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Skeptic Check: Aliens - The Evidence
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Aliens - The Evidence, Credit: Seth Shostak
In the new film, Arrival, extraterrestrials once again pay Earth a visit. But many believe the aliens are already here. How good is the evidence?...

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC, WTJU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Born Legacy
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Born Legacy, Credit: Seth Shostak
We know how the stars shine, but how do you make a star? We take an all-night ride on SOFIA, a high-flying observatory, to watch astronomers inves...

Bought by WTJU, CHSR-FM 97.9, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KTSW 89.9, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 04, 2017
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 9
Elements Never Forget
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Elements Never Forget, Credit: Seth Shostak
It’s elementary, Watson. Things are in flux – from the elements in the air you breathe to party balloons. We investigate a massive, historic nit...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, WMUU-LP, XRAY.fm, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Musical Universe
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Musical Universe, Credit: Seth Shostak
In space, no one can hear you scream, but, using the right instruments, scientists can pick up all types of cosmic vibrations – the sort we can tur...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WTJU, WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., CHSR-FM 97.9 and more


  • Added: Aug 21, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Donovan Hohn - Moby-Duck
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents Donovan Hohn author of Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea & of the Beachcombers, Oceanographer...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
Skeptic Check: Busting Myths with Adam Savage
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Adam Savage, Credit: Seth Shostak
Can an opera singer’s voice really shatter glass? Can you give your car a rocket-assisted boost and survive the test drive? Now that the series h...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, CHSR-FM 97.9, WYAP, WTJU, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 07, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
Under the Sea
From: Rosa Olson McKenzie
Series: Google It, Bitch
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Tim and I talk about the mysteries of the deep blue.

  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 31:15
Caught in a Traps
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Caught in a Traps, Credit: Seth Shostak
When will California suffer “the big one”? A geologist recently described the San Andreas fault as “locked and loaded.” And was it only a rock fr...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., CHSR-FM 97.9, WMUU-LP, WTJU, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Jul 31, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Eclipsing All Other Shows
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Eclipsing All Other Shows, Credit: Seth Shostak
Watching a total solar eclipse is said to be a life-changing experience. We help you make the most of Great American Solar Eclipse of 2017. No ec...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WBEZ, KISU, KCPW Salt Lake City, WAMU and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 29
Science Comics
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
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Communicating about science through comics.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, Spokane Public Radio, KENW and more


  • Added: Jul 02, 2017
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 6
Skeptic Check: How Low Can You Go?
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: How Low Can You Go?, Credit: Ly Ly
Cryotherapy promise you a blast – of sub-zero air – as a way to stave off wrinkles and even halt aging altogether. Meanwhile cryogenics asks you t...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, KUNM, WTJU, WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Jun 26, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Episode 23: Between A Rock And A Holy Place
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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This is the first episode in a three-part summer series, called Science Camp, where we’re exploring the human side of science. Ryan Haupt had a lot...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KSFR, PRX Remix, and KRZA


  • Added: Jun 21, 2017
  • Length: 24:03
  • Purchases: 4
Science Fiction
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Science Fiction, Credit: Seth Shostak
No one knows what the future will bring, but science fiction authors are willing to take a stab at imagining it. We take our own stab at imagining...

Bought by KBBI Alaska, CHSR-FM 97.9, KREV-LP, WTJU, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 12, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Gene-y in a Bottle
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Gene-y in a Bottle, Credit: Gary Niederhoff
You can’t pick your parents. But soon you may be able to change the DNA they gave you. Imagine deleting genes from your body that you don’t like ...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, KUNM, KREV-LP, WTJU, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 05, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
The Crater Good
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: The Crater Good, Credit: Seth Shostak
It’s the moon or bust … again. Only this time the hardware may come from China. Or perhaps Europe. In fact, it seems that the only developed nat...

Bought by KREV-LP, WTJU, WMUU-LP, XRAY.fm, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: May 29, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
100% Invisible
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: 100% Invisible, Credit: Seth Shostak
In astronomy, the rule was if you can’t see it, it’s not real. Tell that to the astronomers who discovered dark energy or dark matter … or, more r...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., CHSR-FM 97.9, WTJU, WMUU-LP, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: May 15, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Eve of Disruption
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Eve of Disruption, Credit: Seth Shostak
Only two of the following three creations have had lasting scientific or cultural impact: The telescope … the Sistine Chapel ceiling … the electri...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, WTJU, Monarch Radio, WMUU-LP, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: May 01, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Spacecraft Elegy
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Spacecraft Elegy, Credit: Seth Shostak
Our space probes are climbing a mountain on Mars, visiting an ice ball far beyond Pluto, plunging through the rings of Saturn, and landing on a com...

Bought by KUER, Radio Catskill, CHSR-FM 97.9, KISU, KUAF Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Skeptic Check: Glutenous Maximus
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Glutenous Maximus, Credit: Seth Shostak
Eat dark chocolate. Don’t drink coffee. Go gluten-free. If you ask people for diet advice, you’ll get a dozen different stories. We’ll help you...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, RadioFreePalmer, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Apr 17, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Winging It
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Winging It, Credit: Seth Shostak
We look at the evolution - and the future - of flight. Bats may flit around eccentrically, but they are actually more efficient fliers than birds....

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, KTSW 89.9, WMUU-LP, XRAY.fm, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
Inca Doves and Jojoba
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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March 11, 2017 Inca doves are found all along the borderlands and southward into Mexico. The common name should probably be Aztec dove, as the Inca...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2017
  • Length: 05:26
The Smell of Shame
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: 1950s advertising. Vintage original magazine advertisement advert for MUM perspiration cream for women, Credit: f8 archive / Alamy Stock Photo
How deodorant became omnipresent in America.

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Mar 15, 2017
  • Length: 15:47
  • Purchases: 1
Cosmic Conundra
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Cosmic Conundra, Credit: Seth Shostak
We examine some of the most recent, perplexing questions about the cosmos. Could massive asteroid impacts be as predictable as phases of the moon? ...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, KTSW 89.9, WMUU-LP, XRAY.fm, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Skeptic Check: Not So Sweet
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Not So Sweet, Credit: Seth Shostak
Obesity, diabetes, heart disease … maybe even Alzheimer’s. Could these modern scourges be caused by sugar? A journalist says there’s evidence sug...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Thinking About Thinking
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Thinking About Thinking, Credit: Seth Shostak
Thoughts about thinking: how scary-smart crows fashion tools and can recognize you by sight … scientists who simulated, neuron-by-neuron, a piece ...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WMUU-LP, XRAY.fm, WRIR, WRGY and more


  • Added: Feb 20, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10

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