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Andrea Harris
From: KXCI
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I am a senior at the University of Arizona studying East Asian Studies and Molecular and Cellular Biology.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2017
  • Length: 03:58
Guest: Robert Scovill / Watson
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week we talk about how much we want computers to take over music creation.

Bought by KSKQ, WOUB, KSRQ, and 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT


  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
MP3? WAV? CODEC? What Are They?
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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It's an exploration of digital compression this week on Rock School.

Bought by WOUB, KSKQ, WYAP, 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, KKWE Niijii Radio and more


  • Added: May 31, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Hope for Pluto—Should We Re-Redefine Planets?
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Enhanced-color image of planet (?) Pluto, Credit: JHUAPL/SWRI/NASA
Planetary geologist Kirby Runyon is lead author of an abstract that proposes a new, geophysical definition of what a planet is. It would grant our...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KRZA and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Running Before the Sun: Astronomer Jay Pasachoff
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Astronomer and author Jay Pasachoff, Credit: Jay Pasachoff
No one is more excited about eclipses than famed solar astronomer and author Jay Pasachoff. He looks forward to the total solar eclipse in August ...

Bought by KMUD, KFCF FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Papayas in December (half hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Small farms can now grow raspberries, blackberries, ginger, or even tropical fruits like papayas in December without the need of expensive greenhou...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, KVSC, KKRN, and WLIW


  • Added: Dec 11, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 5
The Spotify Database
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week we explore the big data of Spotify and showcase music from President Obama's playlist.

Bought by KSKQ, WOUB, WYAP, and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 22, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Rob Manning and Getting Down To Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: A six-meter Supersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (SIAD) is spin tested in a JPL clean room., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Landing on Mars is hard, and the bigger you are, the harder it gets. Rob Manning returns to tell us about one of NASA’s best hopes for getting much...

Bought by KMUD, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, and KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 12, 2015
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 5
Rushdie Explains India
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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The Twitter account "RushdieExplainsIndia" has attracted 130,000 followers in a very short time. However it isn't owned by Salman Rushdie, but by R...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Planetary Radio Live: LightSail Countdown Begins!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Bill Nye at the LightSail countdown celebration., Credit: Loren Roberts
LightSail, the Planetary Society’s innovative solar sail cubesat, will ride into space on the huge SpaceX Falcon Heavy, now in development. Bill N...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jul 15, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
Rock Star Patents
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Some savvy musicians created and own patents for items used in the music industry. A few of these innovators own multiple patents and make a bit o...

Bought by KSKQ, KFOK-LPFM, Aspen Public Radio, and KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 18, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Octopus's Garden -- Groks Science Show 2013-08-21
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Biologists Carrie Albertin and Judit Pungor join us to discuss a strange and wonderful animal, the octopus.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KPVL, and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Aug 22, 2013
  • Length: 25:57
  • Purchases: 3
Source Audio Gear Review
From: MEEP! (the band)
Series: The MEEP! Show
Caption: The Soundblox Pro Multiwave Bass Distortion, Credit: Source Audio
The MEEP! Show reviews gear from Source Audio.

  • Added: Aug 19, 2013
  • Length: 28:35
A telegram for you...
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Central Telegraph Office in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
The telegram was 163 years old in India, and only recently has the reliable old machine been put away.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 16, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Helping oysters help us -- Groks Science Show 2013-06-19
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. George Waldbusser discusses oysters and ocean acidification.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KPVL, and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Jun 20, 2013
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 3
28: Early Electronic Music
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
Caption: A public domain image of the telharmonium in 1897
There's a man who's spent his whole life developing his own library of Electronic music examples.

Bought by Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Jun 13, 2013
  • Length: 20:32
  • Purchases: 1
Staccato Cello Fortress
From: Judlyne Lilly-Gibson
Caption: Cello Fortress Logo, Credit: Joost van Dongen
Cello Fortress us a video game with four players playing against a live Cellist improvising notes to defend the fortress.

  • Added: May 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:22
Jack and the Microbiome -- Groks Science Show 2013-01-16
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Microbial ecologist Jack Gilbert joins us to discuss the Earth Microbiome Project.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KPVL, WRNC-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: Jan 16, 2013
  • Length: 31:58
  • Purchases: 4
Fire together, wire together -- Groks Science Show 2013-01-02
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Jason MacLean joined us to discuss this Hebbian plasticity and the past, present, and future of research on neuronal networks.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KMXT, WRNC-LP, and KPVL


  • Added: Jan 02, 2013
  • Length: 27:21
  • Purchases: 4
The Guardian's Science Weekly: What's Beagle 2 doing now?
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Caption: Beagle 2, Credit: Nasa
Colin Pillinger, the man who lost a spacecraft, tells us whether he still holds out hope of finding Beagle 2; Lester Brown discusses food bubbles; ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 06, 2011
  • Length: 39:03
  • Purchases: 1
The Guardian's Science Weekly: AAAS 2011, drugs and the sound of the stars
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Caption: The AAAS website, Credit: AAAS.org
The highlights of this year's AAAS science festival in Washington DC, professor David Nutt explains his latest research on reclassifying drugs; plu...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 27, 2011
  • Length: 36:11
  • Purchases: 1
The Guardian's Science Weekly: The birds and the bees (x-rated version)
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Caption: Sex poster at Natural History Museum, Credit: Andy Duckworth
WARNING: contains frank details about animal sex... please listen and approve before broadcasting. We reveal nature's most bizarre and intimate se...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 13, 2011
  • Length: 39:24
  • Purchases: 1
The Guardian's Science Weekly: Ham the astrochimp and the LHC keeps going
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Caption: Ham at work, Credit: Nasa
It's 50 years since the first American went into space; why the Large Hadron Collider isn't going to shut down for a year as planned; and we trick ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 07, 2011
  • Length: 34:10
  • Purchases: 1
The Guardian's Science Weekly: How blogs are changing science
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Caption: Science Online, Credit: scienceonline2011.com
Recorded at Science Online 2011 in North Carolina, we take an extended look at the world of blogging and its role in modern science; plus, who is B...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 21, 2011
  • Length: 38:50
  • Purchases: 1
We're Not Couch Potatoes: TV Fans Get Politically Active Online
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: A fan protests in front of Fox Studios in Century City, Los Angeles., Credit: nohodamon/Flickr
When TV writers went on strike in 2007, the couch potatoes got active. We look back at the writers strike, and see how the largest political force ...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2009
  • Length: 29:00