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A bottom up solution for saving rainforests worldwide.
Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB
- Added: Mar 18, 2024
- Length: 58:34
- Purchases: 2
We are the universe experiencing itself, as told by a world class student of
the cosmos.
Bought by WDSE, KTRT RADIO INC, and WOJB
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 57:56
- Purchases: 3
My guest today, Dr. Noah Whiteman, tells us to scratch beneath the surface of a coffee bean, a red pepper flake, a poppy seed, a mold spore, a foxg...
- Added: Oct 11, 2023
- Length: 35:16
It is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organisms have profoundly transformed our planet over the long course of its history. Elemental reve...
- Added: Sep 25, 2023
- Length: 41:55
“I plan to row till my last breath” is a strong endorsement for any sport. Yet we heard this sentiment numerous times at the 2022 Head of the Charl...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 27:42
Howie has been an avid cyclist most of his adult life, with mileage equivalent to a few laps around the planet. But more remarkable is that he has ...
- Added: Oct 18, 2022
- Length: 18:08
Josie's decades-long struggle with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is helped by the ongoing support of her husband, Joe, and their much-loved custom tandem...
- Added: Oct 06, 2022
- Length: 17:24
How do we know when to push through pain to pursue the activities we love? And when should we suspect that injuries are part of a disease process? ...
- Added: Aug 24, 2022
- Length: 19:56
Americans on the East Coast were in awe when Brood X, an enormous group of 17-year cicadas, suddenly emerged from underground to mate. Melissa Gerr...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jul 29, 2021
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Forty years after Carl Sagan’s ‘Golden Records’ began their long voyage into the depths of outer space, Eyal Gever - an Israeli high-tech-wunderkin...
- Added: Oct 29, 2020
- Length: 31:11
The B-15 iceberg in Antarctica was the largest iceberg in recorded history. Explorer Jill Heinerth wanted to see what it looked like from the insid...
Bought by ABC
- Added: Jun 26, 2020
- Length: 33:06
- Purchases: 1
Since 2016, the German scientists Sonja Schrepfer and her husband Tobias Deuse have led the Transplant and Stem Cell Immunobiology Lab at the Unive...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Aug 21, 2019
- Length: 14:56
- Purchases: 1
This episode comes to you direct from New York City where Maeve lives and Mary was attending Climate Week. Governments, diplomates, business leader...
- Added: Mar 20, 2019
- Length: 40:52
This episode serves up an all-you-can-eat investigation into food and its connection to climate. We meet Mothers of Invention in India, Nigeria and...
- Added: Mar 20, 2019
- Length: 36:41
“Illuminating.” @hollywoodreporter Watch @JustVisionMedia’s #NailaandtheUprising on @PBS March 26, 9 pm ET, as part of the acclaimed series @WomenW...
- Added: Mar 20, 2019
- Length: 47:47
Mary and Maeve are talking about money, money. Fighting climate change might be a moral necessity but women are learning to hit vested interests ...
- Added: Mar 20, 2019
- Length: 37:01
In 1988, a man in Hickory, NC was sentenced to life in prison based on evidence that experts would later call “junk science.” It took him 24 years ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 25:43
- Purchases: 1
Arriving on a Super Stallion Helicopter in the Atlantic Ocean, Richard Solomon meets the crew of the USS Bataan (LHD-5) and is granted behind the s...
- Added: Aug 21, 2016
- Length: 54:00
Every October 16th hundreds of people gather in Dublin for a walk from Dunsink Observatory to Broom Bridge that celebrates Ireland's greatest mathe...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 20, 2015
- Length: 09:53
- Purchases: 1
For most of human history, famine was only a single bad harvest away. Now, thanks to modern agriculture and fertilizers, we’ve almost eliminated hu...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Back in 1958 Popular Science published an article about General Motor’s plan to build self-driving cars guided by electrical cables in roadways. Gi...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
The most common element in all accidents is the human element. In the quest to eliminate driver error and make our roads safer, we’ve been searchin...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Believe it or not, electric vehicles used to be more popular than gasoline engines. The first practical electric car in 1884, and for decades many ...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
For the past fifty years physicists around the world have been trying to create a fusion power reactor, harnessing the processes deep inside of sta...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
David Barclay tells the story of the time he recorded the deepest sounds in the ocean.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 29, 2013
- Length: 04:49
- Purchases: 2
