PRX - Pieces for Tone: Esoteric
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Smallpox… the word sounds harmless enough, but this “speckled monster” was the scourge of Western Europe throughout the 1700s. Why did it disappear...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSQM 91.5 FM
- Added: Apr 24, 2020
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
Viruses cycle through many names. Recently, the World Health Organization has limited the types of words used to label viruses. However, these rule...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSQM 91.5 FM
- Added: Apr 14, 2020
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
The bubonic plague forced a young Isaac Newton from his studies. How did he turn catastrophe into a year of wonders? For one, he didn’t have Netflix!
Bought by KSQM 91.5 FM
- Added: Apr 06, 2020
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 1
2020 has felt like one disaster after another. Is there light at the end of this tunnel? Luckily, history suggests calamities spark innovations tha...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSQM 91.5 FM
- Added: Apr 06, 2020
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
Author Erik Davis takes us on a weird, wild ride through the gnostic/network experiences of Philip K. Dick and Robert Anton Wilson in the early 197...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jun 07, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
If I read through a thousand invention patents, I hope I'd learn something, too. This is Episode 63 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal sho...
Bought by Enchantment Radio
- Added: May 07, 2018
- Length: 05:57
- Purchases: 1
Some say that books – that is, the printed, non-digital variety – are destined for the trash heap. Call it the Age of the Kindle.
Bought by WEKU
- Added: Feb 24, 2011
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
