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We love our family and friends, but sometimes their ideas about how the world works can seem a little wacky. We look at the examples that BiPiSci ...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KREV-LP, WNJR, and WOUB
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 4
Our traditional approach to protection from sea and surge has been the hard edge, with the mission to shield us from the encroachment of water. In ...
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 05:23
Making a living is a struggle this year for Maine lobster fishermen - due in part to strong conservation regulations.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 06:45
- Purchases: 1
Just one week of sleep deprivation alters the expression of at least 711 different genes.
- Added: Mar 23, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Low-voltage electricity may help guide bees to the right flowers.
- Added: Mar 23, 2013
- Length: 01:00
In his well-researched “Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us,” Pulitzer Prize-winning Michael Moss describes “bliss point” and “mouth feel...
- Added: Mar 21, 2013
- Length: 10:00
There's a private number you can call where you're asked to tell a story that will be shared with the whole world.
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Mar 21, 2013
- Length: 21:10
- Purchases: 1
Since the discovery of electricity, artists have been experimenting with science and music, creating machines that synthesize acoustic sounds. Elec...
- Added: Mar 21, 2013
- Length: 04:51
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...
Bought by KPVL
- Added: Mar 21, 2013
- Length: 30:45
- Purchases: 1
Getting into the top engineering schools in India is statistically harder than breaking into Harvard. So hard that students study for two years in ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 06:22
- Purchases: 1
Exploring the unexpected properties that may emerge from a collective group.
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 05:35
In this episode we see old bones made new again. First the ongoing restoration of Philadelphia's 19th Street Baptist Church. Then a discussion abou...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 17:11
In this interview on food security and the environment, Dave Lobell explains the global food system, the monkey-wrench of climate change, and the p...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 33:25
Geophysicist and shale gas expert Mark Zoback speaks to the science of hydro-fracking to free shale gas. He addresses many misconceptions he feels ...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 27:37
Biologist Peter Vitousek discusses the serious impacts humankind has had on the nitrogen cycle and how that relates to our food system. He expands ...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 26:12
Brent Sockness discusses his work studying Western religious thought, the religious overtones within the environmental movement, and the often over...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 34:05
Paleobiologist and geologist Jon Payne discusses Earth’s previous mass extinctions including his work on the largest extinction in Earth’s history,...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 29:14
Music making has mass appeal, but what if you couldn't sing? Or speak? Lifeworks' services for people with disabilities includes an innovative musi...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 19, 2013
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Human ecologist Bill Durham discusses his career trajectory including his work in the Galapagos Islands, issues surrounding the new field of eco-to...
- Added: Mar 19, 2013
- Length: 39:54
Environmental historian Jon Christensen discusses the mythos of the American frontier and some of his unique approaches to history. Christensen als...
- Added: Mar 19, 2013
- Length: 40:29
In our pilot episode, we combine voices from our entire first season to explore the boundaries of the Anthropocene. [Episode 1, Season 1]
- Added: Mar 19, 2013
- Length: 46:10
Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch examines the Anthropocene with thought experiments of bacteria throughout the solar system, using scientific pri...
- Added: Mar 19, 2013
- Length: 24:01
WTIP's Ann Possis spoke Mar. 15 with Dr. Mark Pereira, professor of epidemiology & community health at the U of MN School of Public Health, about a...
- Added: Mar 19, 2013
- Length: 09:52
First, building on a collaborative research project conducted by the NIH and AARP, Dr. John Whyte gives several weight loss plans and advises diet ...
- Added: Mar 19, 2013
- Length: 59:54
Is it just dumb luck that the universe has just the right settings to support life as we know it?
- Added: Mar 18, 2013
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 4
