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Frankenstein's Cat -- Groks Science Show 2013-03-27
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Emily Anthes discussed bioengineering and her book, Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KPVL


  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 25:22
  • Purchases: 2
Weather Maths -- Groks Science Show 2013-03-20
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Humans have wanted to know tomorrow's weather for as long as there have been todays. Only in the last few centuries, however, have we begun making...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KPVL


  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 30:45
  • Purchases: 2
Food Sleuth Radio, Anne Mosness Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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What are the risks of introducing genetically engineered fish into our food supply? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda H...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
Author Anthony Brandt and "The Man Who Ate His Boots"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Anthony, no stranger to faraway places himself, tells the harrowing history of the search for the Northwest Passage in "The Man Who Ate His Boots."...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 17, 2013
  • Length: 10:11
  • Purchases: 1
Sleep Diet -- Groks Science Show 2013-03-13
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Prof. Kenneth Wright discussed how lack of sleep influences our metabolism and its effect on weight gain.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KMXT


  • Added: Mar 14, 2013
  • Length: 20:01
  • Purchases: 2
212: Catalyzing Ocean Finance II
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Catalyzing Ocean Finance Vol. II, Credit: GEF/UNDP
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill continues a discussion of the Global Environment Facility/ United Nations Development Progra...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2013
  • Length: 05:33
211: Catalyzing Ocean Finance
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Recently, the Global Environmental Facility and the United Nations Development Program combined their talents and experience to address ocean solut...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 05:21
The Cosmos Within Us -- Groks Science Show 2013-03-06
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Neil Shubin joins us to discuss his exciting new book, "The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People."

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WRNC-LP, KMXT, and KPVL


  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 28:24
  • Purchases: 4
Physics in Mind -- Groks Science Show 2013-02-27
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Prof. Werner R. Lowenstein discussed quantum physics and the mind.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WRNC-LP, KPVL, and KMXT


  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 23:27
  • Purchases: 4
Gone Fishin’: Australis Aquaculture CEO Josh Goldman
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Josh Goldman
Making responsible choices as a seafood consumer has never been more complicated. An average fish-eater might be aware that tuna is high in mercury...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
Ballooning to the Stars -- Groks Science Show 2013-02-20
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Tristan Matthews discusses how physicists use massive helium balloons launched from the Antarctic to study stellar phenomena.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KMXT, and KPVL


  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 32:51
  • Purchases: 3
Interview with the man who landed the Curiosity Rover on Mars
From: Michael Nevradakis
Series: Dialogos Interview Series
Caption: The Dialogos Interview Series, produced by Dialogos Radio, Credit: Michael Nevradakis
An interview with Dr. Pericles Papadopoulos, the NASA scientist who landed the Curiosity Rover on Mars.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 24:38
Robert Boyd on the Hydrogen Economy
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Robert Boyd
One of the most alluring answers to the climate change conundrum is a transition from a fossil fuel-based economy to a hydrogen-based economy. As h...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
Oxygen, the Menace -- Groks Science Show 2013-02-13
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Prof. Joe Kirschvink discusses oxygen, cyanobacteria, and the Medea hypothesis.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WRNC-LP, WXDU, and KMXT


  • Added: Feb 15, 2013
  • Length: 25:23
  • Purchases: 4
Zac Unger: Looking Polar Bear Endangerment In The Eye
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Zac Unger
We have all seen the mournful image of an unhappy polar bear isolated on a melting ice floe. It conveys the doom of that one bear as well as his sp...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
Digging Peromyscus -- Groks Science Show 2013-02-06
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Not many laboratories house mice in 3000 pounds of sand, but then not many labs research the burrowing habits of Peromyscus, either. Dr. Hopi Hoek...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KMXT, and KPVL


  • Added: Feb 06, 2013
  • Length: 30:27
  • Purchases: 3
Starch Solution -- Groks Science Show 2013-01-30
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. John McDougall discussed the starch solution.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WRNC-LP, KMXT, and KPVL


  • Added: Jan 30, 2013
  • Length: 25:36
  • Purchases: 4
Humanistic Psychology -- Groks Science Show 2013-01-23
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Jessica Grogan discussed the history of humanistic psychology.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KMXT


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 26:08
  • Purchases: 2
Teeny Weeny Technology: Heather Millar on Nanoparticles
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Heather Millar
Here’s a little exercise: take a pen and a blank piece of paper and write down everything you know about nano-technology. If you do this, you may f...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2013
  • Length: 29:50
Jack and the Microbiome -- Groks Science Show 2013-01-16
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Microbial ecologist Jack Gilbert joins us to discuss the Earth Microbiome Project.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KPVL, WRNC-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: Jan 16, 2013
  • Length: 31:58
  • Purchases: 4
Web 2.0 -- Groks Science Show 2013-01-09
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Terry Chay discusses social networks, viral marketing, and the Obama campaign.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KPVL, KMXT, and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 27:02
  • Purchases: 4
Fire together, wire together -- Groks Science Show 2013-01-02
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Jason MacLean joined us to discuss this Hebbian plasticity and the past, present, and future of research on neuronal networks.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KMXT, WRNC-LP, and KPVL


  • Added: Jan 02, 2013
  • Length: 27:21
  • Purchases: 4
Spillover -- Groks Science Show 2012-12-26
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
David Quammen discussed animal infections and the next human pandemic.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KMXT


  • Added: Dec 25, 2012
  • Length: 27:21
  • Purchases: 2
Walking in Our Footprints
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Joe Romm
How will our current climate policies and actions be viewed by future generations? Our first guest this week on Sea Change Radio is pretty sure our...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 3: Dr. Daniel Twogood/Chronic Pain Gone 90 Days - Bobby Pickles' Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
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"Stop drinking milk!" Bobby speaks with Dr. Daniel Twogood, a D.C. from California who wrote a new book entitled "Chronic Pain Gone 90 Days". Dr. D...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2012
  • Length: 51:51

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