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Riddles from the Border Regions, 11/17/12
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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I STAND ON FOUR WHILE OTHERS SIT...

Bought by KRCB-FM


  • Added: Nov 15, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Copyright Termination Rights
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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1978 is an important year for rock. Why? because this upcoming January, a lot of artists should be getting the rights to their own music following ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Skeptic Check: Zombies Aren't Real
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Zombies Aren't Real, Credit: Seth Shostak
Writer Guy Harrison on why Zombies might be a ghosts from our Pleistocene past, and how mathematical modeling of these mythical creatures could hel...

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


  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Going Global
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Going Global, Credit: Seth Shostak
Writer David Quammen on what it takes for an animal disease to become a human pandemic. Also, was hurricane Sandy a man-made disaster?

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


  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 3
2012 Halloween Show
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This Halloween, we'll be talking all about the greatest makeup and mask donning bands in history. What's so brilliant about makeup? Find out on thi...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
As You Were
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: As You Were, Credit: Seth Shostak
From memory storage to self-healing materials to stem cells - creative approaches to capturing things are they were. Plus, the arrow of time in re...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KREV-LP


  • Added: Oct 29, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2
Riddles from the Border Regions, 10/27/12
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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I SOUND BEST WHEN...

Bought by KRCB-FM


  • Added: Oct 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Space Archaeology
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Space Archaeology, Credit: Seth Shostak
Why modern archaeologists forsake digging in the dirt in favor of a satellite view, and how we might track extraterrestrials from the trash they le...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KREV-LP


  • Added: Oct 22, 2012
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 2
As the Worlds Turn
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: As the Worlds Turn, Credit: Seth Shostak
If you’re itching to get away from it all, really get away from it all, have we got some exotic destinations for you. From Mars to Jupiter’s moon...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KREV-LP


  • Added: Oct 15, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2
Torture Songs
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Songs that get turned into interrogation music.

  • Added: Oct 11, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
Back To school
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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School is back in session, and we're not just talking about Rock School.

  • Added: Oct 10, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
[Rectangular Container] Thinking
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: [Rectangular Container] Thinking, Credit: Seth Shostak
Discover the original thinking that led to the discovery of dark matter and the invention of a.c. power grids, disinfectant, and the Greek “death r...

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


  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 3
Riddles from the Border Regions, 10/6/12
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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EVER HE TAILGATES...

Bought by KRCB-FM


  • Added: Oct 04, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Miranda Grosvernor Story
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Miranda Grosverner, "The Muse of the Stars," a woman who does not exist was written of, spoken of, and sung about by many famous people in many gen...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
One-Man Bands
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Bands with only one member

  • Added: Oct 01, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
Skeptic Check: Mysterious Illness
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Mysterious Illness, Credit: Seth Shostak
The strange case of stuttering in Le Roy, N.Y. and an update on the cellphone cancer debate.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KREV-LP


  • Added: Oct 01, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2
Persona Non Grata
From: Michelle Boyd
Series: Meet the Budget Cuts
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Kevin Van Kanegan worked at the University of Illinois at Chicago for 27 years before being fired during the 2010 Illinois state budget crisis. He ...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2012
  • Length: 03:28
Riddles from the Border Regions, 09/29/12
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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SOLITARY, STRAIGHT AND PLUMB...

Bought by KRCB-FM


  • Added: Sep 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Gram Parsons Story
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Biographical portrayal of the legendary Gram Parsons

  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
Big Data
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Big Data, Credit: Seth Shostak
Big data is revolutionizing research. Learn how it might cure disease, or find ET. But is it a threat to our privacy?

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


  • Added: Sep 24, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 3
Skeptic Check: Energy Vortex
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Energy Vortex, Credit: Seth Shostak
The science behind “mysterious energy,” from magnetic poles to haunted houses, and just what the heck is an “energy vortex” anyway?

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Sep 17, 2012
  • Length: 54:03
  • Purchases: 1
Wild Dogs in Laikipia, Kenya
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: AFRICA'S WILDEST STORIES
Caption: One of the Wild Dogs, Credit: Elleni Stephanou
Laikipia's pack of 40+ wild dogs was spotted by Tinai Kogo a driver for the Mpala Research Centre. He then explains the way in which they rear thei...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2012
  • Length: 07:22
Oh, Rats!
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Oh, Rats!, Credit: Seth Shostak
Before you chase it with a broom, consider this: Without the rat, we might miss critical insights into the nature of stress, cancer … and even love...

Bought by KVSC and KREV-LP


  • Added: Sep 10, 2012
  • Length: 54:32
  • Purchases: 2
The Meaning of Back To School
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Guido on going back to school.

  • Added: Sep 06, 2012
  • Length: 02:34
The Invisible In-Between
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: The Invisible In-Between, Credit: Seth Shostak
To need air is human. Catch a skydiver in action and discover what’s in supposedly empty interstellar space.

Bought by KREV-LP


  • Added: Sep 03, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 1

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