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Science unscripted - Birdsong and sexual harrassment
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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On this week's show, why are birds and the noise they make so good for us? Also, we learn why the response to sexual harrassment is so much differe...

Bought by WMFE and WFHB


  • Added: Oct 13, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
216: Parachuting Beavers
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In 1948, Idaho Fish and Game got the bright idea to transport beavers into the back country with PARACHUTES. It was a wild and wacky compromise to ...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: May 13, 2022
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
194: Iris Sphincters
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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You might think you're special because you can flex your nostrils or flap your ears--but it turns out that there's a person out there who can volun...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jan 10, 2022
  • Length: 11:34
  • Purchases: 1
94: Hand Stitched Computers
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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During the 1960s when we were racing to the moon, computing tech made a huge leap. Computers had to be small to fit in the Apollo capsules and it w...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
88: Get Smart, Dogs vs Cats
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Who is the brightest, the most likely to crush the SAT, the one pet who has the brains to out think them all? Is it your cat or your dog?

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 03, 2019
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 1
53: Barbed Wire Phones
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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One more example of how farmers MacGyver everything. No phone lines? Use the fence.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 04, 2019
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 1
33: Annoying People
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Welcome to the wonderful world of Brain Storms. Short, funny and TO THE POINT. Today is brought to you by those people who make you crazy and why y...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 14, 2019
  • Length: 02:06
  • Purchases: 1
Science Drops!
From: Colette Kinsella
Series: Science Drops!
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A series of 90-second quirky science pieces. Fun, fact-filled, entertaining, and educational.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2018
  • Length: 45:11
Butter vs. Margarine
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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One of America's most bizarre food battles

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 16, 2017
  • Length: 20:52
  • Purchases: 1
Science Comics
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
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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
Ornithophobia
From: Eric Winick
Caption: Tippi Hedren in "The Birds" (1963)
There was something about the flamingo area at Marineland that attracted four year-old Megan Whitman.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 11, 2016
  • Length: 07:21
  • Purchases: 1
No. 16 Advanced Engine Development at Pratt & Whitney
From: William Ingalls
Series: Wild Willy's Five-Minute Book Review
Caption: Jacket cover, Credit: SAE International, 2001
All about cars, planes, boats and trains.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
Aquarium Disasters
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
Caption: Jaymee and her fish tank, Credit: Alex Johnson, Destination DIY
Destination DIY producer Jaymee Cuti shares some stories of home aquariums gone wrong.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 06:56
  • Purchases: 1
Cougar
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Mainers see cougars all the time. Here's the problem: There are no cougars in Maine.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WMPG


  • Added: May 27, 2011
  • Length: 09:15
  • Purchases: 3
The Guardian's Science Weekly: Mathematics special + Brian Cox = science squared
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Caption: An equation graph, Credit: websters-online-dictionary.org
Bowing to popular demand, here's our mathematical special; plus Brian Cox, the most famous man in science, pops into the Guardian. No calculators a...

Bought by KUER and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 28, 2011
  • Length: 51:29
  • Purchases: 2
Universe Verse -- Groks Science Show 2010-06-30
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
James Lu Dunbar discussed the Universe Verse.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KMXT


  • Added: Jun 30, 2010
  • Length: 25:45
  • Purchases: 2
Medical Myths -- Groks Science Show 2009-11-18
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Anahad O'Connor discussed the facts and myths about our health and the world we live in

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Nov 18, 2009
  • Length: 26:07
  • Purchases: 1