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Like a scaly cheetah, galloping crocs were a terror both on land and in the water. Good thing they lived 100 million years ago.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSFR
- Added: Aug 06, 2019
- Length: 04:15
- Purchases: 2
Medical science on the fly. Turns out you only need to pull a few G's to loosen that stubborn kidney stone.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jun 26, 2019
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 1
In 1804 Dr. Troxler discovered he could make pastel dots on paper disappear if he stared at them for long enough. Blink, and they would reappear. T...
- Added: Jun 05, 2019
- Length: 03:24
Need to string some wire through your house or clean a particle accelerator? You might need a science ferret.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: May 28, 2019
- Length: 03:09
- Purchases: 1
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
The internet claims lobsters are immortal. Amy pulls a Dana Scully and debunks the heck out of that idea.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Mar 26, 2019
- Length: 04:35
- Purchases: 1
Jumping out of an airplane without a parachute?! We explore a study that explains how sometimes, if you look at the data in just the right way, bac...
- Added: Mar 19, 2019
- Length: 02:40
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
The rings of icy dust around Saturn are so much younger than the planet. Where did they come from and why are they going away?
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Mar 05, 2019
- Length: 03:29
- Purchases: 1
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
Neuroscientists have found that dogs might actually love their people.
- Added: Jan 29, 2019
- Length: 02:40
Why do we do the things we do while in public? Simple actions like using the restroom or riding the bus get a lot more complicated when thinking ab...
- Added: Jan 16, 2019
- Length: 20:19
Welcome to the wonderful world of Brain Storms. Short, funny and TO THE POINT. Today is brought to you by those people who make you crazy and why y...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jan 14, 2019
- Length: 02:06
- Purchases: 1
Cougars are beautiful and stealthy solitary hunters. Until they want to mate. Then they sound like a person being run through a garbage compactor. ...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 10, 2019
- Length: 02:06
- Purchases: 2
Where we talk about Dr. Nathalie Stroeymeyt and her foraging, black garden ants. Infected ants seem to stay away from other ants. Find out why.
- Added: Jan 09, 2019
- Length: 02:49
Science writer Mary Roach talks with author and actor Benjamin Busch.
Bought by WKAR, WCMU Michigan, WKAR, and WDET Detroit Public Radio
- Added: Sep 21, 2018
- Length: 54:31
- Purchases: 4
Well, I’m not sure I can add a whole lot more to this true story, but here are a few ringtail facts that are fun. Okay, fun for nature geeks like y...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 05:10
The average household has more than 40 appliances that use electricity when they're off. We help you find and subdue them.
Bought by KFOI Radio
- Added: Feb 07, 2018
- Length: 23:21
- Purchases: 1
Sometimes the setting of the moon is as spectacular as the rising. As it slides down toward the mountains in the horizon it appears larger and larg...
- Added: Dec 31, 2017
- Length: 05:19
- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 04:05
- Purchases: 1
Learn how the Emotion Roadmap helps leaders and others to get changes in behavior.
- Added: Aug 10, 2017
- Length: 45:01
A Special Wine Show geared towards helping the public with wine-related issues and other dilemmas. Alex comes on the show to discuss Ridiculously ...
- Added: Jan 03, 2017
- Length: 01:00:00
We pair fine wine with large insects as Dr. Bryan Stuart from the NC Museum of Natural Sciences supervises. An entertaining show for anyone who ha...
- Added: Sep 27, 2016
- Length: 01:00:00
We learn about Synthetic Wine. We also check the Mailbag and cherish a visit from Alex, The Wine Guru, as he discusses Sexy Chardonnay. A fun sho...
- Added: Sep 22, 2016
- Length: 01:00:00
We pair fine wine with insects as Dr. Magdalena Sorger, entomologist with the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, discusses her love of Ants. A fun sho...
- Added: Sep 21, 2016
- Length: 01:00:00
