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The Big Ponder #27: Immersion
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Immersive artwork breaks down the border between the viewer and the artist, submerging the spectator in the exhibit. Nancy Pettinicchio discusses t...

Bought by KVSC, KMXT, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 06, 2022
  • Length: 27:02
  • Purchases: 3
What Do Equations Sound Like on the Piano?
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
Caption: A piano image made on the coordinate plane., Credit: Pios Labs
Let’s make equations musical. Instead of visualizing equations on a graph, let’s listen to them on the piano, merging all our math and music knowl...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 49:30
LEAVES
From: Kate Madara
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Amaryllis grows like a bone in a coffin, opening up the cavern of the dream weaver hidden below the Forest Roost. Laid out, it looks like a branch.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 11:18
A Psycholinguist/Minister Attempts to Reconcile Her Belief in Non-Physical Avenues for Acquiring Knowledge
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: Being Reasonable
Caption: Being Reasonable
A psycholinguist/minister discusses her belief in non-physical avenues for acquiring knowledge. Then we have a moving conversation with Christophe...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
A Christian Evolutionary Biologist reconciles his faith with science
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: Being Reasonable
Caption: Being Reasonable
David Remington, associate professor in the Dept. of Biology at UNCG, is challenged to reconcile his Christian faith with his scientific endeavors....

  • Added: Dec 03, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:00
Weird Radio Signals (from Outer Space)
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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were received...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2018
  • Length: 02:36:37
Fluidity (Part 4 of 4)
From: Lisa Cantrell
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Women might more readily fall in love with people of any gender... because of our fluid sexual nature and where love is in our brain.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2016
  • Length: 17:11
242-Spray Paint
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A gentle method of causing an asteroid to miss planet Earth.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KENW and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
181-Beyond Moon
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Take a trip to view the far side of the Moon.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KKRN, and KENW


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
176-Weird Life
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Strange life forms at the bottom of Earth's oceans may provide clues about creatures which may exit on other worlds.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KKRN, and KENW


  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
State of Jefferson
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
Caption: Seal of the State of Jefferson, Credit: wikipedia.com
"Keep It California" and the people who want to live in the "State of Jefferson" battled it out at the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors meetin...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2015
  • Length: 03:21:46
161-Half A World Away
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Using the long arm of the internet, Russian astronomers are making discoveries using a telescope in New Mexico, USA.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KRZA, KALH and more


  • Added: Jul 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
154-100 Years Of Data
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Soon it will be possible to study changes in the Universe which have occurred over the past 100 years.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, KENW and more


  • Added: Jun 04, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Trauma Glossolalia: Synesthesia and Sound
From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Sound and Violence - Work by NYU Students
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Award-winning composer Jenny Olivia Johnson explores synesthesia, where sound is perceived as color or touch. Her feature is a work of sound art as...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2015
  • Length: 10:09
A Conversation about Chinese Medicine with Acupuncturist and Herbalist, Greg Golden
From: Alix Litwack
Series: Another Day Of Living; Join the Conversation!
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"Change your beliefs, change your health," Litwack comments during her interview with Greg Golden. Join in the conversation about Chinese medicine,...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 28:44
Futurework
From: Spectrum Radio
Caption: FUTUREWORK: How Technology Will Redefine the Culture of Work
IEEE Spectrum Radio explores what the workplace will look like and what the meaning of work will be 30 years into the future.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KHNS, KTSW 89.9, WUFT, KUER and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2014
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 54
Episode 6: Matt Stone/180 Degree Health - Bobby Pickles' Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
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Bobby speaks with, author and independent health researcher, Matt Stone about his contrarian views in regards to many fad diets and his new book, "...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2012
  • Length: 41:40
UnFictional : The Angel of Death
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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Two stories about that key life moment many of us spend a lifetime dreading. It's a key life event that none of us live to tell about. The moment. ...

Bought by Aspen Public Radio, KOSU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 27, 2012
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 3
Adam as Machine
From: Ed Prosser
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Electricity, pumps & shunts: A forensic pathologist on life.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 01:23
Engineers of the New Millennium: Dream Jobs 2009
From: Spectrum Radio
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“Engineers of the New Millennium: Dream Jobs 2009"

Bought by WBEZ, KWIT, WDSE, WFIU, KZYX and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2009
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 16
Dolphins
From: KVNF
Series: Belief Systems and Other B.S.
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Dr. John C. Lilly, noted polymath and sort of a mad scientist, was obsessed with dolphin intelligence and his experiments with interspecies communi...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2006
  • Length: 03:32
The Olfactograph
From: Trent Wolbe
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Conceptual artist Jamie O'Shea discovered a way to record smells, and paired them with something special.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 01, 2004
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 2