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Sleepyhead -- Groks Science Show 2018-09-12
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Henry Nicholls discussed the neuroscience of sleep.

  • Added: Sep 11, 2018
  • Length: 30:56
493-Ringed Dynamo
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Even though humans have been aware of the planet Saturn from from the dawn of history this beautiful object still offers mysteries for us to explore.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KKRN, WLPR , and KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Sep 07, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
Food Fight -- Groks Science Show 2018-08-29
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Chef Gigi Gaggero discussed winning the food fight with kids.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2018
  • Length: 28:34
Visual Tracking -- Groks Science Show 2018-09-05
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Jam Ghajar discussed neurological eye tracking.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2018
  • Length: 23:33
Lion Heart -- Groks Science Show 2018-08-08
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Will Solzenburg discussed his new book, Heart of a Lion.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2018
  • Length: 39:53
Plan of a Hack
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Plan of a Hack, Credit: Seth Shostak
Before cyber criminals were stealing ATM passwords, phone phreaks were tapping into the telephone system. Today “hacking” can apply to cyberwarfare...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Sep 03, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Too Big To Prove
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Too Big To Prove, Credit: Seth Shostak
Celebrations are in order for the physicists who won the 2017 Nobel Prize for the detection of gravitational waves. Unfolding over a century, the ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, KTSW 89.9, KMXT and more


  • Added: Aug 20, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Fish Knowledge -- Groks Science Show 2018-08-01
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Jonathan Balcombe discussed what a fish knows.

  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 29:47
Quantum Metal -- Groks Science Show 2018-07-25
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Philip Moriarty discussed heavy metal music and quantum physics.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2018
  • Length: 18:46
What Goes Around
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: What Goes Around, Credit: Seth Shostak
It’s not just tin cans and newspapers. One man says that everything can be recycled – cigarette butts, yoga mats, dirty diapers. Even radioactive...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, WMRA, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 09, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Visual Search -- Groks Science Show 2018-06-27
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Kavita Bala joins us to talk about visual search and what it means for consumers and future of AR/VR.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2018
  • Length: 23:42
The Future of Assessments in Engineering Design
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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Now that states have written engineering into K-12 science and technology learning standards, more institutions are thinking about how to run stand...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2018
  • Length: 28:02
RDD: The Final Frontier
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week we're headed where the RDD has never gone before, the final frontier, space! We interview Dr. Dale Smith an astronomy professor and plane...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 11, 2018
  • Length: 06:10
  • Purchases: 1
Anger Management -- Groks Science Show 2018-05-23
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Bernard Golden discussed anger management.

  • Added: May 29, 2018
  • Length: 15:17
Time on Your Side
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Time on Your Side, Credit: Seth Shostak
Time passes like an arrow, but what if flew like a boomerang? Find out how scientists are working to reverse time’s most relentless march: aging. ...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., Royalton Community Radio, KBBI Alaska, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCSB-FM and more


  • Added: May 28, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Think Tank -- Groks Science Show 2018-05-16
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. David Linden discussed the state of neuroscience research.

  • Added: May 18, 2018
  • Length: 19:07
Intro to Mechanical Engineering
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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What is mechanical engineering? Engineer Sadhan Sathyaseelan joins the show again from The University of Texas to wonder out loud about all the imp...

  • Added: May 15, 2018
  • Length: 42:04
What Have You Got To Move
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: What Have You Got To Move, Credit: Seth Shostak
The world is an ocean of motion. Animal locomotion is necessary to survive, and evolution has provided a diverse means to do it: fins, feathers, a...

Bought by WMUU-LP, Royalton Community Radio, KCSB-FM, KBBI Alaska, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Swearing -- Groks Science Show 2018-04-18
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Benjamin Bergen discussed the science of swearing.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 27:57
Tracing Brain Circuits for Mental Health
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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Neuroscience research needs help from many fields, including engineering. Dr. Talia Lerner describes some of the engineering tools that she uses to...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2018
  • Length: 31:00
Brain Dust
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Brain Dust, Credit: Seth Shostak
The brain is a hot research topic, but despite all efforts, your grey matter largely remains a black box – an indecipherable web of neurons with a ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, CHSR-FM 97.9, Royalton Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Skeptic Check: Your Inner Lab Coat
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Your Inner Lab Coat, Credit: Seth Shostak
Sherlock Holmes doesn’t have a science degree, yet he thinks rationally like a scientist. You can too! Learn the secrets of being irritatingly lo...

Bought by WVTF, WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 12
Computational Oncology and Tumor Modeling - The Next Phase in Personalized Therapies for Cancer Patients.
From: Peter Hofland
Series: The OncoZine Brief
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In this episode of The OncoZine Brief, Peter Hofland, Ph.D and Sonia Portillo talk with Thomas Yankeelov, Ph.D, a computational biomedical engineer...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2018
  • Length: 41:01
Math Anxiety
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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Anxiety in engineering education sometimes comes from doing math. What does math anxiety feel like? What are its causes and effects? How do you dea...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2018
  • Length: 27:40
Quantum: Why We Want 'Em
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Quantum: Why We Want 'Em, Credit: Seth Shostak
Today, everything from cell phones to LED lighting depends on the weird behavior described by quantum mechanics. But will this strange physics soo...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, Royalton Community Radio, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Feb 19, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14