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On this episode of Audacious, meet three Ig Nobel Prize winners! Their achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.
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- Added: Mar 29, 2024
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The old saying "necessity is the mother of invention" may be true, but it leaves out an important component -- the real "mothers" and "aunts" and "...
- Added: Mar 12, 2024
- Length: 03:00
Meet the Luddite Club, a group of library-loving, flip-phone-toting teenagers in Brooklyn who come together every week out of a shared sense that s...
- Added: Jun 13, 2023
- Length: 13:57
Are games just a fun way to pass the time, or do they do something more for us?
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- Added: Apr 10, 2023
- Length: 53:58
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Sean Doolittle is an American author of crime and suspense fiction. This is his seventh book.
- Added: Mar 22, 2023
- Length: 27:38
Episode 1 of Space Oddities discusses NASA's plans to keep the Earth from being contaminated with lunar germs during the Apollo missions. Unfortuna...
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- Added: Nov 01, 2022
- Length: 10:47
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- Added: Aug 29, 2022
- Length: 01:54
Today, we have a question from Michael in Charlestown, Rhode Island. He wants to know: does a charger still use some power when it's plugged into a...
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- Added: Jul 07, 2022
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This week on the show: A much-needed update for our COVID vaccines — and also, if it turned out tires were absolutely horrible for our health... w...
- Added: Jun 10, 2022
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: An unusual experiment has cats staring at cat faces, while Dutch researchers go full sci-fi and "brain scan" an image out o...
- Added: May 20, 2022
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: He outran it for two years. But this week, COVID caught up with Gabe.
- Added: Apr 16, 2022
- Length: 30:00
The first roller skates were patented by John Joseph Merlin in 1760. He showed off his new fangled wheeled shoes with an epic entrance to a party t...
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- Added: Apr 15, 2022
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We're joined by the co-editors of Reviews in Digital Humanities, Dr. Roopika Risam and Dr. Jennifer Guiliano. Dr. Risam is the Chair of Secondary a...
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- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 59:00
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We're joined by Michael Running Wolf (Northern Cheyenne, Lakota and Blackfeet). He has a Master’s of Science in Computer Science, is a former engin...
- Added: Feb 01, 2022
- Length: 59:00
On this program we're joined by Liz Neely, the curator of Digital Experience at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe.
- Added: Jan 17, 2022
- Length: 59:00
This week on the show: Omicron won't be a wave, it'll be a wall, says Germany's top virologist. And the best response is to lock things down — aga...
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- Added: Dec 25, 2021
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A lot has changed since the first days of aviation, from beverage service to affordable plane tickets. Florenz Gilly and Leon Ginzel recap the hist...
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- Added: Nov 10, 2021
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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...
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- Added: Oct 22, 2021
- Length: 30:00
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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
On this program we're talking with composer, musician, and sound artist Holly Herndon, whose most recent full-length album Proto was released in 20...
- Added: Oct 07, 2021
- Length: 59:00
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,...
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- Added: Jul 10, 2021
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Cristal complains about the workplace buzzwords she finds particularly annoying.
- Added: Jun 21, 2021
- Length: 04:20
Howard complains about receiving "Your item has shipped" emails when it hasn't
- Added: Jun 21, 2021
- Length: 03:26
From: Brian Bahouth
When I think of electric vehicles, I think sleek, futuristic, quiet, fast. But for years I’ve been hearing an electric 1991 GMC Rally/STX van whizz...
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 07:00
This week on the show: f your genes make you a "night owl," the odds are higher you'll develop depression. Can we do anything to change that? Al...
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- Added: Jun 03, 2021
- Length: 30:00
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