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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
Sometimes the devil makes for good company -- at least that's what they think in Tasmania. Since 1996, a deadly facial cancer has wiped out thousan...
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
There’s no doubt about it: our environmental problems can seem too overwhelming for one person to do anything about. But even our simplest actions ...
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
In 1997, thirteen Duke University residents went to Madagascar where they literally went wild. Today, several of them are still running amuck with...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
For some people, “used” is a four-letter word. They must have the latest goodies. “Pre-owned” just won’t do. Paying brand-new prices buys brand-new...
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
A rhinestone dog collar: $35. A doggy doo composter: Priceless…At least that's what Sharon Slack of Canada's Office of Urban Agriculture thinks. S...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
So what should you do with your doggie's doo? Your dog Fido probably wishes you’d just leave it in the yard -- let the world know that somebody imp...
- Added: Sep 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
It seemed like the right thing to do at the time. In India, tens of thousands of cows die each year. In the late 1980s, India’s largely Hindu popul...
- Added: Sep 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
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...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Sep 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Fog in California’s coastal redwood forests may be clearing up, and that could hurt redwood forests. Redwoods need summertime fog to help them reta...
- Added: Sep 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
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
Followers of fish facts -- especially North Atlantic Cod enthusiasts -- are doing a double-take these days. First, after years of over fishing cod ...
- Added: Sep 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
When Chicken Little cried out that “the sky is falling” he would’ve been right according to a study of air pollution in Washington State’s Puget So...
- Added: Sep 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
What do you do when the land you love is ‘slip sliding away’? Luckily for folks in Louisiana, legislators and scientists are looking at several cre...
- Added: Sep 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
The forested wetlands of Louisiana have inspired Hollywood movie scenes ever since the ‘talkies.’ But the Cypress swamps and floating marshes of Ba...
- 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
You know, I'd like to meet the person who cut down the last palm tree on Easter Island. What were they thinking? We’ll never know. But what we do k...
- Added: Sep 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
