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With enough pressure and heat, just about anything with enough carbon in it could become a diamond. And thankfully for us, when a scientist was ask...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Apr 08, 2022
- Length: 04:56
- Purchases: 1
In cases of emergency, lizards pop off their tails to get away. Evolution made it possible for that tail to stay on when tugged but not twisted. It...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Mar 31, 2022
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
In an unexpected turn of events, two predators with very different hunting styles work cooperatively. During the summer months, badgers and coyotes...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Oct 11, 2021
- Length: 04:32
- Purchases: 1
In these episodes, Dr. Rhett Allain and Adam Cortez discuss the many purposes and origins of Fire.
Bought by Belfast Community Radio
- Added: Jul 11, 2020
- Length: 12:45
- Purchases: 1
Dr. Rhett Allain analyzes the many features and factors that come with the common household refrigerators.
Bought by Belfast Community Radio
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 12:27
- Purchases: 1
Like a scaly cheetah, galloping crocs were a terror both on land and in the water. Good thing they lived 100 million years ago.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSFR
- Added: Aug 06, 2019
- Length: 04:15
- Purchases: 2
Why do we want to crush-hug cute things like babies and young animals? It may have something to do with adorableness overload and how our brains co...
- Added: May 09, 2019
- Length: 03:50
The internet claims lobsters are immortal. Amy pulls a Dana Scully and debunks the heck out of that idea.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Mar 26, 2019
- Length: 04:35
- Purchases: 1
Not a doodie cycle, but a duty cycle. Episode 48 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phra...
Bought by WETD
- Added: Dec 06, 2017
- Length: 04:51
- Purchases: 1
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
- Added: Oct 18, 2017
- Length: 05:05
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Oct 04, 2017
- Length: 05:06
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 30, 2017
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 02:46
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 04:13
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 04:01
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 03:44
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 25, 2017
- Length: 03:26
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 25, 2017
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 25, 2017
- Length: 02:41
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 02:44
- Purchases: 1
An introduction to this series about engineering vocabulary, phrases, acronyms, jargon, and slang.
- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 03:14
- Purchases: 2
In this episode, we have given up sitting for two weeks. You know, that practice of putting one’s butt in a chair? Yup. We kissed that goodbye and ...
- Added: Jan 08, 2016
- Length: 33:50
Science Frog explains an important phenomenon.
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 01:08
This week on Into It, Andrew Bales takes a look at a lesser known insect with an unusual talent.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 01:41
- Purchases: 1
