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An audio postcard highlighting the amazing migration of Allen's Hummingbirds along the pacific flyway. Best aired late winter through spring and su...
Bought by WNED Buffalo and Radio Newark
- Added: Feb 15, 2017
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 2
The inter-coastal waterway, St Augustine FL, the pier near Bridge of Lions, pistol shrimp and more, warm, 10 am, November 2016, hydrophone, no effe...
- Added: Feb 06, 2017
- Length: :31
The sounds of: insects (crickets? cicadas?) Evening, 7pm, warm, comfortable, windy. St Augustine, FL.
*No effects, only EQ for wind noise.
- Added: Feb 01, 2017
- Length: :38
An audio postcard highlighting the wide variety of whales, porpoises and dolphins that inhabit the waters along northern California and southern Or...
Bought by KLCC, WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio
- Added: Jul 14, 2016
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 4
An audio postcard about the American Dipper, highlighting some behavioral and physiological aspects of this ubiquitous songbird along rivers and st...
Bought by WNED Buffalo, KRZA, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio
- Added: Jul 14, 2016
- Length: 01:27
- Purchases: 4
Wasting water? Is it your long showers or something else? Shirley Camia explores who is emptying Canada's lakes.Your long shower is nothing compare...
- Added: Jul 05, 2016
- Length: 10:40
The enormous implications of mining the floor of the deep sea. It's starting. It's calledr "squalene" and is in lots of beauty products. It's usual...
- Added: Jun 10, 2016
- Length: 18:27
Every year, 1 in 6 people get food poisoning. But, what is food poisoning? What should you do if you get food poisoning? What causes it and how do ...
Bought by WART FM
- Added: Jun 03, 2016
- Length: 31:38
- Purchases: 1
What exactly is in pipelines? (Dilbit plus)
- Added: Mar 13, 2016
- Length: 02:04
Arctic researcher Farah Khan explains the North Pole's albedo effect and why it is essential.
- Added: Mar 03, 2016
- Length: 01:29
Ocean campaigner Charlie Latimer tells us what a Fish Aggregating Device is and why using them to catch fish is ruining the oceans.
Bought by KUER
- Added: Feb 18, 2016
- Length: 02:01
- Purchases: 1
Over the last 150 years there is one subject which has caused much debate. That subject of course is evolution by natural selection. But what does ...
- Added: Aug 23, 2015
- Length: 15:38
On November 24, 1859, "On the Origin of Species" was published. To say that it made a splash would be an understatement. It changed the world.
- Added: Aug 22, 2015
- Length: 17:59
Darwin settled into a life as a naturalist. Whether he liked it or not, his views would find themselves on the world's stage.
- Added: Aug 15, 2015
- Length: 12:23
On 12/27/1831, 22 year old Charles Darwin stood on the deck of the HMS Beagle to bid England farewell.
- Added: Aug 11, 2015
- Length: 13:39
Had Charles Darwin not set foot upon the HMS Beagle the wonderful idea of evolution by natural selection might never have occurred to him.
- Added: Aug 11, 2015
- Length: 15:45
New research reveals a strange fact – a special type of neuron channel (HCN) makes us dumb. Hear about basic neuron mechanics and the supposed func...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 22, 2015
- Length: 07:18
- Purchases: 2
Stop filling your head like a vessel and ignite your flame of learning! Hear what improves learning from a University of Columbia neuroscientist an...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KSFR, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 26, 2015
- Length: 11:52
- Purchases: 3
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
This is the first of a 3-part documentary examining the history of music therapy and it's applications.
- Added: Aug 30, 2011
- Length: 07:54
“Grounded: The End of the Shuttle Era and the Future of Manned Space Flight,” is a special report from KUT News exploring mission, place and what i...
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Jun 14, 2011
- Length: 52:25
- Purchases: 1
Marine biologist Colleen Reichmuth works with walruses. She says that, like dolphins, they can communicate using an amazing variety of sounds.
Bought by WEZU, Radio Newark, KRUA, KOSU, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 22, 2011
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 5
- Added: May 07, 2010
- Length: 53:51
- Purchases: 1
Why Science and society today are still wrestling with Darwin's big idea.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: May 07, 2010
- Length: 53:47
- Purchases: 1
- Added: May 06, 2010
- Length: 53:53
- Purchases: 1
