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Stage Moves
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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You all know the Windmill from Pete Townshend. You know the Duck Walk from Chuck Berry but there are so many more stage moves named after musician...

Bought by WKPW, Harford Community Radio, KTRL, WYAP, KHNS and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Serial Killers
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week in 1819, a serial killer nicknamed, The Axeman, terrorized New Orleans by writing a letter to the newspaper that he loved Jazz music. If...

Bought by WMTNradio, WYAP, KHNS, KWIT, KTRL and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Thanksgiving 2022
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This is our annual Thanksgiving show. This year we'll play artists who contributed recipes to the book Eat Like a Rock Star. We will also talk tu...

Bought by KHNS, KSRQ, KWIT, WOUB, KTRL and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
225: Bees vs Mirrors
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Fresh off the research presses in early 2022, a new study on how honey bees navigate the world while they fly. Turns out still water and mirrors ar...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jul 13, 2022
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 1
219: Wife Selling
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In the 16 and 1700s, wife selling was a type of marital separation that people did when they couldn't afford divorce. It was shaming, mysoginistic,...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: May 31, 2022
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 1
214: Sky Puppies
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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While baby Egyptian fruit bats start life getting carried around, once they get too heavy, their mothers leave them in a cave while they forage. It...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: May 13, 2022
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
208: Thunderclappers
From: Trace Kerr
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It wasn't just fame and glory that inspired Lewis and Clark's expedition across this great land. It took a "medication" so powerful that people wou...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 04:58
207: Cockroach Personalities
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Anything that scatters when you turn on the light...does it have a personality? Is the cockroach urge to run an indicator of a bold or timid world ...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
206 part one: Goldfish FOV
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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You've heard of an ROV, a remotely operated vehicle. But did you ever think you'd see an FOV, a fish operated vehicle? Israeli scientists have atte...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 04:56
  • Purchases: 1
193: Navy Seals
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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The US military uses more than boats to protect our Naval bases. This episode brings a whole new meaning to "Navy seals".

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jan 10, 2022
  • Length: 09:30
  • Purchases: 1
190: Beard Power
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Those of you with a thick beard, that hair does more than make you look suave or rugged. Turns out, a beard might be protecting your face. There's ...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jan 10, 2022
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 1
186: Sudden Genius
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Imagine waking up from a nap to discover that you have the ability to compose music in your head. What a shock that would be! There are people who ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 11, 2021
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 2
Magical Monsoon Moisture
From: KXCI
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is a rambling episode about the summer monsoon in the borderlands of southeastern Arizona. I know that I’ve rambled on like this for many year...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 04:45
Turtles, Dogs, Plants
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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I’m so lucky to live in the land of the ornate box turtle (Terrepene ornata luteola). For me it has been a wonderful journey with turtles, from my ...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 04:52
Playing Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Board games about climate solutions inspire action. 4 game designers tell their stories.

Bought by WFHB, WFHB, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KICI Iowa City, and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 12, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Songs Based on the News
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Earlier this year, we did a shows on the topics of folk songs and while researching that show, we found a lot of songs outside the folk genre that ...

Bought by WYAP, KWIT, WOUB, KSRQ, KTRL and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
162: penguin Guano & Giggle Gas
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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There's a strange connection between King penguins, one of their favorite islands, and Nitrous Oxide gas.

Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 2
160: Fab Female Frog Lungs
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Imagine if you could block out loud noises at a party by taking a really deep breath. That's how the female American Green Tree Frog manages to fil...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 1
158: Spider Pulley
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Arachnophobes BEWARE! Imagine a spider that uses special silk to lift something that's 50 times bigger than itself. There is a video! You must wat...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 04:59
156: Smell This
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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What is that weird smell? It's called trimethylamine (TMA) and for most of us it stinks like rotten fish. For a small percentage of people it smell...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 05:04
155: Gallon of PB&J
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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What if we burned calories the same way cars use gas for fuel? Amy fell down the comparison hole trying to figure out the "car calories" for humans...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 04:54
150: The Amazing Shrew
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Who knew a tiny animal could contain such a multitude of cool facts? For our 150th episode we dive into the life of the shrew. It's a phenomenal cr...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2021
  • Length: 05:00
147: Knitting Spies
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In WWI and WWII women were super sneaky and ingenious using their yarn and knitting needles to covertly transport coded messages. That's right, tod...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 1
134: Glowing Squirrels
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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An accidental discovery by scientist Jonathan G. Martin lead to a surprise at his bird feeder. Turns out Flying Squirrels in the United States have...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 04:53
  • Purchases: 1
ohm
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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An engineer will feel at home when surrounded by many an ohm. This is Episode 90 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fas...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2020
  • Length: 06:16