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Sky Dancer
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: Points North
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There’s this elusive bird found throughout the Great Lakes region. If you know where to look, you can often spot it where fields and wetlands meet....

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 07:46
Consumer Ripoffs, Volume 1
From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour
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Brian Dunning touches on the myriad rip-offs claiming health benefits with no real science to back them up. In this first volume of "Consumer Ripof...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Moon Landing Hoax Conspiracy
From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour
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Brian Dunning takes a look at the history of the Apollo moon landing hoax conspiracy theory, and those who believe in it.

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Verifying and Solving Global Warming
From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour
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Brian Dunning examines the evidence that humans are warming the earth.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Four Famous Cryptids Unmasked
From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour
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Brian Dunning examines the legends of four famous cryptids: the Bili Ape of the Congo, the Beast of Gevaudan, the Monster of Port Chatham, and the ...

Bought by WVTF


  • Added: Jan 12, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
WASP-39b: A Hot and Amazing Jupiter-like Planet
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
Caption: Uncover Secrets Beyond the Solar System , Credit: Deep Astronomy
WASP-39 b is a hot and puffy planet with a mass roughly one-quarter that of Jupiter and a diameter 1.3 times greater than Jupiter. Its extreme puff...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 24, 2023
  • Length: 03:10
  • Purchases: 1
Sound Ecology: Harbor Seals
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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Remarkable facts about the ubiquitous resident of our coastal regions, the harbor seal.

Bought by Radio Newark and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Feb 07, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Sound Ecology: Redwoods
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard highlighting the magnificent Redwood trees of northwestern California.

Bought by WNED Buffalo and Radio Newark


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 01:57
  • Purchases: 2
Sound Ecology: Marsh Wren
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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This segment of Sound Ecology highlights the diverse songs and calls of the marsh wren in northern California. For air during spring and summer.

Bought by WNED Buffalo and Radio Newark


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 2
Sound Ecology: Warblers
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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This segment of Sound Ecology highlights the springtime arrival of orange-crowned and wilson's warblers in northwestern California. For air during ...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 3
Sound Ecology: Allen's Hummingbird
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard highlighting the amazing migration of Allen's Hummingbirds along the pacific flyway. Best aired late winter through spring and su...

Bought by WNED Buffalo and Radio Newark


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
Sound Ecology: Aleutian Geese
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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This segment of Sound Ecology focuses on the recovery of the once-endangered Aleutian Geese that winter in northern California.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
Sound Ecology: Manzanitas
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard highlighting the spectacular diversity and adaptability of manzanitas

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 15, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
Sound Ecology: Eelgrass
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard highlighting the importance of eelgrass to ecosystem health.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 15, 2016
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
Sound Ecology: Macrofungi
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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Mycologist Terry Henkel discusses the diversity of fungi, loosely called mushrooms, and their importance to ecosystem health and the Klamath bioreg...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 15, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
Sound Ecology: Cetaceans
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard highlighting the wide variety of whales, porpoises and dolphins that inhabit the waters along northern California and southern Or...

Bought by KLCC, WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 4
Sound Ecology: Klamath Conifers
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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A discussion of the unparalleled conifer biodiversity in the Klamath mountain region. Taking the long view through geologic time, this segment of ...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
Sound Ecology: American Dipper
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard about the American Dipper, highlighting some behavioral and physiological aspects of this ubiquitous songbird along rivers and st...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, KRZA, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 01:27
  • Purchases: 4
Seeing Ourselves
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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Today on our show, four stories of people who tried to see themselves clearly

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 3
The Power of Sound
From: Alyssa Ostrzyzek
Series: Sonus, Tonus, and You
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Here, the direct physiological and psychological affects of sound on the human brain are examined.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 06:20
How Our Brains Process Music and Sound
From: Alyssa Ostrzyzek
Series: Sonus, Tonus, and You
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This installment examines how humans perceive sound, and how we listen, with a number of experiments as aids.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 10:25
The Tympanic Eclipse
From: Britt Wray
Caption: Getting cultural theory out of the books and putting it into your ears!
The Tympanic Eclipse is an audio series that brings cultural theory out of its stuffy scholarly tomes, and puts it into your ears. Together with e...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: :00
Who was Guinea Pig B
From: Euan McAleece
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An exploration into the life and legacy of Richard Buckminster Fuller

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 01, 2012
  • Length: 15:00
  • Purchases: 1
Encounters Aleutian Goose
From: Encounters: Radio Experiences in the North
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This is an amazing tale about a goose, two scientists and an ocean between them

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and KMXT


  • Added: Jan 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2