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Somewhere in the midwest are two of the most unnatural sounding rooms in the world, which some say were used to test the hearing of rabbits.
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Mar 14, 2013
- Length: 22:01
- Purchases: 1
Episode 3 - 2/23/13 - What would happen if someone stole the One True Kilogram? How would the world go about replacing – or displacing – it? Today,...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 12:52
Episode 1 - 10/16/12 - The latest headlines in academia, a bake sale for planetary science, and The Thesis Defense: A game show where the questions...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 15:41
Do birds have a smoking section? What’s a “white smell?” And what if you took computer dating….to the extreme? These and other science mysteries ...
Bought by KSQM 91.5 FM
- Added: Jan 26, 2013
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
The German “eiswein” tradition was created almost by accident. This sweet, powerful wine was discovered when winemakers tried to save grapes that f...
- Added: Dec 09, 2012
- Length: 05:05
An interview with Pinback founders Zach Smith and Rob Crow featuring music from their latest release "Information Retrieved" and all mixed up in th...
- Added: Nov 16, 2012
- Length: 58:31
WTIP's Buck Benson spoke recently with Dr. Elena Bodnar, founder & president of the Trauma Risk Management Research Institute in Chicago, about her...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 21:16
- Purchases: 1
A detective story about the infamous Piltdown Man hoax.
Bought by KRUA, Spokane Public Radio, KMUN, KWMR-FM, KKRN and more
- Added: Oct 29, 2012
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 9
Could a pinch of salt slow down Hurricane Sandy? How much sugar is there in outer space? Why is a gibbon like an opera singer? Let us give thanks f...
- Added: Oct 28, 2012
- Length: 33:00
This was a good week for NASA and to have your eyes on Mars.... a bad week in Campaign 2012, as the presidential candidates actually started calli...
- Added: Aug 11, 2012
- Length: 58:43
A "newsical" look at the weather...the extreme weather as we enter July...how the mainstream media report the weather...told thru narration, music ...
- Added: Jul 05, 2012
- Length: 55:14
Preppers are a unique group of people united by the belief that they must prepare for future catastrophes.
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 05:55
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 07:34
In this episode, we visit Leah Wade at San Francisco's Quiet Science Taxidermy Studio to learn about the art of making the dead live again ... sort...
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- Added: Jun 05, 2012
- Length: 27:11
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Mar 16, 2012
- Length: 07:08
What do the poisoned Emperor Claudius, the Aztec storm deity Quetzacotl and a 5,500 year old Ice Man have in common? They were all crazy about mush...
- Added: Mar 14, 2012
- Length: 01:02:07
- Purchases: 2
Astronomers re-evaluate origins of our solar system and entertain the idea that the universe is shaped like a small doughnut.
Bought by KUT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Feb 01, 2012
- Length: 08:31
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Dec 22, 2011
- Length: 07:33
- Purchases: 1
A look -- and listen -- inside the world's largest online database of English accents.
Bought by Public Radio Remix, KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC
- Added: Jun 24, 2011
- Length: 05:19
- Purchases: 4
Just because the world didn't end last week doesn't mean that predictions of our demise will stop.
After all, the end has been near for over 4,000...
- Added: May 26, 2011
- Length: 03:12
What is disgust, and where does it come from? Host Gabriel Spitzer explores why we've evolved with this emotion and what it says about us.
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Apr 27, 2011
- Length: 08:45
- Purchases: 1
This is the story of how the death of one little fish helped researchers better understand an entire ecosystem.
- Added: Mar 04, 2011
- Length: 05:30
- Purchases: 2
Like it or not, invisibility is here to stay -- in America's research laboratories right now, but coming soon to a location near you.
Hear all abo...
- Added: Oct 24, 2010
- Length: 02:57
