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Fastest On Earth Hour Long Program
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Fastest On Earth
Caption: Inside Technology
IEEE Spectrum Radio takes your listeners around the globe to find the fastest things on earth.

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KMXT, Marfa Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 17, 2012
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 13
Talking Trash -- Groks Science Show 2012-05-16
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
What happens to our garbage after it leaves the bins behind out houses? Is all trash waste? Author and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Ed Humes...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KMXT


  • Added: May 16, 2012
  • Length: 33:06
  • Purchases: 2
Distillations Episode 147: Babies
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Remember when I leeched all the calcium from your bones?, Credit: Flickr user paparutzi.
Big eyes, soft skin, squeezable cheeks. No doubt, babies are adorable. But in this episode we take a break from our cooing to examine some more ser...

  • Added: May 16, 2012
  • Length: 13:43
Interchange - Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor: The Astounding Brain
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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This week on Interchange, host Alycin Bektesh interviews Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor about her work as a Neuroanatomist. Dr. Taylor discusses her work as...

  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 59:23
That's So Random!
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: That's So Random!, Credit: Seth Shostak
We crave order in things, but we can’t iron out every chaotic crease, nor would we want to: from brain cell activity to the evolution of species, ...

Bought by WVTF, KSKQ, KREV-LP, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: May 14, 2012
  • Length: 54:03
  • Purchases: 4
Poisoned Water, Fossil Fuels
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Still from the film 'Burning the Future: Coal in America' , Credit: http://www.burningthefuture.org
The endless search for fossil fuels is polluting our waterways, and our water supplies. The fight to protect clean drinking water is motivating Ame...

Bought by WZEN.org


  • Added: May 11, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
OTTER 501 -- Mark Shelley and Katie Pofahl interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Katie Pofahl & Mark Shelley, San Francisco, CA 5/5/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Executive Producer/Director of Photography Mark Shelley and star Katie Pofahl talk otters, kelp forests, and doing the right thing.

  • Added: May 11, 2012
  • Length: 18:25
Poisoned Water, Fossil Fuels
From: Making Contact
Caption: Still from the film 'Burning the Future: Coal in America', Credit: http://www.burningthefuture.org
The endless search for fossil fuels is polluting our waterways, and our water supplies. The fight to protect clean drinking water is motivating Ame...

Bought by WUAL


  • Added: May 11, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
EcoReport - May 10, 2012
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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In today’s feature report, EcoReport’s Dan Young speaks with Environmental Sciences Professor Vicky Meretsky about climate change, species extincti...

  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Length: 29:10
A Conversation with Jonah Lehrer
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Jonah Lehrer, author of Imagine: How Creativity Works, discusses the new science of creativity. [34:06]

  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Length: 34:07
Dead Zones
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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A renowned marine biologist is studying a silent killer in oceans and bays. Allison Quantz has the story.

Bought by KENW


  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 1
Dead Zones and Fly-Fishing
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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You can’t see them on the surface. But at the bottom of some of the world’s largest bodies of water are areas called dead zones where fish and othe...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KMXT, and KWMR


  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
Marabou Stork ~ Leptoptilos crumeniferus
From: Atlantic Public Media
Series: One Species at a Time ~ The Encyclopedia of Life
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The marabou stork of southern Africa isn’t much to look at—it’s large, ungainly, and bald like a vulture, with a nasty appetite for carrion.

  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 05:30
Fungi ~ Hypholoma fasciculare and Amanita brunnescens
From: Atlantic Public Media
Series: One Species at a Time ~ The Encyclopedia of Life
Caption: Hypholoma fasciculare., Credit: Albert P. Bekker, CalPhotos. CC BY-NC-SA
Working under cover, it sends its ghostly tendrils into almost every corner of the terrestrial world.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 05:28
  • Purchases: 1
Corpse Flower ~ Amorphophallus
From: Atlantic Public Media
Series: One Species at a Time ~ The Encyclopedia of Life
Caption: Amorphophallus titanum, Credit: Paul Morris, BY-SA
When you think of charismatic megaflora, chances are you have in mind something majestic, like a towering Sequoia, or something ancient, like a Jos...

  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 05:29
Pigments
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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From Victorian parlors to Starbucks, pigments have defined and connected societies.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 01:51
  • Purchases: 1
LAST CALL AT THE OASIS -- Jessica Yu interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Jessica Yu, San Francisco, CA 5/1/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Filmmaker Jessica Yu talks water, spin, and denial.

  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 09:58
Migratory Birds -- Groks Science Show 2012-05-09
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Hiroyoshi Higuchi talks about the use of satellite tracking for migratory birds and the cleverness of crows.

Bought by 'The Sea', KKWE Niijii Radio, WRNC-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 29:57
  • Purchases: 4
Nugget Man
From: Marion Kane
Caption: Dr. Robert C. Baker
The story of the late Dr. Robert Baker, famous food scientist at Cornell, who invented the chicken nugget.

  • Added: May 07, 2012
  • Length: 21:53
Medical Quackery at the Science Museum
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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X-ray and CAT-scan machines are part of today's medical landscape, but have you heard of the Orgone Energy Accumulator? Psychograph? Or Prostate Gl...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 07, 2012
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 1
Jim Robbins, author of 'The Man Who Planted Trees'
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, science writer Jim Robbins talks about the importance of trees and reads from 'The Man Who Planted Trees: Lost Groves, Champio...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 1
2012 Consciousness
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Photo by Rainbow Gryphon, Flickr
Max Kalyani, when asked what's going on in 2012, first responds with "New Age consciousness...the Mayan Calendar!" In this commentary, Max, a senio...

  • Added: May 04, 2012
  • Length: 05:16
WorldCanvass: Global Science Fiction
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: May 03, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:40
Leeches
From: NPR
Series: How To Do Everything
Caption: Flick (by David Bruce)
We tell you how to use leeches to track endangered species.

Bought by North Country Public Radio and KKRN


  • Added: May 03, 2012
  • Length: 05:20
  • Purchases: 2
Your Inner Macaque -- Groks Science Show 2012-05-02
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Dario Maestripieri joins us to discuss his new book, 'Games Primates Play: An Undercover Investigation of the Evolution and Economics of Human ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WRNC-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: May 02, 2012
  • Length: 24:47
  • Purchases: 3

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