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Rails are secretive marsh birds, and they’re on the decline. But a researcher playing their recorded calls over a loudspeaker could help bring them...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 09:13
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America’s bird, the bald eagle, is facing a tremendous challenge. As scavengers, they feed on what we and other animals leave behind. But lead cont...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 13:03
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Flying squirrels glow pink under a blacklight. How many other mammals do this? What causes them to glow? The hardest question of all might never be...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 17:50
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Rock hunting holds a special place in Joyce Fetrow’s heart. Years ago, she battled alcoholism that drove her to some dark places. Now, Joyce dedica...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 11:56
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Invasive species often spread by hitching a ride on anglers, especially anglers who don’t clean their gear after fishing. Though this is widely kno...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 13:07
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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
Caption: Bill Shanabruch leads Conservation Landscaping Workshop.
Bill Shanabruch left his job as regional biologist for the Piedmont with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. It was over a boondoggl...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 26:08
Caption: Bill Shanabruch, Credit: Charles McGuigan
As staggeringly complex as the environmental catastrophe is, by tackling one small space at a time, we might be able to bring back entire ecosystem...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2024
  • Length: 24:26
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Not your usual ghost story. Journalist & broadcaster Don Hill investigates a haunted house—his own.

  • Added: Sep 18, 2022
  • Length: 13:45
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Not your usual ghost story. Journalist & broadcaster Don Hill investigates a haunted house—his own.

  • Added: Sep 18, 2022
  • Length: 19:34
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Not your usual ghost story. Journalist & broadcaster Don Hill investigates a haunted house—his own.

  • Added: Sep 18, 2022
  • Length: 32:31
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Not your usual ghost story. Journalist & broadcaster Don Hill investigates a haunted house—his own.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2022
  • Length: 20:50
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In My Body Odyssey’s (MBO) first episode, we meet Ultimate Mark – uber-competitive weekend warrior in Ultimate Disc: “If it hurts me but helps the ...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 18:49
Caption: Sometimes, story is the best form of medicine.
Superhumans is an immersive audio docu-series that takes you deep into the unspoken intersection of health & humanity. In each episode, real people...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 04:39
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Nine out of ten deaf babies are born to hearing parents, who know almost nothing about deafness or the science of language. But they have to learn ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 25, 2019
  • Length: 49:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Among the various STEM education organizations that have developed throughout the last several years, there is ChickTech. The local Austin chapter ...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2018
  • Length: 35:42
Caption: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast, Season 1, Credit: Pios Labs
We explore the alleged phenomenon of teachers getting bad dreams and nightmares, more often than everyone else, starting with several engineering t...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2017
  • Length: 34:47
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Documentary film and science do not appear to have much in common, except that, philosophically, they have everything in common. Two men met in 197...

  • Added: May 15, 2017
  • Length: 48:08
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We discuss diseases and syndromes that distort reality, past societal failures with mental health as well as the brave story of young Nellie Bly. W...

Bought by WART FM


  • Added: Jun 02, 2016
  • Length: 32:39
  • Purchases: 1
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This episode explores bites. The good and the bad, the Arachnid the Annelid, and the Diptera. How dangerous is the widow spider bite? Do we still u...

Bought by WART FM


  • Added: Jun 02, 2016
  • Length: 36:39
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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If his name doesn't ring a bell, it's because we knew him ... millions of television viewers ... from the 1950s all the way through to the Nickelod...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:00