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John Buettner-Janusch was one of the first Americans to study lemurs. He held prestigious faculty positions at Yale, Duke and NYU, before surprisin...
- Added: Oct 08, 2019
- Length: 28:12
- Added: May 08, 2018
- Length: 09:27
After years of unusual episodes dating back to her childhood, Anita went to the doctor and was told there was nothing medically wrong with her. "Sh...
- Added: Mar 07, 2017
- Length: 42:40
Virginia’s Barrier Islands and the waters and salt marshes that surround them represent the most pristine coastal region on the Eastern Seaboard. U...
- Added: Jun 10, 2016
- Length: 27:59
Oyster Virginia is an old fishing village on the seaside of the Easter Shore. On the road in there are old dead rises, some half submerged in the s...
- Added: Jun 10, 2015
- Length: 26:36
- Added: May 11, 2015
- Length: 07:30
- Purchases: 2
Something unusual happens about a half mile under the sea. Ocean physics create a special zone where sound travels for hundreds, even thousands of ...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, American Voices, Hark!, KFAI Minneapolis and more
- Added: Aug 26, 2014
- Length: 11:11
- Purchases: 11
Before the launch of the Voyager probes, Carl Sagan was given the daunting task of assembling a guide to all things human. Something that would fit...
- Added: Sep 10, 2013
- Length: 01:44
Digital music is the furthest we’ve come from running needles through intricate grooves, but record orders keep coming in.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 02:22
- Purchases: 1
Every drug we take is tested with crab blood. And it all started with a walk on a beach.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Dec 04, 2012
- Length: 07:23
- Purchases: 3
Listen to peoples' first reaction to Saturn alongside astrophysicists who gaze up at the universe for a living. Learn the new techniques scientists...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 17:47
- Purchases: 2
As a child in the 1930s, Irwin predicted he would travel to the moon ... at a time when anything written on the topic was clearly labeled "science ...
- Added: Aug 10, 2011
- Length: 03:00
This 1-hour radio documentary will celebrate the moon landing through the eyes of those who witnessed it and the memories of those who contributed ...
Bought by KWIT, KCNP, Radio Catskill, WHCP-LP Cambridge, WVPE and more
- Added: Jul 20, 2009
- Length: 54:03
- Purchases: 12
We visit wetlands around the San Francisco Bay, where scientists are waging a scorched-marsh campaign against a devastating kind of East Coast grass.
- Added: Jan 04, 2008
- Length: 29:00
For centuries, the kava plant has played an important role in many Pacific Island cultures, where it's valued for its natural calming effects. In ...
- Added: Oct 02, 2007
- Length: 08:06
