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The U.S. Navy attempted to develop a shark attack repellant after many sailors were attacked during WWII. The first step was the formation of a “Sh...
- Added: Jul 19, 2018
- Length: 24:15
The story of two explorers chased down—well, technically up—by a jaguar.
- Added: Jun 01, 2017
- Length: 28:08
For our 13th episode, we venture off the beaten path to hear about Bigfoot and the scientist who’s on a mission to find him.
- Added: Oct 19, 2016
- Length: 18:38
- Purchases: 2
A new comet is likely to have the characteristics of a really weird traveler in the night.
Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, Radio Newark, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more
- Added: Sep 22, 2016
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 9
In the 1970s, a geochemist and a biologist banded together to solve a mystery at Lake Oneida in upstate New York. What they found is changing the w...
Bought by WDBM
- Added: Apr 21, 2016
- Length: 14:03
- Purchases: 1
A marine mammal mystery told in bite-size chunks.
Bought by KRUA
- Added: Apr 13, 2016
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Every year for the past few years, tens of thousand of flytraps have gone missing – from the wild, from gardens, from nurseries. And, really, nobod...
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 21:00
- Purchases: 3
While bats all over America are dying from a mysterious disease, Maine's bat population seems strangely immune. How much longer will they hold out...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 10:26
- Purchases: 1
What we call a mushroom is only the fruit of a much larger, subterranean organism. How do mushrooms know when to grow? Of course they need rain, su...
Bought by PRX Remix and PRX to iTunes
- Added: Jun 22, 2010
- Length: 04:45
- Purchases: 2
Go to an area in Alaska that has one of the highest grizzly bear populations in the world and find out how humans can live near bears safely.
Bought by KCHU, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KTRT RADIO INC, KDUR, KMXT and more
- Added: Aug 11, 2009
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 10
While the layperson might not be able to tell the difference between a bovine patella and a piece of a T-Rex, the experts at the American Museum of...
Bought by PRX Administrator and 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station
- Added: Mar 03, 2006
- Length: 04:39
- Purchases: 2
