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In this episode, chemistry takes center stage. First, why science and comedy make gut-busting bedfellows. Then the history of science as popular en...
- Added: Mar 11, 2013
- Length: 21:38
The sounds of childhood: jokes and playground songs.
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 16:28
- Purchases: 1
Radio Rounds speaks with physician and social activist Patch Adams, founder of the world-renowned Gesundheit! Institute. In this episode, Patch ene...
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 28:52
We discuss work-life balance with Dr. Michelle Au, an anesthesiologist and acclaimed author. Since medical school, she has penned “The Underwear Dr...
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 29:30
These false teeth were to die for. To kill for, even.
Bought by KUT, North Country Public Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Feb 15, 2012
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 3
Poet James Richardson has called himself an "accidental aphorist," but his well-crafted works are no accident. He reads from his 2010 book, BY THE ...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Feb 01, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
This week's stories are about changes that can happen in moments, years, or even lifetimes. Anne Perry is pulled into a bloody predicament, Rod Lor...
Bought by Public Radio Remix, KFOK-LP, and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: Jul 22, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Just because the world didn't end last week doesn't mean that predictions of our demise will stop.
After all, the end has been near for over 4,000...
- Added: May 26, 2011
- Length: 03:12
With new super colliders coming online, scientists are well on their way to creating black holes in the laboratory. Seriously.
Is this a good thin...
- Added: Oct 15, 2010
- Length: 03:16
Just when you thought you knew everything there was to know about Global Warming, here's some new and unexpected data.
"The Worldwide Dandruff Cri...
- Added: Oct 01, 2010
- Length: 03:15
Everybody agrees that "You Are What You Eat," but scientists today also think "How You Act Depends on What You Eat." This has bizarre implications ...
- Added: Aug 06, 2010
- Length: 02:45
"Drill, Baby, Drill' is the new slogan of lobbyists. And guess what they found in Washington DC? Here's the new Tannen Weekly show: "LOBBYISTS DRIL...
- Added: Jul 14, 2010
- Length: 01:29
Oil crisis? What oil crisis? If we're really serious about energy independence, I think we'll find the answer right in our own backyard.
Yet anoth...
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Jul 09, 2010
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 1
It's that time of year again, when scores of reporters brave the elements and lash themselves to palm trees to tell us about approaching hurricanes...
- Added: Jul 04, 2010
- Length: 02:25
This week, we talk about something people don't like to talk about: what to do with the remains of their loved one.
Here are a couple of dramatic n...
- Added: Jun 18, 2010
- Length: 02:22
We all know about other species that seem to be failing, possibly on their way to extinction. But...what about us? It's all right here, in the new ...
- Added: May 06, 2010
- Length: 02:50
A weekly show from a multiple award-winning humor columnist. Just when we thought we had enough things to worry about, here's another: tune in to t...
- Added: May 02, 2010
- Length: 02:49
This week, a few words about what happens as you get older. Here's the latest Tannen Weekly, "MY BRAIN IS SHRINKING...AND IT'S FUN!"
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Feb 14, 2010
- Length: 02:17
- Purchases: 1
Prof. Dallin D. Oaks discussed the structural ambiguities of the English language.
- Added: Jan 20, 2010
- Length: 25:25
In this week's show, the author admits his embarrassing ignorance about many common things -- proving that all the stuff he learned in school shoul...
- Added: Jan 02, 2010
- Length: 02:34
Just in time for the climate debate!
Here's this week's show from the Tannen Weekly: "Death by Sulfur Hexaflouride".
It's a bit of science, a bi...
- Added: Dec 13, 2009
- Length: 02:13
Dr. Sharon Moalem discussed how sex works.
- Added: May 20, 2009
- Length: 29:52
A meditation on the brain structure that appreciates sarcasm.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Mar 26, 2008
- Length: 03:31
- Purchases: 1
Advanced viral software & spyware seeks to profit from your computer
- Added: Nov 20, 2005
- Length: 06:11





















