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Presenting: the Brilly Barner Broadcast. An interdimensional radio show that tells the stories of bubble 6298 Felis.
- Added: May 23, 2020
- Length: 10:08
Might it be possible to teach a pigeon how to "read" a label for a person who can't read? Is there the possibility of a future where pigeon service...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: May 20, 2020
- Length: 04:15
- Purchases: 1
You've probably seen a dog sleeping soundly with their legs pedaling. Is Fido really dreaming of chasing a tennis ball? Let's find out.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Apr 29, 2020
- Length: 04:49
- Purchases: 1
There will be no coughing on the spaceship. The quarantine lasts for many months. If everyone's healthy, well then the spaceship may be allowed to ...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Apr 17, 2020
- Length: 28:01
- Purchases: 1
While sheltering in place for COVID-19, I gave some thought to what I wish I could be. My conclusion? An Octopus. A humorous essay.
- Added: Mar 30, 2020
- Length: 02:55
It's freezing but that flock of ducks is standing barefoot on an icy pond. Why don't they have frostbite? Turns out, ducks (any many other birds) h...
- Added: Mar 20, 2020
- Length: 04:37
What happens when you cross a intestinal invading fungus or bacteria with carbohydrates? You get very very drunk. Trace explores the weird world of...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Feb 20, 2020
- Length: 04:13
- Purchases: 1
If you're thinking, wait, I thought it was tenderhooks, you're not alone. Amy explains this early 18th century idiom that describes having a sense ...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Feb 20, 2020
- Length: 03:13
- Purchases: 1
Welcome to our funniest episode yet. Scientists avert international tension between Sweden and Russia, learn something we didn't know about herring...
- Added: Jan 13, 2020
- Length: 04:37
Barn owls come in three colors, a tawny brown, a mix of brown a white, and all white. It didn't make sense to researchers how a white owl could be ...
- Added: Jan 06, 2020
- Length: 06:15
Who is the brightest, the most likely to crush the SAT, the one pet who has the brains to out think them all? Is it your cat or your dog?
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Dec 03, 2019
- Length: 04:44
- Purchases: 1
Either way you spell it, you either love that black candy or can't get away fast enough. Amy dives into why.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Dec 03, 2019
- Length: 06:27
- Purchases: 1
Trend setting science from 1975. We can't tell you anything else, it would spoil the surprise!
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Nov 24, 2019
- Length: 05:11
- Purchases: 1
Before they even hatch, Yellow Legged Gull chicks seem to be communication to their nest mates. Amy dives into the how and why.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Nov 24, 2019
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 1
What do those rain percentages they give you on the news really mean? Why does the snow in Europe sometimes turn orange? Have you ever heard of a f...
- Added: Nov 24, 2019
- Length: 15:41
The 29th Ig Nobel Prize ceremony took place on September 12 at Harvard University.
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 16:33
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
Ants hunt for food, but how do they know how to get back? Content warning: Science is messy. Some ants were harmed and we talk about it. Not in gre...
- Added: Aug 06, 2019
- Length: 08:50
Like a scaly cheetah, galloping crocs were a terror both on land and in the water. Good thing they lived 100 million years ago.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSFR
- Added: Aug 06, 2019
- Length: 04:15
- Purchases: 2
Medical science on the fly. Turns out you only need to pull a few G's to loosen that stubborn kidney stone.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jun 26, 2019
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 1
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
In 1804 Dr. Troxler discovered he could make pastel dots on paper disappear if he stared at them for long enough. Blink, and they would reappear. T...
- Added: Jun 05, 2019
- Length: 03:24
Need to string some wire through your house or clean a particle accelerator? You might need a science ferret.
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- Added: May 28, 2019
- Length: 03:09
- Purchases: 1
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
