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Constant Wonder - Going Blind With Vigor and Aplomb

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

When a congenital condition began to destroy Andrew Leland's eyesight, he decided that the result didn't have to be tragic.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WYAP

National Writers Series: Ed Yong

From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Five

Interlochen Public Radio's Ed Ronco talks with science journalist Ed Yong.

Bought by Michigan Radio and WKAR

Constant Wonder - Snowfall, Snowflakes, and Ice Instruments

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

How snowfall fits into climate change, snowflake science, and instruments fashioned from ice actually work...and sound good!

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and RadioStPete Florida

Analog Computing and the Automatic Totalisator

From: Sean Haas
Series: Advent of Computing

A lot of the technology we associate with the modern day started on anachronistic machines. I'm not talking about mainframes, I'm talking older. To...

Dogs and Fake News

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Topic 1: Who We Are With Dogs Is Who We Are as People. Topic 2: Fake News Isn’t Just Misleading. It Can Create False Memories.

Bought by KOWS

578-First PHA

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Assuming the first potentially hazardous asteroid of 2020 has a chemical composition similar to the stony meteorites we find on Earth, it could co...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, Harford Community Radio and more

539-Close Approaches

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

During a recent 30 day period, 11 small space rocks passed closer to us than the Moon. If one of them were to enter our atmosphere and you were di...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP, WLPR and more

Imperfect Pitch: the promises and perils of personal genomics

From: Elaine Vitone
Series: Pitt Medcast

Our guests, Jeremy Berg (editor of Science magazine) and Mylynda Massart (a primary care physician with a special interest in genetics), discuss ho...

515-Dust Moons

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

The discovery of two large ghostly neighbors approximately 65,000 by 45,000 miles in size at the L4 and L5 sites approximately 250,000 miles from b...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, KKRN, KRWG and more

490-Mini Moons

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

There are likely to be hundreds smaller than softball sized and perhaps several dozen football to beachball sized, natural Earth mini moons, which ...

Bought by KGLP, KENW, WLPR , WLPR , KUPR low power FM and more