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Attack of the Zombie Crabs (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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There’s a parasite inhabiting the bodies of crabs, and making them infertile.

Bought by KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
Attack of the Zombie Crabs (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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There’s a parasite inhabiting the bodies of crabs, and making them infertile.

Bought by KXCV, KEDT, WMUU-LP, WNED Buffalo, WRGY and more


  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Attack of the Zombie Crabs (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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There’s a parasite inhabiting the bodies of crabs, and making them infertile.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, WFHB, WJCT, WYAP and more


  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Attack of the Zombie Crabs (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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There’s a parasite inhabiting the bodies of crabs, and making them infertile.

Bought by KXCV, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
681: Plants As People / 682: Finding Meaning In Desperate Times, 4/16/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Plants As People" - If plants are intelligent beings, how should we relate to them? Do they have a place in our moral universe? Should t...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:59
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
Copenhagen
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Alfred Molina stars in the Tony Award-winner about the nuclear age.

Bought by KKRN, Spokane Public Radio, KMUN, KWMR, WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 06, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 33
673: Secrets Of Alchemy / 674: Wonders Of The Human Body, 3/19/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Secrets Of Alchemy" - The leading science of the 17th century was alchemy, the transformation of matter. What was it really? Could we st...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
665: Worshipping Waterfalls / 666: Is The Universe A Number?, 2/19/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Worshiping Waterfalls" - Jane Goodall has seen chimpanzees stop at a roaring waterfall and bristle with excitement. Are they having spir...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:01
BD - America's first satellite: the inside story of Explorer 1 and JPL
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
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Dave gets to talk about one of his favorite topics, spaceflight history, with NASA/JPL Historian Eric Conway. We cover the roots of the CalTech Pas...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Time to 1.5 | 3 | Coalbrookdale
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
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In this episode, we explore the mass acceleration of nearly every process on earth that began in Britain in the 1700s during the Industrial Revolut...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 48:25
  • Purchases: 1
659: Our Time Of Mourning / 660: Hope: Where Does It Come From?, 1/29/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Our Time Of Mourning" - Year three of the pandemic. Where should we go to mourn our losses? We'll look for answers from generations past...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:01
657: Searching For Order In The Universe / 658: Outside The Mental Illness Box, 1/22/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Searching For Order In The Universe" - The universe is full of mystery. This hour, what do fish and eels have to do with the maddening s...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:01
Conversations: Jason Karlawish, MD
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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Alzheimer's disease used to be a rare diagnosis. But today, more than 5.8 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's and this number is projecte...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2022
  • Length: 45:47
Conversations: Elinor Cleghorn, MD
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
Caption: Unwell Women
Emily discusses the problem of gender bias in medicine with Dr. Elinor Cleghorn, author of "Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 43:24
Next Stop: Mars (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Back in the 1950s, the Soviets were eager to follow their Sputnik success with an even bigger milestone: they would send something living to outer ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 6
Next Stop: Mars (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Back in the 1950s, the Soviets were eager to follow their Sputnik success with an even bigger milestone: they would send something living to outer ...

Bought by WFAE, WMUU-LP, KXCV, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WNED Buffalo and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10
Next Stop: Mars (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Back in the 1950s, the Soviets were eager to follow their Sputnik success with an even bigger milestone: they would send something living to outer ...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, Harford Community Radio, WJCU, KMUN, WJCT and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Next Stop: Mars (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Back in the 1950s, the Soviets were eager to follow their Sputnik success with an even bigger milestone: they would send something living to outer ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, WNED Buffalo, Troy Public Radio, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
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
And the Sun Stood Still
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A radical idea finally sees the light of day.

Bought by KMUN, Spokane Public Radio, Harford Community Radio, KFCF FM, KWMR and more


  • Added: Nov 30, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:03
  • Purchases: 31
Top of Mind - Locking Letters, The Tolkien Heir, Crabs and Coral Reefs
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Before we had encrypted emails and security envelopes, people would protect their correspondence with fancy folding. Topic 2: How have J.R...

Bought by KSTK, RADIOLEX, KOWS, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 23, 2021
  • Length: 51:39
  • Purchases: 5
637: Living With Loneliness / 638: Who Owns Seeds?, 11/13/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Living With Loneliness" - In countries all over the world, rates of loneliness are skyrocketing. How did it become a condition of modern...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
National Writers Series: Mary Roach
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three
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Kendra Carr of Interlochen Public Radio talks with science writer Mary Roach.

Bought by WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Nov 11, 2021
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 3
BD - The World's First International Scientific Expedition: A Conversation with Nicholas Crane
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
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You probably learned in school that the Earth is not a perfect sphere but rather an "oblate spheroid" meaning that it bulges a bit at the equator. ...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Nov 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1

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