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An introduction to this series about engineering vocabulary, phrases, acronyms, jargon, and slang.
- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 03:14
- Purchases: 2
How can sound heal a body? With our guides, Susan Rogers—who recorded albums for Prince and David Byrne—and hypnotherapist Daniel Ryan, we explore ...
- Added: Jun 15, 2017
- Length: 35:28
Outside/In takes you on a journey to a 10-x10 plot and uncover the secrets you’d never know to find. Today, a close up on a spot you may otherwise ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 21, 2016
- Length: 11:21
- Purchases: 1
This is Eat The Invaders - our occasional segment where we take a bite out of invasive species populations. On the menu today, one of the scariest,...
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- Added: Oct 21, 2016
- Length: 16:07
- Purchases: 1
There are a lot of invasive species vying for the public’s attention, especially in the Great Lakes. So researchers trying to raise awareness about...
- Added: Jul 29, 2016
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 2
As the Zika virus spreads throughout the Western Hemisphere, dozens of medical epidemiologists are following its course and developing strategies t...
- Added: Jun 16, 2016
- Length: 06:31
Animals are easy to love - most of them. But it takes a special breed of human to fall for one particular type animal.
- Added: Jan 15, 2016
- Length: 08:18
When you look up at the sky the last thing you probably think about is the law. But space is exactly where the next frontier of law is being played...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KALW, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 24, 2015
- Length: 14:42
- Purchases: 3
A sound rich narrative interview with former Washington state park ranger and storyteller Jody Maberry
- Added: Aug 07, 2015
- Length: 17:53
Dan Burgard is an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Puget Sound, and not long after Washington state voted to legalize cannabis...
- Added: Aug 01, 2015
- Length: 10:08
Joanna Ebenstein, founder of the Morbid Anatomy Museum, tells her father, Bob, about the childhood...
Bought by WEZU, Radio Newark, and PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 02:04
- Purchases: 3
THIS WEEK: Is it a bird…or a cowboy boot? Help is on the way for the Wood Thrush, but will it arrive in time? And we answer a listener's question a...
- Added: Aug 14, 2014
- Length: 30:00
The final episode of the series looks at the future of Irish experimental music. We find out how techniques like ‘Live Coding’ (where computer prog...
- Added: Jul 08, 2014
- Length: 30:01
Drums, Wind Chimes and Meteorites are all forms of percussion in the Rhythm Discovery Center in Indianapolis.
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Betsy. Buttercup. Bambi. Those are not Disney characters but three of the eight female bison that live at the bison paddock in Golden Gate Park. Sa...
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- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 1
There’s a national conversation about promoting science education for students, but what about science after graduation? Allison Quantz has the sto...
- Added: Jan 31, 2014
- Length: 02:39
- Purchases: 3
Near dusk, you can often find Shirley Doell at Oakland Civic Center, staring at the tops of skyscrapers through her big telescope. But she isn’t sp...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 15:48
A Chicagoan deals with an interesting beach situation and Londoners deal with a growing population of parakeets.
- Added: Sep 26, 2013
- Length: 23:07
In 1997, three men created the 'most wanted' and 'most unwanted' songs from completed surveys. Technically, they should be the best and worst songs...
- Added: Jun 06, 2013
- Length: 18:45
A look at the trend of developing rapidly-aged whiskeys.
Bought by Marfa Public Radio, KLCC, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 04:07
- Purchases: 3
You might not know what foley is, but you know what it sounds like.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 02, 2013
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Explore the role of sound in art with Jesse Seay and her "Mechanical Tide."
Bought by KWMR and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jan 25, 2013
- Length: 04:49
- Purchases: 1
Drums, Wind Chimes and Meteorites are all forms of percussion in the Rhythm Discovery Center in Indianapolis.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 10, 2013
- Length: 12:55
- Purchases: 1
This week Field Trip Correspondent Becky Palmstrom takes us to a festival in Taung Byone, Myanmar, where we learn how to run a ferris wheel … using...
- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 10:28
- Purchases: 2
