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Meet the Founder of Shower Beer, Beer Specifically Created for the Shower.
- Added: Apr 11, 2017
- Length: 59:59
Ray Bradbury's best work... the movie's opening credits were done with audio voiceover while antennas (and no words) grace the opening screen...
- Added: Feb 18, 2017
- Length: 02:12:23
Mary Shelley’s novel of 1818, Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus, seems to me to clang like a hammer blow against a bell that tolls our self-i...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Dec 19, 2016
- Length: 01:00:01
- Purchases: 1
James Rollins is a prolific novelist who lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
- Added: Dec 15, 2016
- Length: 09:17
Bob King, creator of the Duluth News-Tribune's Astro Bob blog, has written a great new book about how to find planets, constellations, satellites, ...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Dec 06, 2016
- Length: 18:13
- Purchases: 1
Time travel is really possible, in theory...
- Added: Nov 03, 2016
- Length: 02:35:33
We ran across a fascinating article about a famous free solo (unroped) rock climber, Alex Honnold, and how his brain works. WTIP's Dave TerSteeg ch...
- Added: Oct 18, 2016
- Length: 16:08
Jean Bouchebel and his family sweat bullets in an olive grove...
- Added: Sep 21, 2016
- Length: 11:51
Louis the German divides the Rhine and the doomed space shuttle Challenger is used by the Department of Defense on its last successful (classified)...
- Added: Sep 20, 2016
- Length: 02:20:46
Think of the Anthropocene as a science fiction thought experiment. We imagine future geologists looking back into the rock record, and trying to pi...
- Added: Aug 18, 2016
- Length: 36:22
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
On page 148 of Gubar’s latest book, Reading & Writing Cancer: How Words Heal, published this May by W. W. Norton, she writes: “It seems unlikely th...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Aug 02, 2016
- Length: 58:47
- 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
Biologist Sean B Carroll talks to Craig Barfoot about his latest book, The Serengeti Rules. We find out how wolves can change the physical shape of...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]
- Added: May 03, 2016
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 1
Biologist Sean B Carroll talks to Craig Barfoot about his latest book, The Serengeti Rules. We find out how wolves can change the physical shape of...
- Added: May 03, 2016
- Length: 07:21
An interview with the author Jamie Holmes about his book, Nonsense. A look at the surprising upside of ambiguity—and how, properly harnessed, it ca...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]
- Added: Apr 19, 2016
- Length: 28:01
- Purchases: 1
Nobel Prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek argues that beauty is at the heart of the logic of the universe, a principle that has guided his pionee...
- Added: Apr 16, 2016
- Length: 27:26
Interview with biologist Ernest Naylor about his book, Moonstruck. Throughout history, the influence of the full Moon on humans and animals has fea...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]
- Added: Apr 16, 2016
- Length: 27:16
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Apr 04, 2016
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
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
Audubon is best known for his 435 paintings of American birds. He came here as a young man in the early 1800s from France with a talent for self-ta...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Dec 04, 2015
- Length: 09:47
- Purchases: 1
The sci-fi epic of "Dune" takes place on a desert planet. There, the water in even a single tear is precious. Can Dune offer lessons for the drough...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 30, 2015
- Length: 20:00
- Purchases: 1
An in-depth conversation with author Gavin Francis about his book, the human body and his life as a doctor. A beautiful conversation about celebrat...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]
- Added: Sep 11, 2015
- Length: 24:05
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 09, 2015
- Length: 03:07:20
- Purchases: 1
