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Biocontrol feels like the pinnacle of human arrogance. We’re trying to play God, taking a delicately balanced ecosystem and stomping all over it w...
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- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 29:35
- Purchases: 1
In the 1970s, a geochemist and a biologist banded together to solve a mystery at Lake Oneida in upstate New York. What they found is changing the w...
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- Added: Apr 21, 2016
- Length: 14:03
- Purchases: 1
A 12-year-old girl in blue jeans probably isn’t the first thing you picture when you hear the word paleontologist. But in 1979, young India Wood di...
- Added: Mar 31, 2016
- Length: 58:59
Rodney grew up selling dope and guns. But he's always loved caring for birds. The drugs landed him in jail. The birds helped set him free.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 20, 2015
- Length: 11:23
- Purchases: 4
Join us for an interesting and fun conversation with planetary astronomer, Alessondra Springmann. She’s working on NASA’s Osiris project and could ...
- Added: Jun 12, 2015
- Length: 28:02
What does it mean to live in a world where biotech is done for and by the people? How long might it be until we are all growing our own ink, laund...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 07:15
- Purchases: 1
Episode sixty-nine has arrived in a totally cybernetic way! Join us as we speak with Vicki Brown, a Ph.D. in Research Methodology and a rockin’ vio...
- Added: Apr 29, 2014
- Length: 28:02
Ever wonder what Westeros looked like long before the Starks, Baratheons, Lannisters, or Targaryens roamed its surface? How far back can we really ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 10, 2014
- Length: 05:07
- Purchases: 1
Join us for episode sixty-eight, an enlightening conversation with Paul Carrick Ph.D., teacher of philosophy at Gettysburg College. He’s also a bio...
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 28:02
It’s the sixty-seventh episode of The Mikie Show! You won’t want to miss this one: We speak with Deirdre Barrett Ph.D., author, psychologist and te...
- Added: Jan 24, 2014
- Length: 28:02
Life is terminal. Whether we like it or not, time marches on, and as it does, we age. One of the most challenging realities for everyone to face ...
- Added: Dec 05, 2013
- Length: 07:20
It’s time for the sixty-sixth iteration of the The Mikie Show! Note that’s iterable not irritable, there’s a diff. Yes, join us for a sweet visit w...
- Added: Nov 29, 2013
- Length: 28:02
So how do we define delusion? Well, actually, like most other things, that definition can be left up to the person who is doing the defining. Mer...
- Added: Nov 28, 2013
- Length: 07:20
Sixty years after polio was eradicated in America, a dozen survivors still rely on their iron lungs to breathe. Come inside the machine Martha Lill...
Bought by KPIK-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, KOSU, Hark! and more
- Added: Jul 11, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 14
Mining provides the resources for many products we use every day, but it's more than just a big corporate enterprise. Listen in for a look at some ...
- Added: May 24, 2013
- Length: 21:34
Join us as we speak with Dr. Peter Mitchell, Orthopedic Surgeon, specialized in foot and ankle. You see, I had this bunion and I… nevermind. He’s a...
- Added: Dec 07, 2012
- Length: 28:02
We’re very excited to have a return visit from our dear friend Glenn Berger PhD. Yes, he’s back for another discussion about us, our minds, how we ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2012
- Length: 28:02
Join us as we speak with paleoecologist extraordinaire, Margaret B. Davis. She is one of the world’s foremost scholars of palynology, a branch of p...
- Added: Jul 11, 2012
- Length: 27:59
If you click the little play arrow down there you’ll be able to join us as we speak with Sheril Kirshenbaum, author and science writer. Besides bei...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Feb 22, 2012
- Length: 28:03
- Purchases: 1
Here it is, another new show! This time we speak with George Bradley. He is a master of herpetology, meaning he collects, manages, identifies and p...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Feb 08, 2012
- Length: 28:03
- Purchases: 1
Hurrah, it’s another show about stuff I don’t know! Yes, this episode we speak with Sarah Mattson, planetary photographic cartographer, you know, I...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Nov 01, 2011
- Length: 28:02
- Purchases: 1
A Vet describes a euthanasia and we wonder how we should consider human euthanasia.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 08, 2011
- Length: 09:11
- Purchases: 1
Episode thirty-one! They exclaimed. It’s an exclamatory remark! Okay, I’m calm now. Join us for a discussion with Dr. Michael Miles, a practitioner...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Feb 17, 2011
- Length: 28:03
- Purchases: 1
Over this hour, we'll bring you highlights from the show's first half-year. We’ll learn about why kids play with fire, how vibrations let us peer ...
- Added: Dec 16, 2010
- Length: 54:30
- Purchases: 2
We have a chat with arborist Bill Eck. He grew up in the forest, like a little elf or something! Seriously, he’s a great guy and he really knows hi...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Nov 10, 2010
- Length: 28:03
- Purchases: 1
