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Humans relate better to robots that avert their eyes at well-chosen moments.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Gulaab Gang Poster
This is a story about two films that are in the eye of a peculiar storm in India. One is called Gulaab Gang. The other is called Gulaabi Gang with...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Caption: Elephants respond to Maasai male playback., Credit: courtesy of Graeme Shannon
Elephants can discriminate between human voices that pose a threat to their safety and those that do not.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2014
  • Length: 01:01
Caption: Which robot do you prefer? One that looks like a machine, or one with lifelike features? , Credit: (Left: Phasmatisnox/CC BY-SA 3.0 ; Right Gnsin/CC BY3.0, on Wikipedia)
Different cultures have different expectations and preferences when it comes to robot design.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: The Tsaobis Baboon Project in Namibia., Credit: Alecia Carter/Tsaobis Baboon Porject, CC-BY
Shy baboons are less likely to put what they learn from watching others to use.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Robot toy box., Credit: Julia Fink
Could a robot toy box help get your kids to clean up?

  • Added: Mar 09, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Young satellite tagged loggerhead turtle released off the southeast Florida coast., Credit: Jim Abernethy/NMFS Permit 1551
Scientists are using satellites to track the mysterious migrations of young sea turtles.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Grey Seal., Credit: (Mateusz Wlodarczyk/Wikipedia)
Melting sea ice allows marine mammal species that were once isolated to intermingle – and share diseases.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
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Drone aircraft could help teach endangered California condors where to find food.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2014
  • Length: 01:02
Caption: Why is this metal rack in a microwave?
If metal isn’t supposed to go in microwave ovens, why do some of them have metal racks?

Bought by KREV-LP


  • Added: Aug 23, 2013
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Grapefruit and some medications don't mix., Credit: Wikipedia
Grapefruit can interact in potentially dangerous ways with a variety of prescription medications.

Bought by WXDU and KREV-LP


  • Added: Aug 16, 2013
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Lena Horne
In this short feature Rabbi Neil Blumofe talks about the revolutionary life and work of Lena Horne.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 08, 2013
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 1
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Hudson Valley Youth in a new gardening project

  • Added: Apr 02, 2009
  • Length: 01:45
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Leaving a green home, staying in a hotel and being green.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2008
  • Length: 04:00
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Holy algae, batfish, we need you to clean up that reef! When researchers wanted to know what fish on Australia's Great Barrier Reef was best at rem...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Oct 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Apparently, China's pandas could use some help. It seems that some of the males have lost their moves, their mojo, their get down and boogy...well ...

Bought by KOSU and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Discussing water conservation

  • Added: Oct 08, 2008
  • Length: 04:00
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The next time your significant other complains about your stinky socks, just tell them you're doing scientific research!

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  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Domestic tranquility has its place, but we all need a little walk on the wild side from time to time. And, apparently, the same goes for bees...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Now here's a ride Little Miss Sunshine and her eccentric family would have appreciated...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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A profile of rock producer, ambient musician and music conceptualist Brian Eno, for his 60th birthday

  • Added: May 07, 2008
  • Length: 03:30
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The kraken is a fictitious Scandinavian sea monster...But this fiction is borrowed from fact. There really is a giant squid called the Humboldt.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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i-Pods powered by Kool-Aid? They might be just around the corner.

Bought by KMXT and WEPS


  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 2