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Futures For Future Species
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Can a stock market tool save a species? Conservationists often struggle to project animal populations because they hinge on complicated, interdepen...

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Pizzeria Takes The LEED
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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When the Moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, it's the environment! At least it is at Pizza Fusion -- a chain of gourmet pizzerias.

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Dissolving Golf Balls
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Golf balls away, my boys, golf balls away...For sailors at sea, seems there's nothing more relaxing than hitting a few golf balls off the deck of a...

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Lava Flows Are For The Birds
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Raising endangered birds...on a volcano? It has benefits -- or, so says Alan Lieberman, head of the Keauhou Bird Conservation Center, perched on Ha...

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Car Wash
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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That classic American pastime, washing the family car, might soon get washed down the drain.

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Tailpipe Carbon Recycling
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Imagine a conventional, gas-powered car, with no carbon emissions. I mean, absolutely zero. In the cartoon world, the only way to do that was a ban...

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
A Better Jet Fuel
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Ever wonder what jet fuel is made of? So do scientists from four universities working on a $7.5 million project funded by the Air Force and an airc...

Bought by KKRN and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jan 27, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
75 - Sarah asks, "Can I fax from my computer?"
From: WJCT
Series: Ask Deemable Tech (3:30)
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Sarah needs to fax a document, but doesn't have a fax machine or a land line. Ray and Tom help her find a way to do it over the internet instead in...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, and WYAP


  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 3
Teen Girl Loves Computer Science, But Struggles To Fit In
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive: Summer 2014
Caption: 16-year-old Ifrah Abshir says she is in a committed relationship with Computer Science. But she still struggles to fit into the tech industry. , Credit: KUOW Photo/Ahlaam Ibraahim
Sixteen year old Ifrah Abshir had a rocky start with computer science, but she eventually fell in love with it. The tech industry has been trying t...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 05:33
Life on Mars?
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Elektro the Moto-Man and his Little Dog Sparko, created by Westinghouse Electric Company for the 1939 World’s Fair., Credit: New York City Public Library
Maria Lane, author of Geographies of Mars, relates what Percival Lowell observed on the red planet. This segment comes from BackStory's episode "Th...

Bought by Radio Newark and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 09:02
  • Purchases: 2
The Power Of BOB
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Everything's bigger in Texas. Even BOB! "BOB" stands for "Big 'ol Battery." The nickname conferred by locals in Presidio, Texas, to an experimental...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Dec 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Cleaning Up With Mushrooms
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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His name is Paul Stamets, but you can call him the Mushroom Man. Stamets is a "mycologist," or mushroom expert. He lives on Washington State's Olym...

Bought by KALH, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Dec 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Beetle Feet Inspire Technology
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Ever been told you have feet of clay? How about feet of a beetle? Well now you can take that one as a compliment.

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Dec 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Reproducing The White Rhino
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Veterinarians at the San Diego Zoo who breed white rhinoceroses are finding themselves, well, on the horns of a dilemma. Their female white rhinos ...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Dec 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Environmentally Friendly Public Buildings
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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What is green and gold and read all over? Give up? It's Southern California's Santa Monica Public Library.

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Dec 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Waves Of Energy
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Interest in developing new sources of renewable energy is on the rise, and scientists at Florida Atlantic University are going with the flow.

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Dec 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Mystery Cat
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Deep in a Borneo rainforest, a mysterious catlike creature pads across the jungle floor. It has dark red fur, a bushy tail, and could be the first ...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Dec 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Hydrogen Fuel Cells
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Hydrogen fuel cells could make for a better car. Proponents say if we can get past the technology's many hurdles, at a cost people can afford, they...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Dec 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Hydrogen And Egg Shells
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Engineers at Ohio State University are cracking up over a new way of separating gasses. And they've possibly created a new process to produce a cle...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Dec 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Recycling Wind Turbines
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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With wind turbines popping up all over the world, wind power is quickly becoming one of today's most popular renewable energy sources. But in the m...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Dec 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
74 - Madelyn asks, "How can I create a photo slideshow in Windows?"
From: WJCT
Series: Ask Deemable Tech (3:30)
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Madelyn is looking for an easy way to create a slideshow video for her friends birthday. Tom and Ray help her out in this week's Ask Deemable Tech.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, and WYAP


  • Added: Dec 17, 2014
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 3
73 - Brady asks, "Should my electronics be afraid of lightning?"
From: WJCT
Series: Ask Deemable Tech (3:30)
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Brady is worried about his computer and other electronics being damaged during a thunderstorm. Tom and Ray give him some tips in this week's Ask De...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, and WYAP


  • Added: Dec 02, 2014
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 3
New Plastics From Old Paint
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Have you ever bathed in paint? Canary yellow or baby blue? Well of course you haven't! But almost three million Americans could have last year, sin...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Nov 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
RBI Highlights Conservation Needs
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Get in and get out! It works for the Navy Seals. So why not do the same with a crack team of scientists?

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Nov 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Electric Fans For Cars
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Getting better gas mileage for the ride doesn't have to mean hydrogen fuel cells, or a fancy hybrid. One solution already exists right under the ho...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Nov 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2