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Dan Burgard is an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Puget Sound, and not long after Washington state voted to legalize cannabis...
- Added: Aug 01, 2015
- Length: 10:08
Diamonds are brought to Earth by asteroids. They are also created on our planet by impacting celestial objects.
Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, and KENW
- Added: Jul 16, 2015
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 5
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
In the Oregon State Legislature, since the beginning of the 2015 session, the Joint Committee on Implementing Measure 91 has held a series of infor...
- Added: Mar 22, 2015
- Length: 05:42
OUCH! Keano's mouth gets burned — by chocolate! Michelle Dutro and Keano Martinez first hear from Lizzie Kirchner's family who explains the process...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 08:20
Molly Anderson and Bryce Ellis explore human memory through a story told by intern Lizzie Kirshner. They also interview Jessica Sommervile on the f...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 08:50
For a show about embarrassment, my co-anchor Molly and I interviewed UW Sociology Professor Edward Gross.
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 04:58
There's a music industry for pets out there. But what kind of music do animals like? A woman who studies how non-human creatures go mad throws conc...
Bought by ABC, KVNF, 'The Sea', New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE and more
- Added: Jan 10, 2015
- Length: 08:23
- Purchases: 6
They rock and roll them. We're talking about those boulders we all see in the woods. Geologists call them "erratics."
- Added: Dec 17, 2014
- Length: 03:53
Joanna Ebenstein, founder of the Morbid Anatomy Museum, tells her father, Bob, about the childhood...
Bought by WEZU, Radio Newark, and PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 02:04
- Purchases: 3
In CRN #8 we hear back to school thoughts from Betty Aldworth, Executive Director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy. Jane West owns and operates...
- Added: Sep 04, 2014
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 2
Ken Golden isn't your typical mathematician. He's the Indiana Jones of Mathematics. He gets up from behind his desk, armed with mathematical theory...
Bought by KALW, Troy Public Radio, Radio Newark, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more
- Added: Aug 26, 2014
- Length: 07:32
- Purchases: 10
It currently costs $10,000 a pound to transport material from Earth into space. If humans want to live in space someday, those transport costs alon...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, KUOW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 26, 2014
- Length: 06:14
- Purchases: 4
THIS WEEK: Splitting the Clapper Rail; bird feeding help for condo owners; a swimming songbird; and, are you out there, Saskatchewan?
- Added: Aug 15, 2014
- Length: 30:00
THIS WEEK: Is it a bird…or a cowboy boot? Help is on the way for the Wood Thrush, but will it arrive in time? And we answer a listener's question a...
- Added: Aug 14, 2014
- Length: 30:00
The final episode of the series looks at the future of Irish experimental music. We find out how techniques like ‘Live Coding’ (where computer prog...
- Added: Jul 08, 2014
- Length: 30:01
In the Oscar-nominated film "Her," director Spike Jonze imagines a world where computers are so human-like they have their own feelings. Whether th...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 08:00
Drums, Wind Chimes and Meteorites are all forms of percussion in the Rhythm Discovery Center in Indianapolis.
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 04:30
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
Betsy. Buttercup. Bambi. Those are not Disney characters but three of the eight female bison that live at the bison paddock in Golden Gate Park. Sa...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 1
There’s a national conversation about promoting science education for students, but what about science after graduation? Allison Quantz has the sto...
- Added: Jan 31, 2014
- Length: 02:39
- Purchases: 3
Near dusk, you can often find Shirley Doell at Oakland Civic Center, staring at the tops of skyscrapers through her big telescope. But she isn’t sp...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 15:48
When we think of garage scientists, the eccentric, gray-haired Dr. Emmett Brown from Back to the Future might come to mind. But these days, garages...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 08:47
- Purchases: 1
