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One month after the Mayan apocalypse of 2012, the Generation Anthropocene team of Leslie Chang, Mike Osborne, and Miles Traer chat about the relati...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 23:30
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It’s the end of 2012, and producers Mike Osborne, Leslie Chang, and Miles Traer get together to chat about the past year of Generation Anthropocene...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 31:18
Caption: The Field Trip Podcast logo, Credit: Mike Smith
This week, correspondent Teresa Chin takes us on a tour beneath the Monterey Bay to explore the sights and creatures of the deep. Cruise a shipwrec...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 12:54
Caption: Field Trip Podcast icon, Credit: Mike Smith
This week, Field Trip Correspondent Lo Benichou take us behind the scenes at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California, where wounded seals...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 13:09
Caption: Soila Sayialel saves elephants , Credit: Soila Sayialel
George Adamson could think like a lion and be like a lion. David Coulson describes a terrifying experience with George and Maggie and Dennis? Maggi...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2012
  • Length: 05:19
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Join us as we speak with paleoecologist extraordinaire, Margaret B. Davis. She is one of the world’s foremost scholars of palynology, a branch of p...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2012
  • Length: 27:59
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Peter Oldring, host CBC Radio's This Is That, goes into the heart of a Canadian snow storm with two self-professed 'blizzard chasers.'

  • Added: Jun 13, 2012
  • Length: 07:00
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Terrascope Youth Radio's Alexandros Zervos tests Eitan Stern-Robbins' knowledge of Super Volcanos.

  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 05:53
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If you click the little play arrow down there you’ll be able to join us as we speak with Sheril Kirshenbaum, author and science writer. Besides bei...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 22, 2012
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
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Mainers see cougars all the time. Here's the problem: There are no cougars in Maine.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WMPG


  • Added: May 27, 2011
  • Length: 09:15
  • Purchases: 2
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Summer storms send many desert frogs and toads into a raucous reproductive frenzy. What role do their choruses play in their hasty courtship?

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: An equation graph, Credit: websters-online-dictionary.org
Bowing to popular demand, here's our mathematical special; plus Brian Cox, the most famous man in science, pops into the Guardian. No calculators a...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2011
  • Length: 51:29
  • Purchases: 1
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They eat roadkill. They urinate on themselves. When frightened, they vomit. The turkey vultures have returned. Why does this harbinger of spring ha...

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A creosote flower., Credit: Megan Wilde
Creosote’s therapeutic applications would make any biotech CEO green with envy. What are this desert shrub’s medicinal properties? And why is it su...

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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We have a chat with arborist Bill Eck. He grew up in the forest, like a little elf or something! Seriously, he’s a great guy and he really knows hi...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Nov 10, 2010
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
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It's that time of year again, when scores of reporters brave the elements and lash themselves to palm trees to tell us about approaching hurricanes...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2010
  • Length: 02:25
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Science is good and fun. We decide to restate that through our conversation with Linda Leigh, botanist, naturalist, farmer. Or is it rancher? We're...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Prof. Peter Ward discussed the Medea Hypothesis.

  • Added: Aug 18, 2009
  • Length: 26:14
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It's another conservation success? Maybe not.

  • Added: Mar 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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On top of everything else ailing Mother Earth these days, apparently she's got gas. Lots of it.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
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It's safe to say almost everybody hates cockroaches, but...

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Inside Technology
Commentary on the hysteria surrounding the energy efficient hybrid car.

Bought by WKMS


  • Added: Jun 28, 2007
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 1
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Science has discovered a new planet. Can we go there?

  • Added: May 05, 2007
  • Length: 01:27
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Farmers in North Carolina raise a lot of hogs, producing a log of hog dung.

  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
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Schools all across the country are designing energy-efficient dorms.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2007
  • Length: 01:32