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Ice Age Plant Survives Big Chill
- Added: Mar 04, 2024
- Length: 02:00
In 1948, Idaho Fish and Game got the bright idea to transport beavers into the back country with PARACHUTES. It was a wild and wacky compromise to ...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: May 13, 2022
- Length: 05:06
- Purchases: 1
During the 1960s when we were racing to the moon, computing tech made a huge leap. Computers had to be small to fit in the Apollo capsules and it w...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jan 19, 2020
- Length: 04:51
- Purchases: 1
Graham Hancock presents an alternative story of civilization’s past.
- Added: Jan 06, 2016
- Length: 37:10
- Purchases: 2
Lucille Horn, 95, tells her daughter, Barbara, about the baby incubator exhibit at Coney Island that saved her life.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Blue Mountain Radio , and WTJU
- Added: Jul 10, 2015
- Length: 01:52
- Purchases: 3
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Maria Lane, author of Geographies of Mars, relates what Percival Lowell observed on the red planet. This segment comes from BackStory's episode "Th...
Bought by Radio Newark and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 09:02
- Purchases: 2
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
From BackStory's episode on reconciliation in American history. Anthropologist Orin Starn tells us about the the battle between the Smithsonian and...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: Nov 11, 2014
- Length: 10:14
- Purchases: 1
Recent estimates suggest that more than 50% of Americans will suffer from a “mental disorder” at some point in their lifetime, making the once “abn...
Bought by WEZU, WXDU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and WRIR
- Added: Jul 18, 2014
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 4
Bigger doesn’t always mean better. Case in point: fruits and vegetables. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn...
- Added: Aug 30, 2013
- Length: 28:00
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It's 50 years since the first American went into space; why the Large Hadron Collider isn't going to shut down for a year as planned; and we trick ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 07, 2011
- Length: 34:10
- Purchases: 1
Tales of pirates and plunder have inspired more than a few Hollywood epics. Did you catch the summer block buster with Johnny Depp? But pirates le...
Bought by KUAC
- Added: Dec 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
The Siberian permafrost - a sub-Arctic peat bog about the size of France and Germany - is chock full of carbon that's trapped in its frozen soils. ...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
How early, miniature greenhouses aboard ships helped shape global commerce
- Added: Mar 22, 2005
- Length: 02:00
