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The Loh Down on Science - May 2024
From: LDOS MEDIA LAB
Series: Science: The Loh Down on Science
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Your daily 90-second dose of real science for real people! Like … how healthy is yogurt really… Do school uniforms improve grades… and can we get e...

Bought by KKRN, KPOV, Tri States Public Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), Radio Baha'i, WLGI and more


  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 34:30
  • Purchases: 6
The Loh Down on Science - April, 2024
From: LDOS MEDIA LAB
Series: Science: The Loh Down on Science
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Your daily 90-second dose of real science for real people! Like … how healthy is yogurt really… Do school uniforms improve grades… and can we get e...

Bought by KKRN, KPOV, Tri States Public Radio, and KVSC


  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 33:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Loh Down on Science - March, 2024
From: LDOS MEDIA LAB
Series: Science: The Loh Down on Science
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Your daily 90-second dose of real science for real people! Like… do animals “break up”... is there a way to stop gaining weight when you quit smoki...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Tri States Public Radio, KKRN, KPOV, Radio Baha'i, WLGI and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 31:30
  • Purchases: 6
Soft and Squishy Robots in the Classroom, with Dr. Holly Golecki
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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Dr. Holly Golecki, a professor in the Bioengineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, talks about using soft robotics ...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2023
  • Length: 48:22
RUD
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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If I total my car, you see, I'll just call it an RUD. This is Episode 91 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2020
  • Length: 06:34
ohm
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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An engineer will feel at home when surrounded by many an ohm. This is Episode 90 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fas...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2020
  • Length: 06:16
NIST
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Is there a standard I may have missed? Time to consult the engineers at NIST. This is Episode 88 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show ...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2020
  • Length: 06:50
19: Sound Chambers
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Somewhere in the midwest are two of the most unnatural sounding rooms in the world, which some say were used to test the hearing of rabbits.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 14, 2013
  • Length: 22:01
  • Purchases: 1
"Please Call Stella": Capturing English, from Afrikaans to Zulu
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: The Speech Accent Archive is the brainchild of GMU's Steven Weinberger, Credit: Rebecca Sheir
A look -- and listen -- inside the world's largest online database of English accents.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 24, 2011
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 5
Clever Apes: The Shakedown
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
Caption: La Chaire Trepidante: the 19th century vibrating chair invented to relieve Parkinsons's symptoms., Credit: Christopher Goetz
Treating Parkinson's with a vibrating chair; reading the rumblings of the earth; and a hip-hop battle of cosmic proportions.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 05, 2010
  • Length: 13:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Trouble with Cyborgs
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
IF everybody's a cyborg, who's doing tech support?

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Feb 06, 2008
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1
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
Smart Parking
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Car parking gets a high-tech make-over

  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 06:02
Calling All Owls
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Using cellphones to call up the wild world of owls

  • Added: Feb 08, 2007
  • Length: 07:44
Television Technology
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Looking at the latest high tech TV trends.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2006
  • Length: 08:47
Robot Music
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Melding art and technology to creat emusical robots

  • Added: Sep 18, 2006
  • Length: 10:33