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Damon Gameau talks corporate responsibility, the power of information, and Oscar Wilde’s advice.
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Aug 01, 2015
- Length: 23:01
- Purchases: 1
Three years after a stroke robbed him of speech, a Virginia man is regaining his ability to sing and speak, thanks to revolutionary music therapy.
Bought by Accessible Media Inc., WTJU, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 16, 2015
- Length: 09:32
- Purchases: 4
Join us for an interesting and fun conversation with planetary astronomer, Alessondra Springmann. She’s working on NASA’s Osiris project and could ...
- Added: Jun 12, 2015
- Length: 28:02
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
California eighth graders are ranked 45th in the country in math, according to the most recent scores on the National Assessment of Educational Pro...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and Radio Newark
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 07:05
- Purchases: 2
Sylvie Rokab talks unexpected relatives, the hidden dangers of city life, and dancing with Liam Neeson.
- Added: Apr 16, 2015
- Length: 20:50
Award-winning composer Jenny Olivia Johnson explores synesthesia, where sound is perceived as color or touch. Her feature is a work of sound art as...
- Added: Apr 10, 2015
- Length: 10:09
Have you noticed how the way a space feels really depends on how it sounds? Take the California Academy of Sciences for example. With all the hundr...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 09:46
Theoretical particle physicist David Kaplan talks the observer effect, the importance of the throw-out option, and why failure is sometimes success
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 31:49
Eric Merola and Dr. Ralph Moss talk deliberate misdirection, the relativity of statistics, and going for the gold.
- Added: Nov 08, 2014
- Length: 49:38
Judy Irving talks discovery, falling in love, and sacred moments.
- Added: Oct 26, 2014
- Length: 22:31
Where can you find a teacup, the molar of a goat, and an arrowhead all in one place? At an urban archaeology site, that’s where.
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 36:50
- Purchases: 1
The final episode of the series looks at the future of Irish experimental music. We find out how techniques like ‘Live Coding’ (where computer prog...
- Added: Jul 08, 2014
- Length: 30:01
Ivan Gálvez plays timbales with the Seattle band Picoso. He also scans my brainwaves with an electroencephalogram machine at the hospital where he ...
Bought by KZYX, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Jun 11, 2014
- Length: 11:16
- Purchases: 3
A mysterious sound sends us on a snipe hunt in Yellowstone National Park.
- Added: May 19, 2014
- Length: 02:41
- Purchases: 3
Episode sixty-nine has arrived in a totally cybernetic way! Join us as we speak with Vicki Brown, a Ph.D. in Research Methodology and a rockin’ vio...
- Added: Apr 29, 2014
- Length: 28:02
If bicycles could write a song, what would it sound like?
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 04:30
The story of the church bells in England during WWII. (Note: This is the intro to episode 13: The Sounds of East London)
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 04:30
An instrument made from meteorites!
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Drums, Wind Chimes and Meteorites are all forms of percussion in the Rhythm Discovery Center in Indianapolis.
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Join us for episode sixty-eight, an enlightening conversation with Paul Carrick Ph.D., teacher of philosophy at Gettysburg College. He’s also a bio...
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 28:02
There’s a national conversation about promoting science education for students, but what about science after graduation? Allison Quantz has the sto...
- Added: Jan 31, 2014
- Length: 02:39
- Purchases: 3
It’s the sixty-seventh episode of The Mikie Show! You won’t want to miss this one: We speak with Deirdre Barrett Ph.D., author, psychologist and te...
- Added: Jan 24, 2014
- Length: 28:02
Near dusk, you can often find Shirley Doell at Oakland Civic Center, staring at the tops of skyscrapers through her big telescope. But she isn’t sp...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 15:48
A Chicagoan deals with an interesting beach situation and Londoners deal with a growing population of parakeets.
- Added: Sep 26, 2013
- Length: 23:07
