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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
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.
- Added: Dec 07, 2023
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
This week on the show: The future of weather forecasting — and our listeners had some really interesting things to say about tattoos.
- Added: Nov 17, 2023
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
Weekly roundup — We hear you
- Added: Nov 10, 2023
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
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 (...
- Added: Nov 03, 2023
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
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...
- Added: Oct 13, 2023
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
Weekly roundup – Food for thoughts
Bought by WFHB
- Added: May 05, 2023
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: Science unscripted from Bonn/Germany.
- Added: Apr 13, 2023
- Length: 30:00
Weekly roundup — The sound of grass (not) growing
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 30:00
Drunk yourself dizzy? Have a shot of liver hormone
- Added: Mar 10, 2023
- Length: 30:00
Weekly roundup — For couples, 'we-talk' is how to get the harmony going
- Added: Mar 06, 2023
- Length: 30:00
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
(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
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
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
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
A series of 90-second quirky science pieces. Fun, fact-filled, entertaining, and educational.
- Added: Mar 09, 2018
- Length: 45:11
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