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Our own Emily Lakdawalla, Planetary Society senior editor and book lover, shares her 2019 list of favorite space books. She also presents a list of...
Bought by KDNK, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WMUU-LP, KWMR, KRZA and more
- Added: Nov 20, 2019
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 8
In Time Out Of Joint, Phillip K. Dick envisioned the same future that NASA did, even if we didn't get there. San Diego Air and Space Museum provide...
- Added: Oct 04, 2019
- Length: 24:08
Kingsolver takes us to 1950s Belgian Congo via the Prices, a missionary family. David Holway from UCSD gives us the rundown on local ant species wh...
- Added: Oct 04, 2019
- Length: 22:44
Shane Haggard and Lisa Will from San Diego City College discuss what would happen to the Earth after a meteor knocks the moon closer to us, and wha...
- Added: Sep 30, 2019
- Length: 22:43
Poets Hadara Bar-Nadav and Kathryn Nuernberger, who were both chosen as 2017 NEA Literary Fellows, talk about their work in this interview at the K...
- Added: Jan 16, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Added: Nov 12, 2018
- Length: 02:00
Ben Goldfarb shares his enthusiasm for the largest rodent in North America via a discussion about his book, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Lives of ...
Bought by 'The Sea', Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Oct 22, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
The (Real) Science of Frankenstein
- Added: Jun 13, 2018
- Length: 02:00
In this special fundraising edition of "To the Best of Our Knowledge," host Anne Strainchamps samples some of our best interviews about simplicity ...
Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WUTC, KUSU, KCPW Salt Lake City, KANW and more
- Added: Mar 01, 2018
- Length: 01:21:32
- Purchases: 6
The author of #1 bestseller The Martian is back with Artemis, a superbly-researched, rollicking adventure in the first city on the Moon. You might ...
Bought by WTJU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more
- Added: Nov 08, 2017
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 7
From: Out of Bounds
Karen Joy Fowler talks about her compelling and heart breaking novel "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves."
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 28:00
When disaster strikes, will we descend into dystopia — or cooperate?
We talk with Cory Doctorow about his new work of speculative fiction, Walkaw...
- Added: Aug 17, 2017
- Length: 59:02
HOUR ONE: "Our Invisible Universe" - Millions of people will travel this weekend to see the Great American Eclipse. How far would you go? HOUR TW...
- Added: Aug 14, 2017
- Length: 01:58:58
What will New York City look like in 2140? Scifi author Kim Stanley Robinson’s latest novel explores a possible future in which NYC is partly subme...
- Added: Jul 05, 2017
- Length: 40:50
Bill Schutt a vertebrate zoologist, college professor and author. Learn more about him at https://www.billschutt.com/.
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 11:33
Kim Roberts brings a poet’s eye to The Scientific Method
Bought by WNJR
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Did you know that a mountain lion, known as P-22, lives in the middle of Los Angeles, that the Facebook campus in Silicon Valley provided a home fo...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 01:00:01
- Purchases: 1
-Pulitzer Prize winning author Dan Fagin on how a small town fought against pollution and the polluters. -Marc Edwards who helped uncover the water...
- Added: Jun 03, 2016
- Length: 28:59
-Pulitzer Prize winning author Dan Fagin on his book "Tom's River: A Story of Science and Salvation" that tells the story of a how small town fough...
- Added: Jun 03, 2016
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 3
Imagine a future where deadly tornadoes are a part of daily life. That's writer Kate Messner's world in "Eye of the Storm." 5th graders from Belved...
- Added: Mar 28, 2016
- Length: 20:10
On December 4, 1985 Studs sat down with famed neurologist and author Oliver Sacks. Although the interview was supposed to center on his newest publ...
Bought by Radio Catskill, KCMJ Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KPIP-LP, KVNF and more
- Added: Aug 31, 2015
- Length: 01:22:29
- Purchases: 6
Orville and Wilbur, DIY scientists, were bicycle mechanics at the turn of the 20th century in Dayton, Ohio before they changed our world. David Mc...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Jun 17, 2015
- Length: 09:58
- Purchases: 1
What if you could change not just how much you know, but your actual intelligence? (And more...)
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 53:57
- Purchases: 6
Young adult author Stuart Gibbs has lived a life of adventure as well as having written several books. Read more about him at http://stuartgibbs.co...
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 15:38
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
