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Gone Fishin’: Australis Aquaculture CEO Josh Goldman
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Josh Goldman
Making responsible choices as a seafood consumer has never been more complicated. An average fish-eater might be aware that tuna is high in mercury...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
Robert Boyd on the Hydrogen Economy
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Robert Boyd
One of the most alluring answers to the climate change conundrum is a transition from a fossil fuel-based economy to a hydrogen-based economy. As h...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
Digging Peromyscus -- Groks Science Show 2013-02-06
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Not many laboratories house mice in 3000 pounds of sand, but then not many labs research the burrowing habits of Peromyscus, either. Dr. Hopi Hoek...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KMXT, and KPVL


  • Added: Feb 06, 2013
  • Length: 30:27
  • Purchases: 3
Teeny Weeny Technology: Heather Millar on Nanoparticles
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Heather Millar
Here’s a little exercise: take a pen and a blank piece of paper and write down everything you know about nano-technology. If you do this, you may f...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2013
  • Length: 29:50
Jack and the Microbiome -- Groks Science Show 2013-01-16
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Microbial ecologist Jack Gilbert joins us to discuss the Earth Microbiome Project.

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


  • Added: Jan 16, 2013
  • Length: 31:58
  • Purchases: 4
Walking in Our Footprints
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Joe Romm
How will our current climate policies and actions be viewed by future generations? Our first guest this week on Sea Change Radio is pretty sure our...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Richard Heinberg: “The Quest” For Truth
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Richard Heinberg
Last year, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and energy consultant Daniel Yergin published his long-awaited sequel to the The Prize called The Quest: E...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 13, 2012
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Coping With The Rising Tides: John Englander & David Hedman
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: John Englander
Our planet’s rising oceans are no longer the purview of pessimistic doomsayers – they are the new reality. This week’s guests on Sea Change Radio a...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2012
  • Length: 29:59
Nuclear Roulette
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Nuclear Roulette, Credit: cover design by Matthew Simmons
In his new book, Gar Smith dismantles the core arguments behind the nuclear industrial complex’s “Nuclear renaissance.” While some critiques are fa...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Moon in the Nautilus Shell
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Daniel Botkin
According to a recent Gallup Poll, 46 percent of Americans believe in creationism. Is this belief hurting our planet? In his new book, professor, ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 27, 2012
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Dirt on Compost: Jason Mark
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jason Mark
Have you ever been to the dump? It’s a pretty smelly place. Part of what you’re smelling is methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that’s created as bi...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 27, 2012
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
Making Waves, Making Energy
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: George Taylor
If you sit at the edge of Pacific or Atlantic Ocean and watch as waves ferociously slap the sands, you can’t help but recognize the awesome power o...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 10, 2012
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
Coyote City -- Groks Science Show 2012-06-13
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Stanley Gehrt discussed urban coyotes living in Chicago.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KMXT


  • Added: Jun 13, 2012
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 2
The New Arctic Part II: “The Eskimo and the Oil Man”
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Bob Reiss
When he began research for his new book, The Eskimo and the Oil Man, author Bob Reiss thought that he would affirm his belief that Arctic oil drill...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
The New Arctic: A Thawed Diamond
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: David Fairhall
This week on Sea Change Radio we begin a two-part series on the Arctic. If you’re looking for present-day observable impacts of global warming, hea...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
Chris Mooney: Inside The Republican Brain and Climate Denialism
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Chris Mooney
If you’re listening to this show, chances are you believe that climate change is real, that it’s a problem, and that human actions have brought us ...

  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Michael E. Mann
In its 2001 report on global climate, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations prominently featured the “Hockey Stick,” ...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
Electric Vehicle Pioneer Dave Cloud
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Dave Cloud's "Dolphin"
Battery operated cars. No longer the exclusive domain of little kids huddled around a remote control, electric vehicles are beginning to emerge as ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Ecologist Eric Berlow: Simplicity On The Other Side Of Complexity
From: Alex Wise
Caption: Eric Berlow
Trained as an ecologist, our guest this week on Sea Change Radio uses complexity theory to map spheres of influence and find solutions to any numbe...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2012
  • Length: 30:00
The Guardian's Science Weekly: David Eagleman and 50 years in space
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Caption: David Eagleman, Credit: eagleman.com
David Eagleman suggests prejudices may be hard-wired into our brains; a new real-time film celebrating 50 years since Yuri Gagarin went into space;...

Bought by PRX Remix and KVSC


  • Added: Apr 08, 2011
  • Length: 28:53
  • Purchases: 2
The Guardian's Science Weekly: What is 'the self'?
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Caption: Julian Baggini, Credit: Julian Baggini's blog
We attempt to explain 'the self' with Julian Baggini; Tim Flannery tells us how love can save the environment; Brian Cox answers the 'Hannaford que...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 34:05
  • Purchases: 1
The Guardian's Science Weekly: Just how many universes are there?
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Caption: Brian Greene, Credit: www.columbia.edu
Brian Greene says mathematics shows how every decision we make creates a parallel universe; plus, we join Tim Jackson as he takes a Q&A session on ...

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 42:53
  • Purchases: 1
The Guardian's Science Weekly: AAAS 2011, drugs and the sound of the stars
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Caption: The AAAS website, Credit: AAAS.org
The highlights of this year's AAAS science festival in Washington DC, professor David Nutt explains his latest research on reclassifying drugs; plu...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 27, 2011
  • Length: 36:11
  • Purchases: 1
The Guardian's Science Weekly: Requiem for the space shuttle
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Caption: Jeff Hoffman working in the shuttle's cargo bay, Credit: Nasa
In an extended interview, former Nasa astronaut Jeff Hoffman reflects on 30 years of the space shuttle

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  • Added: Feb 20, 2011
  • Length: 29:53
  • Purchases: 1
Experiencing Antarctica
From: Andrew Hiller
Caption: A view from the tent, Credit: Cari Corrigan
There are places in Antarctica so thick with meteorites that you can find them like a child would shells on the beach. Others plunge into the ice ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 31, 2010
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 2