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Rails are secretive marsh birds, and they’re on the decline. But a researcher playing their recorded calls over a loudspeaker could help bring them...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 09:13
America’s bird, the bald eagle, is facing a tremendous challenge. As scavengers, they feed on what we and other animals leave behind. But lead cont...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 13:03
Flying squirrels glow pink under a blacklight. How many other mammals do this? What causes them to glow? The hardest question of all might never be...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 17:50
Rock hunting holds a special place in Joyce Fetrow’s heart. Years ago, she battled alcoholism that drove her to some dark places. Now, Joyce dedica...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 11:56
Invasive species often spread by hitching a ride on anglers, especially anglers who don’t clean their gear after fishing. Though this is widely kno...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 13:07
Freshwater jellyfish have been in inland lakes and rivers throughout the Great Lakes region since 1933. But a century after their discovery, we sti...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 09:54
Bill Shanabruch left his job as regional biologist for the Piedmont with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. It was over a boondoggl...
- Added: Apr 23, 2024
- Length: 26:08
As staggeringly complex as the environmental catastrophe is, by tackling one small space at a time, we might be able to bring back entire ecosystem...
- Added: Apr 16, 2024
- Length: 24:26
In this episode, Emily speaks with psychiatrist-philosopher Iain McGilchrist about his book The Master and His Emissary, which explores the relatio...
- Added: Feb 16, 2023
- Length: 42:01
Not your usual ghost story. Journalist & broadcaster Don Hill investigates a haunted house—his own.
- Added: Sep 18, 2022
- Length: 13:45
Not your usual ghost story. Journalist & broadcaster Don Hill investigates a haunted house—his own.
- Added: Sep 18, 2022
- Length: 19:34
Not your usual ghost story. Journalist & broadcaster Don Hill investigates a haunted house—his own.
- Added: Sep 18, 2022
- Length: 19:14
Not your usual ghost story. Journalist & broadcaster Don Hill investigates a haunted house—his own.
- Added: Sep 18, 2022
- Length: 32:31
Not your usual ghost story. Journalist & broadcaster Don Hill investigates a haunted house—his own.
- Added: Sep 17, 2022
- Length: 20:50
In My Body Odyssey’s (MBO) first episode, we meet Ultimate Mark – uber-competitive weekend warrior in Ultimate Disc: “If it hurts me but helps the ...
- Added: Jul 27, 2022
- Length: 18:49
Superhumans is an immersive audio docu-series that takes you deep into the unspoken intersection of health & humanity. In each episode, real people...
- Added: Feb 18, 2021
- Length: 04:39
Nine out of ten deaf babies are born to hearing parents, who know almost nothing about deafness or the science of language. But they have to learn ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jul 25, 2019
- Length: 49:59
- Purchases: 1
Among the various STEM education organizations that have developed throughout the last several years, there is ChickTech. The local Austin chapter ...
- Added: Oct 07, 2018
- Length: 35:42
We explore the alleged phenomenon of teachers getting bad dreams and nightmares, more often than everyone else, starting with several engineering t...
- Added: Aug 27, 2017
- Length: 34:47
This is the second episode in our three-part Science Camp series, where we’re exploring the human side of science. Paleobotanist Ellen Currano noti...
- Added: Jul 12, 2017
- Length: 21:01
- Purchases: 3
This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, you'll meet Kent Bekker, the Director of Conservation at the Toledo Zoo. Kent's local conservation work began...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 1
This is the first episode in a three-part summer series, called Science Camp, where we’re exploring the human side of science. Ryan Haupt had a lot...
Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KSFR, PRX Remix, and KRZA
- Added: Jun 21, 2017
- Length: 24:03
- Purchases: 4
Documentary film and science do not appear to have much in common, except that, philosophically, they have everything in common. Two men met in 197...
- Added: May 15, 2017
- Length: 48:08
In a Rough Draft Diaries first, we'll be entering the world of science by learning about the past (and present) struggles of Lake Erie with the for...
- Added: Mar 13, 2017
- Length: 05:59
Last weeks episode "Death and Dying" covered a lot of ground. In this Second Opinion, Dave Mason asks Mel and Jess some important follow-up questio...
Bought by WART FM
- Added: Jun 02, 2016
- Length: 32:54
- Purchases: 1