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From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
Can genes be patented? Are downloaders inhibiting musical creativity – or enhancing it? This week’s BackStory explores how Americans have viewed “i...
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 6
By now you might have heard of a thing called “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” But if you haven’t, it’s basically a large vortex in the center of...
Bought by KFAI
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 07:46
- Purchases: 1
Rick Bounds and Dorothy Biernack talk about how they met.
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 02:27
Climate scientist Nate McDowell from Los Alamos labs talks about the changes that forests in the American southwest will undergo due to global warm...
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 08:00
Electrical stimulation to the brain can improve math performance.
- Added: May 16, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Tom Bills creates custom guitars in his basement shop near St. Louis. Hear the sounds of the guitar-making process as well as stories of his most f...
- Added: May 16, 2013
- Length: 25:37
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
Hank Greely and Jake Sherkow discuss the science, morals, and ethics of de-extinction: bringing extinct species back to life. As lawyers with an i...
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 29:01
Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Carolyn Clancy, Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality at the Department of Health and Human S...
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 24:59
In this episode we look at the modern power grid, which is on the brink of important changes. First, why the smart grid matters. Then, the critical...
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 17:06
The Science of the Mother Fetal Bond.
- Added: May 14, 2013
- Length: 03:45
- Purchases: 2
The late 19th century was an age of rapid technological change. It’s happening again today. Through interviews with experts such as Willaim Gibson,...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
Despite the serious risk of melanoma, indoor tanning remains alarmingly popular, especially among young women.
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Vervet monkeys usually adopt the food preferences of whatever social group they join.
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Humans were polluting the air with lead as far back as 3,900 years ago.
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Two biodiesel enthusiasts discuss their involvement in the Hudson Valley biodiesel community.
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 04:47
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
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
Women chemists who are also trying to raise a family can get a lot of heat, even from other women, says Bevin Parks. It helps, she says, to get to ...
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 04:12
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
The compound eyes of insects have inspired the design of a new camera.
- Added: May 12, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Expert on international law Andrew Guzman takes a step back from analyzing climate change in terms of degrees and meters of sea level rise and brea...
- Added: May 10, 2013
- Length: 25:09
An incomparable and mind- boggling migration.
- Added: May 10, 2013
- Length: 05:31
A lasting story between scientist and fisherman.
- Added: May 10, 2013
- Length: 05:28
This award-winning story profiles one student athlete who suffered a sports-related concussion, and it follows the physical, emotional, & mental tr...
- Added: May 09, 2013
- Length: 19:21
