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This week on the show: Forcing people to vaccinate is not an appealing option — at all. It might happen anyway.
- Added: Nov 26, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: There really are two different pills you'll be able to take soon if you catch the coronavirus. Also, why don't people trust...
- Added: Nov 19, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: The evidence is in. Just by focusing your thoughts every day, you really can reduce the stress inside your body. Also, a wi...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Oct 22, 2021
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
In an unexpected turn of events, two predators with very different hunting styles work cooperatively. During the summer months, badgers and coyotes...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Oct 11, 2021
- Length: 04:32
- Purchases: 1
Imagine waking up from a nap to discover that you have the ability to compose music in your head. What a shock that would be! There are people who ...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WRFA-LP
- Added: Oct 11, 2021
- Length: 04:51
- Purchases: 2
Apologies--we had sound quality issues. We did not record from the bottom of a metal trash can while hiding from mystery blobs falling from the sky...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Oct 11, 2021
- Length: 04:53
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: How do astronauts deal with their sex drives when they're up in space for months on end? And why is it so embarrassing to ...
- Added: Oct 08, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: The BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine works great on 5-to-11-year-olds — so why isn't Germany in a rush to vaccinate them? Also, if y...
- Added: Sep 26, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Have you ever seen a video of someone floating, just like in space, except it looks like they're inside an airplane? Well,...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Jul 10, 2021
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: Is it fair to say you've been outraged by some of the risky things you've seen people doing during this pandemic? And is it...
- Added: Jun 27, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Will mutations change our vaccination strategy? Also, a controversial step in the fight against Alzheimer's, and how to tel...
- Added: Jun 16, 2021
- Length: 30:00
Brood X, as you might be hearing, has emerged and they are looking to do the one thing they’ve been waiting 17 years to do – mate! The loud buzzing...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jun 04, 2021
- Length: 19:04
- Purchases: 1
Sebastian (Sebo) Diaz is a rising junior at the UofA studying Biomedical Engineering.
- Added: Jun 01, 2021
- Length: 04:12
In a pitched battle against voracious tomato fruit worms, (aka. corn earworms or cotton bollworm) tomato plants have one sneaky defense...a wasp. I...
Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: May 24, 2021
- Length: 05:03
- Purchases: 2
This week on the show: If you’ve happened to hear about an asthma medication that will ameliorate or perhaps prevent COVID-19, think twice before ...
- Added: Apr 30, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Just how high are the number of COVID-19 infections that happen inside compared to outside? So high that aerosol experts ar...
- Added: Apr 25, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Have people really gained more weight during the pandemic? How did brain researchers predict stock movements (or, by extens...
- Added: Mar 19, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Are there COVID-19 vaccines that don't require a needle? How, exactly, do feelings of boredom affect the spread of the coro...
- Added: Mar 04, 2021
- Length: 30:00
We catch you up with an update on fluorescing animals and then jump right into new research on Long Fin Damsel fish that use Mysid shrimp to farm a...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Feb 02, 2021
- Length: 04:56
- Purchases: 1
When music comes on, can you clap along or do you struggle to find the beat? If you have a hard time keeping up with the rhythm, there's a reason a...
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 04:12
This week on the show: Gabe makes a house call with Conor in quarantine to find out he's tested negative for the coronavirus. But he's not out of ...
- Added: Nov 24, 2020
- Length: 30:00
In the movie Good Will Hunting, Will is a janitor at MIT--he solves some impossible math problems and shocks the professors. That origin story is t...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Sep 06, 2020
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: Can science help persuade those who are stubborn about rejecting science? What cat medicine have to do with developing a ne...
Bought by WFHB
- Added: Sep 04, 2020
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: Schools open, antibodies fall & horses and llamas help -
In this episode, co-host Gabe returns from the worst-hit coun...
- Added: Aug 20, 2020
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: I wish I could remember your phone number -
Feeling forgetful? Then join us for a memory master class from a German world...
- Added: Aug 09, 2020
- Length: 30:00
