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HOUR ONE: "Plants As People" - If plants are intelligent beings, how should we relate to them? Do they have a place in our moral universe? Should t...
- Added: Aug 20, 2021
- Length: 01:58:59
HOUR ONE: "Living In Skin" - All over America, people have stopped touching faces and hugging friends. This hour, explore the inner life of your sk...
- Added: Aug 06, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
In the movie Good Will Hunting, Will is a janitor at MIT--he solves some impossible math problems and shocks the professors. That origin story is t...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Sep 06, 2020
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Pandemic: quite a BUZZ word these days. We stay home, wear masks, and wash hands like crazy. But what would bees do? Hint: dance party! Written and...
- Added: May 13, 2020
- Length: 03:00
Mistranslation? Awkward. Surprisingly, it was a classic mistranslation after the Franco-Prussion War that prompted the acceptance of biosafety. Now...
- Added: May 07, 2020
- Length: 03:00
With a little help, carbon eating, coast protecting marshes are on the mend
Bought by WFHB, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KICI Iowa City, WFHB, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]
- Added: May 06, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
In this episode, our hosts dive into the history of pop, soda, cola, and other popular fizzes liquids.
Bought by Belfast Community Radio
- Added: Mar 10, 2020
- Length: 11:31
- Purchases: 1
Dr. Rhett Allain and Issaak Bartholomew examine the science and history of radio
Bought by Belfast Community Radio
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 07:25
- Purchases: 1
If you're thinking, wait, I thought it was tenderhooks, you're not alone. Amy explains this early 18th century idiom that describes having a sense ...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Feb 20, 2020
- Length: 03:13
- Purchases: 1
This chemical is no joke. Amy talks about how 1930's scientists discovered the explosive and insanely dangerous compound while trying to find a mor...
- Added: Feb 19, 2019
- Length: 04:25
Amy Barton has an eye for dangerous and innovative doctors and Dr. Robert Liston is no exception. FYI This episode has some up-close discussions of...
- Added: Jan 10, 2019
- Length: 03:09
- Added: Nov 16, 2017
- Length: 20:52
- Purchases: 1
A sci-fi television series that debuted ahead of Star Trek in 1966... and a settlement constructed by gold miners in 1850 in a brand new state, sti...
- Added: Aug 15, 2017
- Length: 02:22:46
- Added: Feb 16, 2017
- Length: 13:27
- Purchases: 1
When you look up at the sky the last thing you probably think about is the law. But space is exactly where the next frontier of law is being played...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KALW, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 24, 2015
- Length: 14:42
- Purchases: 3
A Chicagoan deals with an interesting beach situation and Londoners deal with a growing population of parakeets.
- Added: Sep 26, 2013
- Length: 23:07
Part three in our series, The Stages of Life, spotlighting the chemistry found in childhood, adulthood, and old age. First, a look at how brain con...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Jul 16, 2013
- Length: 18:01
- Purchases: 1
Join us for the second installment of The Stages of Life, spotlighting the chemistry found in childhood, adulthood, and old age. We start by lookin...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 15:03
- Purchases: 1
This episode kicks off a three-part series, The Stages of Life, spotlighting the chemistry found in childhood, adulthood, and old age. First, a loo...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 17:28
- Purchases: 1
In this episode we look at the modern power grid, which is on the brink of important changes. First, why the smart grid matters. Then, the critical...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 17:06
- Purchases: 1
In this episode we look at questionable appearance enhancers. First the Beauty Historian shares some shocking beauty rituals of yore. Then a look a...
- Added: Apr 30, 2013
- Length: 15:25
In this episode we investigate the science beneath our streets. First how a team of amateur speleologists are keeping Howe Caverns safe. Then a loo...
- Added: Apr 30, 2013
- Length: 16:35
- Purchases: 2
In this episode we see old bones made new again. First the ongoing restoration of Philadelphia's 19th Street Baptist Church. Then a discussion abou...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 17:11
During decades of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union over the course of the Cold War, both sides wielded science as a weapon. F...
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 15:04
Just in time for Valentine's Day we explore the sexier side of alchemy. Historian Joel Klein explains how alchemists used passionate prose to disgu...
Bought by WDBM
- Added: Feb 05, 2013
- Length: 13:59
- Purchases: 1
