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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
Childhood vaccination programs have been met with skepticism and hostility in the U.S. Some oppose them on religious grounds, while others worry ab...
- Added: May 08, 2013
- Length: 02:05
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
Mary Roach discussed her adventures through the alimentary canal.
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 19:44
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 29:39
- Purchases: 1
Dr. David Berlinski discussed his book, The King of Infinite Space: Euclid and His Elements.
- Added: Apr 03, 2013
- Length: 25:26
- Purchases: 2
Apple and Google will, reportedly, both soon be selling computers that you can wear. But will the trove of details that these devices will be able ...
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 01:56
Emily Anthes discussed bioengineering and her book, Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts.
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- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 25:22
- Purchases: 1
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...
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- Added: Mar 21, 2013
- Length: 30:45
- Purchases: 1
What are the risks of introducing genetically engineered fish into our food supply? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda H...
- Added: Mar 18, 2013
- Length: 28:00
Anthony, no stranger to faraway places himself, tells the harrowing history of the search for the Northwest Passage in "The Man Who Ate His Boots."...
- Added: Mar 17, 2013
- Length: 10:11
Prof. Kenneth Wright discussed how lack of sleep influences our metabolism and its effect on weight gain.
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- Added: Mar 14, 2013
- Length: 20:01
- Purchases: 1
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill continues a discussion of the Global Environment Facility/ United Nations Development Progra...
- Added: Mar 11, 2013
- Length: 05:33
Recently, the Global Environmental Facility and the United Nations Development Program combined their talents and experience to address ocean solut...
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 05:21
Neil Shubin joins us to discuss his exciting new book, "The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People."
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 28:24
- Purchases: 3
Prof. Werner R. Lowenstein discussed quantum physics and the mind.
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 23:27
- Purchases: 3
Making responsible choices as a seafood consumer has never been more complicated. An average fish-eater might be aware that tuna is high in mercury...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 28:00
Tristan Matthews discusses how physicists use massive helium balloons launched from the Antarctic to study stellar phenomena.
- Added: Feb 21, 2013
- Length: 32:51
- Purchases: 2
An interview with Dr. Pericles Papadopoulos, the NASA scientist who landed the Curiosity Rover on Mars.
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 24:38
One of the most alluring answers to the climate change conundrum is a transition from a fossil fuel-based economy to a hydrogen-based economy. As h...
- Added: Feb 15, 2013
- Length: 30:00
Prof. Joe Kirschvink discusses oxygen, cyanobacteria, and the Medea hypothesis.
- Added: Feb 15, 2013
- Length: 25:23
- Purchases: 3
We have all seen the mournful image of an unhappy polar bear isolated on a melting ice floe. It conveys the doom of that one bear as well as his sp...
- Added: Feb 08, 2013
- Length: 30:00
Not many laboratories house mice in 3000 pounds of sand, but then not many labs research the burrowing habits of Peromyscus, either. Dr. Hopi Hoek...
- Added: Feb 06, 2013
- Length: 30:27
- Purchases: 2
Dr. John McDougall discussed the starch solution.
- Added: Jan 30, 2013
- Length: 25:36
- Purchases: 3
Dr. Jessica Grogan discussed the history of humanistic psychology.
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- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 26:08
- Purchases: 1
