PRX - Pieces for Topic: Science
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A team of globetrotting, besotted scientists faces a new kind of terra incognita.
Bought by KFCF FM, KMUN, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, WPCA-LP and more
- Added: Mar 29, 2023
- Length: 01:58:01
- Purchases: 34
This episode is a reminiscence…something I seem to be doing a lot of lately…and also a plea for getting our children and grandchildren out of doors...
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 04:02
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
I’ve known barn owls since I was a kid in Kentucky and I always saw them in barns roosting or nesting up high in the rafters. I remember finding a ...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:43
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
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
A morning or two after I recorded this show I heard a scaled quail calling, so now I have both species calling starting at dawn and then off and on...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:20
We have had 4-wheel drive vehicles for many years and we’ve always found it to be a great tool that can take the worry out of some roads. I just ha...
- Added: Dec 30, 2017
- Length: 05:16
There's a flipside to dehydration that kills athletes and otherwise healthy people every year. And it's on the rise.
- Added: Jun 01, 2017
- Length: 29:55
- Purchases: 2
I suspect I talk about point-leaf manzantia (Arctostaphylos pungens) every February, as it is the time of year when I’m feeling florally deprived a...
- Added: Mar 16, 2017
- Length: 05:08
March 11, 2017 Inca doves are found all along the borderlands and southward into Mexico. The common name should probably be Aztec dove, as the Inca...
- Added: Mar 16, 2017
- Length: 05:26
Petey loves Platanus wrightii and daydreams of streets lined in huge unruly sycamores. He’s a dreamer.
Of course sycamores in the wild are magnifi...
- Added: Mar 15, 2017
- Length: 04:53
Pregnancy tests weren't always the neat, little plastic wands we have in drug stores today.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 22, 2015
- Length: 10:20
- Purchases: 3
A Public Service Announcement For Neurotransmitters
- Added: Jun 12, 2015
- Length: 05:14
This is a remixed interpretation of a collaborative piece with Benjamin Riskin - "Where Do I Even Start?" - A working interview for a smartphone so...
- Added: Jun 04, 2015
- Length: 05:50
WTIP's Bob Carter chatted with Marc Abrahams, editor of "Annals of Improbable Research, " about the 2014 Ig Nobel prizes recently awarded at Harvar...
- Added: Oct 15, 2014
- Length: 21:18
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 07:34
In this episode, we visit Leah Wade at San Francisco's Quiet Science Taxidermy Studio to learn about the art of making the dead live again ... sort...
- Added: Jun 05, 2012
- Length: 27:11
- Purchases: 2
What is disgust, and where does it come from? Host Gabriel Spitzer explores why we've evolved with this emotion and what it says about us.
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Apr 27, 2011
- Length: 08:45
- Purchases: 1
April Fool’s Day piece. New Hampshire hunters ‘discover’ 15,000 year old human remains. The finding leads to political discussion about replacing O...
- Added: Apr 01, 2009
- Length: 06:48
- Added: Feb 06, 2008
- Length: 02:46
- Purchases: 1
Planetary Radio visits the celebration of 40 years of Star Trek.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WESM 91.3 FM, and KSJC
- Added: Sep 17, 2006
- Length: 28:52
- Purchases: 3
