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Dr. Holly Golecki, a professor in the Bioengineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, talks about using soft robotics ...
- Added: Sep 04, 2023
- Length: 48:22
In 1898, a farmer dug up a stone engraved with a Nordic language in a field in Kensington, Minnesota. People have been arguing about it ever since...
- Added: Feb 02, 2023
- Length: 25:48
We’ve all heard of MN nice, well get ready for Minnesota ‘N Ice, a special Culture Clique series where we’ll take a look at the way Minnesotans and...
- Added: Mar 30, 2022
- Length: 30:53
Dr. Bob Curran joins us from Ireland to discuss the legend of the Green Man. The Green Man turns up in many cultures, from the same eras, around th...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: May 02, 2021
- Length: 57:24
- Purchases: 1
If I total my car, you see,
I'll just call it an RUD.
This is Episode 91 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating...
- Added: Sep 10, 2020
- Length: 06:34
Is there a standard I may have missed?
Time to consult the engineers at NIST.
This is Episode 88 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show ...
- Added: Jul 19, 2020
- Length: 06:50
Peter Pan is not supposed to grow up, but he has grown from a symbol of immaturity to an iconic inner-child. Either way Captain Hook got a raw deal...
Bought by KPIP-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 27, 2019
- Length: 22:27
- Purchases: 3
A modern-day nativity story that takes place in a garage on Suitcase Alley in Richmond, Virginia's Fan District.
- Added: Dec 09, 2019
- Length: 24:24
In 2005, an artist in Brooklyn went on eBay, bought two acres of land in a remote part of Utah, and declared it a de facto sovereign nation: Zaqist...
- Added: Oct 04, 2018
- Length: 33:50
Our wars abroad and our wars at home. This week on the show, acclaimed graphic artist Molly Crabapple and Syrian journalist Marwan Hisham join Laur...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Jul 11, 2018
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Always think positive, unless you're doing negative testing. This is Episode 67 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fasci...
Bought by Enchantment Radio
- Added: Jun 19, 2018
- Length: 04:25
- Purchases: 1
Why Would Somebody Insist We Yank Goats? That's not what WYSIWYG stands for. This is Episode 53 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on...
Bought by WETD
- Added: Jan 28, 2018
- Length: 04:35
- Purchases: 1
Band Box Records was a 1950's rarity, a woman-owned recording business. More exceptional, Vicki Morosan was a Romanian immigrant making a daily bet...
- Added: Sep 25, 2017
- Length: 03:56:19
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Oct 12, 2014
- Length: 01:46
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Sep 22, 2014
- Length: 01:46
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Sep 14, 2014
- Length: 01:43
Reese Erlich unravels a family tale and explores old wine making as he opens a mysterious magnum of Sebastiani Barbera.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 30, 2014
- Length: 05:19
- Purchases: 1
Strangers on a train, partners in crime - the two great art forms of the twentieth century meet. As film composers incorporated new sounds into th...
- Added: Dec 09, 2013
- Length: 29:01
Explore the hypothetical solutions to real issues caused by technology.
- Added: Sep 19, 2013
- Length: 13:20
Before Prohibition hit, the New York mafia had another racket that netted millions of dollars in profits. The name of the game? Sweet, sweet baby a...
- Added: Jan 10, 2013
- Length: 09:56
For the first week of March (3/2): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a nightclub that used music to help break down barri...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the past ten years, drug cartels in Mexico have been worshiping a sort of grim repress, a robed skeleton lady known as Santa Muerte, or Saint D...
Bought by KENW, KUOW, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 15, 2012
- Length: 02:28
- Purchases: 3
How our brains age, and why some people manage to cheat death and stay sharp.
- Added: Oct 20, 2010
- Length: 13:00
- Purchases: 2
Treating Parkinson's with a vibrating chair; reading the rumblings of the earth; and a hip-hop battle of cosmic proportions.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 05, 2010
- Length: 13:00
- Purchases: 1
What do colors sound like? Sound and light are both waves or vibrations, but light is vibrating much faster. The frequencies of the visible colors ...
Bought by KGOU, PRX to iTunes, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 21, 2010
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 3