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Who Gets the Credit for the Modern World? David McCullough & "The Wright Brothers"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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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
Nuts and Bolts: Our Brains on STEM
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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What if you could change not just how much you know, but your actual intelligence? (And more...)

Bought by WCNY, WYSO, KPVL, WABE, WTJU and more


  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 6
An Illumination
From: Benjamen Walker
Series: Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
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Cédric Villani won the prestigious Fields Medal for his work in 2010. He knows how to catch ideas, and he wants to teach us how as well. We also ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 07, 2015
  • Length: 18:30
  • Purchases: 2
Stuart Gibbs discusses "Space Case"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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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
Ep 52 - Roberta Grimes | Bobby Pickles' Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
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Podcasting from The Old Oak Street Burial Ground in Grafton, MA, Piazza and I speak with author, Roberta Grimes, about her book “The Fun of Dying: ...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2014
  • Length: 52:54
Brave Genius
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Writing from History
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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
"James Rollins discusses The 6th Extinction"
From: Steven Nester
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James Rolllins is the New York Times bestselling author of international thrillers that have been translated into more than forty languages. Known ...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 19:57
Furious Love (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Nancy Schoenberger chronicles the tempestuous romance of Liz & Dick in her book Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, KFOK-LPFM, and KKRN


  • Added: Jul 03, 2014
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 4
Red Devil 4
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Eric C. Leuthardt
The year is 2053. Neurosurgeon and scientist, Dr. Hagan Maerici, is to designing "neuromorphic artificial intelligence." This is the setting for Dr...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 23, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Extreme Life of the Sea -- Groks Science Show 2014-04-16
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Stephen Palumbi discusses The Extreme Life of the Sea.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KKWE Niijii Radio, KFOK-LPFM, and KPVL


  • Added: Apr 16, 2014
  • Length: 25:16
  • Purchases: 4
"The Book of Killowen" by Erin Hart
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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The Book of Killowen by Erin Hart is just out in paperback and now she’s working on the next book in the murder mystery series set in modern-day Ir...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 19, 2014
  • Length: 11:07
  • Purchases: 1
255: World Ocean Journal
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: World Ocean Journal | Volume I
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will introduce World Ocean Journal, a new bi-annual e-magazine on ocean culture, issues and ...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2014
  • Length: 04:55
"Out on a Limb" author Ben Kilham observes & lives with black bears
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson spoke recently with bear researcher Ben Kilham, whose work has been compared to Jane Goodall's research on chimps, about what he...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 02, 2014
  • Length: 25:43
  • Purchases: 1
An Interview with Christopher White
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, Christopher White talks about and reads from his book 'The Melting World: A Journey Across America’s Vanishing Glaciers.'

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WCWP, KSJD, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 22, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Gregory and James Benford in the "Starship Century"
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Starship Century--Toward the Grandest Horizon
“Starship Century—Toward the Grandest Horizon” is the new collection of fact and fiction assembled by Gregory and James Benford. The brothers are ...

Bought by KSKQ, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Oct 01, 2013
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 3
Marlene Zuk on "Paleofantasy," her new book about what evolution really tells us
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Dick Swanson talked recently with Dr. Marlene Zuk, professor of ecology, evolution & behavior at the U of Minn., about her recent book, "Pal...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 10, 2013
  • Length: 23:07
  • Purchases: 1
STEM vs. the Humanities? (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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We have a way of talking about STEM fields as the opposite of the humanities–but it’s hard to have one without the other.

Bought by WCNY, WXDU, and WTJU


  • Added: Sep 10, 2013
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 3
Poet and Aphorist James Richardson
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: James Richardson
Poet James Richardson has called himself an "accidental aphorist," but his well-crafted works are no accident. He reads from his 2010 book, BY THE ...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Jul 18, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Hark! Who Goes There? Locating the Self in the Stories We Tell (Extended Conversation w/John Eakin)
From: WFHB
Series: The Custom House
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We enlist the aid of noted scholar of autobiography, John Eakin, as we seek to answer Andrew Bird's question: where exactly does the self reside, i...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2013
  • Length: 46:06
Episode 1: "Babo's Razor"
From: WFHB
Series: The Custom House
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Jonathan Elmer, director of Indiana University's College Arts and Humanities Institute discusses Herman Melville's novella, Benito Cereno, a master...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2013
  • Length: 29:46
NYT best-selling author Mary Roach visits The Roadhouse
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Dave Seaton chatted recently with the delightful Mary Roach, author of quirky science books like "Stiff," "Bonk," and "Packing for Mars." H...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 30, 2013
  • Length: 22:04
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Aaron Wenger - "Fireflies Et al."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Aaron Wenger is a retired educator. He is an engineer that became an educator. He is KAXE's staff physicist, and a poet. A daily reminder that, in...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2012
  • Length: 02:37
A Conversation with Veteran and Writer, Ron Capps
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Ron Capps helps returning service members write their way home. [27:06]

Bought by KPIP-LP and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 27:38
  • Purchases: 2
Healing with Prayer
From: Radio Rounds
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Dr. David Levy, neurosurgeon and author, discusses the role that prayer can play in the healing relationship between physician and patient.

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 29:29
Dr. Edlow’s Deadly Dinner Party
From: Radio Rounds
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Physicians have long been compared with detectives, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, was himself a physician. This episode f...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 28:52