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Bill Shanabruch left his job as regional biologist for the Piedmont with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. It was over a boondoggl...
- Added: Apr 23, 2024
- Length: 26:08
The woman beside the father of chemistry.
- Added: Jan 17, 2018
- Length: 25:35
Cloud seeding -- intervening in clouds to squeeze out precipitation -- is done all over the world. But it's not an exact science; we still have muc...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 20, 2015
- Length: 09:38
- Purchases: 3
When work began to rebuild the Calaveras Dam, Paleontologist Jim Walker was called to the scene to hunt for fossils. He expected to find a few, but...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 05:50
- Purchases: 1
Have you noticed how the way a space feels really depends on how it sounds? Take the California Academy of Sciences for example. With all the hundr...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 09:46
Just under 22 years ago, a fire caught in the Oakland hills. That fire killed 25 people and destroyed more than 3,000 homes, and it was so destruct...
- Added: Sep 16, 2013
- Length: 08:37
Um, No. But did the Manhattan Project’s Enrico Fermi consider the risk to Chicago?
Bought by XRAY.fm, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 19, 2013
- Length: 10:03
- Purchases: 3
The sound of a fine acoustic violin is deviously hard to mimic. But a leading maker now has a digital prototype designed to sound the equal of a St...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, Troy Public Radio, Hark! and more
- Added: Jul 15, 2013
- Length: 07:38
- Purchases: 17
How the weather forecast is made
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Nov 02, 2005
- Length: 06:15
- Purchases: 1