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Your daily 90-second dose of real science for real people! Like … how healthy is yogurt really… Do school uniforms improve grades… and can we get e...
Bought by KKRN, KPOV, Tri States Public Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), Radio Baha'i, WLGI and more
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 34:30
- Purchases: 6
Your daily 90-second dose of real science for real people! Like … how healthy is yogurt really… Do school uniforms improve grades… and can we get e...
Bought by KKRN, KPOV, Tri States Public Radio, and KVSC
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 33:00
- Purchases: 4
Your daily 90-second dose of real science for real people! Like… do animals “break up”... is there a way to stop gaining weight when you quit smoki...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Tri States Public Radio, KKRN, KPOV, Radio Baha'i, WLGI and more
- Added: Feb 21, 2024
- Length: 31:30
- Purchases: 6
My friend Miles Walker and I were hiking through the Great Empty Desert when we stomped unexpectedly on a sidewalk ...
- Added: Dec 11, 2015
- Length: 05:34
I didn't really expect a farewell party when I walked into Elmer's Cafe ...
- Added: Dec 10, 2015
- Length: 04:55
Several short, unrelated poems are (loosely) tied together by a short song ...
- Added: Dec 10, 2015
- Length: 01:32
My friend Rita Book recently started working on a new lexical engineering project. Most of her projects are designed for print media, but I heard ...
- Added: Dec 10, 2015
- Length: 03:11
My friend Stretch likes to tell everybody he's living on borrowed time. I said "really? Whose time did you borrow?" ...
- Added: Dec 10, 2015
- Length: 02:58
My friend Archie Meade claims you have to know how to do calculus in order to catch a ball in mid-air ...
- Added: Dec 04, 2015
- Length: 02:54
The guy in charge of winter was up there kicking the clouds again - shaking loose as many snowflakes as he thought he could get away with ...
- Added: Dec 03, 2015
- Length: 02:49
Rose Bush had three pen pals: one black, one blue, and one red ...
- Added: Dec 02, 2015
- Length: 04:00
My friend Stanley Oliver Terrick is a student of obscure mischievous activity ...
- Added: Dec 01, 2015
- Length: 02:37
My friend Evelyn Devlin is a bit of a romantic. Most poets are, I suppose ...
- Added: Nov 30, 2015
- Length: 03:23
Vern Acular and I were lolling around in a clearing in the woods, trying to scoop together enough motivation to pack up our things and get moving ...
- Added: Nov 27, 2015
- Length: 03:01
Nobody ever says grace at Elmer's Cafe ...
- Added: Nov 26, 2015
- Length: 03:10
Here's another little children's song. It's about trees shedding their leaves while we humans bundle ourselves up ...
- Added: Nov 25, 2015
- Length: 01:37
My friend Anne Thespy is building a theater down on the coast. It's an amphitheater: half of it is underwater, and the other half is on dry land ...
- Added: Nov 24, 2015
- Length: 02:39
I caught sight of my friend Bill O'Sale the other day, but only just barely. He was all fancied up in a pinstripe suit, and he was power-walking d...
- Added: Nov 23, 2015
- Length: 02:22
My friend Flora Caprifolia is a Junior Vice President of Marketing Ploys. I don't know where she's working now. She moves around a lot ...
- Added: Nov 20, 2015
- Length: 02:39
My friend Jimmy Fingerbutton invented a universal compass. I said "great! Which way is north?" He said "if you're referring to the North Pole, I...
- Added: Nov 19, 2015
- Length: 02:53
When Alice was very young, she had only one ambition. There was only one thing that Alice wanted to do more than anything else in the world, and t...
- Added: Nov 18, 2015
- Length: 03:46
There are 57 dead-end streets in this burg. And more roads to nowhere than an honest man can count ...
- Added: Nov 17, 2015
- Length: 03:13
I was out on Bottle Neck the other day. The tide was low, but the rain kept pounding down in endless layers, like sopping wet blankets ...
- Added: Nov 16, 2015
- Length: 02:41
