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Megan Watzke discussed a guide to the cosmos.
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 20:12
- Purchases: 2
It’s a record we didn’t want to break. Carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere is at an all-time high. Meanwhile an op-ed in a leading new...
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- 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
Can genes be patented? Are downloaders inhibiting musical creativity – or enhancing it? This week’s BackStory explores how Americans have viewed “i...
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 6
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
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
The late 19th century was an age of rapid technological change. It’s happening again today. Through interviews with experts such as Willaim Gibson,...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
Wind is of particular relevance to the ocean, as evidenced by the number of near and offshore wind turbine proposals currently projected and in mot...
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 05:37
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 KREV-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and WNJR
- Added: May 06, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 3
Professor Ted Anton joins us to discuss his new book, "The Longevity Seekers: Science, Business, and the Fountain of Youth"
Bought by KPVL
- Added: May 02, 2013
- Length: 27:10
- Purchases: 1
Conversations about new technologies and how we are interacting with them in a very human way.
- Added: Apr 30, 2013
- Length: 51:30
The crisis of water is an indisputable one, as evidenced by a public increasingly aware of the urgency of ocean and fresh water issues. In this epi...
- Added: Apr 29, 2013
- Length: 05:26
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 WRST-FM Oshkosh, KVSC, KREV-LP, KSKQ, and WNJR
- Added: Apr 29, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 5
Mary Roach discussed her adventures through the alimentary canal.
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 19:44
Think back, way back. Beyond last week to what was happening on Earth 100 million years ago or earlier. It’s hard to fathom such enormous stretch...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WNJR, KREV-LP, WOUB, and Royalton Community Radio
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 5
If you’re curious about where and how our taste preferences originate, and other mysteries about our sense of taste, then Join Food Sleuth Radio h...
- Added: Apr 21, 2013
- Length: 28:00
Just remember this: Even our memories of dramatic events that seem to burn themselves directly into our brain are riddled with errors.
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, Royalton Community Radio, WNJR, and KVSC
- Added: Apr 15, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 4
There are many organizations, conferences and commissions dedicated to ocean policy, research and education. Yet public perceptions of ocean issues...
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 05:11
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 29:39
- Purchases: 1
Shop class 20 years ago meant hacksaws and hammers, but today's shop class is about teaching innovation and creation through computer programming, ...
- Added: Apr 11, 2013
- Length: 28:58
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
In this potpourri show: from atomic clocks … to solar storms … to gold particles that might make gasoline obsolete … there are lots of science surp...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, Royalton Community Radio, KSKQ, and WNJR
- Added: Apr 08, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 4
Dr. David Berlinski discussed his book, The King of Infinite Space: Euclid and His Elements.
- Added: Apr 03, 2013
- Length: 25:26
- Purchases: 2
Take a walk with us through the Sensory Path at the Indianapolis Art Center
- Added: Apr 02, 2013
- Length: 04:30
You might not know what foley is, but you know what it sounds like.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 02, 2013
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Why climate change and loss of biodiversity may mean goodbye to the "Holocene," and hello to a new geologic epoch, the "Age of Man."
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WNJR, and Royalton Community Radio
- Added: Apr 01, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 3
