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Purpose-driven and consciously prepared brain food from the beaches of Malibu, California. Join us on this week’s show focusing on mind and gut hea...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2019
  • Length: 48:16

  • Added: Jul 10, 2019
  • Length: 02:00

  • Added: May 21, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: A Moment of Science
What Is Decanting and Why Does It Matter?

  • Added: Mar 22, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: A Moment of Science
Vanilla Might Be Older Than We Thought

  • Added: Mar 19, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
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In this special fundraising edition of "To the Best of Our Knowledge," host Anne Strainchamps samples some of our best interviews about human endur...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Radio (ops), WITF, KCPW Salt Lake City, Interlochen Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 01:17:35
  • Purchases: 9

  • Added: Nov 09, 2018
  • Length: 02:00

  • Added: Oct 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
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Purpose-driven and consciously prepared brain food from the beaches of Malibu, California. Join us on this week’s show focusing on gut health. Gues...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2018
  • Length: 47:41
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A listener asks: Why do I get a headache if I go without coffee?

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, KENW, and WLPR


  • Added: Dec 30, 2017
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: A Moment of Science
What’s Up with That Fake Grape Flavor

  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
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If Lunar and Martian Colonists are to have chips and salsa they will need grow their own tomatoes.

Bought by Radio Newark, KRWG, KMXT, KENW, KKRN and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: UW-Madison Bee Hive
It’s called “colony collapse disorder” or CCD. A number of years ago US beekeeping operations realized they lost between 30 and 90 percent of their...

Bought by KSFR and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 09, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Sunset overlooking Mobile Bay in Fairhope, Alabama. , Credit: Photo by Tina Antolini.
Imagine: crabs, fish, eels—a whole team of sea creatures—rushing towards the shore, and then sitting there, as if waiting to be caught. This isn’t ...

Bought by KVLU and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 16, 2016
  • Length: 22:01
  • Purchases: 2
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A new report finds that global fisheries could boost both sustainability and annual catch.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WLPR , and KENW


  • Added: Apr 05, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Could fungi be a key to safer and longer lasting lithium ion batteries?

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WLPR , and KENW


  • Added: Mar 30, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Scientists are isolating and synthesizing the chemical compounds that make hops bitter, and studying their medicinal properties.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WLPR , and KENW


  • Added: Mar 15, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Did you know that regenerative agriculture could increase biodiversity, reduce pesticide use in food production, protect our bees, and offset most ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 08, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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You can thank fruit flies for your favorite wine’s fruity “nose”.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, KSFR, Radio Baha'i, WLGI and more


  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Did you know that our bodies are teeming with microbes? They reside throughout our body, but the majority live in our large intestine where they pl...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
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Did you know that everything we eat can affect how we think, feel and act? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgar...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: Yaupon tea is brewed from the leaves of Ilex vomitaria., Credit: Mary Vaux Wolcott
Can you get a caffeine fix without growing your carbon footprint?

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
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You can thank fruit flies for your favorite wine’s fruity “nose”.

Bought by WVTF, WKSU, and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 23, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: The practice of cheesemaking goes back many centuries in various cultures around the world. (A page from the 14th century Medieval handbook Taccuino Sanitatis from the Biblioteca Casanatense in Rome, Italy)
Central Europeans developed a dairying culture at least 4,000 years before they evolved the ability to digest milk.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1