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Might it be possible to teach a pigeon how to "read" a label for a person who can't read? Is there the possibility of a future where pigeon service...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: May 20, 2020
- Length: 04:15
- Purchases: 1
What happens when you cross a intestinal invading fungus or bacteria with carbohydrates? You get very very drunk. Trace explores the weird world of...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Feb 20, 2020
- Length: 04:13
- Purchases: 1
Barn owls come in three colors, a tawny brown, a mix of brown a white, and all white. It didn't make sense to researchers how a white owl could be ...
- Added: Jan 06, 2020
- Length: 06:15
Who is the brightest, the most likely to crush the SAT, the one pet who has the brains to out think them all? Is it your cat or your dog?
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Dec 03, 2019
- Length: 04:44
- Purchases: 1
Before they even hatch, Yellow Legged Gull chicks seem to be communication to their nest mates. Amy dives into the how and why.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Nov 24, 2019
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 1
What do those rain percentages they give you on the news really mean? Why does the snow in Europe sometimes turn orange? Have you ever heard of a f...
- Added: Nov 24, 2019
- Length: 15:41
Ants hunt for food, but how do they know how to get back? Content warning: Science is messy. Some ants were harmed and we talk about it. Not in gre...
- Added: Aug 06, 2019
- Length: 08:50
Like a scaly cheetah, galloping crocs were a terror both on land and in the water. Good thing they lived 100 million years ago.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSFR
- Added: Aug 06, 2019
- Length: 04:15
- Purchases: 2
The internet claims lobsters are immortal. Amy pulls a Dana Scully and debunks the heck out of that idea.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Mar 26, 2019
- Length: 04:35
- Purchases: 1
Dr. Margoliash at the University of Chicago has been studying the brains of Zebra Finches for years. Today we dive into some of his lab's result --...
- Added: Jan 30, 2019
- Length: 03:22
Big wave surfers are in a class of their own. But Geologist Lori Dengler encourages sticking with giant waves generated by big storms. On this segm...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 01:31
- Purchases: 1
The average household has more than 40 appliances that use electricity when they're off. We help you find and subdue them.
Bought by KFOI Radio
- Added: Feb 07, 2018
- Length: 23:21
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 04:05
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 04:05
- Purchases: 1
Tim and I talk about the mysteries of the deep blue.
- Added: Aug 03, 2017
- Length: 31:15
Just how fast and how far can a human go? This week on This Won't Hurt A Bit, the physiology and stories of extreme runners.
- Added: Jan 18, 2016
- Length: 33:16
- Purchases: 3
In this episode, we have given up sitting for two weeks. You know, that practice of putting one’s butt in a chair? Yup. We kissed that goodbye and ...
- Added: Jan 08, 2016
- Length: 33:50
Ann and the gang discuss erectile dysfunction. How guys are lucky to have Viagra. Most of all men are lucky that we know know that ED is usually me...
- Added: Oct 15, 2015
- Length: 30:09
Loren Coleman spends most of his time thinking about animals that most people think are fake.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 06:18
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Apr 08, 2015
- Length: 04:57
Why everything you know about the placebo effect is wrong?
- Added: Sep 03, 2014
- Length: 24:35
Science Frog explains an important phenomenon.
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 01:08
It’s the sixty-seventh episode of The Mikie Show! You won’t want to miss this one: We speak with Deirdre Barrett Ph.D., author, psychologist and te...
- Added: Jan 24, 2014
- Length: 28:02
Have you ever traveled to a new place and suddenly, randomly, you experience this overwhelming sense of familiarity with what you’re seeing, like y...
- Added: Sep 25, 2013
- Length: 07:20
Nobel Prize winners may be hiding in plain sight, ready to help the most clueless junior high kid on his science project.
- Added: Sep 24, 2013
- Length: 12:56
