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This week we dive into whether video games help us recover from work stress. (Spoiler: They absolutely do. But there is a catch.)

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WMFE, and WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
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On this episode of science unscripted, we will take you from the 2022 PISA scores all the way to the moment that our solar system was born.

Bought by WMFE and WFHB


  • Added: Dec 07, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: The future of weather forecasting — and our listeners had some really interesting things to say about tattoos.

Bought by WFHB and WMFE


  • Added: Nov 17, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Nov 10, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: Three people. Ever. That's how many have been cured of HIV. We visited one of them to learn about the extraordinarily rare (...

Bought by WFHB and WMFE


  • Added: Nov 03, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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On this week's show, why are birds and the noise they make so good for us? Also, we learn why the response to sexual harrassment is so much differe...

Bought by WMFE and WFHB


  • Added: Oct 13, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: May 05, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Science unscripted from Bonn/Germany.

  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
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Weekly roundup — The sound of grass (not) growing

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
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Drunk yourself dizzy? Have a shot of liver hormone

  • Added: Mar 10, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
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Weekly roundup — For couples, 'we-talk' is how to get the harmony going

  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
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Poems were written, submitted, read and even etched in concrete! Today on Art Beat we get a taste of the 2021 Winona Poetry Walk. A reception for t...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 27:08
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If you're like Trace, the thought of math makes you want to run and hide; that anxiety, that tightness in your chest, the weird shooting pains (wai...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jun 14, 2021
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Arachnophobes BEWARE! Imagine a spider that uses special silk to lift something that's 50 times bigger than itself. There is a video! You must wat...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 04:59
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What is that weird smell? It's called trimethylamine (TMA) and for most of us it stinks like rotten fish. For a small percentage of people it smell...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 05:04
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In the movie Good Will Hunting, Will is a janitor at MIT--he solves some impossible math problems and shocks the professors. That origin story is t...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
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You've probably seen a dog sleeping soundly with their legs pedaling. Is Fido really dreaming of chasing a tennis ball? Let's find out.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 29, 2020
  • Length: 04:49
  • Purchases: 1
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This week, Isaak and Rhett remember old internet challenges and discuss the allure the makes them viral sensations.

Bought by Belfast Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 05, 2020
  • Length: 12:12
  • Purchases: 1
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Trend setting science from 1975. We can't tell you anything else, it would spoil the surprise!

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 24, 2019
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 1
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(Air Dates: December 3 - 9) On this week's archive episode of 12th Street Jump, we celebrate the birthday of jazz guitarist Jim Hall with our speci...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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Medical science on the fly. Turns out you only need to pull a few G's to loosen that stubborn kidney stone.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 26, 2019
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 1
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African Wild Dogs appear to vote on pack activities by sneezing.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 05, 2019
  • Length: 02:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Cougars are beautiful and stealthy solitary hunters. Until they want to mate. Then they sound like a person being run through a garbage compactor. ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 10, 2019
  • Length: 02:06
  • Purchases: 2
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A series of 90-second quirky science pieces. Fun, fact-filled, entertaining, and educational.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2018
  • Length: 45:11
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We learn about Synthetic Wine. We also check the Mailbag and cherish a visit from Alex, The Wine Guru, as he discusses Sexy Chardonnay. A fun sho...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:00