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Malaria Heads North - Airdate: 17 October 2012
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
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Global warming may drive malaria northward in coming years.

  • Added: Oct 05, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
Chimpanzee Brain Development - Airdate: 9 October 2012
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
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The insulation surrounding nerves develops more quickly in chimpanzees than in humans.

  • Added: Oct 05, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
Rainforests & Rainfall - Airdate: 26 Spetember 2012
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
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Deforestation can lead to droughts hundreds of miles away.

  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
Stinky Feet Mosquito Trap
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: July 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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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
Nature Deficit Disorder
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: July 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Remember the days when kids hiked into the woods? Caught tadpoles in a stream, and played tag on the playground? Well, those days are fading fast.

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  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Robofish
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Technology inspired by nature, to help nature. This led an engineer and a zoologist to create a fish-shaped robot...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Shrinking Deer
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Isolated on islands, large animals can become small like the pygmy mammoth, and small animals LARGE like the Galapagos Tortoise. Yeah, everything’s...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Roof Gardens
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Why be boring and plant your garden in the ground when there’s a whole world of gardening possibilities up on the roof.

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Biophilia: For Your Sanity
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Gnarls Barkley’s award winning song “Crazy” starts off with the lyrics, “I remember when I lost my mind.” Perhaps you can relate.

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Nice Lice
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Lice aren’t nice, unless you’re wild mice.

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Virus Battery
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: March 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The environmentally polite thing to do in the future might be to give your battery the flu. That's right: Batteries may soon run on a virus.

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
White Shark Cafe
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: March 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Sharks, it seems, are not unpredictable nomads. They're more like commuters: As predictable in their travels as the office carpool.

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Health Factors Threaten Gorillas – But Why?
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: March 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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What's a significant threat to the survival of captive gorillas? Surprisingly it's heart disease.

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Room for Peace
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: November 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Bringing countries together to protect our natural environment looks good on paper. Real good, in fact.

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  • Added: Oct 26, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Penguin Poo at Pole Polluted
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: November 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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If you’re wondering how our penguin friends in the Antarctic are doing these days, here are the cold, hard facts. Their poo is getting mighty pollu...

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  • Added: Oct 26, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
No Smelling Spells Trouble for Fish
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: November 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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When our noses are plugged, we sound stuffy and have trouble breathing. When fish noses are plugged, they get lost, and lose the ability to have s...

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  • Added: Oct 26, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Green Energy from Plants
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: November 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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U.S. Department of Energy scientists would hate to be called alchemists. But they’re trying something almost as miraculous. They want to turn sunli...

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  • Added: Oct 26, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Part 4, Coal
From: Ross Chambless
Series: Plugging Into Nature
Caption: Duckbill dinosaur footprints and other Cretaceous-era fossils that were recovered in local coal mines are preserved in the Prehistoric Museum in Price, Utah., Credit: Ross Chambless
Do you know where your electricity comes from?

  • Added: Sep 21, 2011
  • Length: 06:24
Part 2, Wind and Water
From: Ross Chambless
Series: Plugging Into Nature
Caption: The Stairs hydroelectric dam in Big Cottonwood Canyon, one of the oldest sources of electricity for Salt Lake City., Credit: Ross Chambless
Do you know where your electricity comes from?

  • Added: Sep 21, 2011
  • Length: 06:12
Part 1, The Journey Begins
From: Ross Chambless
Series: Plugging Into Nature
Caption: Ross Chambless stands outside a substation near his home in Salt Lake City., Credit: Ross Chambless
Do you know where your electricity comes from?

  • Added: Sep 21, 2011
  • Length: 06:12