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Skeptic Check: New UFO Evidence
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: New UFO Evidence, Credit: Seth Shostak
It was a shocker of a story, splashed across the New York Times front page: The existence of a five-year long, hidden Pentagon study of UFOs. We c...

Bought by WMUU-LP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, CHSR-FM 97.9, WRST-FM Oshkosh, Bandon Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
DIY Spaceflight
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: DIY Spaceflight, Credit: Seth Shostak
How the geeky son of immigrant parents incentivized construction of the first private spaceship and kick started the commercial launch industry. A...

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, Royalton Community Radio, KBBI Alaska, KUER and more


  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 12
AMOS 18.049: Risk Assessment, 3/8/2018
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Risk Assessment

  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 18.047: What the Weather Report Doesn’t Tell You (Temperature Near the Ground), 3/6/2018
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
What the Weather Report Doesn’t Tell You (Temperature Near the Ground)

  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 18.044: Earlier Crop Evolution, 3/1/2018
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Earlier Crop Evolution

  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 18.041: Cooking an Egg, 2/26/2018
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Cooking an Egg

  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 18.036: Adding Up Missed Sleep, 2/19/2018
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Adding Up Missed Sleep

  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 18.034: Zero Gravity, Does It Exist?, 2/15/2018
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Zero Gravity, Does It Exist?

  • Added: Jan 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 18.030: DNA Photographed in the Act, 2/9/2018
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
DNA Photographed in the Act

  • Added: Jan 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 18.029: Sound and Combustion, 2/8/2018
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Sound and Combustion

  • Added: Jan 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
Weather Vain
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Weather Vain, Credit: Seth Shostak
History is replete with attempts to control the weather, but we’d settle for an accurate, seven-day forecast. Find out how sophisticated technolog...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, CHSR-FM 97.9, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 01, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 21
DIY Diagnosis
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: DIY Diagnosis, Credit: Seth Shostak
You can use your DNA to explore your genetic health – but are you ready for what you might find when your genome is sequenced? Plus, practitioners...

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, WMUU-LP, Royalton Community Radio, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Dec 25, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
With All Our Mites
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: With All Our Mites, Credit: Seth Shostak
You can’t see ‘em, but your face is a festival of face mites. And a new study finds that hundreds of different tiny spiders, beetles, make your ho...

Bought by KBBI Alaska, WMUU-LP, WRGY, KUNM, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Dec 11, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
Point Source Solutions for Solving Ocean Problems
From: World Ocean Observatory
Caption: Plastic pollution "confetti" mixes with baby blue velellas in the northern pacific plastic gyre., Credit: Karin Malmstrom, Marine Photobank
In this issue of World Ocean Radio we ask who benefits from current solutions to ocean acidification, co2 emissions, and plastic pollution, and if ...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2017
  • Length: 05:13
Artificial Intelligence and the Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Ocean surface model created using MATLAB
In this week's episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill outlines some of the various applications of the oft-times controversial artificial i...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2017
  • Length: 05:12
The Honorable Adam Schiff—Another Congressional Space Enthusiast
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: California Congressman Adam Schiff , Credit: Adam Schiff
They may disagree about nearly every other issue, but many Republican and Democratic congressional representatives find common ground where there i...

Bought by KDNK, WTJU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 15, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Skeptic Check: Nibiru! (Again!)
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Nibiru! (Again!), Credit: Seth Shostak
Some people are predicting a world-ending collision between Earth and planet Nibiru on November 19. But it won’t happen, because this hypothesized...

Bought by WTJU, WMUU-LP, KBBI Alaska, RadioFreePalmer, and WRGY


  • Added: Nov 13, 2017
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 5
Diamond Planets and Super Earths (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Newly discovered worlds hold wonders beyond our wildest imagination - Exploring the history of science onstage - Discovering new technologies by st...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Nov 03, 2017
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
Diamond Planets and Super Earths (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Newly discovered worlds hold wonders beyond our wildest imagination - Exploring the history of science onstage - Discovering new technologies by st...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WTJU, WCWP, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 12
Diamond Planets and Super Earths (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Newly discovered worlds hold wonders beyond our wildest imagination - Exploring the history of science onstage

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WJCT, WLPR , WUGA (part of GPB), KMUN and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
Space is Neat (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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For decades, sci-fi writers have imagined distant planets unlike our own— it turns out the real things are even weirder.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KUER, KENW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2017
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 7
Are All-Girls Engineering Classes Different?
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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Teachers at all-girls schools might have insights on how to engage more young people – especially girls – into engineering. Several teachers at The...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2017
  • Length: 52:36
Enter the Subconscious (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Challenging the notion of mind itself - Teaching mindfulness, aided by EEG - Religious love in the Indian tradition

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), KMUN, WVAS and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Kitchens of the Future (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Prefab kitchens might be the future of construction - Teaching science through discovery - Using robots for dangerous inspections - Getting kids ex...

Bought by WNMU-FM and WJCU


  • Added: Oct 13, 2017
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 2
Kitchens of the Future (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Prefab kitchens might be the future of construction - Teaching science through discovery - Using robots for dangerous inspections - Getting kids ex...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KREV-LP, WTJU, WCWP and more


  • Added: Oct 13, 2017
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 11

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