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Skeptic Check: Hostile Climate
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
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
Patent Pending: A History of Intellectual Property
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
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
Acoustic Stories: Michael Goldberg: "Sometimes the Loosest Conglomeration of Simple Solutions Can Add Up To Genius"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.

  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 07:37
221: More About Wind
From: World Ocean Radio
Series: World Ocean Radio: The Sea Connects All Things
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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
Going Viral
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
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
220: Fisheries Crime
From: World Ocean Radio
Series: World Ocean Radio: The Sea Connects All Things
Caption: Photo courtesty of ISSF, Credit: Andy Maluche
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss efforts being made my Interpol and other organizations to combat unreported fis...

  • Added: May 07, 2013
  • Length: 05:14
Stomach This
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
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
218: Toward New Definitions of Value
From: World Ocean Radio
Series: World Ocean Radio: The Sea Connects All Things
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We continue to look for solutions to our most pressing future challenges: fresh water, food, energy, health, and security. In this episode of World...

  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 05:34
219: Water Security
From: World Ocean Radio
Series: World Ocean Radio: The Sea Connects All Things
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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
De-Extinction Show
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
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
Tinkering
From: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow- Phil Mariage
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Three generations discuss how tinkering has changed

  • Added: Apr 28, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Deep Time
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
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
Food Sleuth Radio, Julie Mennella Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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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
Skeptic Check: Forget with the Program
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
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
217: Global Ocean Commission
From: World Ocean Radio
Series: World Ocean Radio: The Sea Connects All Things
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
216: Underwater Observation
From: World Ocean Radio
Series: World Ocean Radio: The Sea Connects All Things
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
Seth's Wine Cellar
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
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
215: Soft Edges
From: World Ocean Radio
Series: World Ocean Radio: The Sea Connects All Things
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
Anthropocene and Heard
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
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
Global Ethics Corner: Who Benefits Most From Wearable Computers?
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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Apple and Google will, reportedly, both soon be selling computers that you can wear. But will the trove of details that these devices will be able ...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 01:56
Skeptic Check: Friends Like These
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Friends Like These, Credit: Seth Shostak
We love our family and friends, but sometimes their ideas about how the world works can seem a little wacky. We look at the examples that BiPiSci ...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KREV-LP, WNJR, and WOUB


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
214: Hard Edges
From: World Ocean Radio
Series: World Ocean Radio: The Sea Connects All Things
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Our traditional approach to protection from sea and surge has been the hard edge, with the mission to shield us from the encroachment of water. In ...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 05:23
Weather Maths -- Groks Science Show 2013-03-20
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
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
When women ask women for a raise
From: Ashley Milne-Tyte
Series: The Broad Experience
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In this show we look at the subject of women and negotiating, but from an angle that's rarely considered. What happens when a female employee asks ...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 13:42
Time for a Map
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Time for a Map, Credit: Seth Shostak
It’s hard to get lost these days. GPS pinpoints your location to within a few feet. Discover how our need to get from A to B holds clues about wh...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, Royalton Community Radio, KREV-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Mar 18, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4