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Hidden History
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Hidden History, Credit: Seth Shostak
Archeologists continue to hunt for the city of Atlantis, even though it may never have existed. And paleontologists now suspect that it wasn’t jus...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRGY, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 18
Moral's Law
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Moral's Law, Credit: Seth Shostak
“If it bleeds, it leads” they say in the news biz. Indeed, headlines are often no more than a long list of moral atrocities. Yet one man argues t...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer, KTSW 89.9, WRIR and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 18
77: My Worst Fear
From: The Mortified Podcast
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In honor of Halloween, mortifying tales about the kind of fears kids actually have.

  • Added: Oct 23, 2016
  • Length: 26:34
Skeptic Check: Science and the Election
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Science and the Election, Credit: Seth Shostak
It’s a divisive election year, but there is public consensus that science and technology policy issues matter. So why aren’t the candidates discus...

Bought by XRAY.fm, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Oct 10, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Skeptic Check: Skeptic Seth
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
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Are you skeptical? Do you readily accept the claimed benefits of organic milk, or the whitening ingredients in your toothpaste? What about the da...

Bought by Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, CHSR-FM 97.9, KUNM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 19
Sex Post Facto
From: Gary Niederhoff
Caption: Sex Post Facto, Credit: Seth Shostak
Birds do it, bees do it, but humans may not do it for much longer – at least not for having kids. Instead, babies will be made in the lab, with ge...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif. and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 19, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Evolution of Evolution
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: The Evolution of Evolution, Credit: Seth Shostak
Move over, Darwin. With genetic engineering, we can make radical changes to species in just one generation. As humans begin to tinker with their ...

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  • Added: Sep 12, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
Asteroids!
From: Gary Niederhoff
Caption: Asteroids!, Credit: Seth Shostak
Everyone knows that a big rock did in the dinosaurs, but smaller asteroids hit Earth much more often. An astronomer describes the odds that your de...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 05, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
They Know Who You Are
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: They Know Who You Are, Credit: Seth Shostak
You’re a private person. But as long as you’re on-line and have skin and hair, you’re shedding little bits of data and DNA everywhere you go. Fin...

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  • Added: Aug 22, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Are We Over the Moon?
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Are We Over the Moon?, Credit: Seth Shostak
Astronaut Gene Cernan’s reaction to being the last man on the moon and private plans to turn our satellite into a cash cow. Plus, why the small st...

Bought by KUER, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer, KREV-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 15, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Raising the Minimum Age
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Raising the Minimum Age, Credit: Seth Shostak
We all try to fight it: the inexorable march of time. The fountain of youth doesn’t exist, and all those wrinkle creams can’t help. But modern sc...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Microbes: Resistance is Futile
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Microbes: Resistance is Futile, Credit: Seth Shostak
You have more microbial DNA than human DNA. Find out what questions this raises about what it means to be an individual, how your microbiome can ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRIR, and WRGY


  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Science Fiction True
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Science Fiction True, Credit: Seth Shostak
Don’t believe everything you see on the screen. Science fiction film is just a guess as to how our future might unfold. But sometimes fantasy be...

Bought by WUFT, RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRGY and more


  • Added: Jul 04, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Attention by Holly Walter Kerby
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Steven Boyer
In Holly Walter Kerby’s Attention, Amber (Tony nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger) is bummed out that her boyfriend has visited his family without her. Sh...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2016
  • Length: 17:56
Surviving the Anthropocene
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Surviving the Anthropocene, Credit: Seth Shostak
The world is hot, and getting hotter, and our species is changing the planet with urbanization, deforestation, and industrial waste. Some say we’v...

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  • Added: Jun 13, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
How to Talk to Aliens
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: How to Talk to Aliens, Credit: Seth Shostak
If we send deliberate messages to aliens, what should we say? Scientists from diverse disciplines offer their advice. Also, a response to Stephen...

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  • Added: Jun 06, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
StoryCorps: Bill Sayenga and Ellen Riek
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Bought by WXPR, WVBI-LP, WEZU, and Blue Mountain Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2016
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 4
Shocking Ideas
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Shocking Ideas, Credit: Seth Shostak
Innovation in the use of electricity continues long after the days of Edison and Tesla. Find out why the invention of the blue LED was worthy of a...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer, WRIR, and WRGY


  • Added: May 09, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Living Computers
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Living Computers, Credit: Seth Shostak
19th century mathematician and Lord Byron’s daughter Ada Lovelace was a pioneer of the computer age. But she said that machines would never outstr...

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  • Added: May 02, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Moving Right Along
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Moving Right Along, Credit: Seth Shostak
Find out why modeling the swirl of hurricanes takes a roomful of mathematicians and supercomputers, and how galaxies can move away from us faster t...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WRGY, and WRIR


  • Added: Apr 18, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Surfeit of the Vitalist
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Surfeit of the Vitalest, Credit: Seth Shostak
In the century and a half since Charles Darwin wrote his seminal On the Origin of the Species, our understanding of evolution has changed quite a b...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WRIR, and WRGY


  • Added: Apr 11, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Tale of the Distribution
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Tale of the Distribution, Credit: Seth Shostak
Very few of us can play the piano like Vladimir Horowitz. His talent was at the tail end of the bell curve of musical ability – that tiny sliver o...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WRIR, and WRGY


  • Added: Apr 04, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Who's Controlling Whom?
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Who's Controlling Whom?, Credit: Seth Shostak
Ants exhibit the kind of swarm behavior that is the model for the next generation of tiny robots. But biology can get hijacked: a fungus can seize...

Bought by WUFT, RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WRIR, and WRGY


  • Added: Mar 14, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Land on the Run
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Land on the Run, Credit: Seth Shostak
Hang on to your globe. The arrangement of continents you see today is not what it once was, nor what it will be tomorrow. Meet our future superco...

Bought by KREV-LP, WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer, WRIR, and WRGY


  • Added: Mar 07, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Replace What Ails You
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Replace What Ails You, Credit: Seth Shostak
Germs can make us sick, but we didn’t know about these puny pathogens prior to the end of the 19th century. Germ theory and antibiotics created a...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRGY, RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WRIR and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6