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How can buses become a climate solution?
From: Possibly
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The transportation sector is the biggest contributor to greenhouse gasses in the U.S., and cars make up most of those emissions. So how can public ...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 03:55
90 Second Naturalist – June 2024 Modules
From: WGUC/ WVXU
Series: The 90-Second Naturalist
Caption: The 90 Second Naturalist logo
90-second modules that celebrate the natural world and bring the wonder of nature into daily life.

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
Beyond the Standard Model
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Beyond the Standard Model, Credit: Seth Shostak
Ever heard of a beauty quark? How about a glueball? Physics is full of weird particles that leave many of us scratching our heads. But these tiny p...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, RadioFreePalmer, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Water Treatment
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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This week on The Children’s Hour, how do cities and towns ensure the water coming out of our tap is clean, and where does it come from? Then, when ...

Bought by KMXT, KRSC, KICI Iowa City, KSTK, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Plastic in the Placenta with Dr. Marcus Garcia
From: Doug Wood
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The scientist who isolated tiny pieces of plastic in human placenta tissue is our guest.

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 28:33
The New Theory of Being Human-Dr. Joseph LeDoux, Emotional Brain Institute
From: Paul VOGELZANG
Series: Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, Not Old Better Show
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series
Full of provocative ideas and startling insights, this interview withi Smithsonian Associate Joseph LeDoux, is essential listening for anyone inter...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 25:32
Season 1, Episode 42 - 'Snowfall' feat Dr Andrew Schwartz
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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The study of snowfall and snowpack, and its importance in our lives.

  • Added: May 19, 2024
  • Length: 55:18
Got Milk -- Groks Science Show 2024-05-15
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
This week's science roundup looks at milk, water, and anger.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 19, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
This Week in Water for May 19, 2024
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Are Banks Banking on Climate Chaos? That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report.

Bought by KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 19, 2024
  • Length: 06:02
  • Purchases: 5
799-Nature's Gateways
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Milky Way Rising Over the Gila Wilderness, Credit: Steven Miller
The Cosmic Campground International Dark Sky Sanctuary and the Aldo Leopold Gila Wilderness in New Mexico are gateways to nature where man is only ...

Bought by KKRN, KRWG, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 19, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
What’s the Future of Natural Gas?
From: Casey Walker
Series: Energy Switch
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Dr. Naomi Boness, Managing Director of the Natural Gas Initiative at Stanford University and Rachel Fakhry, Analyst for the Climate & Clean Air pro...

  • Added: May 18, 2024
  • Length: 26:02
Temple Grandin on Good Citizen
From: Madison Brown
Series: Good Citizen with Ted Roosevelt V
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Temple Grandin enlightens listeners about “visual thinking” and stresses the importance of leveraging diverse cognitive styles. She is an author, ...

  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 27:22
AMOS 24-105: A Matter of Preference, 5/27/2024
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
A Matter of Preference

  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 24-103: Starch Difference, 5/23/2024
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Starch Difference

  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
899: Being body conscious / 900: Secrets of alchemy, 5/18/2024
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Being body conscious" - When you look at your body in the mirror, do you love what you see? Do you pick out the things you don’t like? M...

  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
Science unscripted (DW) 05/21/2024 - Mea culpa!
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Science unscripted got an email this week about orgasms. What's more, someone wrote to let us know why a dying countess in a classic German novel w...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Chloe Waterman, M.S., Senior Program Manager for Climate Friendly Foods at Friends of the Earth discusses the hazards of Biogas.
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that heavily subsidized biogas digesters pose a risk to rural communities and are not the climate-change solution they’re made out to ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Constant Wonder - Sheer Delight in Indestructible Microscopic Worms
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Ubiquitous, microscopic worms, nematodes kill insects, infest plants and provide startling insights into human health. They also inspire joy!

  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
The Pursuit of Happiness: Virtue or Pleasure?
From: Open to Debate
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Happiness is a complex emotion and mental state that can be achieved through virtue or pleasure. But should it be for the good of the individual or...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
060324: Lungfish, 6/3/2024
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This time on The Children's Hour, we learn about one of the planet's most ancient species that's still around today: lungfish. Dr. Irene Salinas is...

  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
Consumer Ripoffs, Volume 1
From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour
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Brian Dunning touches on the myriad rip-offs claiming health benefits with no real science to back them up. In this first volume of "Consumer Ripof...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
CP - The Seed Detective, with Adam Alexander
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Cultivating Place
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Just in time for your continued planning, plotting, and planting in order to grow the earliest and the latest and the biggest and the longest produ...

  • Added: May 15, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
01-17: Shamans and Scientists: Changing the Landscape of Power, 5/22/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Mark Plotkin, Credit: Courtesy Richie / Amazon Conservation Team
As we hurtle into the Sixth Age of Extinctions, we face the cataclysmic loss of half the world’s biological diversity. 80% of the remaining biodive...

  • Added: May 15, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
Season 2 Is Coming!
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
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Thank you to all of our listeners for a fantastic first season of This Is Science with Jess Phoenix! We are grateful for your support, and stay tun...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: :32
The Play's the Thing
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: The Play's the Thing, Credit: Seth Shostak
Has children’s play become too safe? Research suggests that efforts to prioritize safety harms children’s mental and physical development during pl...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRGY, KZUM, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14

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