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Season 1, Episode 44 - 'Maintaining Monkeys' feat Andrea Dempsey
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Exploring the fight to save monkeys from extinction with Andrea Dempsey

  • Added: May 27, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
Skeptic Check: Feeling Risky
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Feeling Risky, Credit: Seth Shostak
It’s not just facts that inform our decisions. They’re also guided by how those facts feel. From deciding whether to buckle our seat belts to addre...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KMUN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KIYU-FM, KMXT and more


  • Added: May 27, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Why did I see a bunch of dead fish in the Providence River?
From: Possibly
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One Possibly listener wondered why she saw so many dead fish in the water last spring. Turns out it’s called a fish kill – which can happen when th...

  • Added: May 27, 2024
  • Length: 03:48
Will Solar & Wind Power Our Future? Part 1
From: Casey Walker
Series: Energy Switch
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Robert Bryce, a best-selling author, and Leia Guccione, Managing Director of Carbon Free Electricity at RMI, discuss solar and wind energy.

  • Added: May 27, 2024
  • Length: 26:02
800-Telescope Reborn
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: In an artist’s rendering, light from quasars passes through intergalactic clouds of hydrogen gas. The light offers clues to the structure of the distant cosmos, Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld and DESI
In an astonishing rebirth, the Mayall 4-m telescope has jumped to the forefront of astronomy once again because it is sturdy and precise enough to...

Bought by KGLP, KRWG, KKRN, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 26, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
Peter Annin, author of Purified: How Recycled Sewage is Transforming Our Water.
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that astronauts’ liquid wastes are recycled into drinking water in space? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melind...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Science unscripted (DW) 05/14/2024 - Do drugs make us more creative?
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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On this week's program - What (and how much) you should eat if you're pregnant. How do elephants greet one another? And a definitive answer to a qu...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Educability -- Groks Science Show 2024-05-22
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Leslie Valiant discussed his book, The Importance of Being Educable.

Bought by KDX Worldround Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., RadioFreePalmer, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 22, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
How can buses become a climate solution?
From: Possibly
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The transportation sector is the biggest contributor to greenhouse gasses in the U.S., and cars make up most of those emissions. So how can public ...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 03:55
Beyond the Standard Model
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Beyond the Standard Model, Credit: Seth Shostak
Ever heard of a beauty quark? How about a glueball? Physics is full of weird particles that leave many of us scratching our heads. But these tiny p...

Bought by Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KBBI Alaska, WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Water Treatment
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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This week on The Children’s Hour, how do cities and towns ensure the water coming out of our tap is clean, and where does it come from? Then, when ...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KECG, KMXT, KRSC and more


  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 9
Plastic in the Placenta with Dr. Marcus Garcia
From: Doug Wood
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The scientist who isolated tiny pieces of plastic in human placenta tissue is our guest.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 28:33
  • Purchases: 1
The New Theory of Being Human-Dr. Joseph LeDoux, Emotional Brain Institute
From: Paul VOGELZANG
Series: Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, Not Old Better Show
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series
Full of provocative ideas and startling insights, this interview withi Smithsonian Associate Joseph LeDoux, is essential listening for anyone inter...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 25:32
Season 1, Episode 42 - 'Snowfall' feat Dr Andrew Schwartz
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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The study of snowfall and snowpack, and its importance in our lives.

Bought by WOJB


  • Added: May 19, 2024
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 1
Got Milk -- Groks Science Show 2024-05-15
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
This week's science roundup looks at milk, water, and anger.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 19, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
This Week in Water for May 19, 2024
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Are Banks Banking on Climate Chaos? That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 19, 2024
  • Length: 06:02
  • Purchases: 6
799-Nature's Gateways
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Milky Way Rising Over the Gila Wilderness, Credit: Steven Miller
The Cosmic Campground International Dark Sky Sanctuary and the Aldo Leopold Gila Wilderness in New Mexico are gateways to nature where man is only ...

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


  • Added: May 19, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
What’s the Future of Natural Gas?
From: Casey Walker
Series: Energy Switch
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Dr. Naomi Boness, Managing Director of the Natural Gas Initiative at Stanford University and Rachel Fakhry, Analyst for the Climate & Clean Air pro...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 18, 2024
  • Length: 26:02
  • Purchases: 1
899: Being body conscious / 900: Secrets of alchemy, 5/18/2024
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Being body conscious" - When you look at your body in the mirror, do you love what you see? Do you pick out the things you don’t like? M...

  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
Science unscripted (DW) 05/21/2024 - Mea culpa!
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Science unscripted got an email this week about orgasms. What's more, someone wrote to let us know why a dying countess in a classic German novel w...

Bought by Central Florida Public Media and WFHB


  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Chloe Waterman, M.S., Senior Program Manager for Climate Friendly Foods at Friends of the Earth discusses the hazards of Biogas.
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that heavily subsidized biogas digesters pose a risk to rural communities and are not the climate-change solution they’re made out to ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Pursuit of Happiness: Virtue or Pleasure?
From: Open to Debate
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Happiness is a complex emotion and mental state that can be achieved through virtue or pleasure. But should it be for the good of the individual or...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
060324: Lungfish, 6/3/2024
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This time on The Children's Hour, we learn about one of the planet's most ancient species that's still around today: lungfish. Dr. Irene Salinas is...

  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
01-17: Shamans and Scientists: Changing the Landscape of Power, 5/22/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Mark Plotkin, Credit: Courtesy Richie / Amazon Conservation Team
As we hurtle into the Sixth Age of Extinctions, we face the cataclysmic loss of half the world’s biological diversity. 80% of the remaining biodive...

  • Added: May 15, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
Season 2 Is Coming!
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
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Thank you to all of our listeners for a fantastic first season of This Is Science with Jess Phoenix! We are grateful for your support, and stay tun...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: :32

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