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Fructose & Hunger
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Chemical structure of fructose., Credit: (That kiwi guy/Wikipedia)
Does the sugar fructose fool us into eating more calories than we need?

Bought by WXDU and KMXT


  • Added: Dec 11, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
Butchering Your Own Meat
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Butchering your own meat has become, for lack of a better word, kinda trendy. But it's also a basic survival skill that dates back to the stone age.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Dec 10, 2014
  • Length: 26:07
  • Purchases: 1
Learning with Age
From: Susanne Bard
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Both younger and older people can readily learn new information, but older people have a harder time filtering out irrelevant and distracting infor...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Dec 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
3-D Talking Map
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Touching the miniature buildings on the map activates auditory information and directions. , Credit: University of Buffalo
3-D talking maps use a variety of sensory modalities to help the visually impaired find their way around college campuses and other institutions.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Dec 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Non-Boring Christmas Music Special
From: D. Grant Smith
Series: The Appetizer Radio Show
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We've all heard the same 30 Christmas songs, year in and year out. Whereas most Christmas music is boring, repetitious stuff heard every year, we'r...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WVRU, WSGE, and KMXT


  • Added: Dec 05, 2014
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
Yaupon Tea
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Yaupon tea is brewed from the leaves of Ilex vomitaria., Credit: Mary Vaux Wolcott
Can you get a caffeine fix without growing your carbon footprint?

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Wine's Fruity Nose - Thanksgiving 2014
From: Susanne Bard
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You can thank fruit flies for your favorite wine’s fruity “nose”.

Bought by WVTF, WKSU, and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 23, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
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
Lost Languages in the Brain
From: Susanne Bard
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When children are adopted internationally, the first language they hear as babies may not be entirely lost.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 23, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mind-Controlled Medicine
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: A brainwave-triggered implant which could potentially turn on genes controlling the production of therapeutic proteins., Credit: March Folcher/ETH Zurich
Could brainwaves one day trigger an implant that stops epilepsy and chonic pain episodes before they begin?

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 16, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mosquitoes & People
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: A black forest female Aedes aegypti formosus (left) bites animals and a brown domestic female Aedes aegypti (right) bites humans. , Credit: Photo credit: Lindy McBride
Thousands of years ago, the mosquitoes that now transmit dengue fever made the switch from biting forest animals to seeking out humans.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 16, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tituba, Witch of Salem
From: With Good Reason
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There’s a new season brewing for a television series about the Salem Witch Trials. A scholar puts one of the witches under the spotlight. Lilia Fuq...

Bought by PRX Remix, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 07, 2014
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 3
Politics of Disgust
From: Susanne Bard
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Brain scans reveal our political leanings.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 01, 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
Please Burn After Reading
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Writing from History
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A historian raises questions about the morality of the archival process and reveals how the NSA may change the future of history research.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 12:39
The Monkeys of New Guinea
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Goodfellow's tree-kangaroos inhabit the rainforests of New Guinea., Credit: (Liquid Ghoul/Wikipedia)
Tree kangaroos hop up trees instead of swinging through them like monkeys.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Oct 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Playful Fish
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: A cichlid fish strikes a bottom-weighted thermometer that would immediately right itself. , Credit: (Ann Hawthorne)
Some fish appear to play with objects in their tanks.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Oct 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
Reclaimed Soul: The Wonder of Stevie
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
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They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that’s the case, then Stevie Wonder should know the feeling of flattery well. His son...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 13:30
  • Purchases: 1
Curiosity to Learn
From: Susanne Bard
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Heightened curiosity about one subject primes people to learn less interesting information as well.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Oct 11, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Human Gut Powered Fuel
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Isaac Cann, Credit: L. Brian Stauffer
Human gut microbes could break down grasses into sugars for biofuel production.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Oct 09, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Monarch Butterfly Genetics
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Monarchs in flight., Credit: Sonia Altizer
Scientists have identified the genetic underpinnings of monarch butterfly migration.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Oct 09, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Margaret Carrel Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Antibiotics are given to animals living in concentrated feeding operations for two reasons: disease prevention and growth promotion/feed efficiency...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 26, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
2014-15 Flu Shot
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Healthy people need the flu shot every year, especially to help protect those who are more vulnerable to complications from the virus.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Sep 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spreading Viruses
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Viruses spread from room to room much more quickly than you might think.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Sep 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1

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