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Can Flatworms remember how to find food after re-growing their heads? Science rolled up its sleeves and found out.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: May 14, 2019
- Length: 04:47
- Purchases: 1
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
- Added: Nov 03, 2018
- Length: 08:21
- Purchases: 1
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
The 28th Ig Nobel Prize ceremony took place on September 13 at Harvard University. The Ig Nobel Prizes honor scientific achievements that make peo...
- Added: Sep 19, 2018
- Length: 18:13
Changing the behavior of behaviorists. What it's like to change the paradigms of training pachyderms. It's all about an interview that you'll never...
- Added: Aug 05, 2018
- Length: 22:10
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
Big wave surfers are in a class of their own. But Geologist Lori Dengler encourages sticking with giant waves generated by big storms. On this segm...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 01:31
- Purchases: 1
A series of 90-second quirky science pieces. Fun, fact-filled, entertaining, and educational.
- Added: Mar 09, 2018
- Length: 45:11
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
HOUR ONE: "Harassment In The Lab" - Sexual harassment happens everywhere, including science. We'll hear stories and possible solutions. HOUR TWO:...
- Added: Dec 01, 2017
- Length: 01:58:57
The 2017 Ig Nobel Prizes were recently awarded at Harvard University. They're given every year for scientific achievements that first make people l...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Oct 02, 2017
- Length: 18:51
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 04:05
- Purchases: 1
- 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
