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Did you know that organic farming systems can reduce nitrate pollution, improve soil and food quality, all while providing bountiful yields? Join F...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 17, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Io Study, Tawnee Corning
How do you capture the cosmos? The vastness, the distance of cosmic bodies, even the colors? Those are questions for Tawnee Corning, a Bagley area ...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2016
  • Length: 09:09
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Jeremy N. Smith talks about his book Epic Measures, the true story of a 20-year, 500-scientist, $100-million moonshot attempt to track and quantify...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCMJ Community Radio, KGLT, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: May 18, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Sliman Bensmaia explains the sense of touch.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KMUD, WYAP, and KPVL


  • Added: Aug 20, 2014
  • Length: 28:18
  • Purchases: 4
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For the past fifty years physicists around the world have been trying to create a fusion power reactor, harnessing the processes deep inside of sta...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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You're listening to Culture Clique, and our series on the Winona State University Winona Works Project. With interviews conducted by students from ...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 21:12
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Julie Sabatier interviews Dr. Peter Goodwin, who was instrumental in creating Oregon's "Death with Dignity" law (sometimes referred to as "assisted...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 17:46
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Denise Kiernan
In her new book, journalist Denise Kiernan shares the never before told story of the young women who played a crucial role in one of the most signi...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 04, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Bevin Parks
Women chemists who are also trying to raise a family can get a lot of heat, even from other women, says Bevin Parks. It helps, she says, to get to ...

  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 04:12
Caption: Dr. Tori Hudson
The Opening Door with Wendy Strgar, Loveologist, entrepreneur, & educator, is a joyful refocusing on love as the transformative force of life. The ...

Bought by Radio Catskill


  • Added: May 08, 2013
  • Length: 26:06
  • Purchases: 1
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"Stop drinking milk!" Bobby speaks with Dr. Daniel Twogood, a D.C. from California who wrote a new book entitled "Chronic Pain Gone 90 Days". Dr. D...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2012
  • Length: 51:51
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Paul Ehrlich, author of the iconic book The Population Bomb, reflects on the history of environmentalism and his gloomy outlook for the future. [Ep...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 46:21
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Richard Alley, a climate researcher and the host of PBS’s Earth: The Operators’ Manual, discusses rapid changes in Earth’s climate through history ...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 27:55
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In this interview, we learn from James Holland Jones how diseases emerge and spread as humans encroach into the wilderness, and how the patterns wi...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 37:41
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Peter Kareiva, the chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, discusses his definition of nature and challenges the assertion that nature is fragi...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 29:43
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Spirited biologist Rodolfo Dirzo discusses the complex interplay of climate change with other systems, and his personal relation to the Anthropocen...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 46:56
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Conservation biologist Terry Root discusses the road to triage and her somewhat controversial approach to saving species in the face of climate cha...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 37:16
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Luis Zambrano discusses preserving Aztec culture through a rare salamander in the Mexico City wetlands, and compares emerging conservation battles ...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 22:05
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Sinclair McKay joins us to discuss The History of the Wartime Codebreaking.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 07, 2012
  • Length: 30:20
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Grand Portage Trust Lands technician Roger Deschampe watches for stunned fish, Credit: Carah Thomas
In this feature, WTIP North Shore Community Radio reporter/producer Carah Thomas accompanies Dr. Moore on an electrofishing survey of Susie Island,...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 24, 2012
  • Length: 09:35
  • Purchases: 2
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Ron Capps helps returning service members write their way home. [27:06]

Bought by KPIP-LP and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 27:38
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Michael E. Mann
In its 2001 report on global climate, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations prominently featured the “Hockey Stick,” ...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
Caption: http://www.alz.org/brain/09.asp, Credit: Alzheimer's Association
On this edition of "Culture Clique" Gerise Thompson, Regional director for the Alzheimer's Association visits with KQAL's Terese Tenseth. Chances a...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 01, 2011
  • Length: 46:19
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: David Eagleman, Credit: eagleman.com
David Eagleman suggests prejudices may be hard-wired into our brains; a new real-time film celebrating 50 years since Yuri Gagarin went into space;...

Bought by PRX Remix and KVSC


  • Added: Apr 08, 2011
  • Length: 28:53
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Crockett Grabbe, Credit: Lisa Scheps
Crockett has a PhD in Applied Physics from the prestigious Caltech. He considers this to be the greatest accomplishment of his 20s. He was diagnose...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2011
  • Length: 24:24