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Student Questions: Drinking Urine, Nuclear Waste, and Tachyons
From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour
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Brian Dunning takes on a bevy of student questions with topics ranging from nuclear waste to fad diets to drinking one's own urine.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
The Wonder of Sound
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
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Explore the wonder of sound on The Children's Hour

Bought by KQRU FM LP, WLRH, WXPR, WCNY, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 31, 2019
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 5
Season 2, Episode 3
From: Wendy Love Edge
Series: The Wendy Love Edge Show with Topher Kogen
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S2E3 w/guests Maria Chowdhury, Jim Hale, and The Ashtyn Barbaree Trio

  • Added: Jul 07, 2019
  • Length: 59:30
Engineers on Eyes
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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What’s so great about the human eye? Can we build something just like it? When would we need to design something better? Sadhan joins the podcast a...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Jul 07, 2018
  • Length: 19:47
  • Purchases: 1
Pi Day
From: FOOLY BOO
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March 14th is Pi Day! The irrational number that is the ratio between the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Its Pi day! 3.141592.........

  • Added: Mar 13, 2018
  • Length: 01:09
AMOS 18.026: It Takes One to Know One, 2/5/2018
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
It Takes One to Know One

  • Added: Jan 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
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
sparging
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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If only we could be sparging all our troubles away...

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Oct 04, 2017
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
AMOS 17.001: The Origin Story of Earth's Oldest Rock, 1/2/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
The Origin Story of Earth's Oldest Rock

  • Added: Dec 21, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 17.003: Why Do We Love Junk Food?, 1/4/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Why Do We Love Junk Food?

  • Added: Dec 21, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
Dating The Earth
From: KUNM
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The Children's Hour crew discovers how scientists know the age of the earth

  • Added: Nov 18, 2016
  • Length: 36:13
Things That Go Bite
From: FOOLY BOO
Series: This Won't Hurt A Bit
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This episode explores bites. The good and the bad, the Arachnid the Annelid, and the Diptera. How dangerous is the widow spider bite? Do we still u...

Bought by WART FM


  • Added: Jun 02, 2016
  • Length: 36:39
  • Purchases: 1
Extreme Heat
From: FOOLY BOO
Series: This Won't Hurt A Bit
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Can you drink your own urine? Run yourself to death? This week we explore the science and physiology of how extreme heat effects our bodies.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KVSC, WYAP, and WART FM


  • Added: May 27, 2016
  • Length: 26:50
  • Purchases: 4
RDD: (Inter)action
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Last week we heard from the Courtney brothers who gave us some great options for our next interview on The Rough Draft Diaries, but before we carry...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 06:16
Extreme Running
From: FOOLY BOO
Series: This Won't Hurt A Bit
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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
The Humanist Hour #102: Live at the 73rd Annual Conference in Philadelphia!
From: Bo Bennett
Series: The Humanist Hour
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In this episode, Bo, Kim, and Todd host this episode in front of a live audience at the AHA Conference in Philadelphia. Our guest is Lifetime Achie...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2014
  • Length: 53:24
Two Guys on Your Head: Words and The Brain
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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The saying, “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me,” is really not as accurate as we would like it to be. Words are a p...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Nov 15, 2013
  • Length: 07:21
  • Purchases: 1
Welcome to the Star Party
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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In the past decade, dark sky festivals have become attractions in parks across the U.S. 

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Feb 24, 2012
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 6
Maggots are our friends
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: The Amazing World of African Insects
Caption: Mass of maggots
One of the most disgusting creatures is in fact one of the most useful. Join Paula Kahumbu and Dino Martins on a smelly journey of discovery.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 31, 2010
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 2
Hunting for Ants
From: Sarah P. Reynolds
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Adam Lazarus is a myrmecologist who spends most days in the woods loking for ants, even though it leaves him feeling a little guilty.

Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 10, 2008
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 2
Under the skin at the Museum of Verterbrate Zoology
From: Nathanael Johnson
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An stroll through the gory depths of a UC Berkeley Museum preparation lab -- the place where animals are skinned and stuffed for posterity -- in th...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2006
  • Length: 11:44