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The Loh Down on Science - May 2024
From: LDOS MEDIA LAB
Series: Science: The Loh Down on Science
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Your daily 90-second dose of real science for real people! Like … how healthy is yogurt really… Do school uniforms improve grades… and can we get e...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KVSC


  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 34:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Loh Down on Science - April, 2024
From: LDOS MEDIA LAB
Series: Science: The Loh Down on Science
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Your daily 90-second dose of real science for real people! Like … how healthy is yogurt really… Do school uniforms improve grades… and can we get e...

Bought by KKRN, KPOV, Tri States Public Radio, and KVSC


  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 33:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Loh Down on Science - March, 2024
From: LDOS MEDIA LAB
Series: Science: The Loh Down on Science
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Your daily 90-second dose of real science for real people! Like… do animals “break up”... is there a way to stop gaining weight when you quit smoki...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Tri States Public Radio, KKRN, KPOV, Radio Baha'i, WLGI and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 31:30
  • Purchases: 6
GN_5.20_OceanFriendship
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 5
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If Beluga whales treat a Narwhal like he’s been one of their own, who’s to say he isn’t?

  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
A Greener Commute
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Series: Ways & Means "Shorts"
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Research with commuters in Durham, NC shows what gets them to leave their cars behind and take alternate transportation.

  • Added: Apr 03, 2019
  • Length: 03:18
corrosion
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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If you have some metal, in a pot or a kettle, on this you can trust: over time it'll rust. This is Episode 64 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an in...

Bought by Enchantment Radio


  • Added: May 22, 2018
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 1
Sound Ecology Mountain Beaver
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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The mountain beaver is an important part of ecosystem health. Research Ecologist Bill Zielinski wrote this segment about this little-known mammal.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, KRZA, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 31, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 4
Sound Ecology: Murres
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard highlighting nesting murre colonies along the northern California coast. For air during late spring and summer.

Bought by WNED Buffalo and Radio Newark


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 2
Sound Ecology: three-spined stickleback
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An Audio postcard highlighting the tiny, beautiful and behaviorally unique three-spined stickleback fish.

Bought by WNED Buffalo and Radio Newark


  • Added: Jul 29, 2016
  • Length: 01:28
  • Purchases: 2
Coast Report
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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If we gave our coastlines an environmental report card, what grade should they get?

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Health Factors Threaten Gorillas – But Why?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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What's a significant threat to the survival of captive gorillas? Surprisingly it's heart disease.

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Coal Gasification
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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It's no news flash that, over the years, one of the dirtiest sources of energy has been coal; in fact, it's among the top contributors to carbon di...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Recipe For Plastic Decomposition
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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It's good to know that tomorrow's scientists are solving environmental problems today. Meet Daniel Burd from Waterloo, Canada. Daniel's interested ...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Brighter Bulbs
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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What do you get when you cross folk art with photonic technology? A very bright idea.

Bought by KSKQ and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Farming The Wind
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Farming has always been subject to the uncertainties of weather and market conditions. But farmers in Huron County, Michigan, have found something ...

Bought by KSKQ and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Arctic Fisheries
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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In 1945, John Steinbeck wrote a novel called Cannery Row. In it he told the story of life in Monterey, California -- a thriving fishing port at tha...

Bought by KSKQ and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
High Fashion Green, For Less
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Let's talk about high fashion and Target, the big box store. The two seemingly opposites converged recently.

Bought by KSKQ and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Glass Bottle Comeback
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Believe it or not, just two generations ago, it was unheard of not to recycle glass beverage bottles. Today, that idea itself is getting recycled.

Bought by KSKQ and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Few Plants Thrive With Change
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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If you can't stand the heat...hang in there? That's what some species are doing in response to climate change.

Bought by KSKQ and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Products For Responsible Consumers
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Is it 'hip,' or 'cool,' to be environmentally sustainable? That's a question that some of the biggest companies are asking about the world's most p...

Bought by KSKQ and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Grasslands Ecosystems Best Left Wild
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Which is better? A picture perfect golf course, or a wild and wooly prairie? Well, when it comes to ecosystem health, the more native plants -- the...

Bought by KSKQ and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Saving The Penguin
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Sometimes, creating a preserve can help endangered species fast, like South Africa's Cape penguins. Until recently, this endangered bird, and the o...

Bought by KSKQ and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Green Skyscrapers
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The new frontier isn't to the north, south, east, or west. It's up, as in skyscrapers. And, the tallest? The Burj-Khalifa tower in Dubai.

Bought by KSKQ and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2