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A look at stats and stories to help us better understand the value of art in everyday life--from the National Endowment for the Arts
- Added: Jun 14, 2022
- Length: 06:08
The color of a leaf is a dance as one molecule exits and others make their way to center stage.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Monarch Radio
- Added: Sep 04, 2017
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 2
Animals have a vocabulary. Scientists can understand the language of prairie dogs by slowing down their chirps.
- Added: Sep 02, 2017
- Length: 02:00
We keep time by measuring repeating patterns, like a swinging pendulum or the earth's rotation. But, the best way to measure time is with atoms ins...
- Added: Sep 02, 2017
- Length: 02:00
Will this Star Trek technology be a reality soon?
- Added: Sep 02, 2017
- Length: 02:00
" If you got rid of all of the genes that cause autism, you’d be rid of Carl Sagan, you’d be rid of Mozart. Einstein, today, would be labeled autis...
Bought by KZYX, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZYX, and KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Mar 09, 2016
- Length: 11:46
- Purchases: 4
Science Frog explains an important phenomenon.
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 01:08
For those just starting out in a field, Katherine Neville recommends asking a simple question of your supervisors after completing a project: “How ...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 1
As a woman as well as an immigrant to the United States, Valerie Fremont has faced particular challenges in her career. She discusses America’s “cu...
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 04:18
After struggling with bench research Claire Skentelbery realized her true calling was science communication. She talks about the importance of gett...
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 04:26
After years of relentlessly pursuing her career, some simple words from her four-year-old daughter shook Dawn Hocevar to the core. From that moment...
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 03:10
From: Distillations
Don’t delay being happy in your career, says Sherri Oslick. Finding the right path requires talking to a lot of people, and it also means listening...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 04:09
- Purchases: 1
The Living Well Show presents Andrew Behar - As You Sow CEO who tells us that nanotechnology is already being used in food and food related product...
Bought by KMUN
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 30:08
- Purchases: 1
To what degree are we born a blank slate, and how much are we a result of our influence by our environment? Consensus: Nature or nurture is the wr...
- Added: Sep 27, 2013
- Length: 07:20
Have you ever traveled to a new place and suddenly, randomly, you experience this overwhelming sense of familiarity with what you’re seeing, like y...
- Added: Sep 25, 2013
- Length: 07:20
In school it’s usually the men who are encouraged in science, says April Quarles. Though women continue to face negative social influences when pur...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Aug 21, 2013
- Length: 03:17
- Purchases: 1
From: Distillations
To avoid being perceived as aggressive, says Lynn Johnson Langer, women often qualify their thoughts. Phrases like “it’s just my opinion” are used ...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Aug 13, 2013
- Length: 03:58
- Purchases: 1
The job market for highly skilled positions is more competitive now than in previous generations, says Savannah Sullivan. Learning outside your cho...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 03:10
- Purchases: 1
A chemistry set with “really nice stuff in it” sparked Anna Wilson’s lifelong interest in chemistry, but her passion made her a bit of an oddball i...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Jul 29, 2013
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s not all about career, says Laura McCunn. Marriage and family need to be considered when choosing a path, she says, and she credits a lot of he...
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 03:03
In 1941 Helen Free was studying to be a Latin and English teacher—that is, until Pearl Harbor changed her fate. With the country’s young men being ...
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 03:50
After getting her master’s degree Kristine Chin found herself working in industry as the first woman in an all-male lab. It was a challenging exper...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 03:16
- Purchases: 1
In the mid-1980s only 10 of the 100 on-scene coordinators at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were women. Mary Ellen Ternes was one of thi...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 02:53
- Purchases: 1
From: Distillations
After the launch of Sputnik in 1957 the new emphasis on science education in the United States helped spark an interest in a young Mary Jo Nye. She...
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 04:33
For Wendy Young Reed, life is too short for disliking a job. To find a career you enjoy, she says, the key is to network the old-fashioned way: wit...
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 03:29
