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Imagine waiting to catch a train. You show up at the station and wait for the familiar clanking of wheels and squealing of brakes. This time, howev...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Physicists are approaching closer and closer to one of the Holy Grails of modern science: creating self-sustaining fusion reactions on Earth, and u...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
For the past fifty years physicists around the world have been trying to create a fusion power reactor, harnessing the processes deep inside of sta...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
It was early morning, November first, nineteen fifty-two. The scientists who had gathered on the beautiful Enewetak (A-ne-we-tak) Atoll in the Sout...
- Added: Jun 03, 2014
- Length: 02:00
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
Taking the listeners back into the early history of the universe, this introductory episode explains what fusion is, how it powers stars, and how i...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
Is organic food worth a higher price at the check out? Chuck Benbrook, Ph.D., Washington State University, helps us do the food math. Join Food Sl...
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 28:00
Local citizens have organized to help protect and support a Great Blue Heron rookery in the middle of a busy Seattle neighborhood.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Mar 03, 2014
- Length: 05:14
- Purchases: 1
When it comes to the Myers-Briggs personality type test, are you an introvert or an extrovert? Do you focus on sensing, or do you use your intuitio...
- Added: Feb 08, 2014
- Length: 07:20
A discussion of the economic, social, and political consequences of environmental degradation on populations and governmental systems. Special gues...
- Added: Nov 14, 2013
- Length: 23:53
A discussion of the economic, social, and political consequences of environmental degradation on populations and governmental systems. Special gue...
- Added: Nov 14, 2013
- Length: 26:18
To what degree are we born a blank slate, and how much are we a result of our influence by our environment? Consensus: Nature or nurture is the wr...
- Added: Sep 27, 2013
- Length: 07:20
"Citizen Science" is a relatively new term used to describe non-specialist research carried out by pioneering teams of private individuals, foundat...
- Added: Sep 03, 2013
- Length: 05:04
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will share his practice of carrying blue marbles with him wherever he goes, gifting them to ...
- Added: Aug 19, 2013
- Length: 05:06
In the last edition of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill suggested reciprocity as a value on which to build our response to the environmental deg...
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 05:13
Some 40 years ago the Nature Conservancy began buying up the barrier islands of Virginia and the riparian areas on the mainland. Today they own all...
- Added: Oct 24, 2012
- Length: 27:13
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, he'll discuss all manner of things that float: from the natural to the man-made, from the obvious modes of tr...
- Added: Sep 09, 2012
- Length: 05:17
World-renowned psychiatrist Dr. James S. Gordon of the Center for Mind Body Medicine has trained thousands of teachers globally to advance ancient ...
Bought by Panhandle Community Radio, KKRN, WEZU, KFCF FM, and WEZU
- Added: Jun 26, 2012
- Length: 28:31
- Purchases: 5
Marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols, ocean advocates Philippe and Alexandra Cousteau, and the Truckee High School Envirolution Club are among the r...
Bought by Panhandle Community Radio, KKRN, KFCF FM, and WEZU
- Added: Jun 26, 2012
- Length: 28:31
- Purchases: 4
Biomimicry is decoding astonishing treasures from nature's recipe book that we can mimic for our technological and industrial practices.
Bought by Ohm Radio , WHCP-LP Cambridge, Panhandle Community Radio, WZEN.org, KKRN and more
- Added: Jun 26, 2012
- Length: 28:31
- Purchases: 9
The visionary designer and architect R. Buckminster Fuller’s remarkable legacy inspires new generations to create the Design Science Revolution he ...
Bought by Panhandle Community Radio, KKRN, KFCF FM, and WDSE
- Added: Jun 26, 2012
- Length: 57:02
- Purchases: 4
Rachel Carson and Jacques Cousteau's legacies have driven decades of new investigation, research institutes, conservation action and programs in th...
- Added: Feb 14, 2012
- Length: 05:12
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
"Natural Magic" is a new one-hour special from Bioneers Radio that explores the time-tested processes, relationships and recipes that have allowed ...
- Added: Sep 08, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
The climate crisis is a crisis of governance and leadership. Will we move rapidly enough to realign our policies, politics and economy to stabilize...
- Added: Aug 08, 2011
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
