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Meetings Make You Stupid (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
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Ever been called on in a staff meeting and felt like you weren’t nearly as brilliant or articulate as usual? Well, you’re not alone. One researcher...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 02:36
Riddles from the Border Regions 9/28/13
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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TWICE EACH YEAR ...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Sep 26, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Edna the Engineer and National Security
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
Caption: Secretaries, housewives, waitresses, women from all over central Florida are getting into vocational schools to learn war work. Typical are these in the Daytona Beach branch of the Volusia county vocational school., Credit: National Archives and Records Administration
A recent science test showing that American girls are lagging behind boys has brought women in science back into the national conversation. More th...

Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Radio Newark, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Marcela Gaviria and Dempsey Springfield
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Marcela Gaviria speaks with Dr. Dempsey Springfield, who has been her surgeon for more than 30 years.

Bought by WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 26, 2012
  • Length: 02:09
  • Purchases: 3
At the Exploratorium, there's no such thing as too much Pi
From: KALW
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The basic definition of the number pi is that it’s doesn’t have an exact value – it’s an infinite calculation. But it is possible to know the exact...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 05, 2012
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 12/03/11
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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THIRD OF NINE ...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Dec 01, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
South Bay entrepreneur leads experiment in DIY science
From: KALW
Caption: Entrepreneur Eri Gentry left her job in finance to build a community laboratory in her garage.
A study released earlier this year showed that the U.S. is on its way to a major shortage of science talent; about 1% of American students score ab...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 08:25
StoryCorps: Frank Kovac
From: StoryCorps
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Frank Kovac talks about building the world's largest rotating-globe planetarium.

Bought by WEZU, Spokane Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 22, 2011
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 3
Biomimicry
From: Sarah Lilley
Caption: Nautilus
Designers, engineers and corporations around the world have begun seriously to study Evolution's most successful problem-solving strategies in natu...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 21, 2011
  • Length: 06:25
  • Purchases: 3
Clever Apes Special
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
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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 ...

Bought by KUT and KZYX


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2
Land for Birds
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Things are going to the birds. Land that is. In the form of 1,500 land trusts in the U.S. that protect bird habitats.

  • Added: Aug 19, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
Of Bonds and Blooms
From: Ari Daniel
Series: Ocean Gazing
Caption: Gary and Barb Kirkpatrick at the Mote Marine Lab in Sarasota, Florida., Credit: Lance Robson
Sometimes the ocean can be a threat to human health. Barb and Gary Kirkpatrick, a wife and husband scientist team, describe what they’re doing to n...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2009
  • Length: 09:10
The Glide of A Lifetime: Part II
From: Ari Daniel
Series: Ocean Gazing
Caption: Google Earth is one of the many tools Glenn and Schofield use in their classes and for their research., Credit: Google
Scott Glenn and Oscar Schofield have a passion for creating the next generation of ocean explorers. In this episode, they’ll share their deep commi...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2009
  • Length: 10:56
Top Models
From: Ari Daniel
Series: Ocean Gazing
Caption: Huijie Xue smiles when her virtual ocean model matches what the real ocean is doing., Credit: Jim Campbell
Huijie Xue forecasts the underwater weather of the Gulf of Maine: its temperature, its salinity, and its currents. And a lot of people are tuning in.

  • Added: Jul 13, 2009
  • Length: 09:22
Cyber Fiber
From: Ari Daniel
Series: Ocean Gazing
Caption: Cyberinfrastructure allows online access of underwater observations to anyone in the world in real time.
John Orcutt and Frank Vernon are wiring the ocean to the Internet. And their goal is to let anyone anywhere tap into the vast data stores.

Bought by CKMO


  • Added: Jun 23, 2009
  • Length: 08:10
  • Purchases: 1