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Why build a house when you can grow one? So says sustainable building designers at Britain's University of Bath. They recently created a home from ...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Oct 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
We live on a flammable planet! Consider our forests: Vegetation that dries out seasonally. And our atmosphere? Oxygen! Add lightening strikes, volc...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Oct 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
These days, Americans are driving three times as many miles per capita as they did in 1980. Not only are longer commutes driving us crazy, they’re...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Oct 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Prairie tallgrass may soon make an electrifying comeback. Long considered one of the earth's most endangered ecosystems, today, prairie grass -- es...
- Added: Oct 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Alex was hatched without fanfare in 1976. But when he died in 2007, he was one of the most famous talking grey parrots on the planet. The reason? ...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Sep 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Are hurricanes good for anything? Maybe. Katrina and Rita devastated hundreds of square miles in the Louisiana and Mississippi lowlands. But it tur...
- Added: Sep 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Gnarls Barkley’s award winning song “Crazy” starts off with the lyrics, “I remember when I lost my mind.” Perhaps you can relate. But noted entomol...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Sep 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Hollywood's new found love of Boston-centered crime films reveals a lot about Boston and Hollywood.
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 08, 2010
- Length: 07:00
- Purchases: 2
Mother Nature doesn't fly a crop-duster -- she doesn't need to. A research team at the University of Warwick, England, recently discovered a natura...
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is killing fire ants using a method that sounds like it was inspired by the movie Alien.
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
i-Pods powered by Kool-Aid? Yep. They might be just around the corner -- no kidding!
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Lice aren’t nice, unless you’re wild mice. Parasitologist Jan Bradley studies immune responses to parasites in wild mice from woods near Britain’s ...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Here’s a home that’s truly “outside the box” -- or inside, depending on where you stand. They’re made out of recycled steel shipping containers. Ye...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
The Hawaii Ukulele Festival attracts thousands of people from around the globe. Hear from musicians like Jake Shimabukuro, who's inspiring a resurg...
- Added: Jul 27, 2010
- Length: 04:31
- Purchases: 2
A sound postcard from Antillanca, a ski resort in Chile. It's summer, so only the animals are there.
Bought by PRX to iTunes
- Added: Jul 23, 2010
- Length: 03:10
- Purchases: 1
On top of everything else ailing Mother Earth these days, apparently she’s got gas. Lots of it. Specifically, carbon dioxide.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Medieval alchemy -- you’ve seen it in the movies: A wizard-like figure hovers over a glowing vat adding mysterious ingredients in his quest to turn...
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
The world’s rainforests are disappearing at an alarming rate. But conservationists have a new trick that may help restore them. All it takes is so...
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
It’s no news to anyone that Hurricanes’ can be devastating. Luckily, hurricane forecasting has improved a lot over the years. We owe much of that i...
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
After six years, "Lost," one of the most successful dramatic series in prime TV has come to an end. Heidi Chang spoke with the cast and producers ...
- Added: May 27, 2010
- Length: 05:17
If you think songbird songs are wonderfully complex, you’re going to find this story simply amazing.
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
It’s time for the creature of the week when we introduce you to the strange, the wonderful, the astonishing variety of life here on Isla Earth.
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Here’s a conundrum. What do you do with three thousand tons of smelly garbage a day? Could you just, well, vaporize it?!
Bought by KOSU
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Okay -- so it sounds pretty disgusting when you first hear about it. But, well, here it goes. We may be able to get drinking water from treated sew...
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Over the years, treasure maps have been of such interest that the Library of Congress devoted a volume to them! Now, a new kind of map is proving t...
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
