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With sensory abilities to detect problems, find nutrients, and defend themselves, plants make creative decisions.

  • Added: Sep 19, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
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When she realized that her father had become a voice for her people, Kalia found the courage to do the same.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
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When you think of the Grand Canyon, you probably think of rocks and, of course, the Colorado River. But in the summer of 1938, two women risked the...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2024
  • Length: 52:29
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It's a massive lake with a murky reputation. It's survived a carp invasion, decades of dumped raw sewage, and the draining of surrounding wetlands....

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


  • Added: Aug 30, 2024
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Athelstan Spilhaus, the mastermind behind the Minnesota Experimental City
Picture this: a domed city with conveyor belt sidewalks and self-driving cars in the middle of the Minnesota wilderness? Does this futuristic city ...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2024
  • Length: 05:58
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In the depth of the sea, where the sun is powerless to send a single ray of light, there live many strange beings. Of these sea folk, we know nothi...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Aug 15, 2024
  • Length: 52:52
  • Purchases: 2
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Burkhard Bilger shares the surprising truth about his grandfather's life and service in Hitler's Germany, it's the latest episode of the Constant W...

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


  • Added: Aug 15, 2024
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 3
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Sleep and dreaming. It's when the unconscious mind can process events, solve problems and organize memories. But a mere 20 years ago, little consen...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 08, 2024
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 1
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Late-in-life debuts, comebacks, and triumphs.

  • Added: Aug 01, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
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To re-wild an endangered bird, an Austrian scientist raised chicks, became their foster parent, and took flight himself.

  • Added: Jul 25, 2024
  • Length: 52:52
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Immigrant Jessica J. Lee looked to set down roots in England, but her sense of belonging was challenged by the xenophobia that followed Brexit.

  • Added: Jul 18, 2024
  • Length: 52:51
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The term “hive mind” has soared in popularity. But research is showing that individual bees also have minds and wills of their own. Kinda like us.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
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A scientist who once thought that science had all the answers changed his mind when his family faced an improbable double dose of cancer.

  • Added: Jul 03, 2024
  • Length: 52:50

  • Added: Jul 01, 2024
  • Length: 02:00

  • Added: Jul 01, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: A Moment of Science
Insects Eager to Eat More Crops from Rising Temperatures

  • Added: Jul 01, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
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During a recent 60 day period asteroid hunters observed 23 asteroids which came closer to us than our Moon. Six of them passed closer to the Earth...

Bought by KCHW, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Jun 30, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Why was a disabled aunt hidden away after WWII?

  • Added: Jun 28, 2024
  • Length: 52:51
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A busy New York City couple takes up biannual week-long liquid-only fasts to clear out clutter and and touch some deeper truths.

  • Added: Jun 20, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
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Two poets from Yale share their 20-year saga of faith and hope, struggle and joy while fighting an incurable blood cancer.

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
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Freshwater jellyfish have been in inland lakes and rivers throughout the Great Lakes region since 1933. But a century after their discovery, we sti...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 09:54
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In October 1960, Prince Akihito of Japan visited Chicago for 21 hours. Chicago’s mayor presented the prince with a diplomatic gift: 18 bluegill. Wh...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 12:32
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He's braved the mafia, gunshots, and full-moon jungle nights to understand and protect India's wildlife.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2024
  • Length: 52:53
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Daniel Curry needed a horse, his first horse ever to become a range rider. Today, he helps ranchers chase off wolves. He tells his story on the lat...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: May 31, 2024
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: May 24, 2024
  • Length: 02:00