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190: Beard Power
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Those of you with a thick beard, that hair does more than make you look suave or rugged. Turns out, a beard might be protecting your face. There's ...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jan 10, 2022
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 1
188: Trash Parrots
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Forget raccoons digging into your trash cans, Australia has giant parrots snacking out of trash bins. Some family groups of Sulfur-crested cockatoo...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Nov 29, 2021
  • Length: 05:27
  • Purchases: 1
National Writers Series: Mary Roach
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three
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Kendra Carr of Interlochen Public Radio talks with science writer Mary Roach.

Bought by WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Nov 11, 2021
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 3
187: Animal Buddy Cops
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In an unexpected turn of events, two predators with very different hunting styles work cooperatively. During the summer months, badgers and coyotes...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 11, 2021
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 1
186: Sudden Genius
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Imagine waking up from a nap to discover that you have the ability to compose music in your head. What a shock that would be! There are people who ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 11, 2021
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 2
179: Spontaneous Combustion
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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This episode is marked explicit because we go into details that might lead to a person catching on fire. It's interesting science and we don't get ...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 06:52
  • Purchases: 1
176: Math Pain
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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If you're like Trace, the thought of math makes you want to run and hide; that anxiety, that tightness in your chest, the weird shooting pains (wai...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jun 14, 2021
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
175: Angels' Glow
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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It's the Civil War and you're in the medical tent. It's dark and the man next to you has wounds glowing an eerie blue. Turns out, the men who had t...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jun 14, 2021
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 2
173: Mushroom Lightning
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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There's a long tradition of Japanese folklore around the possible relationship between large mushroom harvests and lightning. Researchers decided t...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jun 14, 2021
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 2
167: Wormnado
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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When out on a walk, Tiffanie Fisher spotted a giant ring of worms and snapped a picture. She posted the photo in the hopes that someone could expla...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 2
165: Silently Screaming Tomato
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In a pitched battle against voracious tomato fruit worms, (aka. corn earworms or cotton bollworm) tomato plants have one sneaky defense...a wasp. I...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 2
164: Bumblebee Tunnel
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Researcher Sridhar Ravi of UNSW Canberra looks to the humble bumblebee to answer questions about how to program a more nimble drone. The way he and...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 1
Vaccines
From: KSLU
Series: STEM Science Radio
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Rhett Allain and Adam Cortez discuss the science behind the vaccines and why they work

  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 11:59
162: penguin Guano & Giggle Gas
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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There's a strange connection between King penguins, one of their favorite islands, and Nitrous Oxide gas.

Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 2
161: Wild Hamsters
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Our best topics come from late night dinner table conversations with our kids. Amy attempts to answer the question: Are there herds of hamsters roa...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 05:16
  • Purchases: 1
160: Fab Female Frog Lungs
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Imagine if you could block out loud noises at a party by taking a really deep breath. That's how the female American Green Tree Frog manages to fil...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 1
159: Wanna Cuttle?
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Can a cuttlefish master a test that very young children often struggle to pass? Instead of using marshmallows like we do with people, scientists us...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 1
150: The Amazing Shrew
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Who knew a tiny animal could contain such a multitude of cool facts? For our 150th episode we dive into the life of the shrew. It's a phenomenal cr...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2021
  • Length: 05:00
140: Beehive Fence
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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There are only approximately 400,000 elephants left in the world. Frustrated and saddened by this stark statistic, Dr. Lucy King set out to find a ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 23, 2020
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
134: Glowing Squirrels
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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An accidental discovery by scientist Jonathan G. Martin lead to a surprise at his bird feeder. Turns out Flying Squirrels in the United States have...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 04:53
  • Purchases: 1
30th Ig Nobel Prizes awarded - science that makes you laugh, then think
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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The Ig Nobel Prizes honor scientific achievements that make people laugh, and then think.

  • Added: Oct 15, 2020
  • Length: 13:41
Science, Comedy & Partisanship
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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What makes a stand-up comedian wake up one day and decide comedy needs more science? A road comic for 13 years, Shane Mauss made this enlightened d...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 13, 2020
  • Length: 26:33
  • Purchases: 1
127: Emergency Clams
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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No joke, the best and last line of defense to protect the drinking water for an entire city in Poland is eight clams. Let's chat about bivalve scie...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 16, 2020
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 1
117: Space Bubbles
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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The science of how bubbles work changes a bit when they go into space. Amy explains why.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 01, 2020
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 1
Shotgun Vaccine
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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Traditional vaccines are too slow to help with a pandemic that is here right now. But next generation vaccines promise something much quicker. Tune...

  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 02:59