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Space Oddities: Episode 2-What a Spectacle!

From: Joe Cuhaj
Series: Space Oddities: Forgotten Stories of Mankind's Exploration of Space

Caption: The Qantas Airlines Koala getting special treatment., Credit: Qantas Airlines

Episode 2 of the Space Oddities podcast takes a look at some interesting, manned spaceflight splashdowns and recoveries, in particular, those where...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WYAP

Space Oddities: Episode 1-Moon Dust In Your Lungs, Stars In Your Eyes

From: Joe Cuhaj
Series: Space Oddities: Forgotten Stories of Mankind's Exploration of Space

Caption: Terry Slezak accidentally came in contact with moon dust during the Apollo 11 quarantine period., Credit: NASA

Episode 1 of Space Oddities discusses NASA's plans to keep the Earth from being contaminated with lunar germs during the Apollo missions. Unfortuna...

Bought by WYAP

Seeking and Blundering – The Discovery of Penicillin

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: Fehler (Mistakes)

This episode of the FEHLER podcast is an exploration of mistakes in science and their connection to art. Listen for more!

Tornado

From: Ibby Caputo

The story of a tornado, from three perspectives.

Bought by PRX Remix

Creed and Credences

From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation

A philosophical examination about the nature of religious belief, using the example of creationist and a woman who left fundamentalism.

Drowned at Sea

From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation

This week, we look at how a religious cult of number worshipers on the Italian coast gave rise to modern science, mathematics, philosophy, and musi...

Bought by PRX Remix

What We Talk about When We Talk about Two Bears High-Fiving

From: The Organist

Hermann Rorschach’s inkblot test has become ubiquitous in pop-culture as shorthand for both psychiatry and the subconscious. The first biography of...

Bought by XRAY.fm

The Untold Story of Pokemon Go and the Unrelenting Rampage of Cuteness and Community That's Taking Over St. Cloud

From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota

In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack finds the city of St. Cloud inund...

Bought by KRZA

Things That Go Bite

From: FOOLY BOO
Series: This Won't Hurt A Bit

This episode explores bites. The good and the bad, the Arachnid the Annelid, and the Diptera. How dangerous is the widow spider bite? Do we still u...

Bought by WART FM

Extreme Heat

From: FOOLY BOO
Series: This Won't Hurt A Bit

Can you drink your own urine? Run yourself to death? This week we explore the science and physiology of how extreme heat effects our bodies.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KVSC, WYAP, and WART FM

Fooled Ya

From: Trace Elements
Series: Trace Elements

Marco Tempest is not your average magician. He uses robots to do magic tricks on stage -- but the real trick is in how easily he can get an audienc...

Episode 13: The Girl Who Dug Up Dinosaurs

From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here

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...

The Alaskan Martian

From: Robert Prince
Series: Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska

We interview the only person from Alaska to make the first cut for the Mars ONE program and also speak to a scientist who thinks sending humans to ...

The Palos Verdes Peacocks

From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions

The wild peacocks of Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California have inhabited the area for over 100 years and now number more than 1,000. For a...

Ep 01: Giving up Sitting

From: The Station Wagon Podcast

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 ...

Life of the Law #71: Space Law 2.0

From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law

When you look up at the sky the last thing you probably think about is the law. But space is exactly where the next frontier of law is being played...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KALW, and New Hampshire Public Radio

From Frogs To Wands of Destiny: The Invention of the Home Pregnancy Test

From: Mother

Caption: Meg Crane's home pregnancy test prototype, 1968., Credit: Courtesy of Bonhams.

Pregnancy tests weren't always the neat, little plastic wands we have in drug stores today.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix

Owning The Clouds

From: Steven Jackson

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

Staying Alive: The Art and Science of Living to 100

From: Karen Brown

An audio essay that combines science, personal moments, and the wit and wisdom of four 100-year-old (and up) women.

Music for Animals

From: Britt Wray

Caption: Black Prairie plays a concert for 52 wolves at Wolf Haven sanctuary in Washington State., Credit: Carli Davidson

There's a music industry for pets out there. But what kind of music do animals like? A woman who studies how non-human creatures go mad throws conc...

Bought by ABC, KVNF, 'The Sea', New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE and more

Ep 52 - Roberta Grimes | Bobby Pickles' Podcast

From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast

Podcasting from The Old Oak Street Burial Ground in Grafton, MA, Piazza and I speak with author, Roberta Grimes, about her book “The Fun of Dying: ...