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It's not about how much money you have, it's how you spend it. Scientists prove that experiences are more worth it than material things.
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:32
Dr. Rhett Allain and Adam Cortez discuss the importance and the origin of Pi: 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078...
- Added: May 06, 2021
- Length: 12:11
Rhett Allain and Adam Cortez converse on the topic of Mars and the factors that are unique to the planet.
- Added: May 06, 2021
- Length: 12:38
Dr. Rhett Allain and Adam Cortez discuss the quirkier sides of science.
- Added: May 06, 2021
- Length: 11:40
Arachnophobes BEWARE! Imagine a spider that uses special silk to lift something that's 50 times bigger than itself. There is a video! You must wat...
- Added: Mar 30, 2021
- Length: 04:59
What is that weird smell? It's called trimethylamine (TMA) and for most of us it stinks like rotten fish. For a small percentage of people it smell...
- Added: Mar 30, 2021
- Length: 05:04
What if we burned calories the same way cars use gas for fuel? Amy fell down the comparison hole trying to figure out the "car calories" for humans...
- Added: Mar 30, 2021
- Length: 04:54
We catch you up with an update on fluorescing animals and then jump right into new research on Long Fin Damsel fish that use Mysid shrimp to farm a...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Feb 02, 2021
- Length: 04:56
- Purchases: 1
When music comes on, can you clap along or do you struggle to find the beat? If you have a hard time keeping up with the rhythm, there's a reason a...
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 04:12
In the movie Good Will Hunting, Will is a janitor at MIT--he solves some impossible math problems and shocks the professors. That origin story is t...
- Added: Aug 05, 2020
- Length: 05:00
In these episodes, Dr. Rhett Allain and Adam Cortez discuss the many purposes and origins of Fire.
Bought by Belfast Community Radio
- Added: Jul 11, 2020
- Length: 12:45
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of Culture Clique we take a look at the night sky. Professor Jennifer Anderson guides us through some spectacular sights that will ...
- Added: Apr 24, 2020
- Length: 26:47
Guests include The Trashcan Bandits, Christie Daniels and Jennifer Calvert ND
- Added: Sep 01, 2019
- Length: 59:30
Sending a little love to our listeners in the Southern Hemisphere. It might be summer here, but it's the middle of winter down south. Turn on some ...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jul 16, 2019
- Length: 04:29
- Purchases: 1
Why do we want to crush-hug cute things like babies and young animals? It may have something to do with adorableness overload and how our brains co...
- Added: May 09, 2019
- Length: 03:50
- Added: Feb 05, 2019
- Length: 02:54
- Purchases: 1
March 14th is Pi Day! The irrational number that is the ratio between the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Its Pi day! 3.141592.........
- Added: Mar 13, 2018
- Length: 01:09
- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 02:44
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 04:48
- Purchases: 1
Marta Zaraska discussed the biological, cultural and historical reasons behind our obsession with meat.
- Added: Nov 30, 2016
- Length: 32:55
Welcome to the first episode of This Won't Hurt A Bit. Mel Herbert, ER doc wakes up in the middle of the night to the harrowing sounds of a massive...
Bought by WART FM
- Added: Jun 02, 2016
- Length: 26:55
- Purchases: 1
Over the last 150 years there is one subject which has caused much debate. That subject of course is evolution by natural selection. But what does ...
- Added: Aug 23, 2015
- Length: 15:38
On November 24, 1859, "On the Origin of Species" was published. To say that it made a splash would be an understatement. It changed the world.
- Added: Aug 22, 2015
- Length: 17:59
Darwin settled into a life as a naturalist. Whether he liked it or not, his views would find themselves on the world's stage.
- Added: Aug 15, 2015
- Length: 12:23
On 12/27/1831, 22 year old Charles Darwin stood on the deck of the HMS Beagle to bid England farewell.
- Added: Aug 11, 2015
- Length: 13:39
