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EVEN WITH THE RISE OF ONLINE DATING WEBSITES AND WAYS TO CONNECT, THERE IS STILL A LARGE DEMOGRAPHIC THAT THEY HAVE YET TO HELP. FROM GLEN BURNIE,...
- Added: Nov 19, 2016
- Length: 05:16
When Tony Bosco turned 30, he decided he wanted out of the rat race. So he went to his hometown in New Jersey, walked into the woods, and stayed th...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 23:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s not surprising that many of the medicines we use today are derived from plants. The surprising part is how similar the molecular components of...
- Added: Oct 20, 2016
- Length: 35:36
For our 13th episode, we venture off the beaten path to hear about Bigfoot and the scientist who’s on a mission to find him.
- Added: Oct 19, 2016
- Length: 18:38
- Purchases: 2
There’s a very robust debate going on right now as to exactly how much sea level rise we’re in for, and the Cliffs Notes version is that it’s betwe...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 22:05
- Purchases: 1
The “Save the Whales” movement of the 1970’s was instrumental in putting a stop to commercial whaling. But even as humpbacks and other whale popula...
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 27:48
Biocontrol feels like the pinnacle of human arrogance. We’re trying to play God, taking a delicately balanced ecosystem and stomping all over it w...
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- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 29:35
- Purchases: 1
Virginia’s Barrier Islands, and the waters and salt marshes that surround them, are among the most pristine coastal regions on the entire Eastern S...
- Added: Jun 16, 2016
- Length: 25:17
Virginia’s Barrier Islands and the waters and salt marshes that surround them represent the most pristine coastal region on the Eastern Seaboard. U...
- Added: Jun 10, 2016
- Length: 27:59
A 12-year-old girl in blue jeans probably isn’t the first thing you picture when you hear the word paleontologist. But in 1979, young India Wood di...
- Added: Mar 31, 2016
- Length: 58:59
Erin Jones thought the answers were written in stone. But a summer internship at a remote dinosaur quarry eroded her certainty.
- Added: Jan 21, 2016
- Length: 13:09
- Purchases: 3
Wyoming naturalist joins game herd, 'becomes' a mule deer
- Added: Aug 05, 2015
- Length: 21:04
A couple years ago, this young composer discovered that rhythm manipulation affects us on a deeper level than anyone had imagined. This piece was p...
- Added: Aug 02, 2013
- Length: 04:42
This week, Field Trip Correspondent Lo Benichou take us behind the scenes at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California, where wounded seals...
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- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 13:09
- Purchases: 1
This week Field Trip Correspondent Becky Palmstrom takes us to a festival in Taung Byone, Myanmar, where we learn how to run a ferris wheel … using...
- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 10:28
- Purchases: 2
This dramatic soundscape uses interviews, narration, sound effects, and music to explain the emerging neuroscience of tinnitus - a ringing, buzzing...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Oct 19, 2012
- Length: 09:40
- Purchases: 1
This week we go to to the beach with Field Trip Correspondent Laura Hautala and her Science Mom. Yes, we said Science Mom. And don’t worry, it’s no...
Bought by KUER
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 12:25
- Purchases: 1
We’re back with another installment of our “Summer Dispatches” series, this time starring Field Trip Correspondent Nicole Jones as she figures out ...
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- Added: Oct 09, 2012
- Length: 09:29
- Purchases: 1
Dividing cells are what make up all life. The idea of cell division was first published in 1855, but for nearly a century scientists debated, “How?...
Bought by Listenwise and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 11, 2012
- Length: 07:33
- Purchases: 2
In this episode, we visit Leah Wade at San Francisco's Quiet Science Taxidermy Studio to learn about the art of making the dead live again ... sort...
- Added: Jun 05, 2012
- Length: 27:11
- Purchases: 2
