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There’s a fungus among us that could become a more environmentally-friendly way to weatherize your home, or business. Eben Bayer, a recent graduate...
- Added: Nov 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Here’s a home that’s truly “outside the box” -- or inside, depending on where you stand. They’re made out of recycled steel shipping containers. Ye...
- Added: Nov 26, 2013
- Length: 01:30
i-Pods powered by Kool-Aid? Yep. They might be just around the corner -- no kidding! Researchers are developing biodegradable batteries that gener...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Oct 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Mom used to say we should eat everything on our plate. Turns out, she might’ve been right -- but for a different reason.
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Oct 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Too much of a good thing. We all know the hazards of that: too much fat, too much beer, too much chocolate… (Maybe not too much chocolate…) But, fo...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Oct 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Medieval alchemy -- you’ve seen it in the movies: A wizard-like figure hovers over a glowing vat adding mysterious ingredients in his quest to tur...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Oct 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Catch the news and weather at 10 tonight along with the day’s carbon report. Carbon report? That’s right. If the CarbonTracker system developed by...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Oct 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Over the years, treasure maps have been of such interest that the Library of Congress devoted a volume to them! Now, a new kind of map is proving t...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
If a tree at the bottom of a lake falls, does it make a sound? Either way, it doesn’t matter to lumberjacks at the Triton Logging Company. You see,...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Even if you don’t want to talk about the proverbial “elephant in the room,” you could at least count the number roaming around wild. Or so you’d t...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Old tires. Mountains of rubber. What’s happening with to them these days? Well, in Pennsylvania, they’re hitting the road!
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Now here’s a ride Little Miss Sunshine and her eccentric family would have appreciated. Think sixties hippie culture meets Star Trek, and you end u...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Pass the fish and chips, please. Pardon me for eating on the radio, but I just can’t pass up the fish and chips. Neither can a lot of people it s...
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- Added: Sep 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
The world’s rainforests are disappearing at an alarming rate. But conservationists have a new trick that may help restore them. All it takes is so...
- Added: Sep 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Are you worried about global warming? Well, here’s an idea. How about rocketing one trillion miniature umbrellas into orbit somewhere between us ...
- Added: Sep 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Tropical rainforests are home to a spectacular variety of frogs. This rich diversity of species helps drive conservation efforts in the tropics. T...
- Added: Sep 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Once upon a time in the West, there were 30 million American bison. Now, around Yellowstone National Park, there are only 3900 -- but that’s up fro...
- Added: Sep 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
With digestive fluid you say? Along with some hay? That’s how researchers are generating electricity at the University of Ohio these days -- using ...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
In show business, imitation is the best form of flattery. If this were a universal truth Mother Nature should be ecstatic about these new experimen...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Save the Salmon -- it’s easier said than done. Efforts to restock Maine’s many rivers with Atlantic salmon have been going on for 130 years. But t...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
The decomposition of tiny sea animals and plants that died hundreds of thousands of years ago created enormous natural gas deposits under the seafl...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Most of us have heard that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, and a major contributor to global warming. We all should ditch incandescent light bu...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
ave you ever opened a pdf file? Or used slick software like PhotoShop to manipulate images? Just a click or two with the trusty mouse, and it’s bye...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Shakespeare called it “a precious stone set in the silver sea.” Can you name the country? If you guessed England, you’re right. It was also the fir...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
A beached whale is a heartbreaking sight. And while nobody’s sure exactly why “beachings” occur, scientists have offered several theories.
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
