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The Teens Are Offline
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Meet the Luddite Club, a group of library-loving, flip-phone-toting teenagers in Brooklyn who come together every week out of a shared sense that s...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2023
  • Length: 13:57
213: Unexpected Origin of Roller Skates
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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The first roller skates were patented by John Joseph Merlin in 1760. He showed off his new fangled wheeled shoes with an epic entrance to a party t...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
212: Peanut Butter Diamonds
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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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
209: Detachable Tails
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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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
201: Rabbit War
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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What happens when you are the Emperor of France and your hunting party plans go completely wrong? You get attacked by rabbits. This isn't a Monty P...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 2
187: Animal Buddy Cops
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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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
172: Dancing Plague
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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During the 1300-1500s there were several accounts of people being afflicted with spontaneous dancing. One group of 400 people were struck with the ...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 2
Parody Bands
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week was inspired by the Spinal Tap debut back in 1984. Once I started doing the research, there was simply a large group of bands that are b...

Bought by KSRQ, KWIT, Harford Community Radio, and WOUB


  • Added: Mar 28, 2021
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 4
The Science of Fire
From: KSLU
Series: STEM Science Radio
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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
Refrigerators
From: KSLU
Series: STEM Science Radio
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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
sontimeter / centimeter
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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If your client calls a centimeter a "sontimeter," I'll assume they're medical and you've got a leader. This is Episode 82 of Engineering Word Of T...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2020
  • Length: 06:10
70: Galloping Crocodiles
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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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
58: Cuteness Aggression
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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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
52: Long Lives of Lobsters
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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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
Bring It On! - May 08, 2017
From: WFHB
Series: Bring It On!
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Robert Scherrell, the nation’s first college graduate awarded a degree in Stand Up Comedy is guest and teacher for aspiring comedy hosts Clarence B...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2018
  • Length: 58:21
duty cycle
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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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
upskill
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Upskill your team without killing the mood. This is episode 45 of a series about engineering vocabulary, phrases, acronyms, jargon, and slang.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Nov 13, 2017
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 1
dross
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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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
detent
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Let's have a détente over detents.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 1
Dear Cherry 021 - Guest Lists
From: Mondo Frolic Productions
Series: Dear Cherry Capri
Caption: Dear Cherry Capri, Credit: Taso Papadakis
Weekly, 90-second, humorous, radio interstitial drop-ins featuring Cherry Capri talking about retro inspired topics. This week is about party plann...

Bought by Enchantment Radio


  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Dear Cherry 020 - Be On Time - Part 2
From: Mondo Frolic Productions
Series: Dear Cherry Capri
Caption: Dear Cherry Capri, Credit: Taso Papadakis
Weekly, 90-second, humorous, radio interstitial drop-ins featuring Cherry Capri talking about retro inspired topics. This is the second week about ...

Bought by Enchantment Radio


  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Dear Cherry 025 - Second Marriages
From: Mondo Frolic Productions
Series: Dear Cherry Capri
Caption: Dear Cherry Capri, Credit: Taso Papadakis
Weekly, 90-second, humorous, radio interstitial drop-ins featuring Cherry Capri talking about retro inspired topics. This week is about second marr...

Bought by Enchantment Radio


  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Dear Cherry 016 - New Hat
From: Mondo Frolic Productions
Series: Dear Cherry Capri
Caption: Dear Cherry Capri, Credit: Taso Papadakis
Weekly, 90-second, humorous, radio interstitial drop-ins featuring Cherry Capri talking about retro inspired topics. This week is about new clothes...

Bought by Enchantment Radio


  • Added: Oct 17, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Dear Cherry 023 - Summer Solstice
From: Mondo Frolic Productions
Series: Dear Cherry Capri
Caption: Dear Cherry Capri, Credit: Taso Papadakis
Weekly, 90-second, humorous, radio interstitial drop-ins featuring Cherry Capri talking about retro inspired topics. This week is about summertime ...

Bought by Enchantment Radio


  • Added: Oct 17, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
sparging
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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If only we could be sparging all our troubles away...

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Oct 04, 2017
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1