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How we modify plants and animals

Bought by Belfast Community Radio and Radio Newark


  • Added: May 23, 2019
  • Length: 12:46
  • Purchases: 2
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Asking Reddit STEM questions

Bought by Belfast Community Radio and Radio Newark


  • Added: May 23, 2019
  • Length: 13:17
  • Purchases: 2
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Interacting with Robots

Bought by Belfast Community Radio and Radio Newark


  • Added: May 23, 2019
  • Length: 13:48
  • Purchases: 2
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What is a black hole?

Bought by Belfast Community Radio and Radio Newark


  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 14:08
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 15:35
  • Purchases: 2
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Why it is so hard to get into space.

Bought by Belfast Community Radio and Radio Newark


  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 15:32
  • Purchases: 2
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This week we explore the history of connecting digitally.

Bought by Belfast Community Radio and Radio Newark


  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 14:36
  • Purchases: 2
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It's our one year podcast-aversary! We thank you for listening with an episode on accidental swallowings and some...not so accidental. Trace also ...

  • Added: May 21, 2019
  • Length: 05:50
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This history of music file sharing.

Bought by Belfast Community Radio and Radio Newark


  • Added: May 21, 2019
  • Length: 14:44
  • Purchases: 2
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Not the big yawn that you'd think. These 100,000 or so codes are used to determine your bill. Some of those codes are hilarious. Bit by cow and str...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 12, 2019
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 1
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Dr. Margoliash at the University of Chicago has been studying the brains of Zebra Finches for years. Today we dive into some of his lab's result --...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2019
  • Length: 03:22
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A bonded pair of male penguins make for unexpectedly great foster parents!

  • Added: Jan 11, 2019
  • Length: 02:48
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David Quammen discusses his book, The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life. He also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KWMR


  • Added: Sep 19, 2018
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 3
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Apache plume (Fallugia paradoxa) is very common around out little homestead. There are thickets of it all along the banks of the Ol’ Guajolote. It ...

  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 11:28
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I suppose the thinking is that any wildflowers blooming along the side of the road will beautify that road and who cares what’s in the hydro-seed m...

  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 05:09
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Star Trek fans probably know the cyborg character Data with a photonic memory. As with many concepts conceived by the writers of the scifi show, a ...

  • Added: May 20, 2018
  • Length: 27:39
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The CD is going the way of the cassette and 8-track and here is why.

Bought by WSGE, KWIT, WOUB, KSKQ, WYAP and more


  • Added: May 01, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Following the discovery that music can cure hangovers, we feature some of the best tracks to calm your post-party illnesses.

Bought by KSKQ, KTRL, WOUB, KWIT, WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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I am a senior at the University of Arizona studying East Asian Studies and Molecular and Cellular Biology.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2017
  • Length: 03:58
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My name is Adam Kai Aragaki – I’m currently a junior at the University of Arizona, studying Biochemistry as well as Molecular and Cellular Biology.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2017
  • Length: 04:30
Caption: Enhanced-color image of planet (?) Pluto, Credit: JHUAPL/SWRI/NASA
Planetary geologist Kirby Runyon is lead author of an abstract that proposes a new, geophysical definition of what a planet is. It would grant our...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KRZA and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Astronomer and author Jay Pasachoff, Credit: Jay Pasachoff
No one is more excited about eclipses than famed solar astronomer and author Jay Pasachoff. He looks forward to the total solar eclipse in August ...

Bought by KMUD, KFCF FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
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Empirical evidence shows that these songs are the happiest song in the world.

Bought by KZYX, WOUB, KSKQ, KSRQ, WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Fall is just a blast with all the late season blooming plants, so maybe instead of a festival for all the different species, we could consolidate a...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2016
  • Length: 05:01
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The Loggerhead Shrike is common, but still a fun sighting when your are out in the field.

  • Added: Oct 18, 2016
  • Length: 04:55