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If you're thinking, wait, I thought it was tenderhooks, you're not alone. Amy explains this early 18th century idiom that describes having a sense ...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Feb 20, 2020
- Length: 03:13
- Purchases: 1
Ah, potentiometers. So much potential use, right?
This is Episode 83 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, o...
- Added: Feb 11, 2020
- Length: 04:59
Welcome to our funniest episode yet. Scientists avert international tension between Sweden and Russia, learn something we didn't know about herring...
- Added: Jan 13, 2020
- Length: 04:37
Barn owls come in three colors, a tawny brown, a mix of brown a white, and all white. It didn't make sense to researchers how a white owl could be ...
- Added: Jan 06, 2020
- Length: 06:15
Either way you spell it, you either love that black candy or can't get away fast enough. Amy dives into why.
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- Added: Dec 03, 2019
- Length: 06:27
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Before they even hatch, Yellow Legged Gull chicks seem to be communication to their nest mates. Amy dives into the how and why.
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- Added: Nov 24, 2019
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 1
Turn up the Skrillex to ward off some pesky bloodsucking insects. And possibly your neighbors.
- Added: Nov 24, 2019
- Length: 10:50
The 29th Ig Nobel Prize ceremony took place on September 12 at Harvard University.
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 16:33
I’m telling you, late summer and fall are great times to get out into the hills, especially if you want to find interesting plants. While you’re ou...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 05:02
That frog is not frenetic; it floats and is diamagnetic. This is Episode 79 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinati...
- Added: Sep 20, 2019
- Length: 06:09
I don’t know any poultry fanciers that don’t have a guinea fowl story or two or three. Chickens are where it usually starts as they are the gateway...
- Added: Aug 15, 2019
- Length: 05:10
Like a scaly cheetah, galloping crocs were a terror both on land and in the water. Good thing they lived 100 million years ago.
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- Added: Aug 06, 2019
- Length: 04:15
- Purchases: 2
I wrote this song about Lycium fremontii when I was managing the native plant nursery of Desert Survivors on West Starr Pass in Tucson. The nursery...
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 05:12
Big word for a genetic mutation where an animal is split with one side being entirely female and the other male. This can happen in some species of...
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- Added: Jul 04, 2019
- Length: 05:14
- Purchases: 1
Medical science on the fly. Turns out you only need to pull a few G's to loosen that stubborn kidney stone.
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- Added: Jun 26, 2019
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 1
I do love wandering around little towns and Willcox is a fun one to poke around in. And it is true that the town of Willcox is an excellent base c...
- Added: Jun 19, 2019
- Length: 05:06
Are creative thinking and mental illness opposite sides of the same coin?
- Added: Jun 12, 2019
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 25
Hospitalist Ann Knapp navigates her own doubts and assumptions when her patient, a ninety-year-old man, states he wants to die -- today.
- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 29:25
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.
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- 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.
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- Added: May 14, 2019
- Length: 04:47
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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
Meet C. explodens; worker ants who rupture their own abdomens--filled with toxic goo--to protect the colony from predators.
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- Added: Apr 09, 2019
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 1
I like my definitions to be CRISPR and clearer. This is Episode 76 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or fu...
- Added: Apr 02, 2019
- Length: 04:26
