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Last Island -- Groks Science Show 2023-09-20
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Adam Goodheart discussed his book, The Last Island.

Bought by KDX Worldround Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 20, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Let's Stick Together
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Let's Stick Together, Credit: Seth Shostak
Crowds driving you crazy? Remember, we evolved to be together. Humans are not only social, we’re driven to care for one another. We look at some...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, KIYU-FM, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WRGY, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: May 22, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
The African Burial Ground
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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Is it possible to study human remains ethically?

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 44:44
Return, Rebury, Repatriate
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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Activists were angry that a museum held the skulls of enslaved people. Then they discovered it also had remains of Black children killed in 1985.

  • Added: May 14, 2023
  • Length: 56:58
Headed for Trouble
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Headed for Trouble, Credit: Seth Shostak
The stone heads on Easter Island are an enduring mystery: why were they built and why were they abandoned and destroyed? The old ideas about cultu...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, WRGY, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KZUM and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2023
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 12
Ancient Roads of the Four Corners
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
Series: Science Moab
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A series of linear roads were built around 1000 years ago all over the four corners area, but focusing on the Chaco Canyon region. We talk with Ro...

Bought by KDXI - Radio St George


  • Added: Dec 28, 2022
  • Length: 20:44
  • Purchases: 1
16: Tastes of Midwestern Amish Country, 09/01/22
From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Eat Your Heartland Out
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Host Capri Cafaro seeks insights into Amish and Mennonite food traditions and their influence on Midwestern flavors.  Guests include: Steve Nolt,...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and Prairie Public


  • Added: Sep 01, 2022
  • Length: 54:05
  • Purchases: 2
EE 22-29: Keitlyn Alcantara on Indigenous foodways of the past and the present, 7/15/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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Anthropological bio-archeologist Keitlyn Alcantara studies pre colonial burial sites to understand indigenous foodways.

  • Added: Jul 12, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
16: Tastes of Midwestern Amish Country, 03/10/22
From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Eat Your Heartland Out
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Host Capri Cafaro seeks insights into Amish and Mennonite food traditions and their influence on Midwestern flavors.  Guests include: Steve Nolt,...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KRPS, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 3
Perspectives from a Hopi Archaeologist
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
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There are not many Indigenous archaeologists working in the southwest, partly because of a troubled past with Western archaeologists. Lyle Balenqu...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 21:55
  • Purchases: 1
ee 21-39: A Conversation With Ashanté Reese On “Racial Justice In The Wake Of Food Justice”, 9/24/2021
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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What is possible when we listen to Black people’s food stories beyond an all encompassing narrative of lack?

  • Added: Sep 20, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
New Water Worlds
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: New Water Worlds, Credit: Seth Shostak
The water is coming. By century’s end, the oceans could be anywhere from 2 to 6 feet higher, threatening millions of people and low-lying property....

Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, KAZU Seaside, Calif., Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
EE 21-11: Black Food Matters--A Conversation With Ashanté Reese, 3/12/2021
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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Reese’s work examines the structural forces that dictate food access in urban areas, and highlights the ways in which Black residents navigate the ...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
Lucy
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Is autism a disability...or an evolutionary adaptation?

Bought by KFCF FM, KWMR, KMUN, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 25
Geology is Destiny
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Geology is Destiny, Credit: Seth Shostak
Geology is big history. If the Ice Age had been a bit warmer, the U.S. might have only 13 states. But humanity has introduced its own geologic er...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMUN, CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRGY and more


  • Added: Oct 12, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
Skeptic Check: Know-It-Alls
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Know-It-Alls
Think you’re some kind of expert? Join the club. It’s one thing to question authority; another to offer up your untrained self as its replacement. ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, KUAC, KMUN, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Gained in Translation
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
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Hey, Alexa, why don’t you laugh at my jokes? Teaching a computer to recognize humor is difficult because no clear definition of humor exists. Send...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WUFT, CHSR-FM 97.9, KMUN, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more


  • Added: May 25, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
Lost Civilization -- Groks Science Show 2019-07-24
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Graham Hancock discusses his hypothesis of a lost civilization.

  • Added: Aug 06, 2019
  • Length: 17:38
Podcast Interview with Peter Robinson of Bradshaw Foundation on Rock Art
From: Meg pier
Series: People Are Culture
Caption: Peter Robinson of the Bradshaw Foundation, Credit: Peter Robinson
Interview with Peter Lyell Robinson, editor of the Bradshaw Foundation, which focuses on discovering, documenting and preserving ancient rock art a...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 59:03
Language Death -- Groks Science Show 2019-07-03
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Prof. Don Kulick discussed his book, A Death in the Rainforest.

  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: 20:36
Fake by Eric Simonson
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A detective story about the infamous Piltdown Man hoax.

Bought by KKRN, WNJR, WCPN, KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 20
AMOS 19.011: Why Is Homo Sapiens the Only Surviving Hominin Species?, 1/15/2019
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Why Is Homo Sapiens the Only Surviving Hominin Species?

  • Added: Nov 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
Toba Catastrophe -- Groks Science Show 2018-10-24
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Donald Prothero discusses when humans nearly vanished.

  • Added: Oct 25, 2018
  • Length: 14:46
Biblical Mythology and Wholeheartedness
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Carol Delaney and Brene Brown
Carol Delaney deconstructs the myth of Abraham and Isaac and Brene Brown challenges us to Dare Greatly.

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Jul 06, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 1
Interacting with the land: historic and current land uses in the Southwest
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
Series: Science Moab
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Humans have been using and modifying the ecosystems around on the Colorado Plateau for thousands of years. To understand human relationships with t...

Bought by KDXI - Radio St George


  • Added: May 20, 2018
  • Length: 30:23
  • Purchases: 1