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Season 1, Episode 14 - 'Cosmic Consciousness' feat Brian Thomas Swimme

From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1

We are the universe experiencing itself, as told by a world class student of the cosmos.

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB

Oppenheimer’s omission and other secrets of the Atomic Age

From: New Hampshire Public Radio

Caption: Paul Pino of Carrizozo, New Mexico., Credit: Nate Hegyi

From NHPR's Outside/In comes two stories that shed light on unseen consequences of America's nuclear ambitions.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Vermont Public, and Valley Public Radio

765: Shapeshifting / 766: Plants As People, 2/4/2023

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Shapeshifting" - Seals that can turn into women, men who transform into wolves… Stories about shape-shifting are among the oldest in the...

753: When Mountains Are Gods / 754: The Sound Of Silence, 12/24/2022

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "When Mountains Are Gods" - Science tells us mountains are giant piles of rock, formed millions of years ago. But that's not all they are...

719: The Secret Language Of Trees / 720: Pick Your Poison, 8/27/2022

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: 'The Secret Language of Trees' - Trees talk to each other, and even form alliances with other trees or other species. Some are incredibly...

711: Walk With Me / 712: Why Do We Have So Much Stuff?, 7/30/2022

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Walk With Me" - Walking prolongs our life and makes us human. So why are we doing less and less of it? HOUR TWO: "Why Do We Have So Mu...

681: Plants As People / 682: Finding Meaning In Desperate Times, 4/16/2022

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Plants As People" - If plants are intelligent beings, how should we relate to them? Do they have a place in our moral universe? Should t...

657: Searching For Order In The Universe / 658: Outside The Mental Illness Box, 1/22/2022

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Searching For Order In The Universe" - The universe is full of mystery. This hour, what do fish and eels have to do with the maddening s...

637: Living With Loneliness / 638: Who Owns Seeds?, 11/13/2021

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Living With Loneliness" - In countries all over the world, rates of loneliness are skyrocketing. How did it become a condition of modern...

591: Secrets of Alchemy / 592: Thinking With Animals, 6/5/2021

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Secrets Of Alchemy" - The leading science of the 17th century was alchemy, the transformation of matter. What was it really? Could we st...

Moonshine and Prohibition (hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

-South Carolina banned the sale of alcohol in 1915. But the state itself had established its own dispensary system more than a decade earlier. -Moo...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, Royalton Community Radio and more

Early Spring

From: Science Update
Series: Science Update

Spring is arriving early to North American wildlife refuges because of climate change.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, Spokane Public Radio, KENW, WTIP and more

The Dispossessed, Part 2; Red Wolves of the Alligator River Chapter 2

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Red wolves used to roam free across most of the eastern United States, from Maine to Florida, from Missouri to Texas, one of the top dogs in the fo...

Small Town Archaeology

From: Science Update

A town square offers a trove of archaeological discoveries.

Interview w/ naturalist DIANE ACKERMAN about her book "The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us"

From: Out of Bounds

Award-winning naturalist, poet & author discusses her most recent book "The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us"

Oil Boom Earthquakes

From: Science Update
Series: Science Update

Caption: Huntington Beach, 1926, Credit: Photo Courtesy of the Orange County Archives Barbara K. Milkovich Collection CC BY 2.0, via flickr

Did early 20th century oil wells in southern California trigger major earthquakes?

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, KSFR, KENW and more

"Northwoods Naturalist" weighs in on possibility of an early spring

From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse

Chel Anderson is a botanist and plant ecologist who has lived and worked on the North Shore since 1974. She's the Northwoods Naturalist on WTIP and...

How & where did dogs evolve? Scientist & veterinarian explains

From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse

A recently published study suggests that all dogs alive today can trace at least some of their ancestry back to dogs that were domesticated 33,000 ...

Climatologist/meteorologist Mark Seeley recaps 2015 weather

From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse

2015 was a pretty unusual year for weather. Dr. Mark Seeley, extension climatologist, meteorologist, and professor, and regular guest on Minnesota ...

"Project: Ice" director Bill Kleinert stops by The Roadhouse

From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse

"Project: Ice" views the Great Lakes through the prism of ice, at the crossroads of history, science and climate change. The film's director and ex...

700 Fathoms under the Sea

From: David Schulman

Caption: Scientists discovered the "sound channel" in 1944. Whales use it to communicate across oceans — and during the Cold War the Navy secretly used it to track nuclear subs. This 1948 graphic shows sound traveling on an axis 700 fathoms down in the Atlantic., Credit: Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel

Something unusual happens about a half mile under the sea. Ocean physics create a special zone where sound travels for hundreds, even thousands of ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, American Voices, Hark!, KFAI Minneapolis and more

A day at Herring River

From: Ben Harden

Every spring, river herring return to the rivers and ponds of Cape Cod to spawn. They are met by a group of volunteers who, come rain or shine, sho...

Bought by Radio Newark and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Conservation in the Anthropocene

From: Generation Anthropocene
Series: Generation Anthropocene

In our second compilation, we bring together voices from the Leopold Leadership Program to investigate the changing nature and changing goals of co...

The Blue Revolution

From: Chrys Bocast
Series: Aquaculture and You

The history of aquaculture from the mid-20th century to the present.

Ancient Fish Bones Lending Insight

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series

To prepare for climate change, sometimes it's good to get down to the bare bones. Fish bones, that is.

Bought by KOSU

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