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As You Were
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: As You Were, Credit: Seth Shostak
From memory storage to self-healing materials to stem cells - creative approaches to capturing things are they were. Plus, the arrow of time in re...

Bought by KRPS, KBYS 88.3 FM, Accessible Media Inc., WRST-FM Oshkosh, WYAP and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Food Sleuth Radio, Jeff Ritterman Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide has been linked to a mysterious fatal kidney disease among farmers in Central America, Sri Lanka and India. Join Food...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
79-Interplanetary Travelers-Lunar Meteorites
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Rocks from the Moon can end up on the surface of the Earth and be worth more than diamonds or gold.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KMXT, Radio Newark and more


  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
78-Up Close And Personal With A Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Rosetta Spacecraft's arrival at a comet's nucleus has begun a process of discovery.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KMXT, Radio Newark and more


  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Arctic Council
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: http://www.arctic-council.org, Credit: The Arctic Council
In 1996, the high level intergovernmental Arctic Council was formed to promote cooperation and interaction among the Arctic states. In this episode...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 05:23
Skeptic Check: Is It True?
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Is It True?, Credit: Seth Shostak
We often hear fantastic scientific claims that would change everything if true. We examine news stories that seem too sensational to be valid, yet...

Bought by KRPS, Accessible Media Inc., KSKQ, WRST-FM Oshkosh, Accessible Media Inc. Station Account and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
A Sudden Change in Planets
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: A Sudden Change in Planets, Credit: Seth Shostak
A planet is a planet is a planet. Unless it’s Pluto. Scientists say that the unpopular re-classification of Pluto as a dwarf planet by astronomer...

Bought by XRAY.fm, WLPR , WRST-FM Oshkosh, KREV-LP, KSKQ and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Cannabis Radio News #8
From: Cannabis Radio News
Series: Cannabis Radio News - weekly show
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In CRN #8 we hear back to school thoughts from Betty Aldworth, Executive Director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy. Jane West owns and operates...

Bought by KVMR and KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
83-Two Space Rocks Come Close To Planet Earth In A Week
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Two Earth approaching asteroids were discovered on the same night.

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
75-Will Space Aliens Discover Us By Our Pollution
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Strong radio and TV transmissions from Earth will probably fade as human communications switches to satellites and fibers. Perhaps the way to dete...

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Welcome to Our Labor-atory
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Welcome to Our Labor-atory, Credit: Seth Shostak
The end of work? Hi ho, hi ho ... it’s out with work we go! As you relax this holiday weekend, step into our labor-atory and imagine a world wher...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
74-Space Aliens Listening To Our Sun
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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What would a space alien receive if it pointed its radio antennas towards our Sun?

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
73-Mars 2020 Rover
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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NASA is planning a new Mars rover which will be based on the successful Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity Mars rovers. It will be able to directl...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Visual Stylometry: Where math forays into art
From: Jenny Chen
Caption: Paintings by Craig Moran, Credit: Jenny Chen
Visual stylometry is a new branch of mathematics that uses mathematics to determine the style of a particular artists' body of work. In this piece ...

Bought by WDBM, WABE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 5
Fire on the Mountain: Climate Change, Fire, and the Ecological Future of the American West
From: Aengus Anderson
Caption: In the summer monsoon season, grass carpets the Chiricahua foothills., Credit: Aengus Anderson
In the wake of a catastrophic fire, researchers use Arizona's Chiricahua Mountains to look centuries into the future of climate change and ask "wha...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Aug 25, 2014
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 2
Before the Deluge
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill uses lyrics composed by a 20th century musical legend to reflect upon the challenges we face...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2014
  • Length: 04:39
ZZZZZs Please
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: ZZZZZs Please, Credit: Seth Shostak
The science of why we sleep and technology that may allow us to record dreams.

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2014
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 7
Food Sleuth Radio, Harold Goldstein Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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The beverage industry spends billions of dollars each year convincing us that sugary beverages will make us “happy.” In reality, sugar-laden drink...

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  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
72-Could Space Aliens Detect Life On Earth
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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By looking at a star as one of its planets passes in front of it, astronomers are able to learn about its atmosphere.

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  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
71-Martian Women
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Men may be from Mars but women are exploring it.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KRSC, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark and more


  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Know Laughing Matter
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Know Laughing Matter, Credit: Seth Shostak
Why we evolved to laugh plus side-splitting jokes about electrons and relativity.

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  • Added: Aug 18, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
Ultimate Hook Up
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Ultimate Hook Up, Credit: Seth Shostak
Our love-affair with computers marches on: if we wire human brains directly to them, where does the mind end and the machine begin?

Bought by KREV-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Aug 18, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
70- NASA Mars Spacecraft Prepare For A Close Comet Flyby
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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High speed debris from comets may pose a threat to our spacecraft.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WKCC and more


  • Added: Aug 14, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
69-Fly Out Of Spaceport America
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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SpaceShipTwo will carry 6 passengers and two pilots and be launched from the 18,000 acre SpacePort America in New Mexico.

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Teeth Beneath Your Feet: Oddities in Urban Archaeology
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: URS Corporation archaeologists excavate at a site beside I-95 in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia., Credit: Mariel Carr
Where can you find a teacup, the molar of a goat, and an arrowhead all in one place? At an urban archaeology site, that’s where.

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 36:50
  • Purchases: 1

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