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Clever Apes: Reimagining Robots

From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes

Caption: Heinrich Jaeger demonstrates the jamming effect, which led to a soft robot., Credit: (WBEZ/Gabriel Spitzer)

What if the next generation of robots looks less like a humanoid, and more like a slug?

Bought by WTJU, KFAI Minneapolis, KUT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and PRX Remix

Added: Oct 19, 2011
Length: 08:25
Purchases: 5

Clever Apes: Godspeed, Tevatron

From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes

We remember the legacy of the Tevatron, the particle collider that was shut down in September of 2011.

Bought by KUT and WRST-FM Oshkosh

Added: Sep 30, 2011
Length: 08:24
Purchases: 2

Distillations Episode 130: Our Chemical Landscape - The Wild

From: Distillations

In honor of the International Year of Chemistry, Distillations produced a four-part series called Our Chemical Landscape. These shows look at how s...

Added: Sep 16, 2011
Length: 12:39

Causation 1

From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift

In this episode we attempt to define causation - a concept that is central to the way we think.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Added: Sep 14, 2011
Length: 13:46
Purchases: 1

Distillations Episode 128: Our Chemical Landscape – The Farm

From: Distillations

Caption: A perfectly pastoral farm. , Credit: Image courtesy of Flickr user chefranden

We continue the four-part series: Our Chemical Landscape. These shows look at how science has shaped the city, the suburb, the farm, and the wild. ...

Added: Aug 19, 2011
Length: 15:18

A Buddhist's Obsession

From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift

Michelle discovers Buddhism through a friend's death and tries to improve her mental control.

Added: Aug 12, 2011
Length: 08:18

Clever Apes: Trick of the lgiht

From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes

Caption: Lisa Utschig holds a vial of the protein active in photosynthesis.

In this installment, we consider why photosynthesis remains a puzzle to science. And we’ll find out how a research team at Argonne National Laborat...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KUT

Added: Aug 02, 2011
Length: 08:59
Purchases: 2

Biological Death

From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift

We consider an unusual understanding of death - a biological one. Prof. Tyler Volk describes organisms tuning their lifespan to their surroundings,...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Added: Jul 22, 2011
Length: 08:05
Purchases: 1

The Three Card Monte

From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift

Should we resolve inconsistent beliefs... or let them be?

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix

Added: Jul 08, 2011
Length: 08:00
Purchases: 2

Clever Apes: Toolmakers

From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes

Caption: A chimp at the Lincoln Park Zoo uses a stick to fish for food., Credit: Michael De Bonis/WBEZ

Humans have an incredible ability to fashion tools that make our lives easier and advance the goals of science, but we're not the only species maki...

Bought by KUT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KVMR, and PRX Remix

Added: Jul 07, 2011
Length: 08:32
Purchases: 4

Distillations Episode 124: Our Chemical Landscape – The Suburb

From: Distillations

Caption: Commuters taking the highway to downtown Austin., Credit: Image courtesy of Flickr user Rutlo.

We continue the four-part series: Our Chemical Landscape. These shows look at how science has shaped the city, the suburb, the farm, and the wild. ...

Added: Jun 25, 2011
Length: 14:36

"Please Call Stella": Capturing English, from Afrikaans to Zulu

From: Rebecca Sheir

Caption: The Speech Accent Archive is the brainchild of GMU's Steven Weinberger, Credit: Rebecca Sheir

A look -- and listen -- inside the world's largest online database of English accents.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Jun 24, 2011
Length: 05:19
Purchases: 5

Distillations Episode 122: Our Chemical Landscape - The City

From: Distillations

Caption: Philadelphia skyline., Credit: Image courtesy of Flickr user Kevin Burkett.

In honor of the International Year of Chemistry, today we begin the four-part series Our Chemical Landscape. These shows look at how science has sh...

Added: May 27, 2011
Length: 14:35

Clever Apes: Seeking the grail

From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes

There are certain questions that get scientists really excited – discoveries that are big, tantalizing, and often, far out of reach. Even if they’r...

Bought by WDBM, WTJU, KUT, and WRST-FM Oshkosh

Added: May 18, 2011
Length: 08:40
Purchases: 4

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From: Will Dewees

A group of ordinary people ponder a dairy question.

Added: May 02, 2011
Length: 03:33

Bay Area composer scores the soundtrack of outer space

From: KALW

Caption: Bay Area composer Christopher Hedge designed the sound for the Academy of Science's Morrison Planetarium

If you've been to the planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences recently, then you've heard Christopher Hedge's work on the show "Life: A C...

Bought by KUT and PRX Remix

Added: Apr 27, 2011
Length: 08:36
Purchases: 2

Clever Apes: Yuck

From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes

Caption: Bill Stanley holds the skull of an African rat he discovered. It's being cleaned by carrion beetles.

In this episode, host Gabriel Spitzer explores the dirty work of science, from flesh-eating beetles working at a museum to creepy crawlers that fin...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh

Added: Apr 13, 2011
Length: 08:42
Purchases: 1

Clever Apes: Demystifying dinosaurs

From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes

Why do dinosaurs ignite our imaginations and why do we have so many misconceptions about them? In this episode, Gabriel Spitzer tackles those quest...

Bought by KUT and WRST-FM Oshkosh

Added: Mar 30, 2011
Length: 08:47
Purchases: 2

Clever Apes: Sense abilities

From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes

In this episode, host Gabriel Spitzer explores the realm of the senses, finding out how cochlear implants are opening up a world of sound for the h...

Bought by KUT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and PRX Remix

Added: Feb 25, 2011
Length: 08:47
Purchases: 3

The Guardian's Science Weekly: Christmas at the Large Hadron Collider

From: [redacted] [redacted]

Caption: Shutdown screen at Cern, Credit: Andy Duckworth

As the Large Hadron Collider goes into hibernation for the winter, producer Andy Duckworth visits the Atlas experiment at Cern, Geneva, to ask, wil...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Jan 21, 2011
Length: 24:18
Purchases: 1

Clever Apes Special

From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes

Over this hour, we'll bring you highlights from the show's first half-year. We’ll learn about why kids play with fire, how vibrations let us peer ...

Bought by KUT and KZYX

Added: Dec 16, 2010
Length: 54:30
Purchases: 2

Clever Apes: Decoding Science

From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes

Caption: Gordon's pez: an image of tensor glyphs baffles a spouse., Credit: Courtesy of Gordon Kindlmann

Some tough science threatens an otherwise happy marriage, and some gifted students try to unravel relativity.

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Oct 26, 2010
Length: 13:00
Purchases: 1

Clever Apes: Playing With Fire

From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes

What better symbol of human mastery over the power of nature than fire? Countless years of evolution have written fire into our DNA…No wonder kids ...

Bought by PRX Remix