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Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Human beings have discovered over five thousand five hundred exoplanets. Over 80 percent of them have orbits shorter than 50 days which would place...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 04:37
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Jess investigates what connects giant salamanders, community organizing, and fracking via a conversation with journalist Annie Roth and biologist J...

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
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Music host Paul Ingles welcomes his first repeat guest on his series - Steve Cropper - guitarist, producer, songwriter, and collaborator with most ...

Bought by KUHF, KUHF, and KSJE


  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Dr. Andrew Smith UNH Survey Center
How much trust can independent-minded voters place in polling this 2020 election season? It seems not a day goes by without multiple new poll res...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: 18:30
  • Purchases: 1
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We discuss diseases and syndromes that distort reality, past societal failures with mental health as well as the brave story of young Nellie Bly. W...

Bought by WART FM


  • Added: Jun 02, 2016
  • Length: 32:39
  • Purchases: 1
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This episode we discuss concussions, the sequelae that happen as a result of concussions, and the long term effects of repeated head trauma.

Bought by WART FM


  • Added: May 27, 2016
  • Length: 35:23
  • Purchases: 1
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Can you drink your own urine? Run yourself to death? This week we explore the science and physiology of how extreme heat effects our bodies.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KVSC, WYAP, and WART FM


  • Added: May 27, 2016
  • Length: 26:50
  • Purchases: 4
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David Holtzman, professor and chairman of the neurology department at the Washington University School of Medicine, explores Alzheimer's disease an...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 11:09
  • Purchases: 1
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Nathan Hale regrets he has only one life to lose for his country, and the fourth blood moon is about to appear...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2015
  • Length: 02:48:48
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He developed a prevailing theory of gravity and labored over calculations concerning the end of the world, but had no use for women! Sir Isaac Newton

  • Added: Sep 23, 2015
  • Length: 02:52:14
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In this pilot episode of the World Affairs podcast we are looking at diseases: how they are spread, how they are contained, how they are cured. We ...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 12:42
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Dr. Bradley Jolliff describes how lunar samples and orbiters provide insights into the history of Earth's closest neighbor.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Feb 17, 2014
  • Length: 13:12
  • Purchases: 1
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Digital music is the furthest we’ve come from running needles through intricate grooves, but record orders keep coming in.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 1
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The Island of California appeared on maps for over a century.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on Into It, Andrew Bales takes a look at a lesser known insect with an unusual talent.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:41
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on Into It, Andrew Bales explores space dives, an extreme jump that tests the limits of technology and the wills of dare devils.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
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What do the poisoned Emperor Claudius, the Aztec storm deity Quetzacotl and a 5,500 year old Ice Man have in common? They were all crazy about mush...

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, and KHSU


  • Added: Mar 14, 2012
  • Length: 01:02:07
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: SAfari ant
A conversation between David Inoue and Dino Martins about the value of African insects to the worlds favourite things. Without bugs there would be ...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2010
  • Length: 04:49
Caption: Wall of Skulls, Credit: John Donges
A provocative tour into one of America's most curious museums, The Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

Bought by WLPR , KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 23, 2010
  • Length: 10:22
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Sarah Maria discussed methods for dealing with Negative Body Obsession.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 14, 2010
  • Length: 23:31
  • Purchases: 1
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A look at how a typical American uses water - a large percentage of which is imported from outside the US!

Bought by Real Estate Today


  • Added: Oct 20, 2008
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Filmmaker Eric Daniel Metzgar talks with P.O.V. about the making of his film "The Chances of the World Changing"

  • Added: Sep 14, 2007
  • Length: 06:29