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212: Peanut Butter Diamonds
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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With enough pressure and heat, just about anything with enough carbon in it could become a diamond. And thankfully for us, when a scientist was ask...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Apr 08, 2022
  • Length: 04:56
  • Purchases: 1
209: Detachable Tails
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In cases of emergency, lizards pop off their tails to get away. Evolution made it possible for that tail to stay on when tugged but not twisted. It...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
207: Cockroach Personalities
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Anything that scatters when you turn on the light...does it have a personality? Is the cockroach urge to run an indicator of a bold or timid world ...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
204: Baker Miller Pink
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In 1978, Dr. Alexander Schauss and a research assistant mixed 1 gallon of white latex paint with a pint of shiny red and created P-618 aka Baker Mi...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
187: Animal Buddy Cops
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In an unexpected turn of events, two predators with very different hunting styles work cooperatively. During the summer months, badgers and coyotes...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 11, 2021
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 1
186: Sudden Genius
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Imagine waking up from a nap to discover that you have the ability to compose music in your head. What a shock that would be! There are people who ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 11, 2021
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 2
165: Silently Screaming Tomato
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In a pitched battle against voracious tomato fruit worms, (aka. corn earworms or cotton bollworm) tomato plants have one sneaky defense...a wasp. I...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 2
Instance 1
From: Will Hardwick
Series: Brilly Barner Broadcast
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Presenting: the Brilly Barner Broadcast. An interdimensional radio show that tells the stories of bubble 6298 Felis.

  • Added: May 23, 2020
  • Length: 10:08
74: Giant Sea Spiders
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Absorbing oxygen through their "skin" and pumping blood with their guts, the Giant Sea Spider isn't a true spider, but it's close. Too close for Tr...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 06:24
71: Ants on Stilts
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Ants hunt for food, but how do they know how to get back? Content warning: Science is messy. Some ants were harmed and we talk about it. Not in gre...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2019
  • Length: 08:50
70: Galloping Crocodiles
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Like a scaly cheetah, galloping crocs were a terror both on land and in the water. Good thing they lived 100 million years ago.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSFR


  • Added: Aug 06, 2019
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 2
S2 E10 The River Styx
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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After hearing a mentor make an inappropriate joke, medical student Jenny Tiskus grapples with humor's place in the world of medicine.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2019
  • Length: 37:22
62: Troxler Effect
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In 1804 Dr. Troxler discovered he could make pastel dots on paper disappear if he stared at them for long enough. Blink, and they would reappear. T...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2019
  • Length: 03:24
61: Science Ferrets
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Need to string some wire through your house or clean a particle accelerator? You might need a science ferret.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 28, 2019
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 1
59: Flatworms
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Can Flatworms remember how to find food after re-growing their heads? Science rolled up its sleeves and found out.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 14, 2019
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 1
52: Long Lives of Lobsters
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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The internet claims lobsters are immortal. Amy pulls a Dana Scully and debunks the heck out of that idea.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 26, 2019
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 1
51: Backpack vs Parachute
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Jumping out of an airplane without a parachute?! We explore a study that explains how sometimes, if you look at the data in just the right way, bac...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2019
  • Length: 02:40
29: Social Conventions
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Why do we do the things we do while in public? Simple actions like using the restroom or riding the bus get a lot more complicated when thinking ab...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 20:19
Surfs Up...But Not For Tsunamis
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Shaky Ground
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Big wave surfers are in a class of their own. But Geologist Lori Dengler encourages sticking with giant waves generated by big storms. On this segm...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 01:31
  • Purchases: 1
225: Harassment In The Lab / 226: I Don't Give A Damn, 12/2/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Harassment In The Lab" - Sexual harassment happens everywhere, including science. We'll hear stories and possible solutions. HOUR TWO:...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:57
Ig Nobel 2016 -- Groks Science Show 2016-09-21
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
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Ittai Eres and Unjin Lee discuss past winners of the Ig Nobel prizes, and build up hype for this year's awards!

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Sep 22, 2016
  • Length: 34:42
  • Purchases: 1
Pathogens' Rally
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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You know we’re causing a problem for the planet when even the viruses think we’re the worst disease the Earth has ever seen.

  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 07:53
Body Language
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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You’re body doesn’t lie—whether you’ll know it or not, you’re going to love this pleasantly warped body language expert.

  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:52
Talking to Idiots
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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Like the Freedom Riders of yore, modern defenders of sanity train in passive resistance—to the senseless scientific arguments of internet morons.

  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 02:40
Mourning Remembrance--Alastair Cameron
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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The late scientist behind the theory of the moon’s creation gets honored in the grand tradition of Jim Earl and The Final Edition—with a series of ...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 01:45