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If you’re curious about where and how our taste preferences originate, and other mysteries about our sense of taste, then Join Food Sleuth Radio h...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: Close-up of Cleveland Whiskey label., Credit: Brian Bull, ideastream
A look at the trend of developing rapidly-aged whiskeys.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, KLCC, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 3
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How do chemicals in our environment affect the developing fetus? Join Food Sleuth Radio Host and registered dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her ...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
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The U.S. House of Representatives voted this week to destroy the program that has enabled the recovery of six endangered species through a successf...

  • Added: May 21, 2012
  • Length: 05:25
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Reduce, reuse, recycle! This episode focuses on waste that has become a product of its own. Enter Jell-O and Vaseline.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2010
  • Length: 11:29
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Get the skinny on trans fats and learn why a popular crash diet is not likely to help you shed pounds.

  • Added: Feb 18, 2010
  • Length: 12:15
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Tupperware began with Earl S. Tupper, once described as a "failed tree surgeon and archetypal reader of the Reader's Digest." Who, also "combined f...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:43
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Jell-O, a stapled of our holiday tables was invented by on of the greatest American engineers of all time.

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 1
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The existence of more than forty species of birds, and other wildlife is in peril. Their survival depends on whether or not the wine cork survives.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:41
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winter day, while ice fishing, Birdseye piled his catch beside his fishing hole. The combination of ice, wind and temperature instantly froze the f...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:25
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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An engineer uses heat transfer theory to reveal how to cook a turkey

  • Added: Nov 11, 2008
  • Length: 02:16
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Pressure cookers explained.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:59
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A look at the science of deliciousness.

  • Added: Aug 13, 2008
  • Length: 12:01