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212: Peanut Butter Diamonds
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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With enough pressure and heat, just about anything with enough carbon in it could become a diamond. And thankfully for us, when a scientist was ask...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Apr 08, 2022
  • Length: 04:56
  • Purchases: 1
209: Detachable Tails
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In cases of emergency, lizards pop off their tails to get away. Evolution made it possible for that tail to stay on when tugged but not twisted. It...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
207: Cockroach Personalities
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Anything that scatters when you turn on the light...does it have a personality? Is the cockroach urge to run an indicator of a bold or timid world ...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
204: Baker Miller Pink
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In 1978, Dr. Alexander Schauss and a research assistant mixed 1 gallon of white latex paint with a pint of shiny red and created P-618 aka Baker Mi...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
187: Animal Buddy Cops
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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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
186: Sudden Genius
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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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
71: Ants on Stilts
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Ants hunt for food, but how do they know how to get back? Content warning: Science is messy. Some ants were harmed and we talk about it. Not in gre...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2019
  • Length: 08:50
70: Galloping Crocodiles
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Like a scaly cheetah, galloping crocs were a terror both on land and in the water. Good thing they lived 100 million years ago.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSFR


  • Added: Aug 06, 2019
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 2
52: Long Lives of Lobsters
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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The internet claims lobsters are immortal. Amy pulls a Dana Scully and debunks the heck out of that idea.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 26, 2019
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 1
Surfs Up...But Not For Tsunamis
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Shaky Ground
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Big wave surfers are in a class of their own. But Geologist Lori Dengler encourages sticking with giant waves generated by big storms. On this segm...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 01:31
  • Purchases: 1
Taming Energy Vampires
From: Wendy Ring
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The average household has more than 40 appliances that use electricity when they're off. We help you find and subdue them.

Bought by KFOI Radio


  • Added: Feb 07, 2018
  • Length: 23:21
  • Purchases: 1
brainwriting
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Explaining the collaborative idea generation technique of brainwriting.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 04:05
  • Purchases: 1
Extreme Running
From: FOOLY BOO
Series: This Won't Hurt A Bit
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Just how fast and how far can a human go? This week on This Won't Hurt A Bit, the physiology and stories of extreme runners.

Bought by KVSC, WART FM, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jan 18, 2016
  • Length: 33:16
  • Purchases: 3
Ep 01: Giving up Sitting
From: The Station Wagon Podcast
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In this episode, we have given up sitting for two weeks. You know, that practice of putting one’s butt in a chair? Yup. We kissed that goodbye and ...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2016
  • Length: 33:50
Worms
From: Jennifer Frisch
Series: Telling Biology
Caption: Ascaris lumbricoides, Credit: Sustainable sanitation https://www.flickr.com/photos/gtzecosan/15701719491
Why you should keep your biology textbooks

  • Added: Apr 08, 2015
  • Length: 04:57
Science Frog
From: Alison Bruzek
Series: Bottom of the Hour
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Science Frog explains an important phenomenon.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 01:08
In Which an Earthquake Convicts Seismologists of Manslaughter
From: Laurence Yeung
Series: The AudioPh[i]D
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Episode 2 - 12/4/12 - An investigation into the case of Italian seismologists being convicted of manslaughter, more academic news, and the inside s...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 23:35
Dinoflagellates
From: Atlantic Public Media
Series: One Species at a Time ~ The Encyclopedia of Life
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A musical from the bottom of the food chain ... billions of these microscopic luminescent creatures in every bucket of the salty sea.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 13, 2010
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 1
Cocoa And Lazer Guns
From: Littleglobe
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Interesting and scary facts about the nuts and bolts of love.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2010
  • Length: 03:45
Hunting for Ants
From: Sarah P. Reynolds
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Adam Lazarus is a myrmecologist who spends most days in the woods loking for ants, even though it leaves him feeling a little guilty.

Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 10, 2008
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 2