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Sailing the Canyons of Titan
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Cassini radar image of flooded canyons on Titan, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/Cornell
Steep canyons on Saturn's moon Titan are filled with liquid methane. That's the discovery just announced by an international team of Cassini scient...

Bought by KMUD, KFCF FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Never Bring a Sledgehammer to a Scalpel Fight
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Outside/In
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Biocontrol feels like the pinnacle of human arrogance. We’re trying to play God, taking a delicately balanced ecosystem and stomping all over it w...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 29:35
  • Purchases: 1
Flight Anxiety (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Summer travel is in full swing, which means many of us will be headed to the airport in the coming weeks. While most people do know that flying is ...

Bought by KENW, WABE, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 04, 2016
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 3
Bizarre video attacks pesky bug in Great Lakes
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: In the video, the spiny water flea is depicted as an aggressive military general.
There are a lot of invasive species vying for the public’s attention, especially in the Great Lakes. So researchers trying to raise awareness about...

Bought by WCPN and WBFO


  • Added: Jul 29, 2016
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 2
90 Second Naturalist - August 2016 Modules
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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90 second modules that celebrate the natural world and bring the wonder of nature into daily life.

Bought by KCBX, WRIR, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 27, 2016
  • Length: 34:30
  • Purchases: 3
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
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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


  • Added: Jul 21, 2016
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Hans Walters and Martha Hiatt
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Hans Walters and his wife, Martha Hiatt
Hans Walters talks to his wife, Martha Hiatt, about going from heavy metal frontman to shark researcher and supervisor at the New York Aquarium.

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 1
90 Second Naturalist - July 2016 Modules
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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90 second modules that celebrate the natural world and bring the wonder of nature into daily life

Bought by KMUN, KCBX, Yellowstone Public Radio, and WRIR


  • Added: Jun 27, 2016
  • Length: 31:30
  • Purchases: 4
CDC's Medical Detectives
From: Philip Graitcer
Caption: EIS Badge, Credit: CDC
As the Zika virus spreads throughout the Western Hemisphere, dozens of medical epidemiologists are following its course and developing strategies t...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2016
  • Length: 06:31
Movie Medicine - Part 2
From: FOOLY BOO
Series: This Won't Hurt A Bit
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Medicine in the movies! We had so much to discuss about the medicine in these movies, that we made this a two-part special. Up next is The Revenant...

Bought by WART FM


  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 20:41
  • Purchases: 1
Movie Medicine - Part 1
From: FOOLY BOO
Series: This Won't Hurt A Bit
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Medicine in the Movies! This week we examine medical procedures in cinema.

Bought by WART FM


  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 31:55
  • Purchases: 1
Holiday Mishaps
From: FOOLY BOO
Series: This Won't Hurt A Bit
Caption: The medical podcast for your cortex and your funny bone, Credit: Foolyboo Inc
It's the HOLIDAYS! What could possibly go wrong? This week we bring you a Holiday Special about some of the festive season's worst case scenarios. ...

Bought by KSTK, WART FM, and KMUD


  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 32:02
  • Purchases: 3
Things That Go Bite
From: FOOLY BOO
Series: This Won't Hurt A Bit
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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


  • Added: Jun 02, 2016
  • Length: 36:39
  • Purchases: 1
Extreme Heat
From: FOOLY BOO
Series: This Won't Hurt A Bit
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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


  • Added: May 27, 2016
  • Length: 26:50
  • Purchases: 4
90 Second Naturalist - June 2016 Modules
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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The 90 Second Naturalist connects to listeners' innate love of nature through compelling stories that entertain, inform and promote interaction wit...

Bought by KCBX, Yellowstone Public Radio, and WRIR


  • Added: May 24, 2016
  • Length: 32:58
  • Purchases: 3
Itch
From: Elaine Vitone
Series: Pitt Medcast
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In this multilayered soundscape, the University of Pittsburgh's Sarah Ross explains the emerging neurobiology of itch, the least understood of our ...

Bought by WYAP, WTJU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 10, 2016
  • Length: 08:25
  • Purchases: 3
90 Second Naturalist - May 2016 Modules
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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90 second modules that celebrate the natural world and bring the wonder of nature into daily life.

Bought by WRIR, KCBX, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 26, 2016
  • Length: 32:46
  • Purchases: 3
Fooled Ya
From: Trace Elements
Series: Trace Elements
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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...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2016
  • Length: 16:56
Episode 13: The Girl Who Dug Up Dinosaurs
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
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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...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
90 Second Naturalist - April 2016 Modules
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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90 second modules that celebrate the natural world and bring the wonder of nature into daily life.

Bought by KCBX, WRIR, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 23, 2016
  • Length: 31:30
  • Purchases: 3
RDD: (Inter)action
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Last week we heard from the Courtney brothers who gave us some great options for our next interview on The Rough Draft Diaries, but before we carry...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 06:16
90 Second Naturalist - March 2016 Modules
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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90 second modules that celebrate the natural world and bring the wonder of nature into daily life.

Bought by WRIR, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 24, 2016
  • Length: 34:19
  • Purchases: 3
The Alaskan Martian
From: Robert Prince
Series: Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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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 ...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
The Palos Verdes Peacocks
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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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...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
90 Second Naturalist - February 2016 Modules
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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90 second modules that celebrate the natural world and bring the wonder of nature into daily life

Bought by KCBX and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 28:11
  • Purchases: 2

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