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212: Peanut Butter Diamonds

From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk

With enough pressure and heat, just about anything with enough carbon in it could become a diamond. And thankfully for us, when a scientist was ask...

Bought by WRFA-LP

209: Detachable Tails

From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk

In cases of emergency, lizards pop off their tails to get away. Evolution made it possible for that tail to stay on when tugged but not twisted. It...

Bought by WRFA-LP

207: Cockroach Personalities

From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk

Anything that scatters when you turn on the light...does it have a personality? Is the cockroach urge to run an indicator of a bold or timid world ...

Bought by WRFA-LP

204: Baker Miller Pink

From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk

In 1978, Dr. Alexander Schauss and a research assistant mixed 1 gallon of white latex paint with a pint of shiny red and created P-618 aka Baker Mi...

Bought by WRFA-LP

187: Animal Buddy Cops

From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk

In an unexpected turn of events, two predators with very different hunting styles work cooperatively. During the summer months, badgers and coyotes...

Bought by WRFA-LP

186: Sudden Genius

From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk

Imagine waking up from a nap to discover that you have the ability to compose music in your head. What a shock that would be! There are people who ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WRFA-LP

165: Silently Screaming Tomato

From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk

In a pitched battle against voracious tomato fruit worms, (aka. corn earworms or cotton bollworm) tomato plants have one sneaky defense...a wasp. I...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio

71: Ants on Stilts

From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk

Ants hunt for food, but how do they know how to get back? Content warning: Science is messy. Some ants were harmed and we talk about it. Not in gre...

70: Galloping Crocodiles

From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk

Like a scaly cheetah, galloping crocs were a terror both on land and in the water. Good thing they lived 100 million years ago.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSFR

62: Troxler Effect

From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk

In 1804 Dr. Troxler discovered he could make pastel dots on paper disappear if he stared at them for long enough. Blink, and they would reappear. T...

61: Science Ferrets

From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk

Need to string some wire through your house or clean a particle accelerator? You might need a science ferret.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio

52: Long Lives of Lobsters

From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk

The internet claims lobsters are immortal. Amy pulls a Dana Scully and debunks the heck out of that idea.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio

51: Backpack vs Parachute

From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk

Jumping out of an airplane without a parachute?! We explore a study that explains how sometimes, if you look at the data in just the right way, bac...

43: Dog Love and an MRI

From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk

Neuroscientists have found that dogs might actually love their people.

29: Social Conventions

From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk

Why do we do the things we do while in public? Simple actions like using the restroom or riding the bus get a lot more complicated when thinking ab...

National Writers Series: Mary Roach

From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series

Science writer Mary Roach talks with author and actor Benjamin Busch.

Bought by WKAR, WCMU Michigan, WKAR, and WDET Detroit Public Radio

Taming Energy Vampires

From: Wendy Ring

The average household has more than 40 appliances that use electricity when they're off. We help you find and subdue them.

Bought by KFOI Radio

Mexican Campion

From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey

Sometimes the setting of the moon is as spectacular as the rising. As it slides down toward the mountains in the horizon it appears larger and larg...