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Fahrenheit 451
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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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
Our Father Frankenstein
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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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 discusses "The Seventh Plague"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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James Rollins is a prolific novelist who lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2016
  • Length: 09:17
Bob King's new book, "Night Sky with the Naked Eye," tells how to find night sky wonders without a telescope
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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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
Principles of Time Travel
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Time travel is really possible, in theory...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 02:35:33
Extreme rock climber who thrives on risky behavior might have different brain than most
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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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
Another Day in the Middle East...
From: Rob MacClanahan
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Jean Bouchebel and his family sweat bullets in an olive grove...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2016
  • Length: 11:51
Lily of El Dorado
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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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
Kim Stanley Robinson
From: Generation Anthropocene
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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
When Mountain Lions Are Neighbors
From: Gordon Whiting
Series: In Deep with Angie Coiro: Live at Kepler's
Caption: Angie Coiro, author Beth Pratt Bergstrom and California mountain lion P-22, Credit: Gordon Whiting
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
How We Talk About Our Dying: Susan Gubar On Living with Cancer
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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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 100: Stories in Science (Half Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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-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 100: Stories in Science (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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-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...

Bought by WSKG, KEDT, and WXDU


  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 3
Ideas Books - Sean B Carroll: The Serengeti Rules
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
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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
Ideas Books Interview Mini - Sean B Carroll
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Author Interviews (non-fiction)
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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
Ideas Books: Jamie Holmes - Nonsense, The Power of Not Knowing
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
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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
Ideas Books: Frank Wilczek - A Beautiful Question, Finding Natures Deep Design
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
Caption: Ideas Books: Frank Wilczek
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
Ideas Books: Ernest Naylor, Moonstruck, How Lunar Cycles Affect Life
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
Caption: Ideas Books: Ernest Naylor, Moonstruck
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
Take Care #52
From: WRVO Public Media
Series: Take Care
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Episode topics: Facing fear and staying healthy among the sick.

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Apr 04, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 20 - Eye of the Storm by Kate Messner
From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids
Caption: Sara, Mateo, and Max
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
Historian Richard Rhodes, author of “John James Audubon: The Making of an American”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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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
"To Save California, Read Dune." With Andrew Leonard
From: David Schulman
Series: NAUTILUS podcast from PRX
Caption: Dan Fernandez with a fog-catcher in Santa Cruz. Writer Andrew Leonard sees in fog-catchers a real-world analog to the fictional dew-catchers of Dune., Credit: Jeremy Dalmas
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
Ideas Books: Gavin Francis, Adventures in Human Being
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
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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
Mars
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Fun facts about the red planet, John Carter and the Princess of Mars...

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 03:07:20
  • Purchases: 1
Studs Terkel in Conversation with Oliver Sacks
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Caption: Oliver Sacks
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