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Geologist Phil Skemer gets to crush rocks for a living. Find out how and why he and his team build instruments that can mimic conditions deep insid...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Jun 12, 2015
- Length: 12:55
- Purchases: 1
To understand rocks like banded iron formations, researcher Steven Chemtob has to approach the ancient formations in a variety of ways.
- Added: Jun 10, 2015
- Length: 09:12
If you send scientists to the beach, they may come back with the next way to produce biofuels. But it takes a lot of collaboration along the way.
- Added: May 15, 2015
- Length: 09:36
It's like gang warfare, but with really tiny gang members. Some microbes provide their relatives with protection, emitting antibiotics that kill of...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 15, 2015
- Length: 04:07
- Purchases: 1
You’ve probably experienced test anxiety. Listen to what it’s like for teenagers to take a test with test anxiety. Then hear educators question whe...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 31, 2015
- Length: 09:12
- Purchases: 1
How do we get better at tasks? In this short episode, we describe an important mechanism of learning: pruning away neural connections.
- Added: Mar 08, 2015
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 3
OUCH! Keano's mouth gets burned — by chocolate! Michelle Dutro and Keano Martinez first hear from Lizzie Kirchner's family who explains the process...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 08:20
Diamond, Demetrius, Josh and Kevin interview Jamin Bogi (Group Against Smog and Pollution), Phil Johnson (The Heinz Endowments) and Neil Donahue (C...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 03:26
The Lower 9th Ward's Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle of today is what is called a “ghost swamp”. Until the 1960s, it was a full of cypress trees, ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2014
- Length: 18:02
“Hey, you’re smart!” That feels good to hear, doesn’t it? Praise always feels good to hear, but not all praise motivates us to try new things, ch...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 07:20
- Purchases: 1
In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke explain the relationship between money, security, opportunity, memory, an...
- Added: Jan 10, 2014
- Length: 07:20
Why is it hard to have just one of those delicious slices of pound cake over the holidays? Well, it turns out it has less to do with the creamy but...
Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA
- Added: Jan 03, 2014
- Length: 07:20
- Purchases: 1
Where there is tuna, there are dolphins.... not always a good thing,
Bought by KFOK-LPFM and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Nov 20, 2013
- Length: 06:01
- Purchases: 2
Your experiences shape who you are as a person. But how do they shape our perceptual abilities? Listen to how our brains process auditory informati...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 07, 2013
- Length: 09:04
- Purchases: 2
When we make big decisions in life, such as buying a house or getting married, we often consider those decisions to have been based on a ‘gut feeli...
- Added: Sep 13, 2013
- Length: 07:20
Check out the show with Professors Bob Duke and Art Markman, and then have a nap; refresh and consolidate what you’ve learned. Sleep is a lot more...
- Added: Sep 13, 2013
- Length: 07:20
It is easy to pick out human speech from background noise. But how can we do this given that all the parts of speech sound like all the other noise...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 08, 2013
- Length: 08:24
- Purchases: 2
Part three in our series, The Stages of Life, spotlighting the chemistry found in childhood, adulthood, and old age. First, a look at how brain con...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Jul 16, 2013
- Length: 18:01
- Purchases: 1
Join us for the second installment of The Stages of Life, spotlighting the chemistry found in childhood, adulthood, and old age. We start by lookin...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 15:03
- Purchases: 1
This episode kicks off a three-part series, The Stages of Life, spotlighting the chemistry found in childhood, adulthood, and old age. First, a loo...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 17:28
- Purchases: 1
We wrap up the three-part series A Day in the Life, spotlighting the common chemistry of morning, noon, and night. Today, how popular insomnia trea...
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 15:42
We continue the three-part series A Day in the Life, spotlighting the common chemistry of morning, noon, and night. In this episode, a look at the ...
- Added: Dec 20, 2012
- Length: 15:38
Today we begin the three-part series: A Day in the Life, spotlighting the common chemistry of morning, noon, and night. First, a look at what's lur...
- Added: Nov 27, 2012
- Length: 14:21
Here's the first episode in our “Summer Dispatches” series, in which reporter Megan Molteni braves the scarred landscape of Colorado Springs after...
- Added: Oct 02, 2012
- Length: 13:57
What is life? In the first installment of our "origin of life" topic, hear various attempts to define life and ponder the life of the internet.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 09, 2012
- Length: 14:59
- Purchases: 2
