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By the middle of the 20th century electromagnets were common and engineers had begun experimenting with using them to levitate vehicles, including...
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Dale Peterson joins us to discuss chimpanzee behavior.
Bought by 'The Sea', 'The Sea', WMUU-LP, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KPVL
- Added: Feb 24, 2014
- Length: 27:44
- Purchases: 5
The area’s so flat that every bunny hill seems a candidate. But, no, really — where is it?
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2013
- Length: 06:53
- Purchases: 1
Dr. Lance Grande discusses his new book, "The Lost World of Fossil Lake: Snapshots from Deep Time."
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Jul 17, 2013
- Length: 20:48
- Purchases: 1
From the red eyes of a periodical cicada looking out: a bug's first person rendition from emergence til death.
Bought by KSJD, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTIP, Radio Newark, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more
- Added: Jun 19, 2013
- Length: 07:42
- Purchases: 8
New Bedford Harbor ranks among the worst harbors in the country for surface oil spills. Harbor officials and environmental groups can’t even agree ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 06:50
Three hours of music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. Collector's music so that you don't need to spend your adulthood in yo...
- Added: Apr 04, 2013
- Length: 02:55:29
In Ohio, some of the best pockets of oil and gas in the East run right under Amish country. Reid Frazier found the drilling boom is confronting the...
- Added: Mar 11, 2013
- Length: 06:37
Richmond, California is one of the lowest-income communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s also one of the most toxic. On this edition, we’ll...
- Added: Feb 06, 2013
- Length: 29:00
A sculpture, called Carbon Sink, installed on the University of Wyoming campus, has generated a lot of controversy in the past couple of years. It ...
- Added: Oct 01, 2012
- Length: 07:14
Life is everywhere and we have a tough time killing it when sending our spacecraft off to Mars. However, in the lab, life is elusive. We look at th...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 26, 2012
- Length: 15:03
- Purchases: 2
This week our writers all go interesting adventures, whether planned or not. Stories by Alan Eastham, Julia Nall, and Alan Reese. True stories told...
- Added: Aug 04, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Farmer Steve Mello has put down roots in “The Delta” in central California. But climate change is threatening the levees which protect Delta farms....
- Added: May 04, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Miranda Loud interviews painter Gary Dunn on the edge of Brooklyn's Prospect Park - asking him to share his ideas about the role public parks play ...
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 05:14
What happens when your land sits on top of a rich natural gas deposit, but you don't own the mineral rights. In Wetzel County, West Virginia, many ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2012
- Length: 07:05
Editors at National Geographic Magazine detail the requirements for young explorers to qualify for expedition grants
- Added: Dec 19, 2011
- Length: 05:59
- Added: Sep 21, 2011
- Length: 06:24
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 21, 2011
- Length: 06:12
- Added: Sep 21, 2011
- Length: 06:12
How a small community of gold miners in the Colombian jungle is fighting to turn a toxic industry into a green and global market.
- Added: Jul 07, 2011
- Length: 34:24
Sustainable Design for the Future, from IEEE Spectrum Magazine and the National Science Foundation. Sustainable planning – of buildings and communi...
Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, KZYX, KISU, WNYC, KZYX and more
- Added: Mar 24, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 9
Evergreen Documentary: About a hundred years ago, one of the largest wildfires in US history taught Americans to fear flames. The Big Burn of 1910...
- Added: Sep 02, 2010
- Length: 29:04
Just in time for the global climate summit in Copenhagen and the debate on a climate and energy bill in Washington, this half hour special from Hig...
Bought by WFHB, RadioStPete Florida, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KGNU Community Radio, KGLT and more
- Added: Nov 22, 2009
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 11
Shawn Allee looks at a dioxin and soil study and how the science might influence other clean-ups around the country.
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 03:37
Shawn Allee finds old dioxin pollution from a Dow chemical plant poses a health risk today.
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 03:29
