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In this week's show : we hear from the first 'test tube baby' 40 years later, find hot and bothered Germans (who also sit too much), long live the...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Aug 08, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Professor Serhii Plokhy
Twenty-five years before Fukushima the worst nuclear disaster occurred in the Soviet Union.

Bought by WUAL and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 20, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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-Making musical pieces with the sounds that got stripped out of MP3s. -There is a rich sonic landscape that defines New York City. -Andrew Kaufman'...

Bought by WCNY, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, WTJU, WRGY and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2018
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: New Horizons PI Alan Stern, Planetary Radio host Mat Kaplan and astrobiologist/science communicator David Grinspoon , Credit: Alan Stern
The New Horizons mission was a triumph, revealing Pluto as an utterly unique and beautiful world. The entire, surprisingly dramatic tale has now b...

Bought by KDNK, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KWMR, KRZA, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
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If I read through a thousand invention patents, I hope I'd learn something, too. This is Episode 63 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal sho...

Bought by Enchantment Radio


  • Added: May 07, 2018
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 1
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A domed city of the future right here in Minnesota? It almost happened. On this episode of Art Beat we talk with filmmaker Chad Freidrichs, directo...

  • Added: May 04, 2018
  • Length: 32:47
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The disputed origin story of one of the 20th century’s most important inventions.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 30:06
  • Purchases: 1
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Grant Frashier visits with Sylvie Skoog and Daniel Henry of the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting in St. Louis Park on this edition of Close to Home.

  • Added: Apr 06, 2018
  • Length: 09:31
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We find out how it all ends.

  • Added: Mar 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:57
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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
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The bike journey continues. We explore navigation.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Mar 14, 2018
  • Length: 21:15
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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What can an ancient debate about an elephant tell us about the history of medicine?

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 15:57
  • Purchases: 1
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week we put the mic in front of the speakers and hear the beauty of feedback.

Bought by WOUB, KWIT, KSKQ, KSRQ, WYAP and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
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This week we explore the vast innovations of Les Paul.

Bought by WOUB, KWIT, KSRQ, WYAP, KRSC and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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This week we feature rock songs that were recorded without an amplifier.

Bought by WOUB, KWIT, KSKQ, KSRQ, and WYAP


  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Jeremy Lent
As we move into a new year, and try to square 2017 in our rear view mirrors, it's an opportune moment to contemplate how we avoid repeating the mis...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:40
Caption:  Epic of Gilgamesh, tablet 11, story of the Flood. , Credit: Courtesy of The British Museum.
In Storied States, we examine the shift in how humans lived, moving from hunter-gatherers to sedentary farmers. And contrary to official narrative ...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 58:03
Caption: Martin Puchner
Think about the many stories you’ve heard or read over the years. Some of those stories may have had a major impact on your life, or maybe even the...

Bought by KCBX and KVSC


  • Added: Jan 04, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Cataloguing one of the world's few remaining melodic forms of language - Seeing, feeling, and smelling a city built 3000 years before the pyramids ...

Bought by KUHF and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Dec 01, 2017
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 2
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Cataloguing one of the world's few remaining melodic forms of language - Seeing, feeling, and smelling a city built 3000 years before the pyramids ...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUHF, WTJU and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2017
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 12
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Cataloguing one of the world's few remaining melodic forms of language - Seeing, feeling, and smelling a city built 3000 years before the pyramids ...

Bought by WJCT, KRZA, WUGA (part of GPB), KMUN, WVAS and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: A 1972 Times-Picayune article detailing the discovery of coffins buried in the French Quarter., Credit: University of New Orleans
October is Louisiana Archeology month! And this week’s TriPod New Orleans at 300 digs into the discovery, and rediscovery, of New Orleans’ first ce...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 11:19
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This week we crack the case of the first song with distortion.

Bought by KSKQ, WOUB, WYAP, KWIT, and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 03, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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You use it to help design devices that end up in more than your kitchen.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 1