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Doomsday Live, Part I
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Doomsday Live, Part I, Credit: Molly Bentley
If there is only one show you hear about the end of the world, let it be this one. Recorded before a live audience at the Computer History Museum ...

Bought by WCPN, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KREV-LP, and KSKQ


  • Added: Nov 26, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Computer Ed Radio #1247
From: WSIU
Series: Computer Ed Radio
Caption: Computer Ed & Doug, Credit: Computer Ed Radio
Turning Geek Speak into Street Speak. This Week Computer Ed & Doug have some post Black Friday shopping tips for the Geek in your family as well as...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2012
  • Length: 01:52:00
No Expiration Date
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: No Expiration Date, Credit: Seth Shostak
Why food molds, people age and plastic sticks around so gosh darn long.

Bought by KREV-LP


  • Added: Nov 19, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Computer Ed. Radio #1246
From: WSIU
Series: Computer Ed Radio
Caption: Computer Ed & Doug, Credit: Computer Ed Radio
Turning Geek Speak into Street Speak. This Week Computer Ed and Doug look at some additional aspects of Windows 8 as well as some holiday shopping ...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2012
  • Length: 01:52:00
Skeptic Check: Zombies Aren't Real
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Zombies Aren't Real, Credit: Seth Shostak
Writer Guy Harrison on why Zombies might be a ghosts from our Pleistocene past, and how mathematical modeling of these mythical creatures could hel...

Bought by KUNM, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Field Trip Podcast: Swimming with Submersibles
From: The Field Trip Podcast
Caption: The Field Trip Podcast logo, Credit: Mike Smith
This week, correspondent Teresa Chin takes us on a tour beneath the Monterey Bay to explore the sights and creatures of the deep. Cruise a shipwrec...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 12:54
Death and The Digital Afterlife - October 28, 2012
From: Deemable Tech
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This week's very special Halloween episode is the creepiest, grossest and scariest episode of Deemable Tech ever! If you dare, you'll hear all abou...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 52:41
Computer Ed Radio: Show 12-44
From: WSIU
Series: Computer Ed Radio
Caption: Computer Ed & Doug, Credit: Computer Ed Radio
Computer Ed and Doug highlight the week's latest tech news along with a product review of a new service from AOL and some safety tips for dealing w...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 01:52:00
Going Global
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Going Global, Credit: Seth Shostak
Writer David Quammen on what it takes for an animal disease to become a human pandemic. Also, was hurricane Sandy a man-made disaster?

Bought by KVSC, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 3
LimeWire Pirate Edition
From: Sam Dingman
Series: Dingmantics
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A story about endings– of the long, drawn-out, painful variety in particular. Also, boat metaphors.

  • Added: Oct 30, 2012
  • Length: 18:15
As You Were
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: As You Were, Credit: Seth Shostak
From memory storage to self-healing materials to stem cells - creative approaches to capturing things are they were. Plus, the arrow of time in re...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KREV-LP


  • Added: Oct 29, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2
Space Archaeology
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Space Archaeology, Credit: Seth Shostak
Why modern archaeologists forsake digging in the dirt in favor of a satellite view, and how we might track extraterrestrials from the trash they le...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KREV-LP


  • Added: Oct 22, 2012
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 2
As the Worlds Turn
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: As the Worlds Turn, Credit: Seth Shostak
If you’re itching to get away from it all, really get away from it all, have we got some exotic destinations for you. From Mars to Jupiter’s moon...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KREV-LP


  • Added: Oct 15, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2
[Rectangular Container] Thinking
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: [Rectangular Container] Thinking, Credit: Seth Shostak
Discover the original thinking that led to the discovery of dark matter and the invention of a.c. power grids, disinfectant, and the Greek “death r...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KREV-LP, and KVSC


  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 3
Skeptic Check: Mysterious Illness
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Mysterious Illness, Credit: Seth Shostak
The strange case of stuttering in Le Roy, N.Y. and an update on the cellphone cancer debate.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KREV-LP


  • Added: Oct 01, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2
Big Data
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Big Data, Credit: Seth Shostak
Big data is revolutionizing research. Learn how it might cure disease, or find ET. But is it a threat to our privacy?

Bought by KUNM, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Sep 24, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 3
Skeptic Check: Energy Vortex
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Energy Vortex, Credit: Seth Shostak
The science behind “mysterious energy,” from magnetic poles to haunted houses, and just what the heck is an “energy vortex” anyway?

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Sep 17, 2012
  • Length: 54:03
  • Purchases: 1
Oh, Rats!
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Oh, Rats!, Credit: Seth Shostak
Before you chase it with a broom, consider this: Without the rat, we might miss critical insights into the nature of stress, cancer … and even love...

Bought by KVSC and KREV-LP


  • Added: Sep 10, 2012
  • Length: 54:32
  • Purchases: 2
The Invisible In-Between
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: The Invisible In-Between, Credit: Seth Shostak
To need air is human. Catch a skydiver in action and discover what’s in supposedly empty interstellar space.

Bought by KREV-LP


  • Added: Sep 03, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 1
Skeptic Check: Monsters, Magic, and Music
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Monster, Magic, and Music, Credit: Seth Shostak
A combo of critical thinking; from tracking Bigfoot and magic’s ability to fool the brain to whether a study about music supports the “Mozart Effec...

Bought by KREV-LP and KVSC


  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2
¡A.I. CARAMBA!
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: ¡A.I. CARAMBA!, Credit: Seth Shostak
When the IBM computer, Watson, snatched the “Jeopardy” title from humans, that raised the question: could artificial intelligence ever beat humans ...

Bought by KREV-LP


  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 54:14
  • Purchases: 1
A Martian Curiosity
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: A Martian Curiosity, Credit: Seth Shostak
The hard part is over: we landed on Mars (again!). Let the science begin. Here’s the latest in the hunt for evidence of life off Earth, and one m...

Bought by KREV-LP and KVSC


  • Added: Aug 13, 2012
  • Length: 54:14
  • Purchases: 2
Fuel's Paradise
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Fuel's Paradise, Credit: Seth Shostak
From corn to algae to garbage: the race is on to find a fuel source that can replace petroleum.

Bought by KREV-LP


  • Added: Aug 06, 2012
  • Length: 54:14
  • Purchases: 1
Skeptic Check: Follywood Science
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Follywood Science, Credit: Seth Shostak
From Prometheus to 2001: the ratio of science to fiction in sci-fi, the most accurate science fiction film; and why messing with medical facts in f...

Bought by KVSC and KREV-LP


  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2
Olympics for the Rest of Us
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Olympics for the Rest of Us, Credit: Seth Shostak
It’s easy to praise the extraordinary abilities of the athletes. Let’s celebrate the extreme averageness of the rest of us. From beer bellies to...

Bought by WRIR, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KHEN-LP, KVSC, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Jul 23, 2012
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 5