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213: Unexpected Origin of Roller Skates
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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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
212: Peanut Butter Diamonds
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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With enough pressure and heat, just about anything with enough carbon in it could become a diamond. And thankfully for us, when a scientist was ask...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Apr 08, 2022
  • Length: 04:56
  • Purchases: 1
2214: Refeed: Writing Comedy with Ali LeRoi + Writing the Young Adult, 4/7/2022
From: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Series: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
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This week on On Story we’ll hear from comedy veteran Ali LeRoi who’s longtime collaboration with comedian Chris Rock resulted in Everybody Hates Ch...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
209: Detachable Tails
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In cases of emergency, lizards pop off their tails to get away. Evolution made it possible for that tail to stay on when tugged but not twisted. It...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
206 part two: Skeet Shooting Fish
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Sure, Archerfish can use a squirt of water to knock prey into the water to be eaten. But researchers wanted to know, could they count?

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 04:53
  • Purchases: 1
TV Themes that Became Hits
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Here's the game. Name a TV theme song that then became a hit on the pop chart. You cannot choose a song that was first a hit and then used for a ...

Bought by WKPW, KSRQ, KTRL, KHNS, KWIT and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
202: Honeypot Ants
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Imagine you're an ant living in an arid climate. There's no grocery stores! How do you keep enough food on hand for when things are scarce? You won...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 1
Full Moon Hacksaw #1827 (Hour 1 & 2) - 02/03/2022
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Lively and fun, the bouncing of Barney Kessell’s guitar resounds among our reception areas, with Jimmy Witherspoon the only next logical bearer of ...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KRZA, KHNS, WMOT, WOUB and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 9
197: Singing Gorillas
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Give a captive gorilla tasty food, they often vocalize in ways that sound a lot like singing. It's so charming! But scientists thought this "singin...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jan 10, 2022
  • Length: 05:08
  • Purchases: 1
PE 2150
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Happy Trails, Cream, Stones! And more...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, WSLR, KRSC, WFHB, KRZA and more


  • Added: Dec 05, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 16
Ep. 158: Odds & Ends Oct 2021
From: Franklin Fantini
Series: Dollar Country
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A collection of lost American music on 45 rpm discs. You are guaranteed to hear something you've never heard before.

Bought by KSTK, KIYU-FM, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 16, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
187: Animal Buddy Cops
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In an unexpected turn of events, two predators with very different hunting styles work cooperatively. During the summer months, badgers and coyotes...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 11, 2021
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 1
184: Dog Days of Summer
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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It's fall now, but we recorded this episode during the dog days of August. The sky wore a blanket of wildfire smoke and daytime lows were in the mi...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 11, 2021
  • Length: 04:20
  • Purchases: 1
Storytelling and Stravinsky
From: Classic107.3
Series: Tango with Cally
Caption: L'Histoire du soldat
Guest Mauro Peralta describes the traditional Argentine celebration called "asado". And we hear the Tango movement from L'Histoire du soldat.

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Oct 08, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Pigeon and a Pine
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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The scientific name of the band-tailed pigeon is no longer Columba fasciata, but is Patagioenas fasciata. That’s too bad because I was hoping to st...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 04:59
Solidago Missourinsis- Goldenrod
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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I grew up in Kentucky where the state flower is goldenrod. The particular species that has that honor is Solidago gigantea. I wonder how it was cho...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 05:21
Flora and Fauna Report
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Here are some morning glory photos. Above is Ipomoea ternifolia var. leptotoma and the photo below is of some floral chaos featuring the red flower...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 05:04
Stinging Serpent
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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I like the phrase in Arizona Flora about the Loasa family Loasaceae ; it is “remarkable for the diversity and peculiar structure of the hairs.” And...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 05:05
Faked Their Death
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Elvis. Michael Jackson. Tupac. Many believe these people are still alive but faked their death. What is better is that of all the musicians we ...

Bought by WNYO, KSRQ, KWIT, WOUB, KTRL and more


  • Added: Sep 19, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Band Fan Bases
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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You have heard of the KISS Army, right? That what KISS fans call themselves. But did you know that other bands and musicians also have nicknames ...

Bought by WYAP, KSRQ, WNYO, KWIT, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 22, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Leave No Waste
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
Series: Science Moab
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The sheer number of recreationists in southern Utah has brought the subject of human waste in the backcountry to a head. The Southeast Utah Health...

Bought by KDXI - Radio St George and KRZA


  • Added: Jul 28, 2021
  • Length: 19:00
  • Purchases: 2
173: Mushroom Lightning
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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There's a long tradition of Japanese folklore around the possible relationship between large mushroom harvests and lightning. Researchers decided t...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jun 14, 2021
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 2
EV Culture: 1991 GMC electric van hauls food for Laughing Planet restaurants in Reno
From: Brian Bahouth
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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
167: Wormnado
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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When out on a walk, Tiffanie Fisher spotted a giant ring of worms and snapped a picture. She posted the photo in the hopes that someone could expla...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 2
165: Silently Screaming Tomato
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In a pitched battle against voracious tomato fruit worms, (aka. corn earworms or cotton bollworm) tomato plants have one sneaky defense...a wasp. I...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 2

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