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Solve Real Problems and Win Real Prizes, with Autumn and George Dowdy and Ann Woo
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
Caption: Pictured counterclockwise from top-right: George Dowdy, Autumn Dowdy, and Ann Woo.
The Solve for Tomorrow design competition from Samsung is starting up again, and three guests join the podcast to explain how it works, and why sch...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2022
  • Length: 56:46
The Science of Superheroes
From: KSLU
Series: STEM Science Radio
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In this installment of STEM Science Radio, our hosts discuss the science and lack there-of in some of the most popular superheroes.

Bought by Belfast Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 22, 2020
  • Length: 15:18
  • Purchases: 1
Season 2 Trailer
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
Caption: The Nocturnists, Credit: Lindsay Mound
Season 2 of The Nocturnists, hosted by physician Emily Silverman, explores stories from the world of medicine.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 01:23
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
397-Spotting Meteors
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Meteors, shooting stars, or falling stars are different names for the streaks of light in the night sky which are in reality the dying embers of t...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Oct 05, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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
390-One in 100,000
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Additional observations over the years have eliminated the possibility that Apophis will strike the Earth as it streaks by closer than the communic...

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KSFR, KRWG, WLPR and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
BERG, Health Biologics, Genetics & Artificial Intelligence CEO Niven Narain on the Future of Precision Medicine in Cancer Treatment
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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BERG, Health Biologics, Genetics & Artificial Intelligence CEO Niven Narain on the Future of Precision Medicine in Cancer Treatment. Berg is a Bost...

Bought by WCNY and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Aug 16, 2017
  • Length: 22:10
  • Purchases: 2
378-Moon Express
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Moon is a destination for human explorers.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WVTF, KKRN, WTIP, KRWG and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
369-Finding Treasure
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Space miners can up their odds by prospecting with ground based telescopes.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KKRN, KRWG and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
How We Learn to Move
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sport
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We move in a noisy world. Hear biomechanics professor Alaa Ahmed describe motor learning through modeling and commands. In this light, elite athlet...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2016
  • Length: 12:16
StoryCorps: Carolyn Shoemaker and Phred Salazar
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Carolyn Shoemaker (left) and her son-in-law, Phred Salazar (right)
Astronomer Carolyn Shoemaker remembers her late husband, renowned astrogeologist Gene Shoemaker, whose ashes are buried on the Moon.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 02:16
Bounce With Me! We're Being Heated! by Christopher Sullivan
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Lucy DeVito
Take radars, magnetrons, and dielectric heating; add two teenagers; mix and get lots of heat in this funny short about a teenage first date. Winner...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2016
  • Length: 25:55
Exploring Europa and Mining Asteroids at Yuri’s Night
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: 2) JPL’s Bob Pappalardo and Bobak Ferdowsi at Yuri’s Night, Credit: Mat Kaplan
Our special coverage from the Los Angeles Yuri’s Night party continues with Chris Lewicki of Planetary Resources along with Bob Pappalardo and Boba...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Can spending time in nature make you smarter? Psychologist weighs in
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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What do these three words, inch, deal and peg, have in common? You might be able to answer more quickly if you've been spending time outdoors--it t...

  • Added: May 12, 2015
  • Length: 18:06
Colliding galaxies, choosing a telescope, Perseid meteor showers, and more...from Astrobob
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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One of WTIP's favorite Roadhouse guests, Bob King (aka Astrobob), joined Dick Swanson to catch up on what's new in the sky and how best to see it.

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Jul 16, 2014
  • Length: 18:58
  • Purchases: 1
Day Job 6: The Mind Reader
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)
Caption: Ivan Galvez of Picoso, Credit: Joshua McNichols / Day Job
Ivan Gálvez plays timbales with the Seattle band Picoso. He also scans my brainwaves with an electroencephalogram machine at the hospital where he ...

Bought by KZYX, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 11, 2014
  • Length: 11:16
  • Purchases: 3
Exploring Black Holes and Supernovae With NuSTAR
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NuSTAR radioactivity map of a supernova., Credit: NASA
It’s the first high energy X-ray telescope in space, and it is providing theory-shattering data along with stunning images of some of the universe’...

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


  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 3
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
Riddles from the Border Regions 9/28/13
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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TWICE EACH YEAR ...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Sep 26, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Need a creative boost? Hit the trail, say psychology professors Ruth Ann & Paul Atchley
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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University of Kansas psychology professors Ruth Ann & Paul Atchley recently completed a study showing that four days out in the wild, without cell ...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2013
  • Length: 15:04
Riddles from the Border Regions, 12/03/11
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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THIRD OF NINE ...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Dec 01, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Ice Algae
From: Encounters: Radio Experiences in the North
Series: Encounters
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Elizabeth Arnold heads out on an ice breaker in the Bering Sea

Bought by KCHU, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KDUR, KTRT RADIO INC, WMNF and more


  • Added: May 21, 2009
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 6