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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 GCR (Global Community Radio), Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KVSC


  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 34:30
  • Purchases: 3
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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, and KVSC


  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 33:00
  • Purchases: 4
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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
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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
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This is an update of a piece originally posted in 2011.

  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 01:54
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Hear the story of Space IL and their attempted journey to the moon.

  • Added: Jul 10, 2022
  • Length: 23:46
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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
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HOUR ONE: 'Our Virtual Reality' - Not everyone has a big yard to stretch out in while sheltering in place. But maybe all you need is a virtual spac...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:59
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Dimensional Energy is at a crossroads with the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE: can they afford to stay in? Their situation raises larger questions about t...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2021
  • Length: 49:50
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Cooper can't wait any longer to see carbon capture utilization technology, so he makes a slightly abnormal reporting trip… across the country. He w...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2021
  • Length: 52:42
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When I think of electric vehicles, I think sleek, futuristic, quiet, fast. But for years I’ve been hearing an electric 1991 GMC Rally/STX van whizz...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 07:00
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Dr. Rhett Allain and Adam Cortez discuss the dynamic of invisibility

  • Added: May 13, 2021
  • Length: 12:58
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Dr. Rhett Allain and Adam Cortez discuss the implication and requirements of popular Science Fiction shows, movies, and media

  • Added: May 13, 2021
  • Length: 15:07
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Dr. Rhett Allain and Adam Cortez discuss physic's many uses in the world

  • Added: May 13, 2021
  • Length: 13:27
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Dr. Rhett Allain and Adam Cortez talk about the real-world implications of superpowers.

  • Added: May 13, 2021
  • Length: 12:19
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It's the summer of 2019. Two more coal companies have filed for bankruptcy, and hundreds of workers are left in the lurch. Meanwhile, Jason Salfi i...

  • Added: May 11, 2021
  • Length: 45:50
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Dr. Rhett Allain and Adam Cortez discuss the history of April Fools'

  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 12:08
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Dr. Rhett Allain and Adam Cortez discuss the billionaire Chief Designer of Space X and CEO of Tesla

  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 14:30
From: KSLU
Series: STEM Science Radio
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Dr. Rhett Allain and Adam Cortez talk about NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 12:06
Caption: Emily Michaels King
Performance artist Emily Michaels King has a new production called ‘Digital,” which invites the audience into the bedroom, into the computer screen...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 05:23
  • Purchases: 2
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The movement itself is called biocouture - this poop to pants movement is raising eyebrows on both sides of the issue.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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They told me, "Let 'er rip, guy!" "Tighten up that zip tie!" This is Episode 103 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fas...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 05:14
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The chemical reaction we smell from afar that gives satisfaction is named Maillard. This is Episode 102 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informa...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Jan 04, 2021
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 1
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Stack your your stones and let walls join to make an old-school building quoin. This is Episode 99 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal sh...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2020
  • Length: 03:18
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You might see some programmers scurrying when trying to implement a little currying. This is Episode 98 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informa...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2020
  • Length: 08:22