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Caption: Wocka wocka!, Credit: snorgtees.com.
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
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The sounds of childhood: jokes and playground songs.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 16:28
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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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

  • Added: Feb 15, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: James Richardson
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Prof. Dallin D. Oaks discussed the structural ambiguities of the English language.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2010
  • Length: 25:25
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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
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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
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Sharon Moalem discussed how sex works.

  • Added: May 20, 2009
  • Length: 29:52
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A meditation on the brain structure that appreciates sarcasm.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
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Advanced viral software & spyware seeks to profit from your computer

  • Added: Nov 20, 2005
  • Length: 06:11