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Food Sleuth Radio, Sandor Katz Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Where there’s fermentation, there’s culture. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Sando...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
Life in the Post Natural World
From: Generation Anthropocene
Series: Generation Anthropocene
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Curator for the Museum of PostNatural History in Pittsburgh, Richard Pell describes a new way for us to view how humans control the evolutionary pa...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2013
  • Length: 19:03
Weather Maths -- Groks Science Show 2013-03-20
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Humans have wanted to know tomorrow's weather for as long as there have been todays. Only in the last few centuries, however, have we begun making...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KPVL


  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 30:45
  • Purchases: 2
The Anthropocene Frontier!
From: Generation Anthropocene
Series: Generation Anthropocene
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Environmental historian Jon Christensen discusses the mythos of the American frontier and some of his unique approaches to history. Christensen als...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 40:29
Fire together, wire together -- Groks Science Show 2013-01-02
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Jason MacLean joined us to discuss this Hebbian plasticity and the past, present, and future of research on neuronal networks.

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


  • Added: Jan 02, 2013
  • Length: 27:21
  • Purchases: 4
Conservation in the Anthropocene
From: Generation Anthropocene
Series: Generation Anthropocene
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In our second compilation, we bring together voices from the Leopold Leadership Program to investigate the changing nature and changing goals of co...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 23:16
Avstry Trim 15 - Ransom Rideout
From: J.R. Warmkessel
Series: Aviation Trim
Caption: Rasom Rideout, Credit: J.R. Warmkessel
Ransom tells us about where we was during Pearl Harbor

  • Added: Oct 18, 2012
  • Length: 05:06
Avstry Trim 14 - Ransom Rideout
From: J.R. Warmkessel
Series: Aviation Trim
Caption: Ranson Rideout, Credit: J.R. Warmkessel
Ransom tells us about being sworn in by James Stewart and his early days of flying

  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 06:17
Avstry Trim 13 - Kas Osterbuhr
From: J.R. Warmkessel
Series: Aviation Trim
Caption: Kas Osterbuhr
Kas tells us about the US Airway's Flight 1549 Hudson River accident, how the system worked when it was most needed.

  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:28
Avstry Trim 9 - Paul Suhler
From: J.R. Warmkessel
Series: Aviation Trim
Caption: A-12
Paul Suhler tells us about the various modification's made to the SR-71, including a drone launched off it's back, the interceptor and bomber variant.

  • Added: Oct 12, 2012
  • Length: 06:16
Avstry Trim 4 - Neil Brooks
From: J.R. Warmkessel
Series: Aviation Trim
Caption: Neil Brooks, Credit: J.R. Warmkessel
Neil Books tells is about his time flying a 727.

  • Added: Oct 11, 2012
  • Length: 04:12
The Story of Earth
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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The surprising history of the earth and life's impact on it. Also, a new perspective on the future of the planet: earth will likely be in constant ...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, XRAY.fm, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 26, 2012
  • Length: 14:32
  • Purchases: 4
Golden Holocaust
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Golden Holocaust cover, Credit: jacket design by Jackie Drooker
The CIGARETTE is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. Few discoveries have been so consequential. So begins the work by his...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:54
Marie Curie: The Love Life of the Mother of Modern Chemistry
From: Liz Humes
Series: Wordy Birds
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On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview Lauren Redniss about her book, Radioactive: A Tale of Love and Fallout, which artistically chronicles t...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2012
  • Length: 27:31
NASA - A Generational Perspective
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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NASA's Chief historian, Bill Barry discusses the impact each generation has had on the space program.

Bought by KVSC and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jul 23, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Mysteries & Oddities in the Mutter Museum
From: Radio Rounds
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The Radio Rounds crew takes a trip to the famed Mutter Museum at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia — a museum that welcomes tens of thousan...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Steve Pinker’s “Better Angels”: Dodging Our Own Bullet?
From: Open Source
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My guest this hour is Steven Pinker, who has written a game-changer on the little matter of how quickly humanity is headed for hell or redemption. ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 13, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Writers on a New England Stage - Ben Mezrich
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Writers on a New England Stage
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Author Ben Mezrich reads from his latest book - "Sex on teh Moon" and discusses with host Virginia Prescott his controversial style of writing as w...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 46:59
Schrödinger's Cat
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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We dive into the Schrödinger's Cat paradox and ask what it reveals about the nature of quantum mechanics and physics in general.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 09:48
  • Purchases: 2
The Liar Paradox
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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This paradox resists a solution and inspires major advances from Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 2
The Panama Canal -- a historic project still vital to world transportation
From: The Infrastructure Show
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The 25th segment of The Infrastructure Show podcast series; 4-11

  • Added: May 04, 2011
  • Length: 33:03
The Guardian's Science Weekly: Ham the astrochimp and the LHC keeps going
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Caption: Ham at work, Credit: Nasa
It's 50 years since the first American went into space; why the Large Hadron Collider isn't going to shut down for a year as planned; and we trick ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 07, 2011
  • Length: 34:10
  • Purchases: 1
Clever Apes: Apes in space
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
Caption: Ham, the first chimp in space, Credit: NASA
In this episode, host Gabriel Spitzer considers what science has to learn from flying saucers, what it might take for humans to colonize space in o...

Bought by WVTF, WTJU, KBGA 89.9 FM, WRST-FM Oshkosh, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2011
  • Length: 12:59
  • Purchases: 6
Clever Apes: Playing With Fire
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
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What better symbol of human mastery over the power of nature than fire? Countless years of evolution have written fire into our DNA…No wonder kids ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 05, 2010
  • Length: 13:00
  • Purchases: 1
CREATION -- Darwin's great-great-grandson, Randal Keynes, on the evolutionary theorist.
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Randal Keynes on CREATION, the film version of his book of the same name about his ancestor, Charles Darwin.

  • Added: Apr 29, 2010
  • Length: 14:27