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99% Invisible #15- Sounds of the Artificial World (Standard 4:30 Version)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)

Without their beeps and chimes, all of your modern conveniences would be very hard to use.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Troy Public Radio and more

Added: Dec 19, 2011
Length: 04:31
Purchases: 14

99% Invisible #10- 99% Sound and Feel (Standard 4:30 version)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)

Even though he was deaf, Beethoven wrote some of the greatest works of music of all time. So when Chris Downey started losing his sight, he didn't...

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more

Added: Dec 19, 2011
Length: 04:29
Purchases: 15

99% Invisible #19- Liberation Squares (Standard 4:30 Version)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)

Tompkins, Tiananmen, Tahrir...why do revolutions always start in public squares?

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, WUTC, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more

Added: Dec 19, 2011
Length: 04:30
Purchases: 15

EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create The World We Want

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Caption: Nation Books, Credit: Alyssa Stepien

Reports of the health of our planet appear dim. Our conditions are becoming worse as hunger increases, and the variety of species disappear. Autho...

Bought by WEZU

Added: Dec 19, 2011
Length: 28:57
Purchases: 1

Future Food Production: The Sky’s The Limit

From: Alex Wise

We often hear about vertical economic growth and vertical integration in business but the idea of growing our food vertically sounds fantastical. ...

Added: Nov 22, 2011
Length: 30:00

Global Ethics Corner: Space Junk

From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner

According to NASA, over 135 million pieces of man-made metal debris orbit the Earth. While the space race may be over, someone's got to do the clea...

Added: Oct 11, 2011
Length: 02:00

Designing with Nature: Applying Green Chemistry

From: A World of Possibilities

You cannot see molecules, but human-made chemicals flow through every living thing on earth today and have a profound impact on every person’s life...

Bought by 'The Sea', KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KXOT Public Radio

Added: Sep 26, 2011
Length: 55:02
Purchases: 4

Guardian Science Weekly Podcast: Brain science blogging and the sounds of space

From: [redacted] [redacted]

Caption: Guardian Science Weekly, Credit: guardian.co.uk

Neurophilosophy blogger Mo Costandi takes us on a tour of the brain and Astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell reveals the sounds in space

Bought by KUER and PRX Remix

Added: Aug 26, 2011
Length: 28:03
Purchases: 2

Future Generations Are Screaming At Us: The Clean Energy Climate Challenge

From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 11

Caption: James Hansen, Credit: Frank Rogozienski

The climate crisis is a crisis of governance and leadership. Will we move rapidly enough to realign our policies, politics and economy to stabilize...

Bought by KKRN, KZYX, and KWIT

Added: Aug 08, 2011
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 3

Tears in the Eyes: Rainbow in the Heart

From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 11

Caption: Dr. Jane Goodall of the Jane Goodall Institute, Credit: (c) Jennifer Esperanza

The visionary primatologist and conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall revolutionized primatology and helped us realize how close our kinship is with the...

Bought by KQUA and KKRN

Added: Aug 01, 2011
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 2

Guardian Science Weekly Podcast: Alok Jha meets author and activist Mark Lynas

From: [redacted] [redacted]

Author and activist Mark Lynas discusses his new book on global climate change The God Species

Added: Jul 15, 2011
Length: 26:37

Guardian Science Weekly Podcast: Nell Boase discovers the rock'n'roll side of science

From: [redacted] [redacted]

This week Nell Boase discovers the radical and reckless side of great science when she meets Michael Brooks, who's new book Free Radicals: The Secr...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Jul 01, 2011
Length: 30:37
Purchases: 1

Climate Change Gridlock: Where Do We Go From Here? (Part 2)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Global warming is no longer a fear for the future. It’s threatening human civilization, now. Part 2 of a special 2 part series produced by Brian E...

Added: Jun 29, 2011
Length: 29:00

Climate Change Gridlock: Where Do We Go From Here? (Part 1)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Global warming is no longer a fear for the future. It’s threatening human civilization, now. Part 1 of a special 2 part series produced by Brian Ed...

Added: Jun 21, 2011
Length: 29:00

Mosquitoes

From: Vermont Public
Series: Charlie's Garden Journal

Caption: A Mosquito Up Close, Credit: gravitywave/Flickr

In this episode, Charlie Nardozzi debunks mosquito myths and shares some advice for coping with mosquitoes without harming the environment.

Bought by WMNR and WMNR

Added: Jun 13, 2011
Length: 02:30
Purchases: 2

Vanishing Ice - Getting to the Core of Climate Change

From: SQRadio

Caption: Melting Away, Credit: Sheri Quinn

Glaciers around the world are melting at an unprecedented rate and glacier shrinkage is evidence of climate change. Paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thomp...

Added: Jun 04, 2011
Length: 30:02

Guardian Science Weekly Podcast: Alok Jha meets Nobel Laureate Sir Paul Nurse

From: [redacted] [redacted]

This week Alok Jha corners one of the UK's leading scientist Sir Paul Nurse who alongside being a Nobel winning geneticist, is also the present Pre...

Added: May 27, 2011
Length: 34:11

Red Hot Chili Peppers

From: Vermont Public
Series: Charlie's Garden Journal

Caption: There's no mistaking a hot pepper, Credit: Courtesy fRedi via Flickr

Charlie Nardozzi, expert horticulturist, talks about red hot chili peppers that range in intensity from mild to so-strong-they-are-used-for-nationa...

Bought by WMNR and WMNR

Added: May 23, 2011
Length: 02:30
Purchases: 2

Guardian Science Weekly Podcast: Alok Jha discovers supercooperators

From: [redacted] [redacted]

Alok Jha talks to science writer Carl Zimmer about the awesome power of viruses and his new book Planet of Viruses, also Nell Boase meets evolution...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: May 06, 2011
Length: 01:13:10
Purchases: 1

Hope or Despair on Earth Day?

From: Daphne Wysham
Series: Earthbeat

Hope or Despair on the 41st Earth Day? US Whistleblower Says Fukushima Hydrogen Explosion Could Happen Here. Oil Companies’ Control Over Media

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and KQED

Added: Apr 23, 2011
Length: 57:03
Purchases: 2

World on the Edge – A Discussion with Author Lester Brown

From: Daphne Wysham
Series: Earthbeat

The world is facing a potentially devastating 'Food Bubble,' that according to pioneering environmentalist Lester Brown.

Added: Apr 22, 2011
Length: 56:59

Burrowing Owls

From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes

Not all owls hunt at night and nest in trees. Burrowing owls greet the sun from abandoned prairie dog dens. What else makes these tiny birds unique?

Bought by KENW

Added: Apr 19, 2011
Length: 04:30
Purchases: 1

Big Bend Gambusia

From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes

Big Bend National Park is home to many rare and endangered species, but the Big Bend gambusia lives particularly close to the edge of extinction. H...

Bought by KENW

Added: Apr 19, 2011
Length: 04:30
Purchases: 1

Nighthawks

From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes

Some birds sing. Others twitter, tweet or trill. But the common nighthawk goes boom in the night. This noise isn’t all that sets nighthawks apart i...

Bought by KENW