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Where They Built the Bomb
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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If you want to cool off in this brutal desert summer, you need to get up someplace higher, around 7,000 feet up — the high-desert plateau around Lo...

Bought by KSJE and KFCF FM


  • Added: Aug 12, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
2023-02-12 The Philosophical Legacy of Darwin
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Charles Darwin (born February 12, 1809) fundamentally changed our understanding of human life—for better or for worse?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, and KMUN


  • Added: Feb 13, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Houston, We have Dippin' Dots
From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Meat + Three
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Over 50 years ago, humankind went to the moon. This episode is all about how astronauts, space enthusiasts, fictional explorers and future Mars res...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2019
  • Length: 21:53
Art of the Eclipse Turns Our Gaze to the Sky
From: Cathy Byrd
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Looking up to the sun, moon and stars, The Art of the Eclipse revisits our live studio show from 2017 on Jolt Radio, in Miami. We begin with a conv...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2019
  • Length: 01:02:35
Nailing the Moon Landing
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Nailing the Moon Landing
Neil, Buzz, and Michael made it look effortless, but the moon landing was neither easy nor inevitable. So on July 20, 1969, despite enormous diffi...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, CHSR-FM 97.9, KCPW Salt Lake City, WCQS, WUFT and more


  • Added: Jul 01, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 19
9/11 Unmasked: A Conversation with Elizabeth Woodworth and Graeme MacQueen about the 9/11 Consensus Panel
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Graeme MacQueen and Elizabeth Woodworth
The 23-member 9/11 Consensus Panel is building a body of evidence-based research into the events of September 11, 2001.

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Sep 03, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 1
329-Near Neighbor
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters are able to find small space rocks before they make a close approach to planet Earth.

Bought by Radio Newark, KENW, KUPR low power FM, KKRN, KMXT and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Effort to "Cure" Violence (+ Ray McGovern)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Today, Dr. Gary Slutkin's effort to treat violence like an infectious disease and a conversation with former U.S. intelligence officer Ray McGovern...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Sep 23, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
The Agelab, Island Fever, 50 Years of Bewitched, Diabetes Prevention, and Crazy Ants!
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
Series: 2 Boomer Babes Radio Hour
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First, MIT's AgeLab is developing technologies that improve health and mobility as we age. Director Dr. Joseph Coughlin explains some of their brea...

Bought by WCWP


  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 54:51
  • Purchases: 1
It Shoulda Been a Giant Step for Womandkind Too
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
When the U.S. space program was launched, women were tested for astronaut duty -- and passed.

Bought by Radio Catskill, KUOW, and Radio Newark


  • Added: Jul 24, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 3
Little Rock Nine, Breaking Back Pain, Art of Living Well, Staying Civil, and Hello Wine
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
Series: 2 Boomer Babes Radio Hour
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First, Carlotta Walls Lanier, the youngest of the "Little Rock Nine," chronicles her personal story of perseverance and courage in "A Mighty Long W...

Bought by WCWP


  • Added: Feb 04, 2014
  • Length: 54:51
  • Purchases: 1
Not Just for the Birds
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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New research shows one key to curtailing West Nile disease may lie in increasing the diversity of birds.

Bought by WCNY, WCWP, Radio Newark, and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 03, 2013
  • Length: 53:26
  • Purchases: 4
Chemical Anniversaries
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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A look back at the chemical anniversaries and highlights of 2008.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2008
  • Length: 10:58