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Digital music is the furthest we’ve come from running needles through intricate grooves, but record orders keep coming in.
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 02:22
Jessica Wapner, freelance journalist, open her book in 1959 when a chromosomal mutation, christened “the Philadelphia Chromosome.” Was discovered. ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 08, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
A microbial ecologist discusses the vibrant ecosystem known as the human body.
- Added: May 01, 2013
- Length: 18:30
A listener asks why some trees live for thousands of years.
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Advances in technology bring us new, visionary underwater devices to record and transmit observational data. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, ...
- Added: Apr 08, 2013
- Length: 05:20
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
University of Kansas psychology professors Ruth Ann & Paul Atchley recently completed a study showing that four days out in the wild, without cell ...
- Added: Feb 11, 2013
- Length: 15:04
Researchers have figured out how Staph bacteria transfer antibiotic resistance to one another.
- Added: Feb 02, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Radio Curious visits with Richard Jergensen to discuss the history future of railroad travel in Mendocino County.
- Added: Jan 29, 2013
- Length: 29:01
Bobby speaks with Dr. John Boik, founder of the Principled Societies Project, which is a science-based effort to design and test pioneering systems...
- Added: Jan 22, 2013
- Length: 50:59
This week on Into It, Andrew Bales explores space dives, an extreme jump that tests the limits of technology and the wills of dare devils.
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- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 1
When sea creatures get sick, there's one way to find out what's wrong: perform a necropsy.
Bought by WAMC
- Added: Dec 10, 2012
- Length: 07:04
- Purchases: 1
Every drug we take is tested with crab blood. And it all started with a walk on a beach.
Bought by WAMC and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Dec 04, 2012
- Length: 07:23
- Purchases: 2
Peter Morgan can decide what he wants to do in his dreams. A research psychiatrist at Yale University, Dr. Morgan studies and practices lucid dream...
- Added: Nov 14, 2012
- Length: 11:56
Sinclair McKay joins us to discuss The History of the Wartime Codebreaking.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Nov 07, 2012
- Length: 30:20
- Purchases: 1
The brain has two very different mechanisms for erasing bad memories.
- Added: Nov 02, 2012
- Length: 01:00
Short-wave ultraviolet radiation can clear dangerous germs from hospital rooms.
- Added: Nov 02, 2012
- Length: 01:00
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is killing fire ants using a method that sounds like it was inspired by the movie Alien. It involves using insec...
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 01:30
Garbage and noise. Sounds like the latest rock group. But no, turns out the two are much more useful. In fact, garbage and noise are actually being...
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 01:30
How to build life from scratch… seriously! Hear the various steps in the process. Warning: This episode is chemically intense.
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- Added: Sep 26, 2012
- Length: 09:43
- Purchases: 1
Deforestation can lead to droughts hundreds of miles away.
- Added: Sep 25, 2012
- Length: 01:00
Microsoft researcher and sociologist Duncan Watts talks about our misuse of common sense and his book Everything Is Obvious *Once You Know the Answer
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 50:01
What is life? In the first installment of our "origin of life" topic, hear various attempts to define life and ponder the life of the internet.
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- Added: Jul 09, 2012
- Length: 14:59
- Purchases: 1
The next time your significant other complains about your stinky socks, just tell them you’re doing scientific research!
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- Added: Jun 26, 2012
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
From Victorian parlors to Starbucks, pigments have defined and connected societies.
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: May 09, 2012
- Length: 01:51
- Purchases: 1
