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Rick Bounds and Dorothy Biernack talk about how they met.

  • Added: May 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:27
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Climate scientist Nate McDowell from Los Alamos labs talks about the changes that forests in the American southwest will undergo due to global warm...

  • Added: May 17, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Brian Switek discusses his new book, “My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs.”

Bought by WRNC-LP


  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 32:03
  • Purchases: 1
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Hank Greely and Jake Sherkow discuss the science, morals, and ethics of de-extinction: bringing extinct species back to life. As lawyers with an i...

  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Vintage Tomorrow's jacket cover, Credit: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
The late 19th century was an age of rapid technological change. It’s happening again today. Through interviews with experts such as Willaim Gibson,...

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  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Going Viral, Credit: Seth Shostak
Discover how viruses go from birds to pigs to you, how fossil viruses got into your genome, whether E.T. might be a virus, and what it takes for id...

  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Bevin Parks
Women chemists who are also trying to raise a family can get a lot of heat, even from other women, says Bevin Parks. It helps, she says, to get to ...

  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 04:12
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Expert on international law Andrew Guzman takes a step back from analyzing climate change in terms of degrees and meters of sea level rise and brea...

  • Added: May 10, 2013
  • Length: 25:09
Caption: Catherine Couch
The Opening Door with Wendy Strgar, Loveologist, entrepreneur, & educator, is a joyful refocusing on love as the transformative force of life. The ...

  • Added: May 08, 2013
  • Length: 26:51
Caption: Dr. Tori Hudson
The Opening Door with Wendy Strgar, Loveologist, entrepreneur, & educator, is a joyful refocusing on love as the transformative force of life. The ...

  • Added: May 08, 2013
  • Length: 26:06
Caption: Bristol Bay watershed
On April 26, 2013, more than 300 leading scientists sent a letter to the White House expressing “deep concerns” about the prospect of large-scale m...

  • Added: May 08, 2013
  • Length: 09:25
Caption: Jessica Wapner
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
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Spotting a rainbow requires a bit of luck—you know, being in the right place at the right time. But not if you make them yourself. For over two wee...

  • Added: May 07, 2013
  • Length: 53:51
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Mark Miller, MD and Charles Reynolds, MD discuss ways to identify and treat depression and anxiety in older Americans. Then, Jeff Yeager, the Ameri...

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  • Added: May 07, 2013
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Isabel Escobar
In the face of harassment, Isabel Escobar learned the hard-earned lesson of standing up for herself. From men assuming she had a temper and could “...

  • Added: May 06, 2013
  • Length: 04:36
Caption: Stomach This, Credit: Seth Shostak
Not all conversation is appropriate for the dinner table – and that includes, strangely enough, the subject of eating. Yet, what happens during th...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 06, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Professor Ted Anton joins us to discuss his new book, "The Longevity Seekers: Science, Business, and the Fountain of Youth"

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  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 27:10
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dr. Susan Lynch, UCSF
A microbial ecologist discusses the vibrant ecosystem known as the human body.

  • Added: May 01, 2013
  • Length: 18:30
Caption: Kathryn Lysko
When Kathryn Lysko began her undergraduate work, there were 15,000 men and 100 women in her entire college. She talks about the camaraderie that em...

  • Added: May 01, 2013
  • Length: 04:15
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Conversations about new technologies and how we are interacting with them in a very human way.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2013
  • Length: 51:30
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WTIP's Bob Carter spoke recently with Dr. Lorena M. Rios Mendoza, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Superior, about her research into poll...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2013
  • Length: 15:42
Caption: De-Extinction Show, Credit: Seth Shostak
Maybe goodbye isn’t forever. Get ready to mingle with mammoths and gaze upon a ground sloth. Scientists want to give some animals a round-trip ti...

Bought by KVSC, KREV-LP, KSKQ, and WNJR


  • Added: Apr 29, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Chemistry Professor Jonathan Raff talks about the air pollutants emitted by clothes dryers and other household sources.

  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 08:04
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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In today’s EcoReport feature, IU Chemistry Professor Jonathan Raff talks about the air pollutants emitted by clothes dryers and other household sou...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 29:04
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Mary Roach discussed her adventures through the alimentary canal.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 19:44