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San Francisco fights to keep the ocean at bay
From: KALW
Caption: The view from the Sloat Boulevard Parking Lot after a large storm. Photo taken March 17th, 2012, Credit: Bill McLaughlin / Surfrider Foundation
The only thing more powerful than human will is Mother Nature. At San Francisco’s Ocean Beach, the two forces have done battle for years over wave ...

Bought by Listenwise


  • Added: Apr 22, 2012
  • Length: 07:14
  • Purchases: 1
EcoReport - April 19, 2012
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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Environmental headlines plus Indiana University biologist Irene L.G. Newton, co-author of a study on honey bee genetic diversity, speaks with EcoRe...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2012
  • Length: 29:12
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
Brian Dolan, Managing Editor of MobiHealthNews
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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Hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Brian Dolan, Co-Founder and Managing Editor of MobiHealthNews which analyzes the growing mobile...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2012
  • Length: 24:59
Counting Without Language -- Groks Science Show 2012-04-18
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Liesje Spaepen joins us to discuss how language shapes mathematical thought.

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


  • Added: Apr 18, 2012
  • Length: 30:24
  • Purchases: 3
From Pharma to Table: The McDonald's-Pfizer Merger
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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Finally, McDonald's and Pfizer have announced a plan to merge operations. The Final Edition investigates...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 03:47
Distillations Episode 145: Asbestos
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Pittsburgh's Schenley High School in its glory days., Credit: Wikimedia.
Asbestos, once a miracle product, is now a plague on the aging infrastructure to which it's bound. In this episode we explore a Pennsylvania town w...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 14:03
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Michael E. Mann
In its 2001 report on global climate, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations prominently featured the “Hockey Stick,” ...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
Humans Need Not Apply
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Humans Need Not Apply, Credit: Seth Shostak
It’s silicon vs. carbon as intelligent, interactive machines out-perform humans in tasks beyond data-crunching – find out what jobs are left for hu...

Bought by WBWC and KREV-LP


  • Added: Apr 16, 2012
  • Length: 54:03
  • Purchases: 2
EcoReport - April 12, 2012
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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Environmental headlines plus correspondent Dan Young speaks with Biologist Marti Crouch about the dangers of the new generation of genetically modi...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2012
  • Length: 29:27
Equations -- Groks Science Show 2012-04-11
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Prof. Ian Stewart discussed the equations that changed the world.

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


  • Added: Apr 12, 2012
  • Length: 32:00
  • Purchases: 3
HCMC's Medical History Center
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: A volunteer at HCMC's Medical History Center.
The basement of Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) houses the Hennepin Medical History Center--a tiny, two-gallery museum filled to the rafters ...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2012
  • Length: 04:55
Dr. David Cutler, Harvard Health Care Economist on the economics of health reform
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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David Cutler, Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government speaks about the economics of the Affordable Care Act, healt...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2012
  • Length: 24:57
The Global Warming Reader
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Bill McKibben
Into the national conversation about climate change and our planet's natural resources comes The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing About ...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2012
  • Length: 28:40
Warming World Spells Trouble for Elderly
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
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When you think of climate change, you might think of melting ice shelves. Heat waves. Shrinking habitat for animals and plants. You might not think...

Bought by Aspen Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 10, 2012
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 3
166: Population, Fresh Water and the Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss outcomes and solutions from the World Water Forum which took place in Marseille...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2012
  • Length: 06:16
Pharmageddon
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
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Dr. Ira Byock and Dr. David Healy, this week on Prime Time Radio.

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Apr 10, 2012
  • Length: 59:55
  • Purchases: 1
Second that Emotion
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Second that Emotion, Credit: Seth Shostak
Why flies in milk gross you out and other voyages through human emotion.

Bought by KSKQ and KREV-LP


  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2
Painting from the Ashes
From: Sarah P. Reynolds
Caption: Kevin King painting in his studio, Credit: Sarah P. Reynolds
Kevin King is a painter. His paintings aren't controversial, but his medium is.

Bought by KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 06, 2012
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 4
Pipe Down! That Noise Might Affect Your Plants
From: Veronique LaCapra
Caption: Pinon pine trees like this one dominate Rattlesnake Canyon., Credit: Jeff Mitton
Plants don't have ears, right? And if they can't hear you would assume that noise wouldn't matter much to them, which is why researchers haven't gi...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 06, 2012
  • Length: 03:14
  • Purchases: 1
White nose syndrome spreads west
From: Veronique LaCapra
Caption: A little brown bat showing symptoms of white-nose syndrome in Greeley Mine, Vermont (April, 2009)., Credit: (Marvin Moriarity/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
Bad news for the bat population, a disease that has killed more than five million bats in the eastern United States and Canada has now reached Miss...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 06, 2012
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 1
Crocodiles vs. Alligators
From: NPR
Series: How To Do Everything
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We tell you how to know the difference between a crocodile and an alligator.

Bought by North Country Public Radio and KKRN


  • Added: Apr 05, 2012
  • Length: 07:58
  • Purchases: 2
At the Exploratorium, there's no such thing as too much Pi
From: KALW
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The basic definition of the number pi is that it’s doesn’t have an exact value – it’s an infinite calculation. But it is possible to know the exact...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 05, 2012
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 1
Clever Apes: Nature and human nature
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
Caption: Megan Bang helped incorporate systems-level thinking into the design of an early education classroom., Credit: (WBEZ/Gabriel Spitzer)
We go back to one of the first lessons kids learn about science, and what it says about how human minds develop. As children discover the natural w...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, PRX Remix, KUT, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 05, 2012
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 5
Technologists -- Groks Science Show 2012-04-04
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Matthew Pearl discussed the technologists.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KMXT


  • Added: Apr 04, 2012
  • Length: 26:20
  • Purchases: 2

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