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William Spotted Bear
From: Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
Series: Native Fest 2018
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William is from the Cheyenne River Reservation and does stand up comedy.

  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 04:22
Time on Your Side
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Time on Your Side, Credit: Seth Shostak
Time passes like an arrow, but what if flew like a boomerang? Find out how scientists are working to reverse time’s most relentless march: aging. ...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., Royalton Community Radio, KBBI Alaska, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCSB-FM and more


  • Added: May 28, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Musician's Spotlight MTPR Promo - The Wood Brothers - 673
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight MTPR Promos
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Brothers Oliver and Chris Wood pursued their successful musical journeys separately until their mother’s battle with and subsequent death from ALS ...

  • Added: May 09, 2018
  • Length: :45
What Have You Got To Move
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: What Have You Got To Move, Credit: Seth Shostak
The world is an ocean of motion. Animal locomotion is necessary to survive, and evolution has provided a diverse means to do it: fins, feathers, a...

Bought by WMUU-LP, Royalton Community Radio, KCSB-FM, KBBI Alaska, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Brain Dust
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Brain Dust, Credit: Seth Shostak
The brain is a hot research topic, but despite all efforts, your grey matter largely remains a black box – an indecipherable web of neurons with a ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, CHSR-FM 97.9, Royalton Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Skeptic Check: Your Inner Lab Coat
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Your Inner Lab Coat, Credit: Seth Shostak
Sherlock Holmes doesn’t have a science degree, yet he thinks rationally like a scientist. You can too! Learn the secrets of being irritatingly lo...

Bought by WVTF, WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 12
James Alan McPherson: Past American Voice
From: New Letters on the Air
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Black History Month concludes with the Past American Voice of essayist and fiction writer James Alan McPherson (1943-2016). In this archive recordi...

Bought by WNMU-FM and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 28, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Quantum: Why We Want 'Em
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Quantum: Why We Want 'Em, Credit: Seth Shostak
Today, everything from cell phones to LED lighting depends on the weird behavior described by quantum mechanics. But will this strange physics soo...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, Royalton Community Radio, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Feb 19, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Skeptic Check: New UFO Evidence
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: New UFO Evidence, Credit: Seth Shostak
It was a shocker of a story, splashed across the New York Times front page: The existence of a five-year long, hidden Pentagon study of UFOs. We c...

Bought by WMUU-LP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, CHSR-FM 97.9, WRST-FM Oshkosh, Bandon Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Comedian Maggie Ferris
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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On this episode of The Live Feed we talk with Minnesota based comedian Maggie Ferris. She tells us what its like to be a female comedian, a dog wal...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 40:20
DIY Spaceflight
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: DIY Spaceflight, Credit: Seth Shostak
How the geeky son of immigrant parents incentivized construction of the first private spaceship and kick started the commercial launch industry. A...

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, Royalton Community Radio, KBBI Alaska, KUER and more


  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 12
“Why We Need More Jokes In Our Lives”
From: Prairie Public
Series: Why? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life
Caption: Al Gini
Host Jack Russell Weinstein visits with Al Gini, professor of business ethics at the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University Chicago.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
More with Award Winning Poet Al Young
From: New Letters on the Air
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In the second half of our conversation with former California Poet Laureate Al Young, he shares more from his book SOMETHING ABOUT THE BLUES: AN UN...

Bought by WRKF, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Weather Vain
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Weather Vain, Credit: Seth Shostak
History is replete with attempts to control the weather, but we’d settle for an accurate, seven-day forecast. Find out how sophisticated technolog...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, CHSR-FM 97.9, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 01, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 21
DIY Diagnosis
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: DIY Diagnosis, Credit: Seth Shostak
You can use your DNA to explore your genetic health – but are you ready for what you might find when your genome is sequenced? Plus, practitioners...

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, WMUU-LP, Royalton Community Radio, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Dec 25, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
With All Our Mites
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: With All Our Mites, Credit: Seth Shostak
You can’t see ‘em, but your face is a festival of face mites. And a new study finds that hundreds of different tiny spiders, beetles, make your ho...

Bought by KBBI Alaska, WMUU-LP, WRGY, KUNM, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Dec 11, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
Skeptic Check: Nibiru! (Again!)
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Nibiru! (Again!), Credit: Seth Shostak
Some people are predicting a world-ending collision between Earth and planet Nibiru on November 19. But it won’t happen, because this hypothesized...

Bought by WTJU, WMUU-LP, KBBI Alaska, RadioFreePalmer, and WRGY


  • Added: Nov 13, 2017
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 5
More from Husband and Wife Writers Geoffrey Brock & Padma Viswanathan
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Geoffrey Brock
In part two of this interview with husband and wife writers, poet Geoffrey Brock and novelist Padma Viswanathan, the couple discusses their shared ...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Musician's Spotlight Promo- Anders Osborne - 661
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight MTPR Promos
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Between the potency of his richly detailed songwriting, his intensely emotional, soulful vocals and his piercing, expert guitar work, New Orleans’ ...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2017
  • Length: :45
On Defense
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: On Defense, Credit: Seth Shostak
The military is a dangerous calling, but researchers are trying to make it safer for troops. Writer Mary Roach investigates how scientists work to...

Bought by KUNM, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 09, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Skeptic Check: Aliens - The Evidence
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Aliens - The Evidence, Credit: Seth Shostak
In the new film, Arrival, extraterrestrials once again pay Earth a visit. But many believe the aliens are already here. How good is the evidence?...

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC, WTJU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Born Legacy
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Born Legacy, Credit: Seth Shostak
We know how the stars shine, but how do you make a star? We take an all-night ride on SOFIA, a high-flying observatory, to watch astronomers inves...

Bought by WTJU, CHSR-FM 97.9, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KTSW 89.9, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 04, 2017
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 9
Musician's Spotlight- Bonnie Raitt Part One- 655
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Multiple Grammy award winning singer and guitarist Bonnie Raitt joins host John Floridis to discuss her most recent album “Dig In Deep” and reflect...

Bought by WZRE, KMUN, Prairie Public, KGLT, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 30, 2017
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 5
Elements Never Forget
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Elements Never Forget, Credit: Seth Shostak
It’s elementary, Watson. Things are in flux – from the elements in the air you breathe to party balloons. We investigate a massive, historic nit...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, WMUU-LP, XRAY.fm, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Musical Universe
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Musical Universe, Credit: Seth Shostak
In space, no one can hear you scream, but, using the right instruments, scientists can pick up all types of cosmic vibrations – the sort we can tur...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WTJU, WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., CHSR-FM 97.9 and more


  • Added: Aug 21, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14