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Episode 4: How to do science, part 2: From the beach to the lab
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Measuring Marine Microbes
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If you send scientists to the beach, they may come back with the next way to produce biofuels. But it takes a lot of collaboration along the way.

  • Added: May 15, 2015
  • Length: 09:36
Episode 3: Microbial Warfare
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Measuring Marine Microbes
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It's like gang warfare, but with really tiny gang members. Some microbes provide their relatives with protection, emitting antibiotics that kill of...

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  • Added: May 15, 2015
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 1
How to Measure Learning
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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How do we measure learning? Hear neuroscientists and teachers describe how it's done in the lab and at school.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 27, 2015
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 2
EarthTones
From: Claire Schoen
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Sound is a vital though invisible aspect of human existence. “EarthTones” gives its audience the opportunity to experience the natural world throug...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 26:03
  • Purchases: 1
Searching Space
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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Listen to peoples' first reaction to Saturn alongside astrophysicists who gaze up at the universe for a living. Learn the new techniques scientists...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 17:47
  • Purchases: 2
UnFictional : The Angel of Death
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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Two stories about that key life moment many of us spend a lifetime dreading. It's a key life event that none of us live to tell about. The moment. ...

Bought by Aspen Public Radio, KOSU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 27, 2012
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 3
Conversations
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Conversations with people who take a DIY approach to science and to life: DIY biologists working to democratize the lab, a single mom who says some...

Bought by XRAY.fm, KUT, KUOW, WYSO, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Apr 19, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
RISE: Part I Sounding the Waters
From: Claire Schoen
Series: RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities
Caption: Rising sea levels and extreme weather conditions threaten the nation's coastal towns, Credit: Jan Sturmann
The San Francisco Bay is a place of beauty and biological diversity. But sea level rise and extreme weather will change human life along its coastl...

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  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
RISE: Part II Facing the Rising Tide
From: Claire Schoen
Series: RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities
Caption: Steve Mello is a farmer on Tyler Island in the San Francisco Bay Delta, Credit: Jan Sturmann
Rising waters threaten the lands of a farmer and of a developer, yet they and their families dismiss all warnings of danger. Why are so many of us ...

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  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
RISE: Part III Chuey’s Story
From: Claire Schoen
Series: RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities
Caption: Chuey Cazares and his family live in the tiny coastal town of Alviso at the southern tip of the San Francisco Bay, Credit: Jan Sturmann
Adapting to climate change will be a messy and painful business. And in the short term there will be winners and losers. Chuey Cazarez’s family is ...

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  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
Ocean Dead Zones Proliferate Around the World
From: Judy Lubow
Series: Planet Warning
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There are now over 400 "dead zones" in coastal oceanic waters with varying degrees of oxygen-deprivation.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
Collapse of Fish Stocks Worldwide
From: Judy Lubow
Series: Planet Warning
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Scientists predict fish stocks worldwide will collapse by mid-century unless drastic changes are made to humankind's impact on the oceans.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
Ocean Acidification
From: Judy Lubow
Series: Planet Warning
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Revised piece. Too much carbon is flooding the ocean with carbolic acid, with devestating effects on life in the sea.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2010
  • Length: 01:58
Part 1 - The Prepared Mind
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Darwin
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From Darwin's early years to his voyage of discovery on H.M.S. Beagle.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 07, 2010
  • Length: 53:51
  • Purchases: 1
Part 4 - Darwin's Enduring Legacy
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Darwin
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Why Science and society today are still wrestling with Darwin's big idea.

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  • Added: May 07, 2010
  • Length: 53:47
  • Purchases: 1
Part 3 - Primates vs Primates
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Darwin
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What 'The Origin Of Species' said, and what was said about it.

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  • Added: May 06, 2010
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 1
Part 2 - From The Beagle to the Book
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Darwin
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Darwin thinks his way to 'The Origin of Species'.

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  • Added: May 06, 2010
  • Length: 53:44
  • Purchases: 1
Are childhood mental illnesses related to strep?
From: Julianne Hill
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This two-part series examines the debate by world-class scientists if a connection between tics, Tourette's, obsessive-compulsive disorder and ext...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2010
  • Length: 20:30
Episode 24 - Nicholas Maxwell
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: How to Think About Science
Caption: From Knowledge to Wisdom, by Nicholas Maxell. Published by Pentire Press, 2007
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Twenty-Four of a documentary series by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program Ideas.Modern societies ...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:57
Episode 23 - Lee Smolin
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: How to Think About Science
Caption: The Trouble With Physics, by Lee Smolin. Published by Houghton Mifflin, 2006
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Twenty-Three of a documentary series by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program Ideas. Modern societie...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Episode 22 - Allan Young
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: How to Think About Science
Caption: The Harmony of Illusions , by Allan Young. Published by Princeton University Press, 1997
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Twenty-Two of a documentary series by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program Ideas. Modern societies ...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Episode 21 - Christopher Norris and Mary Midgley
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: How to Think About Science
Caption: Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism, by Christopher Norris. Published by Routledge, 2000
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Twenty-One of a documentary series by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program Ideas. Modern societies ...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 54:00
Episode 20 - Michael Gibbons, Peter Scott, and Janet Atkinson Grosjean
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: How to Think About Science
Caption: Re-Thinking Science, published by Polity Press, 2002
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Twenty of a documentary series by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program Ideas. In this episode, he t...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Episode 19 - Ruth Hubbard
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: How to Think About Science
Caption: Exploding the Gene Myth by Ruth Hubbard and Elijah Wald. Published by Beacon Press, 1999
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Nineteen of a documentary by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program IDEAS. Modern societies have tend...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Episode 18 - Richard Lewontin
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: How to Think About Science
Caption: Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA. The 1990 Massey Lectures by Richard Lewontin
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Eighteen of a documentary by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program IDEAS. Modern societies have tend...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56