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MySong Music Software
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
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Microsoft creates MySong computer software for non-musicians.

  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 09:49
Speedo Swimwear Technology
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
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Speedo's goes to the Beijing Olympics with computer designed swimsuits.

Bought by WKMS


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 1
Wall Climbing Robots
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
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Vertical Wall Climbing Robot technology on the upward ascent.

  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 05:47
Sucking Up Invasive Algae
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: August 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Okay, so you're out in the clear waters of Hawaii and notice that algae are smothering the beautiful coral reefs just below the surface. What's goi...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Digging Up Mud for Wetlands
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: August 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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What do you do when the land you love is 'slip sliding away'? Luckily for folks in Louisiana, legislators and scientists are looking at several cre...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Dunfield's Inferno
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: August 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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University of Calgary biology professor, Peter Dunfield, has been to hell and back looking for ways to keep methane gas out of the atmosphere.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Dead Zones: Courtesy of Fertilizers
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: August 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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This isn't how fertilizers are supposed to work. You'd think that more nutrients in water would be good for aquatic life.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Trees Do Not a Forest Make
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: August 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Midwestern settlers of yesterday would feel unsettled by what they'd see there today. They wouldn't recognize the forests for the trees.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Heirloom Gardens
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: August 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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You probably won't find Jimmy Nardello's Sweet Italian frying peppers or Amish Deer Tongue lettuce at your local supermarket. But, a growing commun...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Elephants Going Mad
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: August 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Are elephants going crazy? They've been destroying villages, crops, and attacking -- sometimes killing -- humans. It's happening at an increasing r...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Curtailing Invading Fire Ants
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: August 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is killing fire ants using a method that sounds like it was inspired by the movie Alien.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Where Have the Aspens Gone?
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: August 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The American West conjures up images of cowboys, cattle ranches, and unspoiled mountains under bright blue skies. But one icon of the west -- the a...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Designer Pesticides
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: August 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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What's "bugging" farmers these days? Greenbugs and grain aphids, tiny insects found nearly on every continent. And they destroy about a hundred mi...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Platinum Performance at Gasoline Prices
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: August 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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You think gas is expensive? What about the price of platinum? Believe it or not, that's one of the things the automotive industry is looking at be...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Cheap and Thin will Win Solar Customers
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: August 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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When it comes to selling solar cells, it pays to be cheap -- and thin.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Comments on Speaking Klingon
From: Robert Karl Skoglund
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Communicating with Language

  • Added: Jul 18, 2008
  • Length: 01:59
What Do Bears Do In The Woods?
From: Robert Karl Skoglund
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A woman claimed she lived in the trunk of her car for three days

  • Added: Jul 15, 2008
  • Length: 01:06
Results of a Language Comprehension Study
From: Robert Karl Skoglund
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Redundancy is built into language

  • Added: Jul 08, 2008
  • Length: :25
A Scientist's Religion
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Youth Radio Vermont
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Winooski High School science teacher talks about his religious beliefs

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Jul 07, 2008
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 1
One Bryant Park
From: Science & the City Podcast Series
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Take a tour of the greenest building in Manhattan.

  • Added: Jul 02, 2008
  • Length: 19:56
Solar Energy is Not Economically Feasible
From: Robert Karl Skoglund
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My electrician tells me that I should forget about solar energy

  • Added: Jul 02, 2008
  • Length: 01:53
Where Have All the Bees Gone?
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: July 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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In the groovy 60s we were singing "Where have all the flowers gone?" Could a day come when we'll sing the same about the honeybees?

  • Added: Jul 01, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Discovered Species in Indonesia
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: July 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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A shark that strolls along coral on its fins. A shrimp with enough muscle and speed to shatter the glass in an aquarium. These and 48 other never-b...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Better Alternative Fuels
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: July 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Alternative fuels are more environmentally friendly than petroleum products, right?

  • Added: Jul 01, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Power of Krill
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: July 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The old saying that "there's power in numbers" is true! Scientists were amazed to discover that a tiny marine shrimp called "krill" may affect the ...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2008
  • Length: 01:32

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