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In this episode, we explore carbon offsets, and how their promise as a way to mitigate carbon emissions - and thus climate change - have not yet pa...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Two books on 3D Printing by David Seto and Michael Welch.
Kids can learn CAD for 3D printing, but teaching it doesn’t have to be a hassle. David Seto and Michael Welch wrote a set of books to make teachin...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2021
  • Length: 49:38
Caption: Crystal Kolden
Yes, there will be millions of collective sighs as the deadliest pandemic in a century begins to abate and a more open summer kicks off. But summer...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Angela Chen says her book, Ace, "invites everyone to rethink pleasure and intimacy.", Credit: Photo by Sylvie Roskoff.
Quick, what’s your sexuality? Most of us know roughly where we fall on the Kinsey scale that goes from 0 to 6. But have you considered the asexual ...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Jun 07, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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We talk with Carey Gillam about her page-turning follow-up to Whitewash, The Monsanto Papers: Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption, and One Man’s S...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Oceana Coffee Founders on Love, Passion, Award Winning Roasting and More. Art of Coffee making begins with the bean, it's concious harvesting, orig...

  • Added: May 30, 2021
  • Length: 25:21
Caption: Rosemary Kamei of the Silicon Valley Education Foundation., Credit: Silicon Valley Education Foundation
The Silicon Valley Education Foundation (SVEF) is a nonprofit running several programs in K-12 STEM education, including its Computer Science Insti...

  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 35:39
Caption: Daniel Oberhaus
New iterations of the smartphone often focus on bells, whistles and other fancy features, when what we all really want for our devices are batterie...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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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
Caption: John Englander
Summer is nearly upon us. The next time you’re at the beach, gazing upon the blue horizon, take a moment to contemplate the depths of the sea, and ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The pandemic has spurred teachers like Amanda Hough to teach CAD remotely, but how do you do that if students don’t have the hardware to run resour...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2021
  • Length: 34:15
Caption: Brian Haughton's 'Haunted Spaces, Sacred Places, Credit: mysteriouspeople.com
Brian Haughton is an archeologist, researcher, and author on the subjects of supernatural folklore and ancient sacred places. When I contacted Bria...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2021
  • Length: 57:21
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We talk with Eliot Peper about his Cli-Fi novel, Veil. It’s about what happens when a tech CEO decides to geo-engineer the climate—in secret. Then...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:03
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Thomas Edison and what his light did- understood through an American Sonnet.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 14, 2021
  • Length: :55
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Breathing; American Sonnets, Credit: Susan Cook (Finishing Line, 2020))
In the large, large universe, the mind's eye still sees what it will.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 14, 2021
  • Length: :57
  • Purchases: 1
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New Yorker staff writer John Colapinto is the author of five books and numerous science-linked articles. "This is the Voice" begins with a story a...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2021
  • Length: 09:58
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STEM curriculum specialist Dr. Corey Hall shares tips and resources for teaching engineering effectively at the K-12 level in 2021, both during and...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2021
  • Length: 45:50
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Professors at the University of Delaware create innovative and affordable wheel chairs from kid cars, for very young children.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 02:49
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In this edition of The Onco’Zine Brief Peter Hofland, Ph.D. talks with Leonard Farber, MD, a board-certified Radiation Oncologist, and healthcare e...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2021
  • Length: 46:58
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Studies at Stanford University have shown that meal worms are able to eat Styrofoam and the enzymes in their guts break it down into something comp...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:24
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
Caption: Tim Dickinson
For many of us, the increasing availability of Covid vaccinations glows brightly, a light at the end of what has been a long and dreary tunnel. For...

Bought by KWMR and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Alex Gilbert
All eyes have been on the Lone Star State recently, watching the grim and undeniable impact of climate change on a population completely unprepared...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Sam Taylor with The Coding Workbook., Credit: Sam Taylor
How do you learn web development without a computer, or without any electronic device? Sam Taylor wrote a book to help learners do just that. As a ...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2021
  • Length: 39:51
Caption: He didn't do it alone., Credit: Susan Cook
In the Department of Poetic Justice, the ode to 2020 and caucasian, male, non-mask wearing arrogant reality - like that of the now closed Institute...

  • Added: Jan 01, 2021
  • Length: 03:50