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The Loh Down on Science - May 2024
From: LDOS MEDIA LAB
Series: Science: The Loh Down on Science
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Your daily 90-second dose of real science for real people! Like … how healthy is yogurt really… Do school uniforms improve grades… and can we get e...

Bought by KKRN, KPOV, Tri States Public Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), Radio Baha'i, WLGI and more


  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 34:30
  • Purchases: 6
The Loh Down on Science - April, 2024
From: LDOS MEDIA LAB
Series: Science: The Loh Down on Science
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Your daily 90-second dose of real science for real people! Like … how healthy is yogurt really… Do school uniforms improve grades… and can we get e...

Bought by KKRN, KPOV, Tri States Public Radio, and KVSC


  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 33:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Loh Down on Science - March, 2024
From: LDOS MEDIA LAB
Series: Science: The Loh Down on Science
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Your daily 90-second dose of real science for real people! Like… do animals “break up”... is there a way to stop gaining weight when you quit smoki...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Tri States Public Radio, KKRN, KPOV, Radio Baha'i, WLGI and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 31:30
  • Purchases: 6
Meteorite!
From: Matt Hill
Series: Today In History - with The Retrospectors
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The first meteorite to crash land into Earth - and have its date recorded - impacted the hamlet of Ensisheim (in modern-day France, then Austria) o...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 09:33
Soft and Squishy Robots in the Classroom, with Dr. Holly Golecki
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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Dr. Holly Golecki, a professor in the Bioengineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, talks about using soft robotics ...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2023
  • Length: 48:22
Keepers of the Flame
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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Follow the money that props up racist science, and you'll find it all leads back to one man.

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 01:03:24
The Explorers Club
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A team of globetrotting, besotted scientists faces a new kind of terra incognita.

Bought by KFCF FM, KMUN, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Mar 29, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 34
The Physicists
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A very dark comedy about the nuclear age.

Bought by KKRN, KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 31
Oh My, One Big Toad!
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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This episode is a reminiscence…something I seem to be doing a lot of lately…and also a plea for getting our children and grandchildren out of doors...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2022
  • Length: 04:02
225: Bees vs Mirrors
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Fresh off the research presses in early 2022, a new study on how honey bees navigate the world while they fly. Turns out still water and mirrors ar...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jul 13, 2022
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 1
214: Sky Puppies
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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While baby Egyptian fruit bats start life getting carried around, once they get too heavy, their mothers leave them in a cave while they forage. It...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: May 13, 2022
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Number of Squirrels in NYC Parks in a Nutshell
From: Rebekah Robinson
Caption: Curious squirrel, Central Park, New York, Credit: basair is marked with CC BY-NC 2.0
How many squirrels are there in Central Park? It’s not just a trivia question for a dinner party. The answer tells us a lot about the urban environ...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:44
207: Cockroach Personalities
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Anything that scatters when you turn on the light...does it have a personality? Is the cockroach urge to run an indicator of a bold or timid world ...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
Tyto alba
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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I’ve known barn owls since I was a kid in Kentucky and I always saw them in barns roosting or nesting up high in the rafters. I remember finding a ...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:43
Leslie Canyon
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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One of the positive sides of isolating and staying very close to home during the pandemic is that we discovered new places and rediscovered old hau...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 05:07
206 part one: Goldfish FOV
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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You've heard of an ROV, a remotely operated vehicle. But did you ever think you'd see an FOV, a fish operated vehicle? Israeli scientists have atte...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 04:56
  • Purchases: 1
Dancing on Rocky Slopes
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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The loose rock fandango can get pretty elaborate with elements of modern dance, hokey pokey, ballet and of course some jazz hands thrown into the m...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 05:00
193: Navy Seals
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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The US military uses more than boats to protect our Naval bases. This episode brings a whole new meaning to "Navy seals".

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jan 10, 2022
  • Length: 09:30
  • Purchases: 1
190: Beard Power
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Those of you with a thick beard, that hair does more than make you look suave or rugged. Turns out, a beard might be protecting your face. There's ...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jan 10, 2022
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 1
186: Sudden Genius
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Imagine waking up from a nap to discover that you have the ability to compose music in your head. What a shock that would be! There are people who ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 11, 2021
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 2
Turtles, Dogs, Plants
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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I’m so lucky to live in the land of the ornate box turtle (Terrepene ornata luteola). For me it has been a wonderful journey with turtles, from my ...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 04:52
176: Math Pain
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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If you're like Trace, the thought of math makes you want to run and hide; that anxiety, that tightness in your chest, the weird shooting pains (wai...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jun 14, 2021
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
Literary Ringtails
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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The scientific name of the ringtail is Bassariscus astutus. It’s in the Procyonidae, the same family as our local borderlands’ critters the raccoon...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:56
The Paranormal Cafe with Brian Haughton
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: The Paranormal Cafe
Caption: Brian Haughton's 'Haunted Spaces, Sacred Places, Credit: mysteriouspeople.com
Brian Haughton is an archeologist, researcher, and author on the subjects of supernatural folklore and ancient sacred places. When I contacted Bria...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2021
  • Length: 57:21
162: penguin Guano & Giggle Gas
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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There's a strange connection between King penguins, one of their favorite islands, and Nitrous Oxide gas.

Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 2