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Why Ebola Should Be Treated As Though It Is Airborne
From: John Brice
Series: Commentary by John C. Brice, J.D.
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Several reasons are presented which individually and collectively demonstrate why Ebola should be treated as though it is airborne.

  • Added: Oct 04, 2014
  • Length: 04:16
Episode 006
From: John Brice
Series: The EDM Hour
Caption: DANCE music you can LISTEN to!
Brand new Electronica, Techno, Tech House, Trance, Psy-Trance, House, and Deep House tracks!

  • Added: Oct 04, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:00
Voice Recognition
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Microphone, Credit: Grant https://www.flickr.com/photos/visual_dichotomy/
What do our voices say about us? On this edition we explore voice and identity. We'll hear from someone who nearly lost their voice as well as the ...

Bought by WNJR and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Oct 03, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Pathogens' Rally
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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You know we’re causing a problem for the planet when even the viruses think we’re the worst disease the Earth has ever seen.

  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 07:53
84-Interplanetary Travelers-Martian Meteorites
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Rocks ejected from Mars by the impact of an asteroid or comet can and do find their way to Earth.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KMXT, Radio Newark and more


  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
82-Interplanetary Travelers - Antarctic Meteorites
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In the past 30 years more than 20,000 meteorites have been found in Antarctica. Some of them originated on the Moon or Mars.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KMXT, Radio Newark and more


  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Eruption that Changed the World -- Groks Science Show 2014-10-01
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Gillen D’Arcy Wood discusses the eruption of Mount Tambora.

Bought by WYAP, KPVL, and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Oct 01, 2014
  • Length: 35:00
  • Purchases: 3
Minnesota & Wisconsin Sea Grant programs' research protects harbor infrastructure
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Jeff Gunderson, director of Minnesota Sea Grant, spoke with WTIP's Randy Eastlund recently about work they did with Wisconsin Sea Grant to identify...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2014
  • Length: 12:01
Reaching Mars is not the only ISRO success!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Mission specialists cheer at ISRO
India's Mangalyaan orbiter has reached Mars, but the mission means as much for the women of India as it does for science.

  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Bacteria Super Power
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Batman step aside! You're no match for these polluting villains. Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, make the Riddler look like a saint. They're fo...

Bought by KMXT and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Carbon Away
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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There's a bounty on carbon dioxide molecules these days. And for good reason. Too much C02 can create global trouble by trapping heat in our planet...

Bought by KMXT and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Prevent Disease With Trees
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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What does rain forest conservation have to do with preventing malaria? In the Amazon rainforest, the means to these two ends are virtually one in t...

Bought by KMXT and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Room For Peace
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Bringing countries together to protect our natural environment looks good on paper. Real good, in fact.

Bought by KMXT and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Protecting The Puffin
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Saving the puffins is a tough job. But folks in Maine miss the colorful little birds resembling miniature penguins that can fly. Still plentiful th...

Bought by KMXT and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Habitat Corridors Not Always Coolest
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Imagine trying to get home by running across a busy freeway. Without a walkway, a stoplight or a crosswalk, it could be a dangerous adventure. Well...

Bought by KMXT and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Energy From Barnyard Waste
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Forget Chicken Little's paranoid delusions about the sky falling. With chicken litter, we really do have a problem. More than 5.6 million tons of i...

Bought by KMXT and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Root And Tillage
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Farmers, start your vacations. Because after crops come in, you can leave the debris where it is and let microbes do the rest.

Bought by KMXT and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Save The Butterflies
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The Fritillaries are frittering away! There's the Marsh Fritillary. The Pearl-bordered Fritillary. And the most endangered fritillary of them all, ...

Bought by KMXT and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Penguin Poo At Pole Polluted
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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If you're wondering how our penguin friends in the Antarctic are doing these days, here are the cold, hard facts. Their poo is getting mighty pollu...

Bought by KMXT and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Tuna Tagging
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Hello, Bluefin Tuna. Tag, you're it! No, you're really it -- you are among the last of a species that once thrived throughout the Atlantic.

Bought by KMXT and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Dust Bowl Survivor
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Sunday, April 14th, 1935, mid-afternoon: A monstrous black dust cloud quickly forms over southwest Kansas -- and within minutes, people were runnin...

Bought by KMXT and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Bird Friendly Turbines
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Wind turbines are a great source for alternative energy. They're less great, however, for birds.

Bought by KMXT and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Pachyderms: Pint Sized Surprise
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Today's creature feature is on a petite pachyderm that has dark gray to reddish brown skin and abundant hair that is finer and softer than a "norma...

Bought by KMXT and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
What’s In A Suriname?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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And now a good news, bad news, good news story. First, the first good news.

Bought by KMXT and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Green Roofs
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Remember Carole King's song, "Up on the Roof"? You know...When this old world starts a getting me down, And people are just too much for me to face...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1

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