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This week on the show: Intercourse and the art of communication -
People who are good with emojis have more sex, but hold your emoji horses befo...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Aug 29, 2019
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: Just imagine it -
A new study shows you can "imagine" your way toward liking a place more than you do right now, how to i...
- Added: Aug 21, 2019
- Length: 30:00
I don’t know any poultry fanciers that don’t have a guinea fowl story or two or three. Chickens are where it usually starts as they are the gateway...
- Added: Aug 15, 2019
- Length: 05:10
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
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
This week on the show: Hands and feet -
You know what's better than five fingers? Six. We look at this strange new research and talk to a "po...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Jul 31, 2019
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
90-second modules that celebrate the natural world and bring the wonder of nature into daily life.
- Added: Jul 30, 2019
- Length: 33:00
- Purchases: 3
This week on the show: Goodnight, stars -
A viral video from the Netherlands shows how satellite constellations may end up ruining the night s...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Jun 12, 2019
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
After hearing a mentor make an inappropriate joke, medical student Jenny Tiskus grapples with humor's place in the world of medicine.
- Added: Jun 08, 2019
- Length: 37:22
Physician Maureen Miller describes how perusing a dusty box of autopsy reports from 1987 helped her embrace her new professional future as a pathol...
- Added: Jun 08, 2019
- Length: 33:35
Hospitalist Meghan O'Brien recounts the frustration of caring for a homeless patient who would rather be on the streets.
- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 32:47
In 1804 Dr. Troxler discovered he could make pastel dots on paper disappear if he stared at them for long enough. Blink, and they would reappear. T...
- Added: Jun 05, 2019
- Length: 03:24
Need to string some wire through your house or clean a particle accelerator? You might need a science ferret.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: May 28, 2019
- Length: 03:09
- Purchases: 1
Can Flatworms remember how to find food after re-growing their heads? Science rolled up its sleeves and found out.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: May 14, 2019
- Length: 04:47
- Purchases: 1
Why do we want to crush-hug cute things like babies and young animals? It may have something to do with adorableness overload and how our brains co...
- Added: May 09, 2019
- Length: 03:50
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
Jumping out of an airplane without a parachute?! We explore a study that explains how sometimes, if you look at the data in just the right way, bac...
- Added: Mar 19, 2019
- Length: 02:40
This week on the show: My computer and me -
Addicted to your smartphone? Just wait 'til you hear about what's coming next. Come follow us throug...
- Added: Mar 12, 2019
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: In the heart of winter (at least in the northern hemisphere), we take a look this week at what the cold does to our bodies....
Bought by WNMU-FM and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Jan 30, 2019
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
Why do we do the things we do while in public? Simple actions like using the restroom or riding the bus get a lot more complicated when thinking ab...
- Added: Jan 16, 2019
- Length: 20:19
Who was Charles Darwin and what led him to describe what we now call the theory of evolution? These curious questions are ones that I have been fol...
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 29:00
This week on the show: Tapping into the science of Oktoberfest!!!
Just why DO so many people go to Oktoberfest? And how does nearly 8 million l...
- Added: Oct 17, 2018
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Can an electronic dog nose perform better than the biological one? Also, why sweat smells, a dip into perfume and Cambodia's...
- Added: Sep 25, 2018
- Length: 29:58
Spectrum: All bugs are just dust in the wind -
An unbelievable collection of data gathered by the entomological society in Krefeld shows that ...
- Added: Jul 11, 2018
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
Spectrum: Marijuana, sex, soccer and sleep -
On this week's show: If Marijuana can make old mice brains younger, does that work with humans too?...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Jul 04, 2018
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
