All Pieces for Veronique LaCapra
Most insects communicate in a way that we can’t hear. A scientist at Saint Louis University is using a laser to eavesdrop on one insect’s “conversa...
- Added: Sep 11, 2015
- Length: 05:38
If you recycle at home, chances are you take advantage of a system called “single-stream” recycling: you mix all your bottles, newspapers, cans and...
- Added: Mar 10, 2015
- Length: 03:33
Researchers at Washington University have invented an imaging system that can take a hundred billion pictures in a second -- fast enough to record ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 1
Brooklyn, Ill., is a small, predominantly African-American town, just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis.
What little revenue the town br...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 17, 2014
- Length: 03:37
- Purchases: 1
From: Veronique LaCapra
It spanned less than three blocks and lasted only about ten years.
But the St. Louis arts and entertainment district known as Gaslight Square flou...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 06, 2014
- Length: 06:44
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From: Veronique LaCapra
NOTE: This interview has two versions, one short (3:42), one long (12:11).
Forty-five years ago this Sunday [July 20, 2014], Apollo 11 became the ...
- Added: Jul 16, 2014
- Length: 12:11
- Purchases: 2
From: Veronique LaCapra
By the early 20th century, trumpeter swans had almost disappeared from the lower 48 states.
But re-population efforts have helped these majestic b...
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- Added: Jan 23, 2014
- Length: 03:33
- Purchases: 1
From: Veronique LaCapra
What motivates young people to become scientists? Meet Maricruz Jaramillo and Samoa Asigau, two young women scientists from opposite sides of the P...
Bought by KMUN, Cards Against Humanity: The Good News Podcast, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WNIJ and more
- Added: Jul 26, 2013
- Length: 06:34
- Purchases: 14
It has been just over three months since the federal spending cuts known as sequestration first took effect.
A handful of programs were spared — b...
- Added: Jun 18, 2013
- Length: 06:06
Camels are known for their ability to travel long distances across the desert without water.
But they’re also becoming an increasingly important s...
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 03:41
For more than a decade, Washington University anthropologist Crickette Sanz and Lincoln Park Zoo research conservationist David Morgan have lived a...
- Added: Oct 15, 2012
- Length: 03:50
This feature explores what Medicaid expansion would mean for Missouri's working poor, from the personal perspective of a clinic doctor and two of h...
- Added: Sep 06, 2012
- Length: 06:07
A conversation with Washington University law professor Rebecca Dresser, about an article she recently published in the journal Science about the e...
- Added: Aug 10, 2012
- Length: 06:11
This is a 3:40 Q&A I did with renowned evolutionary ecologist E.O. Wilson, who developed the theory of island biogeography (one of the founding pri...
- Added: Apr 27, 2012
- Length: 03:40
Plants don't have ears, right? And if they can't hear you would assume that noise wouldn't matter much to them, which is why researchers haven't gi...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 06, 2012
- Length: 03:14
- Purchases: 1
Bad news for the bat population, a disease that has killed more than five million bats in the eastern United States and Canada has now reached Miss...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Apr 06, 2012
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 1
It's Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, time for dancing, eating and, of course, drinking - sometimes a lot of drinking. Now, as humans, we pay a price for d...
- Added: Mar 02, 2012
- Length: 03:47
Hospitals are seeing an increase in a particular kind of patient. People who accidentally burn themselves while making methamphetamine.
Addicts ar...
- Added: Feb 08, 2012
- Length: 03:38
They're flat, they're slimy, and they hide under rocks on river bottoms. At up to 2 feet in length, the Ozark hellbender is one of the world's larg...
- Added: Jan 06, 2012
- Length: 03:59
St. Louis is one of hundreds of older cities across the country facing the challenge of dealing with an aging sewer system.
This summer, the Metro...
- Added: Nov 18, 2011
- Length: 03:54
