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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
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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
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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
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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
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The science behind the songs of Alaska's humpback whales

  • Added: Feb 13, 2008
  • Length: 04:25
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Is there a sex-therapist in the house? Apparently, China's pandas could use some help.

  • Added: Jul 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
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Alaskan squirrels can fly, but can they run?

  • Added: Apr 18, 2007
  • Length: 02:08
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Farmers in North Carolina raise a lot of hogs, producing a log of hog dung.

  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
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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
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Is a deeper voice more "attractive?"

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2006
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 1