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Wine And Health, Tony Edwards interview
From: Mark Lenzi
Series: The Wonderful World of Wine (WWW)
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The Wonderful World of Wine (WWW) Episode 262 The Wonderful World of Wine (WWW): Uncorking the truth about wine and health with Tony Edwards.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2024
  • Length: 34:53
Orientation and Impact of Wind Energy
From: KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
Series: Environmental Voices
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Impact and Orientation

  • Added: Jun 21, 2023
  • Length: 06:33
Fossil Fuels: Pros and Cons
From: KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
Series: Environmental Voices
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Pros & Cons of Fossil Fuels

  • Added: Jun 21, 2023
  • Length: 10:58
Earl Swift: Watching Waters Rise
From: Broken Ground
Series: Season 2: Environmental Writers
Caption: Author Earl Swift
Interview with Earl Swift, author of Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:53
Arch Vibrations
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
Series: Science Moab
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Arches are always vibrating. The unique size and shape of each arch produces a unique wave frequency that it vibrates at. We talk with Jeff Moore...

Bought by KDXI - Radio St George


  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 18:22
  • Purchases: 1
World Human Powered Speed Challenge tests the limits of design and performance in Battle Mountain, Nevada for the 20th year
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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Just outside Battle Mountain, Nevada, there is a perfectly straight, flat, 5-mile section of State Route 305 that has been specially resurfaced to ...

Bought by Radio Newark and KNVC Carson City Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 10, 2019
  • Length: 13:06
  • Purchases: 2
Autism and Emotional Regulation
From: Elaine Vitone
Series: Pitt Medcast
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Popular accounts of autism often portray people with the condition as emotionless automatons. Yet more than a decade of work has convinced Pitt psy...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 10:18
AMOS 18.171: Waking Up and Feeling Sleepy, 8/27/2018
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Waking Up and Feeling Sleepy

  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 18.168: Bad Grades and Biological Clocks, 8/22/2018
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Bad Grades and Biological Clocks

  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
Bystander Effect: Alan Berkowitz #221 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Are we all “bystanders” when it comes to responding rationally to the serious environmental crises faced by our civilization? How is our behavior s...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Apr 17, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
AMOS 18.059: Can Lightning Strike You in the Shower, 3/22/2018
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Can Lightning Strike You in the Shower

  • Added: Feb 27, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 18.056: Life from (Space) Dust, 3/19/2018
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Life from (Space) Dust

  • Added: Feb 27, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
Autism in the Engineering Classroom
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
Caption: The cover art for this episode is full of origami cranes, and it is inspired by “the birds activity” from past podcast guest Ellen Browne, which Melanie describes at the end of this episode; it is also inspired by the colored puzzle pieces historically us, Credit: Pios Labs
In the big push for more engineers today, can we get them from autistic students? Research has shown that college students with autism spectrum dis...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWMR


  • Added: Aug 27, 2017
  • Length: 40:45
  • Purchases: 2
AMOS 17.136: Bird Song Genes and Human Speech, 7/10/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Bird Song Genes and Human Speech

  • Added: Jun 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
Faster, more efficient... guaranteed
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sport
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If you dip your toe into the running world, you'll notice a variety of claims about efficiency and speed from coaches and athletes. Surprisingly, w...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2016
  • Length: 07:39
Claude Monet and the Science of Style
From: Hold That Thought
Series: The Human Brain
Caption: Poppies, Credit: Claude Monet
Mark Rollins explores the ways that our brains encounter and interpret art.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Jun 01, 2016
  • Length: 11:00
  • Purchases: 1
Curious -- Groks Science Show 2016-04-20
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
We are all born curious and a healthy sense of curiosity can benefit a person in many ways. However, modern technology threatens human curiosity. T...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WMUU-LP, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 22:55
  • Purchases: 3
First Bite -- Groks Science Show 2016-02-17
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Bee Wilson discusses how we learn to eat and whether we can change our approach to food.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KPIP-LP, WYAP, WMUU-LP, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Feb 16, 2016
  • Length: 30:48
  • Purchases: 5
Harness the Sun
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Philip Warburg
American is standing on the brink of an extraordinary revolution: an energy revolution.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Lou Freshwater - Radioactive waste in St. Louis??
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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Investigative journalist Lou Freshwater writes: "In the middle of the United States there is a landfill contaminated by nuclear waste which was lef...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 28:43
The Myth of the Female Fertility Cliff
From: marnie chesterton
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Women over 30 who haven't yet had kids are often told “tick tick; your biological clock is running out of time." Marnie Chesterton digs into the f...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 19, 2015
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 4
A Beautiful Question -- Groks Science Show 2015-07-15
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Frank Wilczek discussed the concept of beauty in physics.

Bought by KPVL and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jul 16, 2015
  • Length: 32:13
  • Purchases: 2
Elizabeth Kolbert and "The Sixth Extinction"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Kolbert discusses the powerful and possibly catastrophic mass extinction unfolding right in front of us. Her book won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for N...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2015
  • Length: 30:01
Representing Dark Matter
From: Sarah Lilley
Caption: Artist Abdelkader Benchamma at work on “Representation of Dark Matter” at The Drawing Center, NYC. [Photo credit: Jose Andres Ramirez; courtesy of The Drawing Center], Credit: Jose Andres Ramirez; courtesy of The Drawing Center
“Dark matter” has been in the news again lately as scientists have begun mapping what they believe is its prevalence across the universe. But, um,...

Bought by Hark! and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 01, 2015
  • Length: 05:53
  • Purchases: 2
The Quantum Moment -- Groks Science Show 2015-01-21
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Robert Crease discusses how terms from quantum mechanics have found their way into everyday discourse.

Bought by KPVL and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 32:16
  • Purchases: 2