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- Added: Aug 11, 2015
- Length: 01:29
- Purchases: 1
Three hours north of San Francisco, just east of the ocean, rise the steep, green hills of Cazadero. It’s an idyllic setting: open space with farms...
- Added: Jul 23, 2015
- Length: 07:57
- Added: Apr 23, 2015
- Length: 01:59
Sylvie Rokab talks unexpected relatives, the hidden dangers of city life, and dancing with Liam Neeson.
- Added: Apr 16, 2015
- Length: 20:50
A group of scientists are now trying to bring extinct animals - like the woolly mammoth and passenger pigeon - back to life, in a movement called D...
Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 3
Wylie Carr studies climate engineering - a 'Plan B' for global warming. The idea terrifies him. Someday, however, his daughter may need to decide w...
- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 05:31
Radio Curious discusses earthquakes with John Dvorak, Ph.D., a geophysicist and author of “Earthquake Storms: The Fascinating History and Volatile...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 29:01
In 1996, the high level intergovernmental Arctic Council was formed to promote cooperation and interaction among the Arctic states. In this episode...
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 05:23
From: Aengus Anderson
In the wake of a catastrophic fire, researchers use Arizona's Chiricahua Mountains to look centuries into the future of climate change and ask "wha...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA
- Added: Aug 25, 2014
- Length: 06:55
- Purchases: 2
We're getting closer and closer to making fusion power a reality - limitless energy created by fusing hydrogen into helium, the same process that p...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Physicists are approaching closer and closer to one of the Holy Grails of modern science: creating self-sustaining fusion reactions on Earth, and u...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
The Lower 9th Ward's Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle of today is what is called a “ghost swamp”. Until the 1960s, it was a full of cypress trees, ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2014
- Length: 18:02
Radio Curious revisits a two part conversation with Gregory Cochran, physicist, anthropologist, and co-author of the book “The 10,000 Year Explosio...
- Added: Apr 08, 2014
- Length: 58:03
In December 2012, a two-ton instrument built to detect cosmic rays ascended into the Antarctic sky, carried by a balloon the size of a football fie...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 14:00
Benny McLean has been working in the Florida citrus industry ever since he was 10 years old. Today he is production manager for Uncle Matt’s Organ...
- Added: Mar 06, 2014
- Length: 28:00
James C. Henderson is a graduate of Metropolitan State University's Creative Writing program, and Hamline University's MFA program. He lives in New...
- Added: Sep 03, 2013
- Length: 03:18
Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...
- Added: Aug 27, 2013
- Length: 07:38
52 Hz is the name given to a mysterious whale that vocalizes at a different frequency than other whales. Some refer to him as "The World's Lonelies...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Hark!, KALW, New Hampshire Public Radio, WTIP and more
- Added: Jul 15, 2013
- Length: 07:00
- Purchases: 6
From the red eyes of a periodical cicada looking out: a bug's first person rendition from emergence til death.
Bought by KSJD, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTIP, Radio Newark, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more
- Added: Jun 19, 2013
- Length: 07:42
- Purchases: 8
Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.
- Added: Jun 04, 2013
- Length: 03:30
One month after the Mayan apocalypse of 2012, the Generation Anthropocene team of Leslie Chang, Mike Osborne, and Miles Traer chat about the relati...
- Added: Apr 14, 2013
- Length: 23:30
It’s the end of 2012, and producers Mike Osborne, Leslie Chang, and Miles Traer get together to chat about the past year of Generation Anthropocene...
- Added: Apr 14, 2013
- Length: 31:18
In our second compilation, we bring together voices from the Leopold Leadership Program to investigate the changing nature and changing goals of co...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 23:16
Some 40 years ago the Nature Conservancy began buying up the barrier islands of Virginia and the riparian areas on the mainland. Today they own all...
- Added: Oct 24, 2012
- Length: 27:13
Where does water come from? We know from science that water evaporates from the ocean reservoir, is captured in clouds, fog and rain, descends to s...
- Added: Jul 16, 2012
- Length: 05:00
