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Fuel's Paradise
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Fuel's Paradise, Credit: Seth Shostak
From corn to algae to garbage: the race is on to find a fuel source that can replace petroleum.

Bought by KREV-LP


  • Added: Aug 06, 2012
  • Length: 54:14
  • Purchases: 1
Distillations Episode 152: Best of Distillations #9
From: Chemical Heritage Foundation
Series: Distillations - The Chemistry Podcast
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We bring you some of our favorite segments from past Distillations episodes this week: animal communication in the Sonoran Desert and the toll of a...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2012
  • Length: 13:33
Skeptic Check: Follywood Science
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Follywood Science, Credit: Seth Shostak
From Prometheus to 2001: the ratio of science to fiction in sci-fi, the most accurate science fiction film; and why messing with medical facts in f...

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  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2
Einstein's Jewish Science -- Groks Science Show 2012-07-25
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Steven Gimbel discusses Einstein's Jewish Science: Physics at the intersection of politics and religion.

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  • Added: Jul 25, 2012
  • Length: 28:43
  • Purchases: 1
Olympics for the Rest of Us
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Olympics for the Rest of Us, Credit: Seth Shostak
It’s easy to praise the extraordinary abilities of the athletes. Let’s celebrate the extreme averageness of the rest of us. From beer bellies to...

Bought by WRIR, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KHEN-LP, KVSC, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Jul 23, 2012
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 5
Darwinian Agriculture -- Groks Science Show 2012-07-18
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. R. Ford Denison joins us to discuss how understanding Darwin's theory of natural selection can help us feed the planet.

Bought by WRNC-LP and KMXT


  • Added: Jul 18, 2012
  • Length: 33:21
  • Purchases: 2
Do the Math
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Do the Math, Credit: Seth Shostak
Fun puzzles for your next urban hike, why brains are wired to count on fingers, and the world’s most famous equations (after e=mc2).

Bought by KREV-LP, KVSC, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jul 16, 2012
  • Length: 54:03
  • Purchases: 3
Distillations Episode 151: Tears
From: Chemical Heritage Foundation
Series: Distillations - Blood, Sweat, and Tears
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This wraps up our three-part series Blood, Sweat, and Tears. First, how it feels to lose your ability to cry; then why onions bring on the waterworks.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2012
  • Length: 15:05
Higgs Boson -- Groks Science Show 2012-07-11
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Ian Hinchliffe talks about the physics of the Higgs Boson.

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  • Added: Jul 11, 2012
  • Length: 29:46
  • Purchases: 1
Animal Instinct
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Animal Instinct, Credit: Seth Shostak
What humans can learn from our hairy, feathered, four-legged friends; we may wear suits and play Sudoku, but Homo sapiens are animals all the same.

Bought by WZEN.org, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 3
I've Got Rhythm—Does Cancer?
From: With Good Reason
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About 12 percent of women develop breast cancer. But years of studies have shown that for female flight attendants, nurses, factory workers, and ot...

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
Distillations Episode 150: Sweat
From: Chemical Heritage Foundation
Series: Distillations - Blood, Sweat, and Tears
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In this episode we continue the three-part series Blood, Sweat, and Tears. First the history of deodorants; then experiments on how perspiration ca...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2012
  • Length: 16:44
Nano Nano
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Nano Nano, Credit: Seth Shostak
"Think small to solve big problems" is, in a nutshell, the mantra of nanotechnology - we’ll look at the promise and the peril of this new science.

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  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2
Computer Talk Radio (June 30th-July 6th, 2012)
From: Benjamin Rockwell
Series: Computer Talk Radio (54 Minute)
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Computer Talk Radio weekly show for the broadcast week starting June 30th, 2012. Benjamin Rockwell, the bespectacled host, opens with news items l...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
Infectious Behavior -- Groks Science Show 2012-06-27
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Prof. Paul H. Patterson discused Infectious Behavior.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jun 27, 2012
  • Length: 20:05
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Otis Brawley, Chief Medical Officer of the American Cancer Society
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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Dr. Otis Brawley, Chief Medical Officer of the American Cancer Society speaks about disparities in health care and the future of cancer research an...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2012
  • Length: 24:49
Taking a Breath: Healing the Inner Environment
From: Bioneers Radio
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 12-Revolution from the Heart of Nature
Caption: Dr. James Gordon
World-renowned psychiatrist Dr. James S. Gordon of the Center for Mind Body Medicine has trained thousands of teachers globally to advance ancient ...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 1
Swimming Our Talk: Blue Mind, Ocean Heart
From: Bioneers Radio
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 12-Revolution from the Heart of Nature
Caption: Philippe Cousteau, Credit: Michael Howard (c)
Marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols, ocean advocates Philippe and Alexandra Cousteau, and the Truckee High School Envirolution Club are among the r...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 1
Millions of Elders: Biomimicry and How Nature Would Do It
From: Bioneers Radio
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 12-Revolution from the Heart of Nature
Caption: Dr. Dayna Baumeister, Credit: Jennifer Esperanza (c)
Biomimicry is decoding astonishing treasures from nature's recipe book that we can mimic for our technological and industrial practices.

Bought by KUMD


  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 1
A World That Works For All: Fireflies, Dumpsters, Soft Power and the Design Science Revolution
From: Bioneers Radio
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 12-Revolution from the Heart of Nature
Caption: Sheila Kennedy
The visionary designer and architect R. Buckminster Fuller’s remarkable legacy inspires new generations to create the Design Science Revolution he ...

Bought by KUMD


  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 57:02
  • Purchases: 1
A Pre-Historic Brain In The 21st Century
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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How to live with the brain of a cave-man in the 21st century, is the subject of this edition of Radio Curious, in conversation with Rick Hanson, P...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
Seth's Storm Shelter
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Seth's Storm Shelter, Credit: Seth Shostak
A mélange of surprising subjects from why humans are more like ants than are chimpanzees … to Jonah Lehrer on the creative brain.

Bought by KREV-LP and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jun 25, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2
Skeptic Check: OMG, GMO?
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: OMG, GMO?, Credit: Seth Shostak
You are what you eat – the science –and the controversy - of genetically engineered foods, plus synthetic biology on Mars.

Bought by KREV-LP and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jun 18, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2
Coyote City -- Groks Science Show 2012-06-13
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Stanley Gehrt discussed urban coyotes living in Chicago.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jun 13, 2012
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Valerie Arkoosh, President of the National Physicians Alliance
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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Dr. Valerie Arkoosh talks about National Physicians Alliance "Un-Branded Doctor" program that urges physicians to refuse corporate payments, and al...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2012
  • Length: 24:59

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