explores the colorful (and sometimes risk-filled) history of pigments and painters, and the conservators who save paintings from the r...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 30:34
  • Purchases: 1
Control: The Stanford Prison Experiment
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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In this special episode, Drs. Philip Zimbardo and Christina Maslach tell the story of what ended up being one of the most infamous psychology studi...

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, Radio Catskill, WRPI, and NPR Illinois


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 56:03
  • Purchases: 5
The River in the Atlantic Ocean
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The Gulf Stream was essential to the early exploration of the New World and continues to influence our climate, weather, environment, and shipping ...

Bought by WJCT, XRAY.fm, KVSC, WEZU, WLIW and more


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
12: Playground Sounds (Standard Length)
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds (Standard Length)
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The sounds of childhood: jokes and playground songs.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Ancient Cancer
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Lesions indicating cancer in the skeleton’s bone., Credit: (© Trustees of the British Museum
Scientists uncover a case of human cancer as old as the Pharaohs.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
The Mikie Show #68, Paul
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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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
10 Years A Roving-Salley Rayl on the Mars Exploration Rovers
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity at Endurance Crater
What a long, wonderful trip it has been for Spirit and Opportunity, the Mars Exploration Rovers. Planetary Society reporter Salley Rayl has been wr...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Dec 24, 2013
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 2
248: The Oranjemund Shipwreck
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Diamond mining on the Namibian coast., Credit: DeBeersGroup.com
Ownership of cultural discoveries such as shipwrecks has long been debated by governments, historical institutions, private business and salvers an...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2013
  • Length: 05:18
Let There Be Night (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Eight out of 10 children born in America today will never know a night sky dark enough to see the Milky Way. Are we experiencing the end of night?

Bought by WCNY and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 2
Food Sleuth Radio, Donald Davis Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Bigger doesn’t always mean better. Case in point: fruits and vegetables. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
Starry-Eyed: A History of the Heavens
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Depiction of the 1833 Leonid meteor storm, in Bible Readings for the Home Circle (1889).
On this episode of BackStory, we’re examining Americans’ ongoing fascination with the skies above us. How have people made sense of comets, eclipse...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WABE, KBRP Community Radio, KREV-LP, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 09, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Girls of Atomic City
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Denise Kiernan
In her new book, journalist Denise Kiernan shares the never before told story of the young women who played a crucial role in one of the most signi...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 04, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Not Just for the Birds
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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New research shows one key to curtailing West Nile disease may lie in increasing the diversity of birds.

Bought by WCNY, WCWP, Radio Newark, and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 03, 2013
  • Length: 53:26
  • Purchases: 4
Crime, Punishment, and the Search for Justice
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Word of Mouth
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Conversations about ideas and innovations in investigations and imprisonment, the search for justice, and the unexpected intersection of crime and ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and NPR Illinois


  • Added: Apr 18, 2013
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 2
Food Sleuth Radio, Sandor Katz Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Where there’s fermentation, there’s culture. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Sando...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
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


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 4
12: Playground Sounds
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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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
Marie Curie: The Love Life of the Mother of Modern Chemistry
From: Liz Humes
Series: Wordy Birds
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On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview Lauren Redniss about her book, Radioactive: A Tale of Love and Fallout, which artistically chronicles t...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2012
  • Length: 27:31