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Holiday Mishaps
From: FOOLY BOO
Series: This Won't Hurt A Bit
Caption: The medical podcast for your cortex and your funny bone, Credit: Foolyboo Inc
It's the HOLIDAYS! What could possibly go wrong? This week we bring you a Holiday Special about some of the festive season's worst case scenarios. ...

Bought by KSTK, WART FM, and KMUD


  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 32:02
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 10: Love
From: Raw Data
Series: Raw Data: Season 1
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LOVE!! Why is it so hard to find?! The seemingly endless options of online dating should make it easy, right? Is there data that can predict lastin...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 32:11
Nathan Pino on Fulbright ON
From: Daris Hale
Series: Fulbright On
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Nathan Pino describes his experiences while being a Fulbright Scholar in Trinidad and Tobago.

  • Added: Apr 13, 2016
  • Length: 09:43
Dance: It's Only Human
From: Katie Burke
Caption: Oxford University evolutionary psychologist Bronwyn Tarr with Carimbó dancers., Credit: José Roberto Corrêa
Evolutionary neuroscientist Bronwyn Tarr was in a remote area of Brazil to begin an experiment. On her first night there, she heard distant drumbea...

Bought by PRX Remix and KUER


  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 09:30
  • Purchases: 2
Tawnee Corning Captures the Cosmos
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Io Study, Tawnee Corning
How do you capture the cosmos? The vastness, the distance of cosmic bodies, even the colors? Those are questions for Tawnee Corning, a Bagley area ...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2016
  • Length: 09:09
Snowflake Science
From: Dr. Ainissa Ramirez
Series: Science Underground
Caption: Snowflake science
Snowflakes are unique and have six points. This short segment explains why.

Bought by Monarch Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 14, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
90 Second Naturalist December 2015
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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90 second modules that celebrate the natural world and bring the wonder of nature into daily life

Bought by KMUN, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 25, 2015
  • Length: 34:30
  • Purchases: 3
Science and the Supernatural in the 17th Century
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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Once upon a time science and the supernatural were not so far apart.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 01:42:26
Distillations Turns 200
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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This is Distillations’s 200th episode, and we’re celebrating! We pored through hundreds of shows and pieced together some of the funniest, grossest...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 37:10
How to Avoid Worry and Anxiety so They Don’t Impede Your Spiritual Progress
From: Chris Curran
Series: The Mystic Show
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Life is wonderful, but inevitably our physical and mental faculties degrade. That’s why it’s SO important to practice meditation while we still hav...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 42:12
90 Second Naturalist - November 2015
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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90 second modules that celebrate the natural world and bring the wonder of nature into daily life

Bought by KMUN, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KCBX


  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 31:30
  • Purchases: 3
Why do cats like to hang out in boxes?
From: North Country Public Radio
Series: Natural Selections
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For cats, the comfort zone is shaped like a box. Martha Foley and Curt Stager discuss why.

Bought by 91.7 WHUS Storrs


  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 1
Music Nostalgia
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week we explore how hearing a certain song brings back memories of a particular time and place.

Bought by KRZA, WKCC, WOUB, KSKQ, KPVL and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
#31 MIW Eric Drake - Small Business Owner & Inter-Galactic Consciousness Explorer
From: Allegra Bandy
Series: Making It Work Radio
Caption: Eric Drake on MIW, Credit: Oddua Productions
I’m Akeisha Johnson, your show host, and on this episode of Making It Work, we will chat with this small business owner of Saxology and Saxcraft ab...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2015
  • Length: 21:57
Episode 19: Where Math and Mime Meet
From: PRX
Series: Transistor
Caption: Tim and Tanya Chartier present a classic mime stance
Some things can be better left unsaid. Who would have thought that math could be one of them?

Bought by WOUB, WTJU, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jun 29, 2015
  • Length: 12:28
  • Purchases: 3
Peanut Butter for Bigfoot
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Loren Coleman spends most of his time thinking about animals that most people think are fake.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 2
Star Wars Brought This Couple Together -- and it's Helping to Keep Them Together
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
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A pair of lovers get ready to welcome a new addition to their movie marathon dates.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 02:58
Rob Manning and Getting Down To Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: A six-meter Supersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (SIAD) is spin tested in a JPL clean room., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Landing on Mars is hard, and the bigger you are, the harder it gets. Rob Manning returns to tell us about one of NASA’s best hopes for getting much...

Bought by KMUD, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, and KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 12, 2015
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 5
Brian Fox Ellis Brings Charles Darwin to Life in St. Cloud
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In this new installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts and Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with storyteller Brian “...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 30:36
  • Purchases: 1
Taste The Color Eight
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive: Summer 2011
Caption: Number Tube, Credit: Andrew
On today's show, we hear two stories about a brain condition called synesthesia. That's when the stimulation of one pathway in the brain leads to a...

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network and KUOW


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 11:09
  • Purchases: 2
Episode #1: I Remember This One Time…
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: The Mixing Board
Caption: Bryce Ellis enjoys a day at the park, just like in his earliest childhood memories, Credit: Molly Anderson
Molly Anderson and Bryce Ellis explore human memory through a story told by intern Lizzie Kirshner. They also interview Jessica Sommervile on the f...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 08:50
Silicon Valley's Prehistoric Past
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Construction site at the Calaveras Dam in the East Bay hills.
When work began to rebuild the Calaveras Dam, Paleontologist Jim Walker was called to the scene to hunt for fossils. He expected to find a few, but...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 12, 2015
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 1
Ig Nobel Prizes honor research that makes you laugh, then makes you think
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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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
How We Learn Language
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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Can you remember what it was like for you to learn your native language? Probably not, but why is that? As humans, we begin learning to speak our...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Sep 12, 2014
  • Length: 07:20
  • Purchases: 1
The Making of the Disease Detectives, Or the Case of the Nutty Dish
From: Philip Graitcer
Caption: Disease Detective Badge, Credit: CDC
They’re called disease detectives – the nation’s medical eyes and ears on the lookout for disease outbreaks and bioterror attacks. They’re the Epid...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 25, 2014
  • Length: 09:04
  • Purchases: 3