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Lesser Water Boatman
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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This week on Into It, Andrew Bales takes a look at a lesser known insect with an unusual talent.

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:41
  • Purchases: 1
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
Skeptic Check: They're Baack!
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: They're Baack!, Credit: Seth Shostak
When we return: the mythos and the science of reincarnation, hibernation, and suspended animation.

Bought by Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Dec 31, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Remembers Only
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Remembers Only, Credit: Seth Shostak
Almost everything we know about memory comes from the life of one man born in 1926 and known as H.M., the world’s “most unforgettable amnesiac.”

Bought by KSKQ, KREV-LP, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Dec 24, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Doomsday Live, Part 2
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Doomsday Live, Part 2, Credit: Seth Shostak
If there is only one show you hear about the end of the world, let it be this one. Recorded before a live audience at the Computer History Museum ...

Bought by WCPN, KREV-LP, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Doomsday Live, Part I
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Doomsday Live, Part I, Credit: Molly Bentley
If there is only one show you hear about the end of the world, let it be this one. Recorded before a live audience at the Computer History Museum ...

Bought by WCPN, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KREV-LP, and KSKQ


  • Added: Nov 26, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Computer Talk Radio (59 minutes) for November 24th-30th, 2012
From: Benjamin Rockwell
Series: Computer Talk Radio (59 Minute)
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Computer Talk Radio weekly show for the broadcast week starting November 24th, 2012. Benjamin Rockwell, the stuffed nerd (Thanksgiving weekend and ...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
Molecular Origami -- Groks Science Show 2012-11-21
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Protein folding, i.e. how a long chain of amino acids attains its three-dimensional structure, is an incredibly complex problem. To solve it, scien...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WRNC-LP, KMXT, and KPVL


  • Added: Nov 21, 2012
  • Length: 22:37
  • Purchases: 4
No Expiration Date
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: No Expiration Date, Credit: Seth Shostak
Why food molds, people age and plastic sticks around so gosh darn long.

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Computer Talk Radio (November 10th-16th, 2012)
From: Benjamin Rockwell
Series: Computer Talk Radio (54 Minute)
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Computer Talk Radio weekly show for the broadcast week starting November 10th, 2012. Benjamin Rockwell, the friendly nerd, opens with the latest ne...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
Going Global
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Going Global, Credit: Seth Shostak
Writer David Quammen on what it takes for an animal disease to become a human pandemic. Also, was hurricane Sandy a man-made disaster?

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  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 3
Space Archaeology
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Space Archaeology, Credit: Seth Shostak
Why modern archaeologists forsake digging in the dirt in favor of a satellite view, and how we might track extraterrestrials from the trash they le...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KREV-LP


  • Added: Oct 22, 2012
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 2
Computer Talk Radio (October 20th-26th, 2012)
From: Benjamin Rockwell
Series: Computer Talk Radio (54 Minute)
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Computer Talk Radio weekly show for the broadcast week starting October 20th, 2012. Benjamin Rockwell, the bespectacled host, opens with the latest...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2012
  • Length: 53:59
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
As the Worlds Turn
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: As the Worlds Turn, Credit: Seth Shostak
If you’re itching to get away from it all, really get away from it all, have we got some exotic destinations for you. From Mars to Jupiter’s moon...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KREV-LP


  • Added: Oct 15, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2
[Rectangular Container] Thinking
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: [Rectangular Container] Thinking, Credit: Seth Shostak
Discover the original thinking that led to the discovery of dark matter and the invention of a.c. power grids, disinfectant, and the Greek “death r...

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


  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 3
Ponderables -- Groks Science Show 2012-10-03
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Tom Jackson joins us to discuss history alongside the elements, the universe, and mathematics.

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  • Added: Oct 04, 2012
  • Length: 25:16
  • Purchases: 3
Skeptic Check: Mysterious Illness
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Mysterious Illness, Credit: Seth Shostak
The strange case of stuttering in Le Roy, N.Y. and an update on the cellphone cancer debate.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KREV-LP


  • Added: Oct 01, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2
Big Data
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Big Data, Credit: Seth Shostak
Big data is revolutionizing research. Learn how it might cure disease, or find ET. But is it a threat to our privacy?

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  • Added: Sep 24, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 6
Skeptic Check: Energy Vortex
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Energy Vortex, Credit: Seth Shostak
The science behind “mysterious energy,” from magnetic poles to haunted houses, and just what the heck is an “energy vortex” anyway?

Bought by KSKQ and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Sep 17, 2012
  • Length: 54:03
  • Purchases: 2
Oh, Rats!
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Oh, Rats!, Credit: Seth Shostak
Before you chase it with a broom, consider this: Without the rat, we might miss critical insights into the nature of stress, cancer … and even love...

Bought by KVSC and KREV-LP


  • Added: Sep 10, 2012
  • Length: 54:32
  • Purchases: 2
The Invisible In-Between
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: The Invisible In-Between, Credit: Seth Shostak
To need air is human. Catch a skydiver in action and discover what’s in supposedly empty interstellar space.

Bought by KSKQ and KREV-LP


  • Added: Sep 03, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2
Gravity's Engine -- Groks Science Show 2012-08-29
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Caleb Scharf discusses astrophysics and black holes.

Bought by KPIP-LP, KKWE Niijii Radio, WRNC-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: Aug 29, 2012
  • Length: 27:27
  • Purchases: 4
Skeptic Check: Monsters, Magic, and Music
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Monster, Magic, and Music, Credit: Seth Shostak
A combo of critical thinking; from tracking Bigfoot and magic’s ability to fool the brain to whether a study about music supports the “Mozart Effec...

Bought by KSKQ, KREV-LP, and KVSC


  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 3
A Martian Curiosity
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: A Martian Curiosity, Credit: Seth Shostak
The hard part is over: we landed on Mars (again!). Let the science begin. Here’s the latest in the hunt for evidence of life off Earth, and one m...

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2012
  • Length: 54:14
  • Purchases: 2