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Experts say that as population and water use rise, the world's fresh water supplies are shrinking. Then why don’t we desalinate more sea water and…...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Nature has a few tricks up her sleeve that can teach us a thing or two about national security.
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Watch out, Hollywood, there's a new starlet in town. It's the nation's first green gas station, called, Helios House. It's in Los Angeles – for now...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
"Unleaded, super unleaded, or tree fungus." It could be an option someday! Alternative fuel experts have discovered a microbial fungus from one Sou...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
The Book of Life: That book in heaven with the list of names? Well, biologists on earth have started their own version.
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
A frozen zoo...for all animals? Well, no one’s making the Panamanian golden frog shiver in its terrarium. Instead, this is a unique way that the Sa...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
We've all heard of individuals who go, "off the grid." You know, the folks who install solar panels or have their children ride stationary bicycles...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Some projects seem simple only to reveal a huge complication later on. I was hemming pants and cut one leg shorter than the other -- yeah, you get ...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Did you know rice doesn’t need to grow in water? In fact, the main reason for rice paddies is to prevent weeds.
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Nathan Bergstedt is a writer from Grand Rapids. He is the Art and Education Editor for the Grand Rapids Herald Review. He is also responsible for T...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 02:55
- Purchases: 1
Humans are pattern seeking animals – and the silhouette of Elvis appears in our burrito. Does that mean The King is speaking to us through TexMex?...
Bought by KREV-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and WNJR
- Added: Feb 25, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 3
Ancient people had beneficial bacteria to fight dental plaque that is absent in modern populations.
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 01:00
One injection has eliminated the symptoms of Type I diabetes in dogs – for four years and counting.
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Understanding the chemical composition of tomatoes could help manufacturers decrease the sugar content of processed foods.
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 01:00
MRI scans of beatboxers show that they’ve unwittingly borrowed sounds from exotic languages.
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 01:00
A newly discovered but long-extinct whale species may have eaten sharks.
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 01:00
- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 01:54
- Purchases: 1
Take a one-hour journey through the world of music blogs. On this episode we look at the most-blogged music of the month, including new tracks from...
Bought by WXPN
- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 57:52
- Purchases: 1
Computer Talk Radio weekly show for the broadcast week starting February 23rd, 2013. Our newly bald nerd host, Benjamin Rockwell, opens with the ne...
- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 59:00
Computer Talk Radio weekly show for the broadcast week starting February 23rd, 2013. Our newly bald nerd host, Benjamin Rockwell, opens with the ne...
- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 53:57
Computer Ed Radio is a weekly series that turns "Geek Speak" in to "Street Speak."
- Added: Feb 21, 2013
- Length: 01:52:00
Episode fifty-nine! Wait, I guess that was the Stratocaster ’59. Still, it’s fifty-nine-y time! This episode we speak with certified master watchma...
- Added: Feb 21, 2013
- Length: 28:02
There's a man in Brooklyn who owns a song by Sufjan Stevens... but he doesn't release it as some normally would. He does something much more special.
- Added: Feb 21, 2013
- Length: 19:56
Tristan Matthews discusses how physicists use massive helium balloons launched from the Antarctic to study stellar phenomena.
- Added: Feb 21, 2013
- Length: 32:51
- Purchases: 2
This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Jeffery Levi, Executive Director of Trust for America's Health, a non profit organization seeking to ma...
- Added: Feb 20, 2013
- Length: 25:00
