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221: Harriet the Tortoise
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Harriet lived from around 1835 to 2006! She is believed to be one of the Earth's longest lived creatures ever recorded.

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jun 06, 2022
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
216: Parachuting Beavers
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In 1948, Idaho Fish and Game got the bright idea to transport beavers into the back country with PARACHUTES. It was a wild and wacky compromise to ...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: May 13, 2022
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
201: Ancient Prosthetic Eye
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In 2007, a woman's 5,000 year old skeleton was found in Burnt City, Iran. She was at least six feet tall and had what researchers think may be the ...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Apr 07, 2022
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 1
193: Navy Seals
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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The US military uses more than boats to protect our Naval bases. This episode brings a whole new meaning to "Navy seals".

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jan 10, 2022
  • Length: 09:30
  • Purchases: 1
151: G. A. Morgan and the Traffic Light
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Traffic lights, a hair relaxant, gas masks, the zig-zag stitch on sewing machines...all of these important inventions have one thing in common, Gar...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2021
  • Length: 05:57
Dulce Cuarentena
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Edición Especial de la Pandemia en Español
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¿Atrapado en una casa llena de snacks y opciones limitadas para hacer ejercicio? ¿Estás tentado de recurrir a Ben & Jerry en busca de un dulce, dul...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 31, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Breath and Respiration Science
From: Sarah Chang
Caption: Scientifically Speaking
Dr. Dave Champlin joins Scientifically Speaking to learn more about his experience meditation, doing breath work, and we discuss the ideas presente...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
Quarantine 15
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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Stuck in a house packed with snacks and limited ways to exercise? Tempted to turn to Ben and Jerry for sweet, sweet solace? Experts say this is nor...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Labs in Translation
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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Mistranslation? Awkward. Surprisingly, it was a classic mistranslation after the Franco-Prussion War that prompted the acceptance of biosafety. Now...

  • Added: May 07, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
The Tale of Lady Montagu
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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Smallpox… the word sounds harmless enough, but this “speckled monster” was the scourge of Western Europe throughout the 1700s. Why did it disappear...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 24, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
What's in a Name?
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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Viruses cycle through many names. Recently, the World Health Organization has limited the types of words used to label viruses. However, these rule...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Newton-flix
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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The bubonic plague forced a young Isaac Newton from his studies. How did he turn catastrophe into a year of wonders? For one, he didn’t have Netflix!

Bought by KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Silver Lining
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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2020 has felt like one disaster after another. Is there light at the end of this tunnel? Luckily, history suggests calamities spark innovations tha...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
98: Tenterhooks
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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If you're thinking, wait, I thought it was tenderhooks, you're not alone. Amy explains this early 18th century idiom that describes having a sense ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 20, 2020
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 1
94: Hand Stitched Computers
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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During the 1960s when we were racing to the moon, computing tech made a huge leap. Computers had to be small to fit in the Apollo capsules and it w...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
Celebrating the Birthday of Jim Hall
From: KCUR
Series: 12th Street Jump Weekly
Caption: Jim Hall
(Air Dates: December 3 - 9) On this week's archive episode of 12th Street Jump, we celebrate the birthday of jazz guitarist Jim Hall with our speci...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
Love, Hate, and Sex from the History of Science
From: Distillations
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This Valentine’s Day we could have just brought you some sappy love stories from science’s past. But instead we offer you three tales of lust, lone...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 01:17:06
42: International Ice Patrol
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Learn a bit about the women and men of the IIP who monitor icebergs in the northern reaches of our Atlantic ocean.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 02:59
10 - The Truth About The End - Part 2
From: FOOLY BOO
Series: Shabam!
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We find out how it all ends.

  • Added: Mar 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:57
9 - Killing Zombies - Part 2
From: FOOLY BOO
Series: Shabam!
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The kids run into a problem. We explore the physiology of the zombie body.

  • Added: Mar 14, 2018
  • Length: 27:01
8 - On The Road - Part 2
From: FOOLY BOO
Series: Shabam!
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The bike journey continues. We explore navigation.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Mar 14, 2018
  • Length: 21:15
  • Purchases: 1
8 - On The Road - Part 1
From: FOOLY BOO
Series: Shabam!
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The kids begin their journey to Vandenberg on bikes. We find out about transportation

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Mar 14, 2018
  • Length: 23:39
  • Purchases: 1
Eve of Disruption
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Eve of Disruption, Credit: Seth Shostak
Only two of the following three creations have had lasting scientific or cultural impact: The telescope … the Sistine Chapel ceiling … the electri...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, WTJU, Monarch Radio, WMUU-LP, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: May 01, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
The Smell of Shame
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: 1950s advertising. Vintage original magazine advertisement advert for MUM perspiration cream for women, Credit: f8 archive / Alamy Stock Photo
How deodorant became omnipresent in America.

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Mar 15, 2017
  • Length: 15:47
  • Purchases: 1
(Natural) Childbirth
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Illustration from Obstetric tables depicting the correct use of forceps in 1850., Credit: Spratt, G. (George). Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Once upon a time all births were natural. A lot has happened since then.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2016
  • Length: 01:01:12