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Constant Wonder - Fear and Wonder in the Natural World
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Naturalist Lyanda Lynn Haupt makes a case for becoming rooted in nature. Sometimes, even with potential risks.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 06, 2023
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 3
Constant Wonder - In Uganda, Healthy Communities Make for Healthy Wildlife
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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At the edge of the windy, impenetrable forest, disease can break through. From animals to humans, from humans to animals. The first ever wildlife v...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 01, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 3
Constant Wonder - Making Peace in the Wolf Wars
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Daniel Curry needed a horse, his first horse ever to become a range rider. Today, he helps ranchers chase off wolves. He tells his story on the lat...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: May 25, 2023
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 1
Constant Wonder - Rough Sleepers: A Doctor's Quest to Help the Homeless
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Tony was an unhoused man who was hunting for a purpose in the world and defended weak people. Women called him the Night Watchman, he would stay up...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: May 17, 2023
  • Length: 52:52
  • Purchases: 1
Constant Wonder - The Funky, Fragile World Beneath Your Feet
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Since the first shock of landing in desert country, Sasha Reed has fallen in love with it, especially the organisms that constitute bio crust. They...

Bought by WVTF, RadioStPete Florida, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WYAP


  • Added: Mar 30, 2023
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 4
Constant Wonder - Dreams Before Dying
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Dr Christopher Kerr and his team have videotaped hundreds of terminally ill patients to hear about their end of life experiences. He's convinced th...

Bought by WVTF, GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 4
Constant Wonder - A Real-Life Indiana Jones Discovers Shackleton's Lost Ship
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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He spearheaded the recent expedition to locate the final resting place of Ernest Shackleton's famous ship Endurance. Mensun Bound relates the wonde...

Bought by WVTF, GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Mar 09, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 4
Constant Wonder - Blue Mind: Finding Emotional Healing in Water
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Jay Nichols is convinced that water is very good for us. Not just the conventional wisdom of keeping hydrated, being in, near, on, or around water ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Feb 28, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 3
Constant Wonder - Experiencing Awe in Tragedy
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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A preeminent researcher tells about his personal experiences of wonder. Feelings of awe beneath the desert stars, and endless wonders he feels are ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 3
Constant Wonder - Anxiously Ever After: A Father Faces Mental Illness With Humor
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Clint Edwards has told a few whoppers in his day, things that he didn't even need to lie about. For example, he wrecked his bike once and then told...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 14, 2023
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 3
Engineering Meat Cruelty-Free, with Dr. Katie Kam
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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Cultivated meat has the potential to disrupt the meat industry, and engineer Dr. Katie Kam joins the podcast to talk about it. Katie founded BioBQ...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2023
  • Length: 28:20
Constant Wonder - Infrasound
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Deep rumbles in the Earth, through the Earth. Frequencies below the threshold of human hearing. Infrasound, if we can detect it around volcanoes, m...

Bought by WVTF, GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Feb 08, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 4
Constant Wonder - How Can You Reforest the Desert Without Planting a Single Tree?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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In some semi-arid regions of Africa, there is a forest underground, just waiting to sprout.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 3
Top of Mind - Smokejumper, Cosmic Queries, Love the Wasp
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Smokejumper, Cosmic Queries, Love the Wasp

Bought by KMXT, RadioStPete Florida, KOWS, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Aug 15, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 8
Top of Mind - Magic in Prisons, Chestnut Resurrection, Cold Tube
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Magic in Prisons, Chestnut Resurrection, Cold Tube

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KOWS, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSTK and more


  • Added: Aug 01, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 6
Top of Mind - Music of Spheres, Nutrition Security, Anthropogenic Salt
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Music of Spheres, Nutrition Security, Anthropogenic Salt

Bought by KSTK, KMXT, KSTK, KOWS, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: May 25, 2022
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 6
The Physics Circus Teaches Science, with Joseph Ziegel
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
Caption: Physics Circus presenters light up a pickle with electricity., Credit: The Physics Circus
The Physics Circus at The University of Texas at Austin tries to attract kids to science using loud and entertaining demonstrations that might not ...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2022
  • Length: 29:29
Top of Mind - Public School Ransomware, Cosmic Dust, Voice Cloning
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: How to protect schools from hackers trying to get children's information. Topic 2: Hundreds of space rocks and dust are falling through Ea...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, RADIOLEX, KOWS and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 7
The Science Journal for Kids, with Tanya Dimitrova
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
Caption: Tanya Dimitrova, founder of Science Journal for Kids, Credit: Courtesy of Tanya Dimitrova
Do scientific research articles sometimes sound like another language? To K-12 students, very often it’s yes. Tanya Dimitrova tried to help solve...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 48:59
Top of Mind - Superbug Doctors, Deepfake Geography, Microneedle Patch
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: CDC researchers published data showing more than half of antibiotics prescribed in US hospitals are not consistent with guidelines for whe...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, RADIOLEX, KOWS and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 8
Top of Mind - What To Save, Deepfake Geography, Stereo Smell
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: How do National Park officials decide which plants and animals to save as the climate changes? Topic 2: Imagine the harm a fake satellite ...

Bought by WYAP, KOWS, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KSTK


  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
Design Biomolecular Circuits, with Dr. Xiaojing Gao
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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What is synthetic biology? Researcher and professor Dr. Xiaojing Gao introduces this cutting edge field. He explains how his lab at Stanford Univer...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2021
  • Length: 27:54
Top of Mind - Satellites, Alaskan Camping Trip, Robots That Sweat
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: NASA’s developed a plan to clean up orbit. Topic 2: For over 40 years, 8th-grade students at Schoenbar Middle School in Alaska have taken ...

Bought by KSTK, RadioStPete Florida, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KSTK, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Nov 30, 2021
  • Length: 51:50
  • Purchases: 8
A Video Game for Designing Robots, with Dan White
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
Caption: Screenshot of the game RoboCo., Credit: Filament Games
Learning in robotics doesn’t have to take weeks, if you can design, build, and test a robot in hours in a video game. Dan White, CEO of Filament G...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2021
  • Length: 51:41
Robotics Competitions after 2021, with Dan Mantz
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
Caption: A student robotics team works on a robot., Credit: REC Foundation
The Robotics Education and Competition (REC) Foundation has been running robotics programs for youth for years, including the widespread global com...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2021
  • Length: 37:29