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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
Can genes be patented? Are downloaders inhibiting musical creativity – or enhancing it? This week’s BackStory explores how Americans have viewed “i...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 1
In this episode we look at the modern power grid, which is on the brink of important changes. First, why the smart grid matters. Then, the critical...
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 17:06
In this episode we look at questionable appearance enhancers. First the Beauty Historian shares some shocking beauty rituals of yore. Then a look a...
- Added: Apr 30, 2013
- Length: 15:25
In this episode we investigate the science beneath our streets. First how a team of amateur speleologists are keeping Howe Caverns safe. Then a loo...
- Added: Apr 30, 2013
- Length: 16:35
In the late 19th century, insane asylums were built across the country in response to a national outcry over the treatment of the mentally ill. Mor...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 27:34
- Purchases: 2
We revisit one of our first interviews with environmental historian Richard White. He addresses the (mis)perceptions of the natural world, the ambi...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 23:59
Conversations about ideas and innovations in investigations and imprisonment, the search for justice, and the unexpected intersection of crime and ...
- Added: Apr 18, 2013
- Length: 51:30
'Based on a true story' isn't a phrase that only applies to books and movies. It also applies to our conceptions of the past. We're constantly co...
Bought by KPVL
- Added: Apr 18, 2013
- Length: 27:32
- Purchases: 1
Where there’s fermentation, there’s culture. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Sando...
- Added: Apr 15, 2013
- Length: 28:00
Curator for the Museum of PostNatural History in Pittsburgh, Richard Pell describes a new way for us to view how humans control the evolutionary pa...
- Added: Apr 09, 2013
- Length: 19:03
Mummies from a variety of different cultures show signs of heart disease.
- Added: Apr 02, 2013
- Length: 01:00
The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!
Interviews with Authors, Musicians, Artists, Poets, Or Maybe Just The Guy Down The Street !!!
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 01:00:01
Humans have wanted to know tomorrow's weather for as long as there have been todays. Only in the last few centuries, however, have we begun making...
Bought by KPVL
- Added: Mar 21, 2013
- Length: 30:45
- Purchases: 1
In this episode we see old bones made new again. First the ongoing restoration of Philadelphia's 19th Street Baptist Church. Then a discussion abou...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 17:11
Environmental historian Jon Christensen discusses the mythos of the American frontier and some of his unique approaches to history. Christensen als...
- Added: Mar 19, 2013
- Length: 40:29
Did our ability to digest alcohol first emerge at the dawn of civilization or millions of years earlier?
- Added: Mar 04, 2013
- Length: 01:00
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
Ancient people had beneficial bacteria to fight dental plaque that is absent in modern populations.
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 01:00
- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 01:54
- Purchases: 1
During decades of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union over the course of the Cold War, both sides wielded science as a weapon. F...
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 15:04
A recent science test showing that American girls are lagging behind boys has brought women in science back into the national conversation. More th...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 1
The type of virus that includes HIV may have been circulating in primates for 12 million years.
- Added: Feb 06, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Just in time for Valentine's Day we explore the sexier side of alchemy. Historian Joel Klein explains how alchemists used passionate prose to disgu...
- Added: Feb 05, 2013
- Length: 13:59
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 16:28
- Purchases: 1
Today your taste buds take center stage. First, how super-tasters' genetic gift might afford them better health. Then the art of imitation flavors.
- Added: Jan 23, 2013
- Length: 16:09
