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On this episode of Audacious, meet three Ig Nobel Prize winners! Their achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Mar 29, 2024
- Length: 50:00
- Purchases: 1
Sam Dunning and Stimson Snead talk jibs, self-acceptance, and the power of entropy.
- Added: Mar 13, 2024
- Length: 22:42
On this episode of Audacious, meet Kenley Byrd, who is one of fewer than 100 people ever known to have had Foreign Accent Syndrome.
- Added: Feb 02, 2024
- Length: 50:00
Chickens can communicate emotions (like exasperation), and we humans can understand it. Also, our listeners have a wild variety of new status symbo...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Central Florida Public Media, and WFHB
- Added: Jan 11, 2024
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 3
We're revisiting one of my favorite interviews: from 2013--Behind the scenes of the Kinetic Sculpture Race, Grand Championship, where art and scien...
- Added: Aug 25, 2023
- Length: 28:00
Emergency medicine and helicopter flight physician Mike Abernethy recounts an unexpected run-in at his local Walmart that made him feel as if he’d ...
- Added: May 04, 2023
- Length: 46:55
An improv workshop transforms the way psychiatrist David Elkin approaches a patient on the psych consult service, and catalyzes a philosophical shi...
- Added: Jan 14, 2022
- Length: 46:00
Kendra Carr of Interlochen Public Radio talks with science writer Mary Roach.
Bought by WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR
- Added: Nov 11, 2021
- Length: 54:31
- Purchases: 3
The Ig Nobel Prizes honor scientific achievements that make people laugh, and then think.
- Added: Oct 15, 2020
- Length: 13:41
The 29th Ig Nobel Prize ceremony took place on September 12 at Harvard University.
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 16:33
After hearing a mentor make an inappropriate joke, medical student Jenny Tiskus grapples with humor's place in the world of medicine.
- Added: Jun 08, 2019
- Length: 37:22
Science writer Mary Roach talks with author and actor Benjamin Busch.
Bought by WKAR, WCMU Michigan, WKAR, and WDET Detroit Public Radio
- Added: Sep 21, 2018
- Length: 54:31
- Purchases: 4
The 28th Ig Nobel Prize ceremony took place on September 13 at Harvard University. The Ig Nobel Prizes honor scientific achievements that make peo...
- Added: Sep 19, 2018
- Length: 18:13
Changing the behavior of behaviorists. What it's like to change the paradigms of training pachyderms. It's all about an interview that you'll never...
- Added: Aug 05, 2018
- Length: 22:10
The average household has more than 40 appliances that use electricity when they're off. We help you find and subdue them.
Bought by KFOI Radio
- Added: Feb 07, 2018
- Length: 23:21
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: "Harassment In The Lab" - Sexual harassment happens everywhere, including science. We'll hear stories and possible solutions. HOUR TWO:...
- Added: Dec 01, 2017
- Length: 01:58:57
The 2017 Ig Nobel Prizes were recently awarded at Harvard University. They're given every year for scientific achievements that first make people l...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Oct 02, 2017
- Length: 18:51
- Purchases: 1
Meet the Founder of Shower Beer, Beer Specifically Created for the Shower.
- Added: Apr 11, 2017
- Length: 59:59
A Special Wine Show geared towards helping the public with wine-related issues and other dilemmas. Alex comes on the show to discuss Ridiculously ...
- Added: Jan 03, 2017
- Length: 01:00:00
The IgNobels are awarded every year at Harvard University for research that first makes people laugh, then makes them think. WTIP's Mike Reeves cha...
- Added: Oct 11, 2016
- Length: 13:54
We pair fine wine with large insects as Dr. Bryan Stuart from the NC Museum of Natural Sciences supervises. An entertaining show for anyone who ha...
- Added: Sep 27, 2016
- Length: 01:00:00
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
We pair fine wine with insects as Dr. Magdalena Sorger, entomologist with the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, discusses her love of Ants. A fun sho...
- Added: Sep 21, 2016
- Length: 01:00:00
We interview the only person from Alaska to make the first cut for the Mars ONE program and also speak to a scientist who thinks sending humans to ...
- Added: Feb 15, 2016
- Length: 29:01
This is Distillations’s 200th episode, and we’re celebrating! We pored through hundreds of shows and pieced together some of the funniest, grossest...
- Added: Nov 18, 2015
- Length: 37:10
