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In Western civilization, human beings are considered the exceptional species and uniquely intelligent. Yet science is consistently revealing our in...
- Added: Feb 20, 2023
- Length: 28:30
How many squirrels are there in Central Park? It’s not just a trivia question for a dinner party. The answer tells us a lot about the urban environ...
- Added: Apr 20, 2022
- Length: 02:44
There's a long tradition of Japanese folklore around the possible relationship between large mushroom harvests and lightning. Researchers decided t...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WRFA-LP
- Added: Jun 14, 2021
- Length: 04:54
- Purchases: 2
No joke, the best and last line of defense to protect the drinking water for an entire city in Poland is eight clams. Let's chat about bivalve scie...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Sep 16, 2020
- Length: 04:52
- Purchases: 1
Sometimes the setting of the moon is as spectacular as the rising. As it slides down toward the mountains in the horizon it appears larger and larg...
- Added: Dec 31, 2017
- Length: 05:19
Most insects communicate in a way that we can’t hear. A scientist at Saint Louis University is using a laser to eavesdrop on one insect’s “conversa...
- Added: Sep 11, 2015
- Length: 05:38
A Public Service Announcement For Neurotransmitters
- Added: Jun 12, 2015
- Length: 05:14
You know we’re causing a problem for the planet when even the viruses think we’re the worst disease the Earth has ever seen.
- Added: Oct 02, 2014
- Length: 07:53
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
From the red eyes of a periodical cicada looking out: a bug's first person rendition from emergence til death.
Bought by KSJD, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTIP, Radio Newark, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more
- Added: Jun 19, 2013
- Length: 07:42
- Purchases: 8
Join us as we speak with paleoecologist extraordinaire, Margaret B. Davis. She is one of the world’s foremost scholars of palynology, a branch of p...
- Added: Jul 11, 2012
- Length: 27:59
Peter Oldring, host CBC Radio's This Is That, goes into the heart of a Canadian snow storm with two self-professed 'blizzard chasers.'
- Added: Jun 13, 2012
- Length: 07:00
It's Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, time for dancing, eating and, of course, drinking - sometimes a lot of drinking. Now, as humans, we pay a price for d...
- Added: Mar 02, 2012
- Length: 03:47
They're flat, they're slimy, and they hide under rocks on river bottoms. At up to 2 feet in length, the Ozark hellbender is one of the world's larg...
- Added: Jan 06, 2012
- Length: 03:59
We have a chat with arborist Bill Eck. He grew up in the forest, like a little elf or something! Seriously, he’s a great guy and he really knows hi...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Nov 10, 2010
- Length: 28:03
- Purchases: 1
Science is good and fun. We decide to restate that through our conversation with Linda Leigh, botanist, naturalist, farmer. Or is it rancher? We're...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jun 03, 2010
- Length: 28:02
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 13, 2008
- Length: 04:25
Is there a sex-therapist in the house? Apparently, China's pandas could use some help.
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Added: May 05, 2007
- Length: 01:27
Alaskan squirrels can fly, but can they run?
- Added: Apr 18, 2007
- Length: 02:08
Farmers in North Carolina raise a lot of hogs, producing a log of hog dung.
- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: 01:32
The year 2006 was a heady one for the Laotian rock rat, a rodent thought to have gone extinct about 11 million years ago.
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Fire ants may be small insects, but their sting packs a wallop. They arrived in the U.S. from South America in the early 1900s, and have spread to ...
- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Added: Dec 05, 2006
- Length: 04:11
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Dec 05, 2006
- Length: 06:03
- Purchases: 1
