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581: Reading While Young / 582: Up All Night, 5/1/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Reading While Young" - Having trouble reading? Maybe the answer is a younger read. We'll celebrate the new season of our "Bookmarks" mic...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:01
Drought & Climate in California with NWS Meteorologist Brian Garcia
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we discuss the current state of California’s climate - how it’s changed in recent years, and what we face in 2021, including a sig...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
Skeptic Check: Flat Earth
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Flat Earth, Credit: Seth Shostak
Flat Earthers believe that our planet resembles not a slightly squashed grapefruit but a thick pancake. We look at the difference between a truly ...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRGY, WHCP-LP Cambridge, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Arch Vibrations
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
Series: Science Moab
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Arches are always vibrating. The unique size and shape of each arch produces a unique wave frequency that it vibrates at. We talk with Jeff Moore...

Bought by KDXI - Radio St George


  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 18:22
  • Purchases: 1
Venom Diagram
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Venom Diagram, Credit: Seth Shostak
Evolution has outfitted some animals with a highly effective mechanism for saying “back off!”. Venoms can ward off predators and disable prey, and...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WCNY, WUFT, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 19
MAKING PEACE WITH OUR EARTH / (A 1-hour "Peace Talks Radio" Special for on or near EARTH DAY)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
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(FOR on or near EARTH DAY - APRIL 22) NOTE: If it suits your scheduling needs better, a 2-hour version has been added to PRX - https://exchange.p...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KUHF, KSJE, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
MAKING PEACE WITH OUR EARTH / (A 2-hour "Peace Talks Radio" Special for on or near EARTH DAY)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
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(FOR on or near EARTH DAY - APRIL 22) The long-running series on peacemaking and nonviolent conflict resolution, PEACE TALKS RADIO, presents highl...

Bought by KUHF and WERU


  • Added: Apr 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
  • Purchases: 2
210409: Investing in a Clean and Equitable Recovery, 4/9/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The COVID-19 shutdown has hit women and minorities hardest: four times as many women as men dropped out of the workforce in September 2020, with La...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
Volcanic Mind Melt
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Volcanic Mind Melt, Credit: Seth Shostak
The more than a thousand volcanoes that dapple Earth’s surface mark the edges of tectonic plates, spewing hot gas and ash, or boiling over with lav...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WCNY, CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Apr 05, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
Bill would effectively ban retail sale and unlicensed use of neonicotinoid pesticides in Nevada, a known killer of pollinator species
From: Brian Bahouth
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Neonicotinoid or “neonic” insecticides as they are known include several active ingredients dangerous to bees and other pollinator species. Acetam...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 09:48
Skeptic Check: Useful Delusions
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Skeptic Check: Useful Delusion, Credit: Seth Shostak
Can self-deception be useful? During the pandemic, it has been fashionable to say that we’re “following the science,” and that our behavior is dete...

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRGY, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Mar 29, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Shut Up And Listen
From: Laura Joyce Davis
Series: Vaccine Hesitant
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How can we make space for concerns about the vaccine and grapple with a difficult history? Infectious disease specialist Dr. Joyce Sanchez says th...

Bought by WFHB and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 2
Invisible Women
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Domestic workers have been especially hard hit by the pandemic but have been consistently excluded from bills meant to help frontline workers. In t...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 04:10
DecodeHer
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: DecodeHer, Credit: Seth Shostak
They were pioneers in their fields, yet their names are scarcely known – simply because they didn’t have a Y chromosome. We examine the accomplishm...

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
Sick finches in Elko - the ravages of a changing climate
From: Brian Bahouth
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The salmonella bacteria causes Salmonellosis, a common and often deadly bird disease. Late last year and early this year there have been numerous r...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2021
  • Length: 12:12
Rise of the South Africa Variant
From: Celine Gounder
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We’re looking at the variant that emerged in South Africa: 501Y.V2. This variant is not only more transmissible, but has demonstrated the troubling...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 04:00
Legendary LEDs, with Dr. Russ Dupuis
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
Caption: Dr. Russell Dupuis, Credit: Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
LEDs, or light-emitting diodes, have changed the world – and continue to do so. This energy-efficient electronics technology came from decades of ...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 53:11
563: Going Underground / 564: New Voices in Native American Writing, 2/27/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'Going Underground' - Scientists and explorers have found a whole new world under our feet. It's an exciting place, and it's changing wha...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:58
Creature Discomforts
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Creature Discomforts, Credit: Creature Discomforts
We love them, fear them, use them – and sometimes eat them, too. But how well do we really know animals? Our impressions are often simplistic. T...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KBBI Alaska, WXXI Rochester, WRGY and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
Mars Attracts
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Mars Attracts, Credit: Seth Shostak
In a historic trifecta for space exploration, spacecraft of three countries will arrive at Mars in February. We talk to the science lead for the Em...

Bought by WRGY, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WHCP-LP Cambridge, WMUU-LP, KMXT and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Confronting Suicide & Support for Reporters Covering Trauma
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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On this episode of Peace Talks Radio, we talk with psychologist Dr. Ursula Whiteside about her efforts to stop suicide. We also talk about the pres...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Feb 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Advanced Humanities Institute at SFI
From: KUNM
Series: Augmented Humanity
Caption: Simon DeDeo
Philosopher David Kinney, an Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellow at The Santa Fe Institute, and SFI External Professor Simon DeDeo, a cognitive scientist a...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Supercomputer Showdown
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Supercomputer Showdown, Credit: Seth Shostak
Do you have a hard-to-answer question? The Summit, Sierra, Trinity, Frontier, and Aurora supercomputers are built to tackle it. Summit tops the pet...

Bought by WCNY, KMUN, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRGY, WYAP and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Skeptic Check: Betting on Pseudoscience
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Betting on Pseudoscience, Credit: Seth Shostak
Psychics may not be able to predict the future or sense your thoughts. Nonetheless, they rake in big bucks. But the harm from pseudoscience can go ...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KBBI Alaska, WMUU-LP, WRGY and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Covid-19
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Book cover, Credit: Jacket design Danielle Allyssa
In March of 2020, after months of downplaying of COVID by officials, the death rate could no longer be ignored. By late fall, as many Americans wer...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1

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