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Constant Wonder - Pho-nomenal!
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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An exploration of delectable foods and the people who make them: pho, Italian grandmothers' pasta, and preserved sourdough.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 15, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 3
Constant Wonder - Tomatoes That Leave Earth Behind
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Hydroponically grown foods may feed a space colony one day.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jul 12, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 1
Constant Wonder - Flavor: More Than a Matter of Taste
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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COVID-19 reminded us how much flavor enriches our lives.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 3
Constant Wonder - Tasteblind, Seeing Music in Color
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Topic 1: Danielle Reed explores the wide genetic differences in taste buds. Topic 2: Musician Annie Dickinson sees music in color.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 16, 2021
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 1
Constant Wonder - Truffle Hounds, Fungipedia
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Topic 1: Why truffles are the world's most expensive fungus; Topic 2: The extraordinary world of fungi

  • Added: Oct 12, 2021
  • Length: 52:51
Constant Wonder - Labor Day 2021
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Topic: How Beef Changed America

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WPCA-LP, KUHF, and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 54:42
  • Purchases: 4
GN_3.36_Healthy Wealthy Yogurt
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A multi-billion dollar yogurt company is sharing the wealth with their employees.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_4.19_Leaf Ware
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
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Leaves are made into compostable, disposable dishware.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Farm Worker to Farm Owner
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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There’s a shift happening in American agriculture that has been hard to spot. Farm workers have entered mainstream consciousness through coverage o...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Business of Elvers
From: Matt Frassica
Caption: Dustin Young holds glass eels worth $2,500 per pound, Credit: Matt Frassica
Why is a tiny fish worth thousands per pound?

  • Added: May 08, 2018
  • Length: 09:27
Caffeine Withdrawal Headaches
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
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A listener asks: Why do I get a headache if I go without coffee?

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, KENW, and WLPR


  • Added: Dec 30, 2017
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 5
Wine for Cats!
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: The Wine Fellers Radio Program
Caption: The Wine Fellers
Try Wine for Cats and Meet Sarah & Arthur of Purr Cat Cafe! It's also our Quarterly Semi-Biannual Begathon Episode!

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Apr 24, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fisheries Recovery
From: Susanne Bard
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A new report finds that global fisheries could boost both sustainability and annual catch.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WLPR , and KENW


  • Added: Apr 05, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 4
Bread Mold Battery
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Could fungi be a key to safer and longer lasting lithium ion batteries?

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WLPR , and KENW


  • Added: Mar 30, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
Disease Fighting Beer Hops
From: Susanne Bard
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Scientists are isolating and synthesizing the chemical compounds that make hops bitter, and studying their medicinal properties.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WLPR , and KENW


  • Added: Mar 15, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
Dinner at the Patel Motel (Gravy Ep. 33)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
Caption: Vimal Patel cooks inside -- and outside -- a room in the Day's Inn he operates in North Charleston. , Credit: Photo by Wade Spees for the Post & Courier.
We stay at them around the South and across the United States: Day’s Inn. Best Western. Quality Inn. But there is a food world behind the scenes at...

Bought by KVLU and WABE


  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 28:49
  • Purchases: 2
Wine’s Fruity “Nose”
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
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You can thank fruit flies for your favorite wine’s fruity “nose”.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, KSFR, Radio Baha'i, WLGI and more


  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 7
Pilgrim Fathers: How the Thanksgiving We Know and Love was Manufactured
From: Hold That Thought
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Historian Mark Valeri examines the truths about the first Thanksgiving and the myths of American identity we have created around the event.

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Nov 13, 2015
  • Length: 14:52
  • Purchases: 1
Defining "Local" in Colorado
From: Hannah Leigh Myers
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A look at the broad use and various meanings of the term "local" on Colorado products

  • Added: Jul 10, 2015
  • Length: 04:53
Fructose & Hunger
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Chemical structure of fructose., Credit: (That kiwi guy/Wikipedia)
Does the sugar fructose fool us into eating more calories than we need?

Bought by WXDU and KMXT


  • Added: Dec 11, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
Meatless Moralism
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Ed sits down with historian Adam Shprintzen to discuss the 19th-century Americans who saw a vegetarian diet as a powerful tool of moral reform, one...

Bought by XRAY.fm and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 08:45
  • Purchases: 2
Yaupon Tea
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Yaupon tea is brewed from the leaves of Ilex vomitaria., Credit: Mary Vaux Wolcott
Can you get a caffeine fix without growing your carbon footprint?

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Wine's Fruity Nose - Thanksgiving 2014
From: Susanne Bard
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You can thank fruit flies for your favorite wine’s fruity “nose”.

Bought by WVTF, WKSU, and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 23, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
Lactose Intolerance Genetics
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: The practice of cheesemaking goes back many centuries in various cultures around the world. (A page from the 14th century Medieval handbook Taccuino Sanitatis from the Biblioteca Casanatense in Rome, Italy)
Central Europeans developed a dairying culture at least 4,000 years before they evolved the ability to digest milk.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1