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Earth Day Two Ways
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
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Jess hosts a conversation between climate scientist Dr. Brenda Ekwurzel and environmentalist and actor Eric Balfour about climate solutions and the...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
EE 24-08: Meet the guy who cooks for flies–and for science, 2/23/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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Most of us, when we encounter a fruit fly, are focused on keeping it out of our food. But what if it was your job to feed fruit flies?

  • Added: Feb 02, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
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
Citizen Science & Porcupines
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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Kids are the scientists studying porcupines in the Southwest United States, as part of a citizen science project. Learn about citizen science oppor...

Bought by WCNY, KQRU FM LP, WLRH, WXPR, Allegheny Mountain Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 12
Houston, We have Dippin' Dots
From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Meat + Three
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Over 50 years ago, humankind went to the moon. This episode is all about how astronauts, space enthusiasts, fictional explorers and future Mars res...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2019
  • Length: 21:53
Medical Mushroom Maximized with Mark Gocke MD Functional Medicine/ Internal Medicine
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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Medical Mushroom Maximized with Mark Gocke MD Functional Medicine/ Internal Medicine. We talk Mycelium Networks, Lions Mane, Cordyceps, Maitake, an...

Bought by WCNY and WRIR


  • Added: May 27, 2019
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 2
Flowing Water on Mars? Not So Much
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Recurring slope lineae or RSLs on Mars are not likely to indicate flowing water according to new research., Credit: NASA/JPL/UA/Emily Lakdawalla
Mars scientists dubbed them recurring slope lineae or RSLs. They sure looked like evidence of liquid water flowing down hillsides and ridges on th...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KDNK, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, KRZA and more


  • Added: Dec 26, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Visiting Engineers Virtually
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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How can teachers expose their students to more engineering role models? What do they do if they don’t have time to arrange visits and field trips? ...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2017
  • Length: 15:22
Time is Brain (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Stroke doctors all know the phrase, “Time is brain.” There's a game changer in stroke treatment that's helping some patients achieve a dramatic rec...

Bought by WJCT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WKCC, WEZU, KVSC and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 9
Pluto mission explained by MN astronomer/educator Parke Kunkle
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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NASA's New Horizons--the first mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt--ended its 9 1/2-year journey recently as the spacecraft reached Pluto and star...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2015
  • Length: 22:38
Fugitive Red (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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We go in search of the origins of a "perfect red," which once eluded scientists, pirates, and kings. Plus, how scientists are now tracking down rar...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, WABE, and KKRN


  • Added: Jul 17, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 4
Fugitive Red (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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We go in search of the origins of a "perfect red," which once eluded scientists, pirates, and kings. Plus, how scientists are now tracking down rar...

Bought by WJCT, KVSC, WABE, WKCC, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
What Would You Do? (Hour long version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In this hour we talk about ethics and we explore the world's oceans for zooplankton and follow a roving tick robot. (And more...)

Bought by WCNY, WFAE, KPVL, WTJU, and KKRN


  • Added: Jun 19, 2015
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 5
What Would You Do? (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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If you swipe a stranger’s car and nobody sees, what do you do? In this week's show we talk about ethics (and more...).

Bought by WJCT, WNMU-FM, KKRN, KVSC, WKCC and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
Nuts and Bolts: Our Brains on STEM (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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What if you could change not just how much you know, but your actual intelligence? (And more...)

Bought by WJCT, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, WKCC, KVSC, WLIW and more


  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
Nuts and Bolts: Our Brains on STEM
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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What if you could change not just how much you know, but your actual intelligence? (And more...)

Bought by WCNY, WYSO, KPVL, WABE, WTJU and more


  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 6
Dragons of Inaction (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Earth Day Specials
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This Earth Day, we’re taking the planet’s pulse—and our own. What are the "dragons of inaction" that keep us from changing our behaviors, even if w...

Bought by Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WSKG, KMUD, CHSR-FM 97.9, KWIT and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2015
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 11
Dragons of Inaction (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Earth Day Specials
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This Earth Day, we’re taking the planet’s pulse—and our own. What are our "dragons of inaction" that keep us from changing our behaviors, even if w...

Bought by WXDU, KVSC, WKCC, KRDP, WLIW and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
The Madam Next Door
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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There’s a small town in Idaho where prostitution was practiced openly—in effect, decriminalized. The practice was tolerated, even embraced, until 1...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, KUNV, KKRN, and KPVL


  • Added: Mar 06, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 5
Furious Love (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Nancy Schoenberger chronicles the tempestuous romance of Liz & Dick in her book Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, KFOK-LPFM, and KKRN


  • Added: Jul 03, 2014
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 4
Planetary Radio Live: Partying Under Shuttle Endeavour on Yuri's Night!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Planetary Radio Host Mat Kaplan, Astronaut and Fragile Oasis Founder Ron Garan, Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides, and Yuri’s Night Executive Director Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides on stage at Yuri’s Night Los Angeles. , Credit: Danielle Hanne
We’re back at the California Science Center, final home of Endeavour, the shuttle that made 25 flights into space. Join the party as we celebrate ...

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WOUB


  • Added: Apr 14, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 3
Alaska Aurora Adventure
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: March 3, 2014 launch from Poker Flat Research Range, Credit: NASA/Christopher Perry
Join Mat Kaplan and other Aurora “virgins” as they seek the Northern Lights in Fairbanks, Alaska, and meet retired rocketeer and Director of the Po...

Bought by KMXT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WESM 91.3 FM, and WOUB


  • Added: Mar 17, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 4
The Best Space Movie You Can't See
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Ed Stone and Voyager, Credit: NASA JPL
JPL’s Blaine Baggett has completed “The Stuff of Dreams,” a documentary about an era in planetary exploration that was both exhilarating and exaspe...

Bought by WMNF, WESM 91.3 FM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WOUB


  • Added: Feb 25, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 4
Beyond the Books (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In this last episode of our 10-part series on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education, we looked beyond traditional classrooms,...

Bought by WJCT, KVSC, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WMNF


  • Added: Jan 31, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Nuts and Bolts: Our Brains on STEM (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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What if you could change not just how much you know, but your actual intelligence?

Bought by WCNY and WTJU


  • Added: Jan 17, 2014
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 2