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Season 1, Episode 29 - 'Exploration Into The Virtual' feat David Chalmers
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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AI and Virtual Worlds are a controversial topic...let’s delve into what’s really going on in these realms.

Bought by WOJB and KTRT RADIO INC


  • Added: Apr 09, 2024
  • Length: 57:57
  • Purchases: 2
Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
From: Paul VOGELZANG
Series: Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, Not Old Better Show
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series
Today we talk with neuroscientist and Smithsonian Associate Kevin Mitchell about how research into the brain’s inner workings has complicated the w...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2023
  • Length: 30:17
Online Conspiracies & Virtual Cults Part 2: Celebrity Makes the World Go Flat
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Online Conspiracies & Virtual Cults Part 2: Celebrity Makes the World Go Flat
Do we live in an age where online conspiracies and cults proliferate ever more frequently and powerfully? We continue to explore this question by f...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2021
  • Length: 27:48
Paul Ingles' MUSIC ARCHIVE SHOWCASE #135 - STEVE CROPPER (Part 2)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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Music host Paul Ingles welcomes his first repeat guest on his series - Steve Cropper - guitarist, producer, songwriter, and collaborator with most ...

Bought by KUHF, KUHF, and KSJE


  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Highways & Aliens
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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We're taking a big looping road trip across the Mojave, from Area 51 to the Singing Sand Dunes of Kelso. With guest Jeremy Corbell on his new docum...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 30, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Stephen Hawking-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Stephen Hawking
Celebrating the world's most famous theoretical physicist, author of A Brief History of Time and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Camb...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 20, 2018
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 1
Paul Ingles' Music Showcase #004 - Why Monterey Pop Mattered (Hour 2)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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Hour 2 of an appreciation of the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival, generally recognized as the first pop or rock festival of all-time.

Bought by KFSK, WPVM 103.7, KSJE, WRVO Public Media, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Hypnotic Induction
From: The Organist
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“If you’re listening to this while driving a car, obviously, leave your eyes open.” In this special appendix to our recent episode on psychoacousti...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 08:35
Radiation
From: FOOLY BOO
Series: This Won't Hurt A Bit
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This episode we are talking Radiation. Part of living on Earth is that we are all exposed to low levels of Radiation. We are made of it, we emit it...

Bought by WART FM


  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 29:46
  • Purchases: 1
Things That Go Bite
From: FOOLY BOO
Series: This Won't Hurt A Bit
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This episode explores bites. The good and the bad, the Arachnid the Annelid, and the Diptera. How dangerous is the widow spider bite? Do we still u...

Bought by WART FM


  • Added: Jun 02, 2016
  • Length: 36:39
  • Purchases: 1
Rat People of New York
From: Karen Robins
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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
Sir Isaac Newton
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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He developed a prevailing theory of gravity and labored over calculations concerning the end of the world, but had no use for women! Sir Isaac Newton

  • Added: Sep 23, 2015
  • Length: 02:52:14
Why Darwin Matters
From: Rick Coste
Series: Evolution Talk
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Over the last 150 years there is one subject which has caused much debate. That subject of course is evolution by natural selection. But what does ...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2015
  • Length: 15:38
On the Origin of Species
From: Rick Coste
Series: Evolution Talk
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On November 24, 1859, "On the Origin of Species" was published. To say that it made a splash would be an understatement. It changed the world.

  • Added: Aug 22, 2015
  • Length: 17:59
Darwin: The Calm Before the Storm
From: Rick Coste
Series: Evolution Talk
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Darwin settled into a life as a naturalist. Whether he liked it or not, his views would find themselves on the world's stage.

  • Added: Aug 15, 2015
  • Length: 12:23
Darwin On The HMS Beagle
From: Rick Coste
Series: Evolution Talk
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On 12/27/1831, 22 year old Charles Darwin stood on the deck of the HMS Beagle to bid England farewell.

  • Added: Aug 11, 2015
  • Length: 13:39
Darwin Before the Beagle
From: Rick Coste
Series: Evolution Talk
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Had Charles Darwin not set foot upon the HMS Beagle the wonderful idea of evolution by natural selection might never have occurred to him.

  • Added: Aug 11, 2015
  • Length: 15:45
Episode 1: Living with the Deer
From: Willow Belden
Series: Out There
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Wyoming naturalist joins game herd, 'becomes' a mule deer

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 21:04
Music for Animals
From: Britt Wray
Caption: Black Prairie plays a concert for 52 wolves at Wolf Haven sanctuary in Washington State., Credit: Carli Davidson
There's a music industry for pets out there. But what kind of music do animals like? A woman who studies how non-human creatures go mad throws conc...

Bought by ABC, KVNF, 'The Sea', New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2015
  • Length: 08:23
  • Purchases: 6
Space, Stars and Satellites (Version One)
From: Shawn McCullough
Series: 10 Min Sound Byte
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Songs related to Space, Stars and Satellites

  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
All Mixed Up with Pinback
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
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An interview with Pinback founders Zach Smith and Rob Crow featuring music from their latest release "Information Retrieved" and all mixed up in th...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2012
  • Length: 58:31
How to catch a lab rat
From: Matt Larson
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A real-life story of scientific fraud

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Nov 03, 2010
  • Length: 21:59
  • Purchases: 1
Brainhilda and I
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Carole Starr was a dedicated violinist, until a brain injury left her with a rare hearing disorder. Suddenly the music Carole loved dearly became s...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and SALTcast Podcast


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 05:51
  • Purchases: 5
Quest_Flying Cars
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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NASA is sponsoring a technology contest to revolutionize small planes -- and it's open to the general public.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Aug 24, 2007
  • Length: 05:47
  • Purchases: 1
Mind Control: Neural Rhythms and the Beat of the Brain
From: Aaron Henkin
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An exploration of the therapeutic technique of neurofeedback and its goal of recalibrating the rhythms of the brain

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KUOW, and CKMO


  • Added: Sep 29, 2006
  • Length: 08:40
  • Purchases: 3