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Bill Shanabruch left his job as regional biologist for the Piedmont with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. It was over a boondoggl...
- Added: Apr 23, 2024
- Length: 26:08
As staggeringly complex as the environmental catastrophe is, by tackling one small space at a time, we might be able to bring back entire ecosystem...
- Added: Apr 16, 2024
- Length: 24:26
More ghostly encounters of a Third Kind with a woman named Sarah who seems to have something of a shine.
- Added: Oct 31, 2023
- Length: 25:23
Quick, what’s your sexuality? Most of us know roughly where we fall on the Kinsey scale that goes from 0 to 6. But have you considered the asexual ...
Bought by WORT
- Added: Jun 07, 2021
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
He's mean. He's green. He's the poster child for poisoning prevention. And he's turning 50!
- Added: Mar 22, 2021
- Length: 16:40
Tracey Wingold has worked as a counselor for well over a decade, and she had a sort of head start on the COVID-19 crisis.
- Added: Apr 07, 2020
- Length: 08:01
Researchers are investigating a method of creating power from fast moving streams in Nepal. Sometimes these micro-hydro minigrids work and sometime...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Jan 14, 2020
- Length: 16:08
- Purchases: 1
In this piece we hear the process of musicians and scientists who collaborated to turn deep sea research into a song. Produced in Woods Hole, MA, ...
- Added: Nov 29, 2019
- Length: 11:46
After seeing ads for home DNA tests on TV, John decided to give it a try. Just spit into a cup—what did he have to lose… or gain?
- Added: Jul 22, 2019
- Length: 13:23
Red wolves used to roam free across most of the eastern United States, from Maine to Florida, from Missouri to Texas, one of the top dogs in the fo...
- Added: Jul 16, 2018
- Length: 24:08
People sometimes take unlikely paths to get where they're going. This is the story of an unlikely scholar.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 15, 2017
- Length: 04:54
- Purchases: 1
When you hear about concussions in the news, it's often about a football player. But kids get concussions too. In one recent year, nearly a quarter...
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Sep 15, 2017
- Length: 05:38
- Purchases: 1
Virginia’s Barrier Islands, and the waters and salt marshes that surround them, are among the most pristine coastal regions on the entire Eastern S...
- Added: Jun 16, 2016
- Length: 25:17
Virginia’s Barrier Islands and the waters and salt marshes that surround them represent the most pristine coastal region on the Eastern Seaboard. U...
- Added: Jun 10, 2016
- Length: 27:59
Corneal blindness affects millions worldwide. A husband-and-wife team at the University of Pittsburgh has been working toward the dream of regrowin...
- Added: Jun 08, 2016
- Length: 13:23
Dr. Kelsi Singer shares some of the incredible discoveries that she and the NASA New Horizons team are making. We also discuss a contentious issue—...
- Added: May 12, 2016
- Length: 14:35
In this multilayered soundscape, the University of Pittsburgh's Sarah Ross explains the emerging neurobiology of itch, the least understood of our ...
- Added: May 10, 2016
- Length: 08:25
- Purchases: 3
Animals are easy to love - most of them. But it takes a special breed of human to fall for one particular type animal.
- Added: Jan 15, 2016
- Length: 08:18
A so-called spiritual medium, Clara Barton’s so-called spirit, and the man whose dedication swayed him to fall for an elaborate swindle.
- Added: Dec 07, 2015
- Length: 07:20
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
Cloud seeding -- intervening in clouds to squeeze out precipitation -- is done all over the world. But it's not an exact science; we still have muc...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 20, 2015
- Length: 09:38
- Purchases: 3
This river is a tributary of the mighty Amazon. It snakes through one of the world’s most treacherous jungles and it’s where President Teddy Roosev...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Oct 29, 2015
- Length: 09:59
- Purchases: 1
What's the perfect environment for a fern species dating back 65 million years? Look no further than Washington, D.C.'s subway system.
Bought by WABE
- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 05:52
- Purchases: 1
A central player in every major church-state-separation battle for decades, the author describes political issues of the day, the new influence of ...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Oct 14, 2015
- Length: 09:57
- Purchases: 1
Mary has developed a career specializing in popular science and doing it with respect and wit. Since the publication of her first book “Stiff,” she...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Oct 04, 2015
- Length: 09:15
- Purchases: 1
