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On this week's episode, stories about looking for answers in the wrong places, mercury in the water, and...bigfoot.
Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9
- Added: Jun 25, 2014
- Length: 58:55
- Purchases: 2
90 second modules that celebrate the natural world and bring the wonder of nature into daily life.
- Added: Jun 23, 2014
- Length: 34:30
In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill will discuss how pervasive plastics have become by describing microbeads, particulates found ...
- Added: Jun 23, 2014
- Length: 05:12
On the June edition of Northern Gardening, your hosts Joan Farnam and Diane Booth will be talking about bees, bugs and pesticides! They talked with...
Bought by KZYX, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and WDSE
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 59:21
- Purchases: 3
Deane Morrison is a science writer at the University of Minnesota, where she authors the Minnesota Starwatch column.
The Sun is the most dominatin...
- Added: Jun 18, 2014
- Length: 03:42
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill describes what a transformed Arctic might look like, and suggests that we should be encourag...
- Added: Jun 16, 2014
- Length: 05:27
Climate change poses a real and present danger to our modern way of life, but modern civilization likely would not have arisen without agriculture ...
- Added: Jun 13, 2014
- Length: 48:38
You can think of groundwater as a big, black box connecting life on land to ocean ecosystems. We have a decent handle on what goes in, but scientis...
- Added: Jun 13, 2014
- Length: 49:22
What do we see in a single drop of ocean water? A recent image captured by David Liittschwager for National Geographic reveals an impressive abunda...
- Added: Jun 09, 2014
- Length: 04:14
Insects will go to great lengths to pass their genes down to the next generations, including resorting to “power tools” to bore deep into unripe fr...
- Added: Jun 08, 2014
- Length: 01:00
In May 1975, Popular Mechanics published an article called “Cities In The Sky”, about plans for space colonies by 1995. Flash forward forty years a...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Back in 1958 Popular Science published an article about General Motor’s plan to build self-driving cars guided by electrical cables in roadways. Gi...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
The most common element in all accidents is the human element. In the quest to eliminate driver error and make our roads safer, we’ve been searchin...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Believe it or not, electric vehicles used to be more popular than gasoline engines. The first practical electric car in 1884, and for decades many ...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Imagine waiting to catch a train. You show up at the station and wait for the familiar clanking of wheels and squealing of brakes. This time, howev...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
We're getting closer and closer to making fusion power a reality - limitless energy created by fusing hydrogen into helium, the same process that p...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Physicists are approaching closer and closer to one of the Holy Grails of modern science: creating self-sustaining fusion reactions on Earth, and u...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
For the past fifty years physicists around the world have been trying to create a fusion power reactor, harnessing the processes deep inside of sta...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
The Earth gets almost all of its energy from the Sun. It grows plants and creates our climate. Even the fossil fuels we burn are the remains of pla...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
The Lower 9th Ward's Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle of today is what is called a “ghost swamp”. Until the 1960s, it was a full of cypress trees, ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2014
- Length: 18:02
It was early morning, November first, nineteen fifty-two. The scientists who had gathered on the beautiful Enewetak (A-ne-we-tak) Atoll in the Sout...
- Added: Jun 03, 2014
- Length: 02:00
WTIP's Dick Swanson chatted recently with Dr. Richard Ojakangas, retired UMD geology professor, about how the geology of the North Shore makes thi...
- Added: Jun 03, 2014
- Length: 23:49
Are we being told the truth about GMO foods in our midst? Sheldon Krimsky is Editor/reader here and Ralph Nader wrote the foreword to this informat...
- Added: May 30, 2014
- Length: 01:40
If your friends call you an "early adopter," you'll want to take note of MIT student Ben Gulak's way-cool emission-free vehicle. It looks like a cr...
Bought by WXPR, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KKRN
- Added: May 29, 2014
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
Remember playing with animal match books? By flipping the left- or right-hand pages you could match the picture of an animal's head with its body. ...
Bought by WXPR, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KKRN
- Added: May 29, 2014
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
