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An audio postcard highlighting native bees -- including nuances of their behavior, life history and ecological importance.
- Added: Feb 06, 2024
- Length: 01:28
India became the first nation in the world to pull off a soft landing on the moon's south pole.
- Added: Aug 29, 2023
- Length: 06:00
The 'Akiapōlā'au is one of Hawaii's rare and endangered birds, living exclusively on the Big Island.
- Added: Feb 08, 2023
- Length: 01:30
The apapane is a forest bird native to the Hawaiian islands. It is a member of the honeycreeper family and an important pollinator.
Bought by WNED Buffalo
- Added: Feb 08, 2023
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
There are many questions related to dark-ness, so many that it is difficult choosing where to start from.
- Added: Mar 28, 2022
- Length: 03:37
…the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill.
— From ...
- Added: Sep 21, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Richard and his daughter Johanna explore the physical, emotional, and spiritual planes of our existence while exercising on Zoom.
- Added: Sep 18, 2020
- Length: 08:47
Taxonomists are scientists (usually in museums) who classify life. They're field has open boundaries which creates tension for the Taxonomists and ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2018
- Length: 01:08:52
The chief minister of the Indian state of Tripura reads as fact the great epics of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Which is like thinking that Ja...
- Added: Jul 24, 2018
- Length: 06:00
The Indian Science Minister tried to capitalize on Stephen Hawking’s death, but to what end?
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Mar 19, 2018
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
What is a raptor?
Naturalist Ken Burton offers up some details on these amazing birds, including addressing the concept of convergent evolution.
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: Feb 28, 2018
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Running hasn't always been popular and neither has its research. A small group of biomechanists rethought the way we use our bodies to run and it's...
Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 20, 2016
- Length: 09:55
- Purchases: 3
As sport fans, we subject ourselves to anxiety and depression nearly every week. Why do we do it? This episode explores the reasons why we care so ...
Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Jul 14, 2016
- Length: 15:07
- Purchases: 1
This song will finish in about another 600 years.
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 01:34
- Purchases: 4
Being surrounded by invisible streams of data.
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 01:31
- Purchases: 4
- Added: Apr 23, 2015
- Length: 01:59
How do we measure learning? Hear neuroscientists and teachers describe how it's done in the lab and at school.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 27, 2015
- Length: 10:01
- Purchases: 2
How do we get better at tasks? In this short episode, we describe an important mechanism of learning: pruning away neural connections.
- Added: Mar 08, 2015
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 3
Listen to experts define learning and lead us through the types of knowledge to be gained in learning. Then hear the basic explanation of how neuro...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 14, 2015
- Length: 10:09
- Purchases: 2
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
A mysterious sound sends us on a snipe hunt in Yellowstone National Park.
- Added: May 19, 2014
- Length: 02:41
- Purchases: 3
Conservationists in Sarapiqui, Costa Rica describe their relationship with birds. Excerpted from "Pura Vida: Costa Rica's Culture of Conservation."
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 12, 2014
- Length: 01:10
- Purchases: 1
Sounds affect us in ways we might not notice.
- Added: Dec 12, 2012
- Length: 02:39
- Purchases: 2
An older building in West Cambridge is renewed in an eco-friendly way
- Added: Dec 12, 2012
- Length: 01:46
Fresh Pond. A great name for where Cambridge's water comes from.
- Added: Dec 12, 2012
- Length: 02:54
