PRX - Pieces for Tone: Quirky

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Jumping out of an airplane without a parachute?! We explore a study that explains how sometimes, if you look at the data in just the right way, bac...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2019
  • Length: 02:40
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Science writer Mary Roach talks with author and actor Benjamin Busch.

Bought by WKAR, WCMU Michigan, WKAR, and WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 21, 2018
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 4
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Hmm, I’m not doing a very good job of keeping up with botanical names. Either that or I’m making them up as I go. The current and correct name for ...

  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 05:13
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This podcast is aiming to avoid being aural dross. This is episode 42 of the Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating...

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 03:21
  • Purchases: 1
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Let's have a détente over detents.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 1
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Will your device design withstand repeated autoclaving?

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 30, 2017
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 1
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Why doesn't solder rhyme with older?

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1
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It's the OG OEM.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 1
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I'm orthogonal, and I've never felt so right.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Is there a program called Matt Daemon that secretly translates everything you say around your computer into a Boston accent?

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 1
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Not just a murderer, folks, as automotive engineers and technologists know.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 1
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Discussing this scale to measure average kinetic energy of matter.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
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All hail and all fear the magic smoke!

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 1
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Compare and contrast: "adiabatic" versus "a diabetic"?

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 1
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SWE wants to "stimulate women to achieve full potential in careers as engineers and leaders," among other goals.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:05
  • Purchases: 1
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Desert Rosemallow is the official common name I think, though I see it called Coulter’s Hibiscus as well.

  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 05:34
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Though Sonoran Desert millipedes are nocturnal, this is the time of year when you see them out and about on muggy overcast days.

  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 04:56
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A forensic mystery, 135 years in the making.

Bought by KISU and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 21, 2017
  • Length: 26:29
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Frank Mutz (left) and Phil Mutz (right)
A father and son talk about working together in an air conditioner repair business that has been in their family for more than half a century.

Bought by WMUU-LP and WEZU


  • Added: Aug 29, 2016
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Mindy Aronoff on MIW, Credit: Oddua Productions
With Akeisha Johnson, life coach and your show host, on this episode we will chat with Mindy Aronoff, Bay Area Video Coalition’s Director of Traini...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2015
  • Length: 22:16
Caption: Paolo Feraboli and a Lamborghini Gallardo LP 560-4 made with carbon fiber from his lab at the University of Washington., Credit: Paul Kane
"Car on, radio off, and paddle shift ready to go, okay, lets go!"

  • Added: Jan 16, 2015
  • Length: 15:43
Caption: Quick! Blow out the candles so we can cut the cake!, Credit: Nathan D. Friend
OUCH! Keano's mouth gets burned — by chocolate! Michelle Dutro and Keano Martinez first hear from Lizzie Kirchner's family who explains the process...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 08:20
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US/Canadian cello/flute trio Ecouter discuss Project Three; Film director David Donnelly discusses the documentary 'Maestro' and funding through Ki...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2014
  • Length: 01:05:22
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No one has an appetite for perfection and swearing like a Québécois in search of poutine.

Bought by KRPS, North Country Public Radio, WNIJ, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: And Your Answer..., Credit: david gold
Join Contestants: Kim, George, and Anthony for another game of That! Medical Quiz Show.

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Aug 15, 2013
  • Length: 30:02
  • Purchases: 1