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StoryCorps Griot: Melva Washington Toomer and John Washington
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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John Washington, 95, who is blind and deaf, recently recorded a StoryCorps interview with his eldest child, Melva, using a TeleBraille machine.

Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, and WRIR


  • Added: Aug 22, 2016
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 3
They Know Who You Are
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: They Know Who You Are, Credit: Seth Shostak
You’re a private person. But as long as you’re on-line and have skin and hair, you’re shedding little bits of data and DNA everywhere you go. Fin...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer, KTSW 89.9, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Aug 22, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Are We Over the Moon?
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Are We Over the Moon?, Credit: Seth Shostak
Astronaut Gene Cernan’s reaction to being the last man on the moon and private plans to turn our satellite into a cash cow. Plus, why the small st...

Bought by KUER, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer, KREV-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 15, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Episode 223: Jimmy Fingerbutton and the Perpetual Motion Machine
From: Rick Taylor
Series: Tall Tales & Shaggy Dogs
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My friend Jimmy Fingerbutton invented a perpetual motion machine. I was the first person he showed it to. I guess he figured I had the right qual...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 11:38
Raising the Minimum Age
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Raising the Minimum Age, Credit: Seth Shostak
We all try to fight it: the inexorable march of time. The fountain of youth doesn’t exist, and all those wrinkle creams can’t help. But modern sc...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WRIR and more


  • Added: Jul 18, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Microbes: Resistance is Futile
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Microbes: Resistance is Futile, Credit: Seth Shostak
You have more microbial DNA than human DNA. Find out what questions this raises about what it means to be an individual, how your microbiome can ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRIR, and WRGY


  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Science Fiction True
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Science Fiction True, Credit: Seth Shostak
Don’t believe everything you see on the screen. Science fiction film is just a guess as to how our future might unfold. But sometimes fantasy be...

Bought by WUFT, RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRGY and more


  • Added: Jul 04, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Surviving the Anthropocene
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Surviving the Anthropocene, Credit: Seth Shostak
The world is hot, and getting hotter, and our species is changing the planet with urbanization, deforestation, and industrial waste. Some say we’v...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KUNM, KREV-LP, RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 13, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
How to Talk to Aliens
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: How to Talk to Aliens, Credit: Seth Shostak
If we send deliberate messages to aliens, what should we say? Scientists from diverse disciplines offer their advice. Also, a response to Stephen...

Bought by KUNM, RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WRIR, KRPS and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Shocking Ideas
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Shocking Ideas, Credit: Seth Shostak
Innovation in the use of electricity continues long after the days of Edison and Tesla. Find out why the invention of the blue LED was worthy of a...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer, WRIR, and WRGY


  • Added: May 09, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Living Computers
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Living Computers, Credit: Seth Shostak
19th century mathematician and Lord Byron’s daughter Ada Lovelace was a pioneer of the computer age. But she said that machines would never outstr...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, RadioFreePalmer, KKWE Niijii Radio, WMUU-LP, 91.7 WHUS Storrs and more


  • Added: May 02, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Moving Right Along
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Moving Right Along, Credit: Seth Shostak
Find out why modeling the swirl of hurricanes takes a roomful of mathematicians and supercomputers, and how galaxies can move away from us faster t...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WRGY, and WRIR


  • Added: Apr 18, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Episode 10: Love
From: Raw Data
Series: Raw Data: Season 1
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LOVE!! Why is it so hard to find?! The seemingly endless options of online dating should make it easy, right? Is there data that can predict lastin...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 32:11
Surfeit of the Vitalist
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Surfeit of the Vitalest, Credit: Seth Shostak
In the century and a half since Charles Darwin wrote his seminal On the Origin of the Species, our understanding of evolution has changed quite a b...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WRIR, and WRGY


  • Added: Apr 11, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Tale of the Distribution
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Tale of the Distribution, Credit: Seth Shostak
Very few of us can play the piano like Vladimir Horowitz. His talent was at the tail end of the bell curve of musical ability – that tiny sliver o...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WRIR, and WRGY


  • Added: Apr 04, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Planetary Radio Live: All These Worlds
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artistic rendering of Planet 9 with the distant Sun in the background., Credit: Caltech / R. Hurt (IPAC)
Our live conversation about “Planet 9” and the amazing diversity of our solar system, featuring Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown of Caltech, Senio...

Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
Who's Controlling Whom?
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Who's Controlling Whom?, Credit: Seth Shostak
Ants exhibit the kind of swarm behavior that is the model for the next generation of tiny robots. But biology can get hijacked: a fungus can seize...

Bought by WUFT, RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WRIR, and WRGY


  • Added: Mar 14, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Land on the Run
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Land on the Run, Credit: Seth Shostak
Hang on to your globe. The arrangement of continents you see today is not what it once was, nor what it will be tomorrow. Meet our future superco...

Bought by KREV-LP, WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer, WRIR, and WRGY


  • Added: Mar 07, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
NASA’s New Planetary Defense Office
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Chelyabinsk 2013 explodes over the city on February 15, 2013., Credit: YouTube
Lindley Johnson has just been named NASA's first Planetary Defense Officer. He's joined on this week's PlanRad by astronomer Kelly Fast, the new m...

Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Replace What Ails You
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Replace What Ails You, Credit: Seth Shostak
Germs can make us sick, but we didn’t know about these puny pathogens prior to the end of the 19th century. Germ theory and antibiotics created a...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRGY, RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WRIR and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Apt to Adapt
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Apt to Adapt, Credit: Seth Shostak
Humans are changing their environment faster than their genes can keep pace. This has led to a slew of diseases, from backache to diabetes, says o...

Bought by KUNM, WRGY, WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer, and WRIR


  • Added: Jan 11, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
A Stellar Job
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: A Stellar Job, Credit: Seth Shostak
Stars do more than just twinkle. These boiling balls of hot plasma can tell us something about other celestial phenomena. They betray the hiding ...

Bought by KREV-LP, WRGY, 91.7 WHUS Storrs, WYSO, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
You Think; You're So Smart
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: You Think; You're So Smart, Credit: Seth Shostak
Sure you have a big brain; it's the hallmark of Homo sapiens. But that doesn't mean that you've cornered the market on intelligence. Michael Pol...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WRIR, WRGY and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
45 Emma: The Girl Who Cried Y2K
From: The Mortified Podcast
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In honor of the New Year, Mortified goes back in time to the turn of the new millenium when one very concerned teenager went all out to prepare her...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Dec 28, 2015
  • Length: 55:18
  • Purchases: 1
Happily Confused
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Happily Confused, Credit: Seth Shostak
Do you feel happy today? How about happily disgusted? Maybe sadly surprised, or sadly disgusted? Human emotions are complex. But at least they’...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRIR and more


  • Added: Nov 30, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7

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