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Caption: Outgoing NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan, Credit: NASA
For well over three years, planetary scientist Ellen Stofan has worked directly with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden to help coordinate and expan...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP, KRZA, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
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Dr. Richard Paat is a healthcare physician who is not just making an impact at his local practice in Maumee but around the world. Tune in to find...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2017
  • Length: 06:09
Caption: Larry Goulder, Tony Juniper, Greg Dalton, Credit: Sonya Abrams
It’s hard to put a price on something that’s always been free, but if Mother Nature were a corporation, she’d be a large-cap stock. Think about it ...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
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A local Martin Luther King Day event is geared toward climate action. We hear more on that in this week’s edition of Big Talk with Michael Glab.

  • Added: Jan 12, 2017
  • Length: 09:01
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A new book describes how basic principles taught in college economics courses are distorted for political purposes in ways that promote inequality....

Bought by WTJU and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 11, 2017
  • Length: 57:53
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Ben Miller's The Aliens are Coming, Credit: The Experiment Publishing Company
British physicist turned comedian and actor Ben Miller has written The Aliens are Coming-- The Extraordinary Science Behind our Search for Life in ...

Bought by KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP, KMUD and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: No Face to Hide, Credit: Seth Shostak
Face it – your mug is not entirely your own. It’s routinely uploaded to social media pages and captured on CCTV cameras with – and without – your ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, Indie3 Radio, CHSR-FM 97.9, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 22
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New data on home ownership show disturbing evidence of neo-feudalism. A short National Science Foundation quiz on scientific literacy seems to sho...

Bought by WTJU and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 57:54
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Wine Fellers
A Special Wine Show geared towards helping the public with wine-related issues and other dilemmas. Alex comes on the show to discuss Ridiculously ...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: Artist’s concept of IOS Neptune 5 rocket carrying Team SYNERGY MOON’s Google Lunar X PRIZE spacecraft, Credit: Bryan Versteeg
CEO Randa Milliron introduces us to Interorbital Systems, which wants to put your payload in orbit for as little as $8,000. Can they do it? Emily L...

Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jan 03, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: The Stephen Schneider Award, Credit: Ed Ritger
Science historian Naomi Oreskes, author of “Merchants of Doubt,” has had her share of hate mail from climate deniers. But she insists that “we can'...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: The Light Stuff, Credit: Seth Shostak
The light bulb needs changing. Edison’s incandescent bulb, virtually unaltered for more than a century, is now being eclipsed by the LED. The cre...

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, WUFT, WMUU-LP, 91.7 WHUS Storrs and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 19
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Amanda Hendrix and Charles Wohlforth discuss a future in the outer solar system.

Bought by KREV-LP and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:52
  • Purchases: 2
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Plug and Play Solar is a technology whose time has come. A high energy particle physicist wonders, are we asking the right questions? Roland asks,...

Bought by WTJU and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 28, 2016
  • Length: 57:53
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Champagne
It's about time you learned a thing or two about Champagne with our good friend Alex the Wine Guru. A jovial & mirthful show for anyone who has ev...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: Artist's concept of MAVEN orbiting Mars, Credit: Lockheed Martin
MAVEN, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution orbiter, has gone a long way toward solving the mystery of the Red Planet’s missing water and air...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, KMUD, WMUU-LP, KRZA and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
We discussed news from the American Geophysical Union annual meeting.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 24, 2016
  • Length: 17:37
  • Purchases: 1
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Host Bob Kustra interview Lynn Sherr about her book about America's first woman in space.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Dec 22, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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GCRI director Seth Baum talks about international politics and catastrophic risks to humanity. New research indicates that even a regional nuclear...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 20, 2016
  • Length: 57:51
  • Purchases: 1
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Every year, students taking the U of MN intro to engineering class are charged with designing a robot that does something 'useful.' WTIP's Dave Ter...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2016
  • Length: 16:53
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The National Ice Core Laboratory near Denver is a really cool place. It's the repository for miles of ice that contains information about the plane...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Dec 20, 2016
  • Length: 17:20
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Skeptic Check: Fear Itself, Credit: Seth Shostak
Shhh. We have to make this quick. There are a lot of scary events going on in the world. You may also worry about the stuff they might not be tel...

Bought by 91.7 WHUS Storrs, XRAY.fm, KAZU Seaside, Calif., WRST-FM Oshkosh, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Mary Shelley’s novel of 1818, Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus, seems to me to clang like a hammer blow against a bell that tolls our self-i...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 19, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Ted has ridden the rails with hoboes, crossed the border with Mexican immigrants, and sliced beef in a meat-packing plant. Considered the master o...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2016
  • Length: 09:54
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After decades of field work in southern Arizona, these two retired Univ of Colorado professors have authored the first in their Arizona Borderlands...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2016
  • Length: 09:56