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Jess speaks from her experience conducting deep ocean research to answer questions raised by UCS scientists and staff about the recent disasters of...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 19:00
Caption: Kordylewski's strange "dust moons", Credit:  J. Slíz-Balogh
The discovery of two large ghostly neighbors approximately 65,000 by 45,000 miles in size at the L4 and L5 sites approximately 250,000 miles from b...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 01, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Spaghetti code is an example of an anti-pattern., Credit: Pios Labs
My code is as long as here to Saturn but condensed and confused in an anti-pattern. This is Episode 104 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informa...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 07:44
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Mechanical engineers must work to eliminate excessive jerk. This is Episode 100 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fasc...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:51
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One is fun, and zero is a hero, in our engineering programming languages. This is Episode 73 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on fa...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2018
  • Length: 03:42
Caption: April 21 - 23, 2017, Credit: Earth Optimism Summit, Washington, D.C.
In September of 2016, World Ocean Observatory began a collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution's Ocean Portal to promote the Earth Optimism S...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2017
  • Length: 04:42
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In September the World Ocean Observatory was invited to attend the Our Ocean Conference hosted by the U.S. State Department in Washington D.C. Duri...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2016
  • Length: 05:30
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"Are we training our best new minds in the worst ways?" In this week's episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill asks this question and more of...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2016
  • Length: 05:10
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Dr. Mark Jacobson, distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, is on-air with us to explain the economic...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jan 13, 2016
  • Length: 59:24
  • Purchases: 1
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Clean air is as valuable as clean water: both are essential requirements for human health and survival. Statistics and data on emissions from burni...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2014
  • Length: 05:10
Caption: Gemini Spacewalker, Credit: NASA
The National Research Council released its long-awaited report June 4th. Distinguished space policy analyst John Logsdon returns to Planetary Radi...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Jun 17, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 2
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The Firefox browser represents the pinnacle of open source software, this commentary explains the open source movement.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:27
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Most power plants waste much energy because they are so inefficient. Moving them closer to where their power is used would waste much less energy

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:21
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While VOIP is popular it is a difficult problem to make it work with 9-1-1.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:44
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Jack Kilby invented the microchip, and thus, indirectly, helped me to learn to dance.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:15
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A pothole is a uniquely American phenomenon. Drive the highways of South Africa, Germany or France and you'll find few ruts and divots. Why pothole...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:47
  • Purchases: 3
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Adam Osborne marketed the first successful a compact computer: A 24-pound portable computer!

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Commentary that argues that to be environmentally friendly we want products designed so that the high value materials can be removed - reserving re...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:48
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The story of Barbara McClintock's Nobel Prize winning work

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:24
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The story of Willard Gibbs who revolutionized chemistry

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:49
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The story of John von Neumann whose work laid the foundations for digital computing

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:53
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The story of Richard Feynman who physics revealed a new world

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:56
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Moore's Law postulates that computing power will double every 18 months, what if it fails?

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:25
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The introducation of technology has not reduced the amount of time spent on housework.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:18
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The iPod threatens the free flow of intellectual property

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:34