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179: Spontaneous Combustion
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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This episode is marked explicit because we go into details that might lead to a person catching on fire. It's interesting science and we don't get ...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 06:52
  • Purchases: 1
177: Knocker Uppers
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Stop laughing Americans, it's not what you think. Starting with the industrial revolution in the UK, people were employed as human alarm clocks, wa...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 2
Band Logos
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week, we will tell you the story behind some of the best known band logos. From Dancing Bears to the Van Halen wings belonging to someone els...

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


  • Added: Aug 01, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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
Tim Sanders – "A Silicon Valley ‘Secret’ of Success"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Love is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends Tim Sanders, the author of a “Love is the Killer App: How to Win Business and In...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Won't Play in Concert
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week we will discuss stories about bands that won't play their hit in concert. Often the band or artist has a decent reason but sometimes it ...

Bought by WYAP, KWIT, KSRQ, WOUB, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Trigger Finger
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Musicians, especially stringed instrument musicians, have a better than 80 percent chance of developing Trigger Finger. I know. I had it and at t...

Bought by KSRQ, KWIT, WOUB, Harford Community Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Jun 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
176: Math Pain
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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If you're like Trace, the thought of math makes you want to run and hide; that anxiety, that tightness in your chest, the weird shooting pains (wai...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jun 14, 2021
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
175: Angels' Glow
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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It's the Civil War and you're in the medical tent. It's dark and the man next to you has wounds glowing an eerie blue. Turns out, the men who had t...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jun 14, 2021
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 2
173: Mushroom Lightning
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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There's a long tradition of Japanese folklore around the possible relationship between large mushroom harvests and lightning. Researchers decided t...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jun 14, 2021
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 2
415: How hard is your Kombucha, 6/18/2021
From: One Tan Hand Productions
Series: Sips, Suds, & Smokes
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SUDS Episode – Come and get healthy, and hammered. Our first Kombucha episode and an epic blind tasting. The taste profiles are quite broad but ma...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2021
  • Length: 59:51
ZPOYH: Strawberry Cobb Salad, 8/5/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Zorba Paster on Your Health
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Strawberry Cobb Salad THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS: * (Segment 1) Are Pets the New Probiotics? * (Segment 3) New Kids Fruit Juice Guidelines

  • Added: Jun 02, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
167: Wormnado
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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When out on a walk, Tiffanie Fisher spotted a giant ring of worms and snapped a picture. She posted the photo in the hopes that someone could expla...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 2
165: Silently Screaming Tomato
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In a pitched battle against voracious tomato fruit worms, (aka. corn earworms or cotton bollworm) tomato plants have one sneaky defense...a wasp. I...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 2
164: Bumblebee Tunnel
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Researcher Sridhar Ravi of UNSW Canberra looks to the humble bumblebee to answer questions about how to program a more nimble drone. The way he and...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 1
Bad Managers Part Two
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Welcome to week two of Bad Managers. There are simply so many stories of managers messing over their clients that we had to make two shows out o...

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


  • Added: May 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Bad Managers Part One
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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It's a well known music trope that managers often do NOT do well by their clients. In fact, it happens so often, we're going to do two shows out o...

Bought by WYAP, KWIT, KSRQ, WOUB, and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: May 16, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
2119: Seinfeld: A Retrospective + A Conversation with Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, 5/13/2021
From: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Series: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
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This week on On Story we’ll hear from Seinfeld writer David Mandel. And later will hear from screenwriting duo Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewsk...

  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
Vaccines
From: KSLU
Series: STEM Science Radio
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Rhett Allain and Adam Cortez discuss the science behind the vaccines and why they work

  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 11:59
Contrafact and Contrafactum
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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We were in a conversation about musicians reusing their own lyrics. We found so many examples that I though there had to be a name for this. Ther...

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


  • Added: May 02, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Smashed Guitars
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Phoebe Bridgers smashed her guitar on Saturday Night Live back in February. It was a stunt for sure but then it sold for over $100,000 at a GLAAD ...

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


  • Added: Apr 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Musicians on Sesame Street
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Just for fun, we collected a bunch of musician's appearances on Sesame Street. The sonigs are nice and short so we were able to play many more son...

Bought by KSRQ, WNYO, WYAP, WOUB, and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
NFTs
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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NFT stands for Non Fungible Token. It is a method of proving that a digital thing is the first copy. It works somewhat like a Cryptocurrency. An...

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


  • Added: Apr 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
What Was the First Music Video?
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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(Please note - we usually post on Sunday but are posting this a early due to a committment - thanks) So, what was the first Music Video? I don't ...

Bought by KTRL, WNYO, KWIT, KSRQ, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Comedy -recorded 4/2003
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Comedy is very differently understood by each generation. My guests from the older, middle and younger generations compare their perspectives.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 24:24

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