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Mars Attracts
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Mars Attracts, Credit: Seth Shostak
In a historic trifecta for space exploration, spacecraft of three countries will arrive at Mars in February. We talk to the science lead for the Em...

Bought by WRGY, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WHCP-LP Cambridge, WMUU-LP, KMXT and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Advanced Humanities Institute at SFI
From: KUNM
Series: Augmented Humanity
Caption: Simon DeDeo
Philosopher David Kinney, an Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellow at The Santa Fe Institute, and SFI External Professor Simon DeDeo, a cognitive scientist a...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Mapping the Ocean: Physical Cartography
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week on World Ocean Radio: part twenty-one of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we introduce listeners to the concept of ocean ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 1
Supercomputer Showdown
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Supercomputer Showdown, Credit: Seth Shostak
Do you have a hard-to-answer question? The Summit, Sierra, Trinity, Frontier, and Aurora supercomputers are built to tackle it. Summit tops the pet...

Bought by WCNY, KMUN, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRGY, WYAP and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Skeptic Check: Betting on Pseudoscience
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Betting on Pseudoscience, Credit: Seth Shostak
Psychics may not be able to predict the future or sense your thoughts. Nonetheless, they rake in big bucks. But the harm from pseudoscience can go ...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KBBI Alaska, WMUU-LP, WRGY and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Covid-19
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Book cover, Credit: Jacket design Danielle Allyssa
In March of 2020, after months of downplaying of COVID by officials, the death rate could no longer be ignored. By late fall, as many Americans wer...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
What's Old Is New Again: Going Medieval on the Cult of Innovation (2015)
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: The astrolabe was a marriage of the planisphere and dioptra, effectively an analog calculator capable of working out several different kinds of problems in astronomy.
It’s December 29th. For our last show of 2020 we’ll turn back to a program from July 2015 as an attempt to hit the reset button. While the book of ...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
For Good Measure
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
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The reign of Le Grand K has come to an end. After 130 years, this hunk of French metal sitting in a vault will no longer define the kilogram. The n...

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Fire Clouds and Ice-teroids
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
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Upcoming asteroid missions will bring back samples from Bennu, and get up-close and personal with seven other small bodies to tell us how the solar...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, KMUN, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRGY, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
2020-12-06 Are We Alone?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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If there is intelligent life beyond Earth, how would that change life ON Earth?

Bought by KMUN, WCNY, RadioStPete Florida, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
Future Rising
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Andrew Maynard
Most of us spend a good part of our time in the future. That is, we ponder what tomorrow brings. Or, even later today. Though we only have a snapsh...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 23, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sex Post Facto
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Sex Post Facto, Credit: Seth Shostak
Birds do it, bees do it, but humans may not do it for much longer – at least not for having kids. Instead, babies will be made in the lab, with ge...

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, KMUN, WRGY, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
currying
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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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
Planetary Health
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Howard Frumkin
Recent events around the globe clearly demonstrates the interconnectedness of human health and the health of our planet. Heat waves in California, ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Time Travel Agents
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Time Travel Agents, Credit: Seth Shostak
Hey, let’s meet last week for coffee. Okay, we can’t meet in the past… yet. But is it only a matter of time before we time travel? Physicists have ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, WUFT, WRGY, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2020
  • Length: 54:03
  • Purchases: 15
The Challenge of Technological Change
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week on World Ocean Radio: part twelve of the multi-part BLUEprint series. As we embark on our collective quest for a sustainable future, we a...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2020
  • Length: 05:30
Covid: The Threat Is In The Air (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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As the world waits for a coronavirus cure, attention is focused on vaccines.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KRZA, WJCT, WYAP, WFHB and more


  • Added: Oct 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Covid: The Threat Is In The Air (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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As the world waits for a coronavirus cure, attention is focused on vaccines.

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, WTJU and more


  • Added: Oct 15, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 12
Covid: The Threat Is In The Air (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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As the world waits for a coronavirus cure, attention is focused on vaccines.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Oct 15, 2020
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
Predicting Hotspots (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Atin Basu and his colleague’s Hotspot Predictors placed America high on the conflict predictor index for 2019.

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNYO and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 13
Predicting Hotspots (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Atin Basu and his colleague’s Hotspot Predictors placed America high on the conflict predictor index for 2019.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, KPBS, WJCT, KRDP and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
Predicting Hotspots (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Atin Basu and his colleague’s Hotspot Predictors placed America high on the conflict predictor index for 2019.

Bought by KXCV, WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
The Voyage of the USS Albatross (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In 1908, the U.S.S. Albatross set off on a research expedition to the newly acquired U.S. colony of the Philippines. Today, Kent Carpenter is study...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KVSC, KRDP, WJCT, WYAP and more


  • Added: Sep 24, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Voyage of the USS Albatross (hour)
From: With Good Reason
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In 1908, the U.S.S. Albatross set off on a research expedition to the newly acquired U.S. colony of the Philippines. Today, Kent Carpenter is study...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WMUU-LP, KXCV, WNED Buffalo, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 24, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
The Voyage of the USS Albatross (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In 1908, the U.S.S. Albatross set off on a research expedition to the newly acquired U.S. colony of the Philippines. Today, Kent Carpenter is study...

Bought by KXCV, WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Sep 24, 2020
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3

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