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This week on the show: How do astronauts deal with their sex drives when they're up in space for months on end? And why is it so embarrassing to ...
- Added: Oct 08, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: What is "Zoom dysmorphia," and why are doctors in the US seeing so many cases of it? Also, new data show that kids are spen...
- Added: Oct 02, 2021
- Length: 30:00
In July of 2002 I produced an episode about the summer monsoon and spadefoots. It was so much fun to write and record. In July of 2013 I re-recorde...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:35
The scientific name of the band-tailed pigeon is no longer Columba fasciata, but is Patagioenas fasciata. That’s too bad because I was hoping to st...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:59
I’m so lucky to live in the land of the ornate box turtle (Terrepene ornata luteola). For me it has been a wonderful journey with turtles, from my ...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:52
I grew up in Kentucky where the state flower is goldenrod. The particular species that has that honor is Solidago gigantea. I wonder how it was cho...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 05:21
Here are some morning glory photos. Above is Ipomoea ternifolia var. leptotoma and the photo below is of some floral chaos featuring the red flower...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 05:04
This week on the show: The BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine works great on 5-to-11-year-olds — so why isn't Germany in a rush to vaccinate them? Also, if y...
- Added: Sep 26, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: What can we learn from a bunch of rhesus macaques playing video games and 'choking' under the pressure? Also, it may be be...
- Added: Sep 18, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Are you the kind of person who takes the last piece of cake? Or would you leave it there for someone else instead? Also, we...
- Added: Sep 11, 2021
- Length: 30:00
Recently there were four fireball meteors, brighter than the planet Venus, which exploded over Germany, France, Ohio, and Arizona within the space ...
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- Added: Sep 05, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 9
This week on the show: New research from Germany suggests that letting people choose whether or not to vaccinate may ultimately improve the overal...
- Added: Sep 03, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Get ready to roll up that sleeve again, because early data makes a clear case for a 3rd injection of the Pfizer-BioNTech va...
- Added: Aug 30, 2021
- Length: 30:00
Meteors, shooting stars, or falling stars are different names for the streaks of light in the night sky which are in reality the dying embers of ti...
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- Added: Jul 17, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 10
This week on the show: Have you ever seen a video of someone floating, just like in space, except it looks like they're inside an airplane? Well,...
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- Added: Jul 10, 2021
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: Among those who haven't vaccinated (but also among some who have), there's a real fear that COVID-19 vaccines could have s...
- Added: Jul 02, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Is it fair to say you've been outraged by some of the risky things you've seen people doing during this pandemic? And is it...
- Added: Jun 27, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Will mutations change our vaccination strategy? Also, a controversial step in the fight against Alzheimer's, and how to tel...
- Added: Jun 16, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: If you don't vaccinate, you will get COVID-19 at some point. That's a fact. There's also the social argument. But a lot of ...
- Added: Jun 10, 2021
- Length: 30:00
I do love wandering around little towns and Willcox is fun. And by the way, it was my friend and Willcox resident Steve Marlatt who reminded me of ...
- Added: Jun 01, 2021
- Length: 04:55
Hello! My name is Morgan Sexauer, and I am a senior (wooohooo) studying neuroscience with minors in philosophy and public policy.
- Added: Jun 01, 2021
- Length: 04:53
Sebastian (Sebo) Diaz is a rising junior at the UofA studying Biomedical Engineering.
- Added: Jun 01, 2021
- Length: 04:12
This week on the show: What is "black fungus," and how is it related to COVID-19? What are the arguments for — or against — vaccinating pregnant w...
- Added: May 27, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Have an ear for birdsong? Neither do we. But with a couple clues (and a digital tool), we think you can solve our bird quiz...
- Added: May 19, 2021
- Length: 30:00
An impacting object hit the asteroid Vesta making a 10 mile diameter crater and in the process blasted loose fragments which have been orbiting th...
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- Added: May 16, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 9
