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Harriet lived from around 1835 to 2006! She is believed to be one of the Earth's longest lived creatures ever recorded.
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Jun 06, 2022
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 1
You've heard of an ROV, a remotely operated vehicle. But did you ever think you'd see an FOV, a fish operated vehicle? Israeli scientists have atte...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Mar 11, 2022
- Length: 04:56
- Purchases: 1
In 1978, Dr. Alexander Schauss and a research assistant mixed 1 gallon of white latex paint with a pint of shiny red and created P-618 aka Baker Mi...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Feb 16, 2022
- Length: 05:06
- Purchases: 1
Forget raccoons digging into your trash cans, Australia has giant parrots snacking out of trash bins. Some family groups of Sulfur-crested cockatoo...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Nov 29, 2021
- Length: 05:27
- Purchases: 1
It's the Civil War and you're in the medical tent. It's dark and the man next to you has wounds glowing an eerie blue. Turns out, the men who had t...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WRFA-LP
- Added: Jun 14, 2021
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 2
Our best topics come from late night dinner table conversations with our kids. Amy attempts to answer the question: Are there herds of hamsters roa...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Mar 30, 2021
- Length: 05:16
- Purchases: 1
Who knew a tiny animal could contain such a multitude of cool facts? For our 150th episode we dive into the life of the shrew. It's a phenomenal cr...
- Added: Feb 21, 2021
- Length: 05:00
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
This episode will have you outside with a sharpened stake, a hammer, a slab of metal and an empty coffee can. That's right, we're going to be talki...
- Added: Sep 11, 2019
- Length: 05:58
Absorbing oxygen through their "skin" and pumping blood with their guts, the Giant Sea Spider isn't a true spider, but it's close. Too close for Tr...
- Added: Sep 11, 2019
- Length: 06:24
It's our one year podcast-aversary! We thank you for listening with an episode on accidental swallowings and some...not so accidental. Trace also ...
- Added: May 21, 2019
- Length: 05:50
Not the big yawn that you'd think. These 100,000 or so codes are used to determine your bill. Some of those codes are hilarious. Bit by cow and str...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Mar 12, 2019
- Length: 04:09
- Purchases: 1
Dr. Margoliash at the University of Chicago has been studying the brains of Zebra Finches for years. Today we dive into some of his lab's result --...
- Added: Jan 30, 2019
- Length: 03:22
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
- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 04:05
- Purchases: 1
Tim and I talk about the mysteries of the deep blue.
- Added: Aug 03, 2017
- Length: 31:15
Empirical evidence shows that these songs are the happiest song in the world.
- Added: Oct 27, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
It's the HOLIDAYS! What could possibly go wrong? This week we bring you a Holiday Special about some of the festive season's worst case scenarios. ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2016
- Length: 32:02
- Purchases: 3
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
Loren Coleman spends most of his time thinking about animals that most people think are fake.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 06:18
- Purchases: 2
WTIP's Bob Carter chatted with Marc Abrahams, editor of "Annals of Improbable Research, " about the 2014 Ig Nobel prizes recently awarded at Harvar...
- Added: Oct 15, 2014
- Length: 21:18
Poet James Richardson has called himself an "accidental aphorist," but his well-crafted works are no accident. He reads from his 2010 book, BY THE ...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Jul 18, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
This week Field Trip Correspondent Becky Palmstrom takes us to a festival in Taung Byone, Myanmar, where we learn how to run a ferris wheel … using...
- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 10:28
- Purchases: 2
Wireless USB device creates cordless connectivity between peripherals
- Added: Jul 30, 2006
- Length: 03:57
