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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
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
Singer and early vocal recordings champion Meredith Axelrod chats about the vocalists who pioneered recorded sound technologies in the early twenti...
- Added: Apr 30, 2013
- Length: 58:59
Mummies from a variety of different cultures show signs of heart disease.
- Added: Apr 02, 2013
- Length: 01:00
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
Did our ability to digest alcohol first emerge at the dawn of civilization or millions of years earlier?
- Added: Mar 04, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Ancient people had beneficial bacteria to fight dental plaque that is absent in modern populations.
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 01:00
- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 01:54
- Purchases: 1
The rise and fall of Henry Ford's Fordlandia, a rubber plantation and American colony in the Amazon.
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Feb 14, 2013
- Length: 01:52
- Purchases: 1
The type of virus that includes HIV may have been circulating in primates for 12 million years.
- Added: Feb 06, 2013
- Length: 01:00
This week on Into It, Andrew Bales explores space dives, an extreme jump that tests the limits of technology and the wills of dare devils.
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 1
The microphone has changed the entire world into everything we know and love today, so it only makes sense that there's a museum for it.
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 20:26
- Purchases: 1
The discovery of ancient wooden wells in Germany reveals that Neolithic woodworking was more sophisticated than previously believed.
- Added: Jan 05, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Dr. Jason MacLean joined us to discuss this Hebbian plasticity and the past, present, and future of research on neuronal networks.
- Added: Jan 02, 2013
- Length: 27:21
- Purchases: 3
Computer Talk Radio weekly show for the broadcast week starting December 29th, 2012. Benjamin Rockwell, our nerd host, opens with the latest news o...
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 53:57
Computer Talk Radio weekly show for the broadcast week starting December 29th, 2012. Benjamin Rockwell, our nerd host, opens with the latest news o...
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 59:00
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
The History Guys explore the rise - and fall - of our postal system. They consider the how the Post Office stitched together a disparate country in...
Bought by KBRP Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WTJU, KREV-LP, and KVSC
- Added: Dec 07, 2012
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 5
Sophisticated computer imaging may help decode the world’s oldest un-deciphered written language.
- Added: Nov 16, 2012
- Length: 01:00
Surveillance in America—needed or nightmare?
Bought by KREV-LP, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Nov 15, 2012
- Length: 53:29
- Purchases: 3
Tereshkova climbed aboard the Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963, and was launched into space to orbit the Earth forty-eight times over a three day period.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:30
Ransom tells us about where we was during Pearl Harbor
- Added: Oct 18, 2012
- Length: 05:06
Ransom tells us about being sworn in by James Stewart and his early days of flying
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 06:17
Kas tells us about the US Airway's Flight 1549 Hudson River accident, how the system worked when it was most needed.
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 07:28
Joel Healy tells his daughter, Kelli Healy Salzar, about participating in Operation Plumbbob, one of the largest nuclear tests conducted by the U.S...
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 02:37
Paul Suhler tells us about the various modification's made to the SR-71, including a drone launched off it's back, the interceptor and bomber variant.
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 06:16
