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The X-Flies
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
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Insects populations are declining. But before saying “good riddance,” consider that insects are essential to many ecosystems. Find out what might ...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2020
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 15
Creative Brains
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Creative Brains, Credit: Seth Shostak
Many animals are industrious and clever, but humans are unique in their creative and inventive impulses. Composer Anthony Brandt and neuroscientist...

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  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Zombies, Bigfoot, and Max Brooks
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Zombies, Bigfoot, and Max Brooks
What do a zombie attack and a viral pandemic have in common? They are both frightening, mindless, and relentless in their assault. And both requi...

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  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Frogs' Pants
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Frogs' Pants, Credit: Seth Shostak
An 18th century scientist fitted a pair of tailor-made briefs on a male frog to determine the animal’s contribution to reproduction. Find out what...

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  • Added: Feb 10, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Perpetual Emotion Machine
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Perpetual Emotion Machine, Credit: Seth Shostak
Get ready for compassionate computers that share your pain, your joy. But wait, our own emotions can be conflicting and irrational. A suite of unc...

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 12
Your Brain's Reins
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Your Brains Reins, Credit: Seth Shostak
You are your brain, everyone agrees. But if your brain is damaged, are you still responsible for your actions? We hear of the first person to pl...

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  • Added: Jan 06, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Shell on Earth
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Shell on Earth, Credit: Seth Shostak
Shells provide straightforward defense against predators. So then why did squid and octopuses evolve to lose their shells? Find out what these cep...

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  • Added: Dec 09, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Yule Like This
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Yule Like This, Credit: Seth Shostak
Fir tree needles embedded in carpet are a holiday headache. Why not opt for a genetically-modified, needle-retaining tree instead? Also, science ...

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  • Added: Dec 02, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 21
Nobel Efforts
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Nobel Efforts, Credit: Seth Shostak
For two Swiss astronomers, it’s “Stockholm, here we come.” Their first-ever discovery of a planet orbiting another star has been awarded the most ...

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  • Added: Oct 21, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Free Range Dinosaurs
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Free Range Dinosaurs, Credit: Seth Shostak
Dinosaurs are once again stomping their way across the silver screen. But these colossal beasts stole the show long before CGI brought them roarin...

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  • Added: Apr 15, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Hawkingravity
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Hawkingravity, Credit: Seth Shostak
Stephen Hawking felt gravity’s pull. His quest to understand this feeble force spanned his career, and he was the first to realize that black hole...

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  • Added: Mar 11, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
High Moon
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: High Moon, Credit: Seth Shostak
“The moon or bust” is now officially bust. No private company was able to meet the Lunar X Prize challenge and arrange a launch by the 2018 deadli...

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  • Added: Mar 04, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
We Are VR
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: We Are VR, Credit: Seth Shostak
Will virtual reality make you a better person? Seth puts on a VR headset for an immersive experience of a man who’s evicted from his apartment. F...

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  • Added: Feb 25, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Meet Your Robot Barista
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Meet Your Robot Barista, Credit: Seth Shostak
We sip lattes in a robot café and contemplate the future of work. Our mechanical barista is just a start as robots and A.I. train to do a variety o...

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
Bacteria to the Future
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Bacteria to the Future, Credit: Seth Shostak
Why did the chicken take antibiotics? To fatten it up and prevent bacterial infection. But farms have become superbug factories, threatening our l...

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  • Added: Nov 26, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Rerouting... Rerouting
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Rerouting... Rerouting, Credit: Seth Shostak
With GPS, we can navigate unfamiliar cities. Without GPS, we might not find our way home. Scientists say that our reliance on dashboard devices is...

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  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Wonder Women
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Wonder Women, Credit: Seth Shostak
Science is supposed to be merit-based and objective. And yet the data say otherwise. A new study reveals widespread harassment of women of color i...

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  • Added: Oct 01, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 23
DNA: Nature's Hard Drive
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: DNA: Nature's Hard Drive, Credit: Seth Shostak
A new place to store your animated GIF: in a living organism’s DNA. Researchers have done that as proof of concept that the molecule is a great rep...

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  • Added: Sep 17, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Plan of a Hack
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Plan of a Hack, Credit: Seth Shostak
Before cyber criminals were stealing ATM passwords, phone phreaks were tapping into the telephone system. Today “hacking” can apply to cyberwarfare...

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  • Added: Sep 03, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Too Big To Prove
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Too Big To Prove, Credit: Seth Shostak
Celebrations are in order for the physicists who won the 2017 Nobel Prize for the detection of gravitational waves. Unfolding over a century, the ...

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  • Added: Aug 20, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
What Goes Around
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: What Goes Around, Credit: Seth Shostak
It’s not just tin cans and newspapers. One man says that everything can be recycled – cigarette butts, yoga mats, dirty diapers. Even radioactive...

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  • Added: Jul 09, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Imagining Planets
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Imagining Planets, Credit: Seth Shostak
Get to know your planetary neighbors. Dive into a mountain lake and trek though the driest desert on Earth with a scientist who’s had not one but ...

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  • Added: Jun 04, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Time on Your Side
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Time on Your Side, Credit: Seth Shostak
Time passes like an arrow, but what if flew like a boomerang? Find out how scientists are working to reverse time’s most relentless march: aging. ...

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  • Added: May 28, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Ancient Plants and Ancient Water
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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At one point when I was reading about the age of water I came across some research indicating that some of the water molecules we drink could be 4....

  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 05:09
What Have You Got To Move
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: What Have You Got To Move, Credit: Seth Shostak
The world is an ocean of motion. Animal locomotion is necessary to survive, and evolution has provided a diverse means to do it: fins, feathers, a...

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  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14