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This week on the show: How do you "graduate" astronaut school? We ask Europe's newest astronaut. Also, the strange story of a roaring Himalayan flo...
- Added: Oct 10, 2018
- Length: 30:00
Spectrum: Marijuana, sex, soccer and sleep -
On this week's show: If Marijuana can make old mice brains younger, does that work with humans too?...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Jul 04, 2018
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Spectrum: Things you have to think about when eating in zero gravity -
Can you eat rice in space? Do we digest food differently in zero g's? An...
Bought by KRJF-lp, WXDU, KRZA, WYAP, KNVC Carson City Community Radio and more
- Added: Mar 27, 2018
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 8
Recorded live to tape from the streets, businesses, trade shows, homes, garages, work spaces, factories and classrooms, The UnCommonCore Podcast ex...
- Added: Dec 01, 2017
- Length: 55:54
The most common element in all accidents is the human element. In the quest to eliminate driver error and make our roads safer, we’ve been searchin...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Believe it or not, electric vehicles used to be more popular than gasoline engines. The first practical electric car in 1884, and for decades many ...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Imagine waiting to catch a train. You show up at the station and wait for the familiar clanking of wheels and squealing of brakes. This time, howev...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
By the middle of the 20th century electromagnets were common and engineers had begun experimenting with using them to levitate vehicles, including...
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Life is everywhere and we have a tough time killing it when sending our spacecraft off to Mars. However, in the lab, life is elusive. We look at th...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 26, 2012
- Length: 15:03
- Purchases: 2
How small and how large can life be? Hear scientists consider various answers to these questions and even attempt to convince you that life can be ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 19, 2012
- Length: 10:49
- Purchases: 2
Bestselling author Joel Garreau shows in his book, Radical Evolution, that we are at a turning point in history. At this moment we are engineering...
- Added: Nov 16, 2011
- Length: 28:58
We dive into the Schrödinger's Cat paradox and ask what it reveals about the nature of quantum mechanics and physics in general.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 08, 2011
- Length: 09:48
- Purchases: 2
As the Large Hadron Collider goes into hibernation for the winter, producer Andy Duckworth visits the Atlas experiment at Cern, Geneva, to ask, wil...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 21, 2011
- Length: 24:18
- Purchases: 1
Solar and wind get all the press, but geothermal is poised for a comeback
Bought by WBEZ and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 16, 2007
- Length: 05:01
- Purchases: 2
