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This special broadcast from Aspen Public Radio was recorded live at the 2023 Aspen Psychedelic Symposium earlier this year. “The Neuroscience of Ps...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Oct 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Cultivated meat has the potential to disrupt the meat industry, and engineer Dr. Katie Kam joins the podcast to talk about it. Katie founded BioBQ...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2023
  • Length: 28:20
Caption: Terry Slezak accidentally came in contact with moon dust during the Apollo 11 quarantine period., Credit: NASA
Episode 1 of Space Oddities discusses NASA's plans to keep the Earth from being contaminated with lunar germs during the Apollo missions. Unfortuna...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 01, 2022
  • Length: 10:47
  • Purchases: 1
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Groups have been running disinformation campaigns on Facebook and Twitter for almost as long as those platforms have been popular. In this episode,...

Bought by WHFR


  • Added: Aug 10, 2022
  • Length: 26:18
  • Purchases: 1
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Are you contributing to a disinformation campaign without even knowing it? This week, we talk to Kate Starbird about unwillingly contributing to th...

Bought by WHFR


  • Added: Aug 10, 2022
  • Length: 33:16
  • Purchases: 1
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This week, we focus on COVID-19 misinformation, talking to Kolina Koltai, ethnographer of vaccine conspiracy theory communities; Jon Lee, a folklor...

Bought by WHFR


  • Added: Aug 10, 2022
  • Length: 29:56
  • Purchases: 1
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In our first episode, Camille François to tells us how researchers identify mis- and disinformation, and Joan Donovan from the Harvard Shorenstein ...

Bought by WHFR and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 10, 2022
  • Length: 24:02
  • Purchases: 2
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To shrink the number of our faulty counts, you have to learn how to debounce. This is Episode 105 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2021
  • Length: 08:17
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To control and steer kinetic energy is an actuator's ultimate apogee. This is Episode 89 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favo...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2020
  • Length: 04:34
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Hugo Fruehauf, one of the co-inventors of GPS, explains the nitty-gritty of what GPS is. He also details his critical engineering work on the GPS s...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2020
  • Length: 32:27
Caption: The cover art for this episode comes from Gilbert Toyne’s 1925 Australian patent on the rotary clothesline., Credit: Australian Government patent system.
Like much of the world, Australian educators are increasingly embracing STEM education for younger students. Chris Perkins is one such teacher at K...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2019
  • Length: 55:37
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The theme of this episode is "Fertility."

  • Added: Nov 08, 2019
  • Length: 52:00
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The theme of this episode is the, "Future of medicine".

  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 52:00
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What does a chemical engineer do? What makes a good one? What should young people know about the field? Chemical engineer Will Mullen helps us ans...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 54:38
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That frog is not frenetic; it floats and is diamagnetic. This is Episode 79 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinati...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2019
  • Length: 06:09
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Distributed systems rule much of new technology today, as software programs exist across multiple computers, servers, phones, and smart devices. Ho...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2019
  • Length: 27:55
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Problem-solving, technology, and public service all combine when you work as an engineer for the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Dr. Michael St...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2019
  • Length: 19:56
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The focus of this episode is health information.

Bought by WNYO


  • Added: Oct 22, 2018
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we have Part one of our story on electric vehicles and charging stations in Winona, MN. Today we talk to John Ho...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2018
  • Length: 19:03
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The focus of this episode is suicide.

Bought by WNYO


  • Added: Oct 01, 2018
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The theme of this episode is "breaking barriers".

Bought by WNYO


  • Added: Aug 22, 2018
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The theme of this episode is the brain.

  • Added: Jul 23, 2018
  • Length: 52:00
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What’s so great about the human eye? Can we build something just like it? When would we need to design something better? Sadhan joins the podcast a...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Jul 07, 2018
  • Length: 19:47
  • Purchases: 1
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The theme of this episode is the mental health of our children.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2018
  • Length: 52:00
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Stop everything! We've hit a breakpoint, and things are gonna get dicey. This is Episode 65 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on fav...

Bought by Enchantment Radio


  • Added: May 28, 2018
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 1