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It's not about how much money you have, it's how you spend it. Scientists prove that experiences are more worth it than material things.
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:32
Dr. Rhett Allain and Adam Cortez discuss the importance and the origin of Pi: 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078...
- Added: May 06, 2021
- Length: 12:11
Rhett Allain and Adam Cortez converse on the topic of Mars and the factors that are unique to the planet.
- Added: May 06, 2021
- Length: 12:38
Dr. Rhett Allain and Adam Cortez discuss the quirkier sides of science.
- Added: May 06, 2021
- Length: 11:40
Arachnophobes BEWARE! Imagine a spider that uses special silk to lift something that's 50 times bigger than itself. There is a video! You must wat...
- Added: Mar 30, 2021
- Length: 04:59
What is that weird smell? It's called trimethylamine (TMA) and for most of us it stinks like rotten fish. For a small percentage of people it smell...
- Added: Mar 30, 2021
- Length: 05:04
What if we burned calories the same way cars use gas for fuel? Amy fell down the comparison hole trying to figure out the "car calories" for humans...
- Added: Mar 30, 2021
- Length: 04:54
We catch you up with an update on fluorescing animals and then jump right into new research on Long Fin Damsel fish that use Mysid shrimp to farm a...
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- Added: Feb 02, 2021
- Length: 04:56
- Purchases: 1
When music comes on, can you clap along or do you struggle to find the beat? If you have a hard time keeping up with the rhythm, there's a reason a...
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 04:12
In the movie Good Will Hunting, Will is a janitor at MIT--he solves some impossible math problems and shocks the professors. That origin story is t...
- Added: Aug 05, 2020
- Length: 05:00
In these episodes, Dr. Rhett Allain and Adam Cortez discuss the many purposes and origins of Fire.
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- Added: Jul 11, 2020
- Length: 12:45
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of Culture Clique we take a look at the night sky. Professor Jennifer Anderson guides us through some spectacular sights that will ...
- Added: Apr 24, 2020
- Length: 26:47
Guests include The Trashcan Bandits, Christie Daniels and Jennifer Calvert ND
- Added: Sep 01, 2019
- Length: 59:30
Sending a little love to our listeners in the Southern Hemisphere. It might be summer here, but it's the middle of winter down south. Turn on some ...
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- Added: Jul 16, 2019
- Length: 04:29
- Purchases: 1
Why do we want to crush-hug cute things like babies and young animals? It may have something to do with adorableness overload and how our brains co...
- Added: May 09, 2019
- Length: 03:50
African Wild Dogs appear to vote on pack activities by sneezing.
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- Added: Feb 05, 2019
- Length: 02:54
- Purchases: 1
March 14th is Pi Day! The irrational number that is the ratio between the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Its Pi day! 3.141592.........
- Added: Mar 13, 2018
- Length: 01:09
Compare and contrast: "adiabatic" versus "a diabetic"?
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- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 02:44
- Purchases: 1
Talking about eutectic points of solid mixtures.
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- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 04:48
- Purchases: 1
Marta Zaraska discussed the biological, cultural and historical reasons behind our obsession with meat.
- Added: Nov 30, 2016
- Length: 32:55
Welcome to the first episode of This Won't Hurt A Bit. Mel Herbert, ER doc wakes up in the middle of the night to the harrowing sounds of a massive...
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- Added: Jun 02, 2016
- Length: 26:55
- Purchases: 1
Over the last 150 years there is one subject which has caused much debate. That subject of course is evolution by natural selection. But what does ...
- Added: Aug 23, 2015
- Length: 15:38
On November 24, 1859, "On the Origin of Species" was published. To say that it made a splash would be an understatement. It changed the world.
- Added: Aug 22, 2015
- Length: 17:59
Darwin settled into a life as a naturalist. Whether he liked it or not, his views would find themselves on the world's stage.
- Added: Aug 15, 2015
- Length: 12:23
On 12/27/1831, 22 year old Charles Darwin stood on the deck of the HMS Beagle to bid England farewell.
- Added: Aug 11, 2015
- Length: 13:39