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- Added: Mar 26, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Experts say that as population and water use rise, the world's fresh water supplies are shrinking. Then why don’t we desalinate more sea water and…...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Mar 26, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
An ecosystem is like a finely woven garment -- pull out one thread, and the entire thing might come apart. An unraveling, of sorts, happened off th...
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- Added: Mar 26, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Are you worried about global warming? Well, here’s an idea. How about rocketing one trillion miniature umbrellas into orbit somewhere between us ...
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- Added: Mar 26, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
This documentary tells the moving story of Tucker Stilley, a remarkable spirit who, in his early forties, was diagnosed with ALS (known as Lou Gehr...
Bought by WFIU
- Added: Feb 28, 2010
- Length: 59:59
- Purchases: 1
Jet propulsion doesn't always make you fast...Take, for example, the Antarctic scallop. These bivalve mollusks shouldn't even be able to move. Yet ...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Why did the salamander cross the road? The same reason that would motivate most creatures: To have sex, of course.
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Is there a sex-therapist in the house? Apparently, China's pandas could use some help.
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
What does rain forest conservation have to do with preventing malaria? In the Amazon rainforest, the means to these two ends are virtually one in t...
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Crispy noodles: They're tasty, and...fuel-efficient! That is, if someday we're driving hydrogen-fueled cars.
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Ever think to yourself, “California and Iceland sure have a lot in common”? Probably not. But if you dig beneath the surface, they both harbor lots...
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
The environmentally polite thing to do in the future might be to give your battery the flu. That's right: Batteries may soon run on a virus.
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Gassing up new family cars with green, clean hydrogen is edging closer to reality.
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
A playwright's personal journey backward and forward in time captured in a series of poignant and humorous essays on the nature of time, mind, exis...
- Added: Feb 12, 2010
- Length: 50:17
- Added: Feb 04, 2010
- Length: 29:57
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jan 28, 2010
- Length: 26:38
- Purchases: 1
What would you do when a seemingly unhappy or self entertaining bull is running full speed, headed right for you… and what does your pet mean to yo...
Bought by 'The Sea'
- Added: Jan 26, 2010
- Length: 29:02
- Purchases: 1
To prepare for climate change, sometimes it’s good to get down to the bare bones. Fish bones, that is.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jan 22, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
“Pygmy possum” and “giant rat.” They sound like rock groups, but no! These are two mammals new to science found recently in a pristine jungle in th...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jan 22, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
We burn a lot of fossil fuels, and many of us would like to curb our dependence on foreign oil. Ocean tides and crashing waves could be at least a ...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jan 22, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
What is the importance forgetting has played throughout human history? What will be the effects on society, relationships and humanity now that so...
- Added: Jan 12, 2010
- Length: 58:02
A frozen zoo...for all animals? Well, no one’s making the Panamanian golden frog shiver in its terrarium. Instead, this is a unique way that the Sa...
- Added: Dec 18, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
Here’s something that probably won’t be in the Guinness Book of World Records. But maybe it should be since it could impact more people than anyth...
- Added: Dec 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Prof. Daniel Everett discussed linguistics, the Piraha, and religion in Don't Sleep There are Snakes.
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Dec 09, 2009
- Length: 30:19
- Purchases: 1
Cannabis, commonly known as marijuana has caused considerable debate and political discussion, but just what is in this plant which creates such co...
- Added: Dec 08, 2009
- Length: 28:34
