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Constant Wonder - In Uganda, Healthy Communities Make for Healthy Wildlife
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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At the edge of the windy, impenetrable forest, disease can break through. From animals to humans, from humans to animals. The first ever wildlife v...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 01, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 3
Constant Wonder - Rough Sleepers: A Doctor's Quest to Help the Homeless
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Tony was an unhoused man who was hunting for a purpose in the world and defended weak people. Women called him the Night Watchman, he would stay up...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: May 17, 2023
  • Length: 52:52
  • Purchases: 1
Constant Wonder - The Funky, Fragile World Beneath Your Feet
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Since the first shock of landing in desert country, Sasha Reed has fallen in love with it, especially the organisms that constitute bio crust. They...

Bought by WVTF, RadioStPete Florida, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WYAP


  • Added: Mar 30, 2023
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 4
Constant Wonder - Dreams Before Dying
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Dr Christopher Kerr and his team have videotaped hundreds of terminally ill patients to hear about their end of life experiences. He's convinced th...

Bought by WVTF, GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 4
Constant Wonder - A Real-Life Indiana Jones Discovers Shackleton's Lost Ship
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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He spearheaded the recent expedition to locate the final resting place of Ernest Shackleton's famous ship Endurance. Mensun Bound relates the wonde...

Bought by WVTF, GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Mar 09, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 4
Constant Wonder - Blue Mind: Finding Emotional Healing in Water
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Jay Nichols is convinced that water is very good for us. Not just the conventional wisdom of keeping hydrated, being in, near, on, or around water ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Feb 28, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 3
Constant Wonder - Experiencing Awe in Tragedy
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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A preeminent researcher tells about his personal experiences of wonder. Feelings of awe beneath the desert stars, and endless wonders he feels are ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 3
Constant Wonder - Anxiously Ever After: A Father Faces Mental Illness With Humor
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Clint Edwards has told a few whoppers in his day, things that he didn't even need to lie about. For example, he wrecked his bike once and then told...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 14, 2023
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 3
Constant Wonder - Infrasound
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Deep rumbles in the Earth, through the Earth. Frequencies below the threshold of human hearing. Infrasound, if we can detect it around volcanoes, m...

Bought by WVTF, GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Feb 08, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 4
Constant Wonder - Fabric: History Hidden in Plain Sight
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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The history of fabric is the history of life and death on this planet.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Sep 14, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 2
Constant Wonder - How Can You Reforest the Desert Without Planting a Single Tree?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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In some semi-arid regions of Africa, there is a forest underground, just waiting to sprout.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 3
Constant Wonder - Marathon Mayhem, Wacky Inventions and World's Fairs
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Topic 1: Why the mishaps of the 1904 Olympic Marathon almost led to the event being banned in all future Olympic Games. Topic 2: How world's fairs ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and WYAP


  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 2
GN_5.07_ Blind Art
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 5
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The ‘Lighthouse for Broward’ is a rehabilitation and healthcare resource for the visually impaired in Fort Lauderdale. Its exterior walls are now a...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Analog Computing and the Automatic Totalisator
From: Sean Haas
Series: Advent of Computing
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A lot of the technology we associate with the modern day started on anachronistic machines. I'm not talking about mainframes, I'm talking older. To...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2020
  • Length: 48:31
578-First PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Assuming the first potentially hazardous asteroid of 2020 has a chemical composition similar to the stony meteorites we find on Earth, it could co...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Bill's Problem With Piracy
From: Sean Haas
Series: Advent of Computing
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Microsoft's first case of piracy actually happened with their very first product.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2019
  • Length: 10:25
The BBC Domesday Project
From: Sean Haas
Series: Advent of Computing
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In 1986 the BBC released a comprehensive survey of Britain. Burned onto two LaserDiscs, the early computer encyclopedia was a technological marvel.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2019
  • Length: 33:04
405: Should You Delete Facebook? / 406: Shock Value, 8/24/2019
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Should You Delete Facebook?" - Thinking about leaving Facebook, Twitter or Instagram? We'll consider the pros and cons of logging off so...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:59
Imperfect Pitch: the promises and perils of personal genomics
From: Elaine Vitone
Series: Pitt Medcast
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Our guests, Jeremy Berg (editor of Science magazine) and Mylynda Massart (a primary care physician with a special interest in genetics), discuss ho...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2019
  • Length: 29:20
The Write Question - Jeremy Smith - 372
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Jeremy Smith discusses his nonfiction novel, "Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien." He also reads a short pass...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 02, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
1918 Flu Pandemic Lessons
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
Caption: The 1918 influenza pandemic killed 50 million people., Credit: US Army
Scientists are learning from history’s most deadly pandemic.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, KRZA, WMMT, WLPR , WTIP and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 6
Wild Bird Song Learning
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
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A new study shows that birds can learn from recordings in the wild.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, KRZA, WLPR , WTIP and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 6
Dog Vocabulary
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
Caption: Do dogs understand our words?, Credit: Susanne Bard
How much human language does your dog really understand?

Bought by WNED Buffalo, KMXT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMXT, WMMT and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 10
Queen Bees
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
Caption: What sets a worker apart from a queen bee?, Credit: maggiedurch/Pixabay
The diet of baby bees activates genes that turn some into workers and others into queens.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, Spokane Public Radio, WTIP, WLPR and more


  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 6
Fast-Living Fish
From: Science Update
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An animal that grows up, reproduces and dies of old age in just a few weeks.

  • Added: Aug 18, 2018
  • Length: 01:00