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Prof. Michael Wilson, assistant professor of anthropology and of ecology, evolution, and behavior at the U of Minn., joined WTIP's Buck Benson rece...

  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 21:04
Caption: Shark fins drying in the sun cover the roof of a factory building in Hong Kong, Credit: AFP
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will ask, "Who is the top predator here?" and, "If certain endangered species do in fact con...

  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 04:57
Caption: Skeptic Check: Hostile Climate, Credit: Seth Shostak
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
Caption: 1814 wood engraving of two types of locking mechanisms., Credit: (Library of Congress).
Can genes be patented? Are downloaders inhibiting musical creativity – or enhancing it? This week’s BackStory explores how Americans have viewed “i...

Bought by WOUB, WTJU, and WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: May 17, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Rick Bounds and Dorothy Biernack talk about how they met.

  • Added: May 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:27
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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
Caption: Going Viral, Credit: Seth Shostak
Discover how viruses go from birds to pigs to you, how fossil viruses got into your genome, whether E.T. might be a virus, and what it takes for id...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
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If the brain is enclosed in the skull, and the mind is just the brain working, is the mind also enclosed in the skull?

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Catherine Couch
The Opening Door with Wendy Strgar, Loveologist, entrepreneur, & educator, is a joyful refocusing on love as the transformative force of life. The ...

  • Added: May 08, 2013
  • Length: 26:51
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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
Caption: Stomach This, Credit: Seth Shostak
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 WRST-FM Oshkosh and WNJR


  • Added: May 06, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Sound gets funneled down your ear canal and... then what happens? You've heard about drums, tiny bones, and maybe a spiral shaped sensor, but not l...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 15:49
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will provide multiple references to opinions and data relative to water rights, disputes, fi...

  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 06:49
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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
Caption: De-Extinction Show, Credit: Seth Shostak
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
Caption: Deep Time, Credit: Seth Shostak
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
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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
Caption: Skeptic Check: Forget with the Program, Credit: Seth Shostak
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
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Where there’s fermentation, there’s culture. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Sando...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: Global Ocean Commission
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
Caption: Al Watson
Author/researcher Al Watson explains why Statin drugs are killing us and why the low-fat, high-carb diet is making us fat.

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
Caption: Sea Orbiter, Credit: http://seaorbiter.com/home/
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
Caption: Seth's Wine Cellar, Credit: Seth Shostak
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
Caption: Aerial view of river and mangrove forest in the Sarawak Mangrove Reserve, Sarawak, Malaysia, Credit: Tim Laman http://www.timlaman.com
In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill will give examples of some of the slowly emerging examples of soft edge engineering and will ...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 05:41
Caption: Anthropocene and Heard, Credit: Seth Shostak
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