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Brian Switek discusses his new book, “My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs.”
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 32:03
- Purchases: 2
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
Just in time for March Madness, we're taking on the history of college sports. It's a subject that has provided some especially heated controversie...
- Added: Mar 22, 2013
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 3
Tristan Matthews discusses how physicists use massive helium balloons launched from the Antarctic to study stellar phenomena.
- Added: Feb 21, 2013
- Length: 32:51
- Purchases: 2
In this episode we explore beast bridegroom tales and other stories where pigs marry peasants and men fall for snakes. It's a mad fairy tale world ...
- Added: Feb 05, 2013
- Length: 27:22
Radio Curious visits with Gary T. Lowenthal, Emeritus Law Professor at the Sandra Day O’Conner College of Law at Arizona State University and autho...
- Added: Feb 04, 2013
- Length: 29:02
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
America’s use of targeted drone strikes in Pakistan and elsewhere has raised questions about what is — and is not — an appropriate way to wage war....
Bought by WRPI, WOUB, KREV-LP, and Troy Public Radio
- Added: Feb 01, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 4
Protein folding, i.e. how a long chain of amino acids attains its three-dimensional structure, is an incredibly complex problem. To solve it, scien...
- Added: Nov 21, 2012
- Length: 22:37
- Purchases: 3
We thought we finished our series on the ATC Charter Story, but...
- Added: Oct 03, 2012
- Length: 21:34
On this show we hear Russell Caldwell, Davidson & Co. banker who put the ATC financing together, Jim Ford, an independent education and strategic p...
- Added: Oct 03, 2012
- Length: 19:36
This story is about ATC, the Academy of Technology and the Classics charter school which decided to leave the building that many thought would be i...
- Added: Oct 03, 2012
- Length: 20:39
Dr. Caleb Scharf discusses astrophysics and black holes.
- Added: Aug 29, 2012
- Length: 27:27
- Purchases: 2
In multi-year classrooms, teachers work with the same children for two years or longer. The result, according to founder and coordinator of Explora...
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 18:42
Today, we measure the body temperature of something that's been dead for 170 million years. Our guest is Dr. Robert Eagle, a researcher at UCLA.
- Added: Feb 16, 2012
- Length: 12:16
- Added: Dec 28, 2011
- Length: 26:55
- Purchases: 1
The gifted 26-year-old pianist and Cole Porter Fellow talks about making a career in jazz.
- Added: Dec 21, 2011
- Length: 29:10
On this episode of "Don't Cha Know" we venture back to Prairie Island Campground in Winona, Minnesota, and partake in a lesson on fur trading. The ...
- Added: Dec 08, 2011
- Length: 18:01
The two most important leadership attributes are empathy and humility, says Ken Kraft. He works with Bank of New York Mellon employees in 36 countr...
- Added: Dec 07, 2011
- Length: 26:31
Dr. Gregory Schmidt from Winona State University's History Department recently gave a talk on the Boatmen of the early 1800's at the Minnesota Mari...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 07, 2011
- Length: 39:36
- Purchases: 1
1994 NEA National Heritage Fellow, violinist and oud player Simon Shaheen discusses his merging of Arab and western musical traditions.
- Added: Sep 22, 2011
- Length: 27:23
Prof. Michael Fayer discussed how quantum theory explains our everyday world.
- Added: Aug 31, 2011
- Length: 31:37
- Purchases: 2
Prof. Brian Cox discussed the wonders of the universe.
- Added: Jul 27, 2011
- Length: 27:48
- Purchases: 2
Pat Driscoll, operations director for Syracuse’s Say Yes to Education Program, discusses just what makes the program so different from previous eff...
- Added: Jul 26, 2011
- Length: 48:12
After serving as Public Information Officer and Interim Syracuse Aviation Commissioner, Christina Reale was recently appointed permanently to the C...
- Added: Jul 22, 2011
- Length: 25:27
Prior to his recent retirement, Tim Atseff had worked 46 years for The Syracuse Post-Standard, starting off as a copy boy and working his way up th...
- Added: Jul 14, 2011
- Length: 29:15
Ash Sangha may have the most interesting elected student position on the planet. As the President of the Oxford Union Society, he meets the worlds...
- Added: Jun 28, 2011
- Length: 28:31
