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In 1804 Dr. Troxler discovered he could make pastel dots on paper disappear if he stared at them for long enough. Blink, and they would reappear. T...
- Added: Jun 05, 2019
- Length: 03:24
Need to string some wire through your house or clean a particle accelerator? You might need a science ferret.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: May 28, 2019
- Length: 03:09
- Purchases: 1
It's our one year podcast-aversary! We thank you for listening with an episode on accidental swallowings and some...not so accidental. Trace also ...
- Added: May 21, 2019
- Length: 05:50
Can Flatworms remember how to find food after re-growing their heads? Science rolled up its sleeves and found out.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: May 14, 2019
- Length: 04:47
- Purchases: 1
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
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
Cougars are beautiful and stealthy solitary hunters. Until they want to mate. Then they sound like a person being run through a garbage compactor. ...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 10, 2019
- Length: 02:06
- Purchases: 2
Where we talk about Dr. Nathalie Stroeymeyt and her foraging, black garden ants. Infected ants seem to stay away from other ants. Find out why.
- Added: Jan 09, 2019
- Length: 02:49
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
Well, I’m not sure I can add a whole lot more to this true story, but here are a few ringtail facts that are fun. Okay, fun for nature geeks like y...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 05:10
The 2017 Ig Nobel Prizes were recently awarded at Harvard University. They're given every year for scientific achievements that first make people l...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Oct 02, 2017
- Length: 18:51
- Purchases: 1
The IgNobels are awarded every year at Harvard University for research that first makes people laugh, then makes them think. WTIP's Mike Reeves cha...
- Added: Oct 11, 2016
- Length: 13:54
My friend Jimmy Fingerbutton invented a perpetual motion machine. I was the first person he showed it to. I guess he figured I had the right qual...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 11:38
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
A sound rich narrative interview with former Washington state park ranger and storyteller Jody Maberry
- Added: Aug 07, 2015
- Length: 17:53
A Public Service Announcement For Neurotransmitters
- Added: Jun 12, 2015
- Length: 05:14
Loren Coleman spends most of his time thinking about animals that most people think are fake.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 06:18
- Purchases: 2
For a show about embarrassment, my co-anchor Molly and I interviewed UW Sociology Professor Edward Gross.
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 04:58
I don't suppose it would surprise anyone to find out the Cultural Curmudgeon is an insomniac. When a person takes on the troubles of the world, the...
- Added: Apr 06, 2014
- Length: 02:29
Science Frog explains an important phenomenon.
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 01:08
WTIP's Buck Benson chatted recently with Marc Abrahams of Improbable Research, which publishes a magazine and awards the IgNobel Prizes for researc...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Sep 24, 2013
- Length: 16:50
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, chemistry takes center stage. First, why science and comedy make gut-busting bedfellows. Then the history of science as popular en...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Mar 11, 2013
- Length: 21:38
- 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
In one of the most entertaining episodes of Radio Rounds to date, hosts Lakshman Swamy and Yojan Patel speak with the one of a kind “ZDoggMD,” the ...
- Added: Jun 21, 2012
- Length: 29:30
Michelle discovers Buddhism through a friend's death and tries to improve her mental control.
- Added: Aug 12, 2011
- Length: 08:18
