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The Heat is On
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: The Heat is On, Credit: Seth Shostak
Monster Typhoon Haiyen and other threats to health may be the new normal in a warmer world. Can we make the hard decisions needed to protect ourse...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRGY, KREV-LP, WNJR, and KSKQ


  • Added: Nov 18, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Life Back Then
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Life Back Then, Credit: Seth Shostak
Time keeps on ticking, ticking … and as it does, evolution operates to produce remarkable and transformative changes in species.

Bought by WRGY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and WNJR


  • Added: Nov 04, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shutting Down Science
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Shutting Down Science, Credit: Seth Shostak
The government shut down left one Antarctic researcher's research out in the cold and raises a question about publicly funded science. What do we ...

Bought by WRGY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KREV-LP, KVSC, and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Skeptic Check: War of the Worlds
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: War of the Worlds, Credit: Seth Shostak
It was the most famous invasion that never happened. But Orson Welles’ 1938 “War of the Worlds” broadcast sure sounded convincing as it described a...

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City, KQED, WUTC, WRFA-LP, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 12
You Say You Want An Evolution?
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: You Say You Want an Evolution?, Credit: Seth Shostak
Just give it time.

Bought by WRGY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRIR, and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Two Guys On Your Head: Sleep
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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Check out the show with Professors Bob Duke and Art Markman, and then have a nap; refresh and consolidate what you’ve learned. Sleep is a lot more...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2013
  • Length: 07:20
Skeptic Check: Follywood Science
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Follywood Science, Credit: Seth Shostak
From Prometheus to 2001: the ratio of science to fiction in sci-fi, the most accurate science fiction film; and why messing with medical facts in f...

Bought by WRGY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WNJR, and WRIR


  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Catch a Wave
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Catch a Wave, Credit: Seth Shostak
What your eye sees is but a narrow band in the electromagnetic spectrum. Discover what the rest reveals about the secrets of the universe.

Bought by KSKQ, WRGY, WRIR, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Sep 02, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Rife with Life
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Rife With Life, Credit: Seth Shostak
Follow the water is the astrobiology mantra. Where there’s water, there may be life. Join us for a tour of watery solar system bodies.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WRGY, KBGA 89.9 FM, KSKQ, WNJR and more


  • Added: Jul 22, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Getting a Spacelift
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Getting a Spacelift, Credit: Seth Shostak
The future of spaceflight, why humans should go to Mars, the techno-wizardry needed to get there, working on an asteroid, and a space tourist’s pri...

Bought by WRGY, KBGA 89.9 FM, WNJR, KSKQ, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more


  • Added: Jul 15, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Material Whirl
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Material Whirl, Credit: Seth Shostak
The future of man-made materials from 3D printers to artificial skin. Also, why ancient Roman concrete was better than ours.

Bought by WRGY, KBGA 89.9 FM, WNJR, KSKQ, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more


  • Added: Jul 08, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Exoplanets
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Exoplanets, Credit: Seth Shostak
You may be unique, but is your home planet? Why the astronomer who’s discovered hundreds of exoplanets is hopeful about the hunt for alien life. ...

Bought by WRGY, KBGA 89.9 FM, KREV-LP, and KVSC


  • Added: Jun 17, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Cosmos: It's Big, It's Weird
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Cosmos: It's Big, It's Weird, Credit: Seth Shostak
It’s all about you. And you, and you, and you and you … that is, if we live in parallel universes. Physicist Brian Greene’s case for multiverses.

Bought by KSKQ, WRGY, KBGA 89.9 FM, WRIR, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Jun 03, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Skeptic Check: Hostile Climate
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Hostile Climate, Credit: Seth Shostak
It’s a record we didn’t want to break. Carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere is at an all-time high. Meanwhile an op-ed in a leading new...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRGY, WRIR, KREV-LP, KVSC and more


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Going Viral
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Going Viral, Credit: Seth Shostak
Discover how viruses go from birds to pigs to you, how fossil viruses got into your genome, whether E.T. might be a virus, and what it takes for id...

Bought by WUFT, KKWE Niijii Radio, WRGY, WRIR, KREV-LP and more


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Stomach This
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Stomach This, Credit: Seth Shostak
Not all conversation is appropriate for the dinner table – and that includes, strangely enough, the subject of eating. Yet, what happens during th...

Bought by WRGY, KREV-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and WNJR


  • Added: May 06, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Skeptic Check: Forget with the Program
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Forget with the Program, Credit: Seth Shostak
Just remember this: Even our memories of dramatic events that seem to burn themselves directly into our brain are riddled with errors.

Bought by WRGY, WRIR, WRST-FM Oshkosh, Royalton Community Radio, WNJR and more


  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Seth's Wine Cellar
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Seth's Wine Cellar, Credit: Seth Shostak
In this potpourri show: from atomic clocks … to solar storms … to gold particles that might make gasoline obsolete … there are lots of science surp...

Bought by KSKQ, WRIR, KREV-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Anthropocene and Heard
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Anthropocene and Heard, Credit: Seth Shostak
Why climate change and loss of biodiversity may mean goodbye to the "Holocene," and hello to a new geologic epoch, the "Age of Man."

Bought by WRIR, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WNJR, and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Happy Daze
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Happy Daze, Credit: Seth Shostak
Calling all pessimists – discover why your brain is wired for optimism, the evolutionary advantage of thinking positive and other research into th...

Bought by KSKQ, KCMJ Community Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and WNJR


  • Added: Mar 04, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
In Which a Weight is Lifted
From: Laurence Yeung
Series: The AudioPh[i]D
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Episode 3 - 2/23/13 - What would happen if someone stole the One True Kilogram? How would the world go about replacing – or displacing – it? Today,...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 12:52
In Which an Earthquake Convicts Seismologists of Manslaughter
From: Laurence Yeung
Series: The AudioPh[i]D
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Episode 2 - 12/4/12 - An investigation into the case of Italian seismologists being convicted of manslaughter, more academic news, and the inside s...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 23:35
In Which Curiosity Goes Gangnam Style
From: Laurence Yeung
Series: The AudioPh[i]D
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Episode 1 - 10/16/12 - The latest headlines in academia, a bake sale for planetary science, and The Thesis Defense: A game show where the questions...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 15:41
Whodunit, Who'll Do It?
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Whodunit, Who'll Do It?, Credit: Seth Shostak
The tools of forensics have moved way beyond fingerprint kits - discover why, these days, a prosecutor is as likely to wave a fMRI brain scan as a ...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Whither the Weather?
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Whither the Weather?, Credit: Seth Shostak
BiPiSci 110914 Whither the Weather? BiPiSci11-09-12 09/14/11 10/11/11 We all talk about the weather, and now scientists are doing something about i...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KREV-LP, WNJR, and KVSC


  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4