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On this episode of Audacious, meet three Ig Nobel Prize winners! Their achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode of Audacious, what if you found out that your sperm donor was not the man your parents chose... But their fertility doctor? Two wom...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
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This week we dive into whether video games help us recover from work stress. (Spoiler: They absolutely do. But there is a catch.)

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Central Florida Public Media, and WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
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On this episode of science unscripted, we will take you from the 2022 PISA scores all the way to the moment that our solar system was born.

Bought by Central Florida Public Media and WFHB


  • Added: Dec 07, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: The future of weather forecasting — and our listeners had some really interesting things to say about tattoos.

Bought by WFHB and Central Florida Public Media


  • Added: Nov 17, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Nov 10, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: Three people. Ever. That's how many have been cured of HIV. We visited one of them to learn about the extraordinarily rare (...

Bought by WFHB and Central Florida Public Media


  • Added: Nov 03, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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On this week's show, why are birds and the noise they make so good for us? Also, we learn why the response to sexual harrassment is so much differe...

Bought by Central Florida Public Media and WFHB


  • Added: Oct 13, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Cynthia Canty talks with author Bonnie Garmus

Bought by WKAR and Michigan Radio


  • Added: Aug 03, 2023
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: May 05, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Emergency medicine and helicopter flight physician Mike Abernethy recounts an unexpected run-in at his local Walmart that made him feel as if he’d ...

  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 46:55
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OB/GYN Jackie Howitt and pediatrician Gretchen Volk bring us into the deserted airport where they first met in April 2020 on their way to offer COV...

  • Added: May 02, 2023
  • Length: 53:32
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This week on the show: Science unscripted from Bonn/Germany.

  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
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Drunk yourself dizzy? Have a shot of liver hormone

  • Added: Mar 10, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
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Weekly roundup — For couples, 'we-talk' is how to get the harmony going

  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Animals Being Jerks, Credit: Seth Shostak
They’re cute and cuddly. But they can also be obnoxious. Science writer Mary Roach has numerous tales about how our animal friends don’t always bow...

Bought by WRGY, WMUU-LP, KZUM, KTXK, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Oct 10, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: Dr. Thomas in his lab., Credit: Public Domain
Fred Gilliam and Jerry Harris remember their mentor, Dr. Vivien Thomas, a surgical researcher who developed groundbreaking medical techniques.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WYAP


  • Added: Jul 05, 2022
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 2
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Emily speaks with Emily Maloney about her new collection of essays, Cost of Living, which explores the American healthcare system and what it’s lik...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 33:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Poems were written, submitted, read and even etched in concrete! Today on Art Beat we get a taste of the 2021 Winona Poetry Walk. A reception for t...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 27:08
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An improv workshop transforms the way psychiatrist David Elkin approaches a patient on the psych consult service, and catalyzes a philosophical shi...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2022
  • Length: 46:00
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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
Caption: Brain Gain, Credit: Seth Shostak
Looking to boost your brainpower? Luckily, there are products promising to help – smart drugs, neurofeedback exercises, and specially-designed vi...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, KMUN, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRGY, WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Oct 25, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: Radical Cosmology, Credit: Seth Shostak
400 years ago, some ideas about the cosmos were too scandalous to mention. When the Dominican friar Giordano Bruno suggested the existence of plan...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, KZUM, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRGY, WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Caption: Home Invasions, Credit: Seth Shostak
As we struggle to control a viral invader that moves silently across the globe and into its victims, we are also besieged by other invasions. Murde...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRGY, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KMUN and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Caption: AI: Where Does It End, Credit: Seth Shostak
The benefits of artificial intelligence are manifest and manifold, but can we recognize the drawbacks … and avoid them in time? In this episode, ...

Bought by WRGY, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KMUN, WHCP-LP Cambridge, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14