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Ride into the Danger Zone: Tornado Chasing, Hurricane Hunting, and Smoke Jumping
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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We're talking with professional storm chasers and smoke jumpers whose job it is to run towards danger.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
National Writers Series: Ed Yong
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Five
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Interlochen Public Radio's Ed Ronco talks with science journalist Ed Yong.

Bought by Michigan Radio and WKAR


  • Added: Oct 07, 2023
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2
764 Green Airglow
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Green Airglow Over Colorado, Credit: Aaron Watson
The natural night sky is alive with its own lights. In addition to celestial sources often there is natural night sky airglow powered by space wea...

Bought by Raven Radio, RADIOLEX, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WTIP, KGLP and more


  • Added: Sep 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Could honeybees be our new citizen scientists?
From: Henrietta McFarlane
Caption: Honeybees to be collected by New York City Beekeepers on the Upper West Side , Credit: Henrietta McFarlane
We don’t know nearly enough about our city’s microbiome. That’s the invisible microorganisms which live with, including virus’ and bacteria that ca...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 04:33
Constant Wonder - The Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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The abyss of the deep sea is anything but lifeless!

Bought by WVTF, GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Oct 12, 2022
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 4
Top of Mind - WAVES Project, Koji, McDonalds and Black America
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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WAVES Project, Koji, McDonalds and Black America

Bought by RADIOLEX, KOWS, KMXT, RadioStPete Florida, KTNA and more


  • Added: Aug 22, 2022
  • Length: 52:47
  • Purchases: 7
Top of Mind - Smokejumper, Cosmic Queries, Love the Wasp
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Smokejumper, Cosmic Queries, Love the Wasp

Bought by KMXT, RadioStPete Florida, KOWS, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Aug 15, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 8
Top of Mind - Space Debris, Wilderness Survival, Robot Sweating
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Space Debris; Topic 2: Wilderness Survival; Topic 3: Robot Sweating

Bought by KOWS, RADIOLEX, and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 08, 2021
  • Length: 51:44
  • Purchases: 3
Flattening the Infodemic Curve
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Combating misinformation has become more important than ever during the pandemic. The novel coronavirus, social media, and a polarized political en...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:00
Part II: "Pay Now or Pay Later?"
From: Jed Alexander
Series: The Whistleblower Project
Caption: Dr. Renee Joy Dufault, Credit: Provided by Dr. Dufault
In her book, “Unsafe At Any Meal: What the FDA Does Not Want You To Know About the Foods You Eat,” former food investigator for the Food and Drug A...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 17:29
603-Discovering Alien Life
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Our star is only one among hundreds of billions in the Milky Way galaxy which itself is only one of a hundred billion or more galaxies in the known...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, WTIP and more


  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Dogs and Fake News
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Who We Are With Dogs Is Who We Are as People. Topic 2: Fake News Isn’t Just Misleading. It Can Create False Memories.

Bought by KOWS


  • Added: Aug 11, 2020
  • Length: 51:41
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - David Quammen & Humanities Montana - 423
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Samantha Dwyer from Humanities Montana interviews acclaimed science journalist David Quammen about his book, "Spillover: Animal Infections and the ...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2020
  • Length: 23:00
STEM News in Science
From: KSLU
Series: STEM Science Radio
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In this week, our hosts look into the biggest news surround Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2020
  • Length: 12:48
Coronavirus
From: KSLU
Series: STEM Science Radio
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In this episode, our hosts compare the Corona Virus to Influenza.

Bought by Belfast Community Radio, KTSW 89.9, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 05, 2020
  • Length: 11:16
  • Purchases: 3
Future of the 2020's
From: KSLU
Series: STEM Science Radio
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In this installment, Isaak and Rhett look forward to what 2020 will bring in the future.

Bought by Belfast Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 05, 2020
  • Length: 13:51
  • Purchases: 1
Infectious Agents and Alzheimer's Disease
From: Deborah Van Fleet
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Are Herpes Simplex 1 and other microbes contributing to, if not causing, the brain changes in Alzheimer's Disease? Prominent Alzheimer's researche...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 28:19
Rewire the Brain Part II - Episode 2
From: Daisy Oz
Series: New Science Talks
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Join Daisy Oz on her second adventure into the mind-brain dynamic team! Learn some amazing facts about what’s called the most complex object in the...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
Rewire the Brain Introduction - Episode 1
From: Daisy Oz
Series: New Science Talks
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Amazing Neuroscience! This first episode is an introduction to rewiring your brain for greater life satisfaction.

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 03:01
S2 Ep4: Some Patients Find Relief in Medical Marijuana
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: Robin Guerrero overdosed on black-market fentanyl, but now has found tremendous relief from pain and anxiety by using medical marijuana.
Some people with chronic pain now rely on medical marijuana in place of opioid painkillers. But, in the absence of formal medical guidance, many pa...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 24:49
Take Care (Monthly) #15
From: WRVO Public Media
Series: Take Care
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The theme of this episode is, "Marijuana".

  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 52:00
Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Does the radiation emitted by our cell phones harm us? A study that found cell phone radiation can cause changes to our cells. -Expanding the don...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Aug 01, 2019
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 10
Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Does the radiation emitted by our cell phones harm us? A study that found cell phone radiation can cause changes to our cells. -Expanding the don...

Bought by WJCT, WSGE, KVSC, KISU, KRZA and more


  • Added: Aug 01, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 15
546-Snoopy
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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49 years after the Lunar Landing Module "Snoopy" was abandoned by Apollo 10 Astronauts, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls may have spott...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
537-Earth Glow
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 1972 Apollo 16 astronauts took an ultraviolet image of the Earth from the Moon which shows that like the Sun ,the Earth too, has a faint corona...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, KRWG, WTIP and more


  • Added: Apr 25, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8