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  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: The Apollo 15 mission patch, Credit: NASA
Episode 6 of Space Oddities takes a look at several of the lawsuits filed against NASA and its astronauts. Most were trivial, some very serious inc...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 19, 2022
  • Length: 10:53
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Fuhgeddaboudit, Credit: Seth Shostak
A thousand years ago, most people didn’t own a single book. The only way to access knowledge was to consult their memory. But technology – from pap...

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


  • Added: Nov 08, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Caption: Terry Slezak accidentally came in contact with moon dust during the Apollo 11 quarantine period., Credit: NASA
Episode 1 of Space Oddities discusses NASA's plans to keep the Earth from being contaminated with lunar germs during the Apollo missions. Unfortuna...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 01, 2022
  • Length: 10:47
  • Purchases: 1
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The first roller skates were patented by John Joseph Merlin in 1760. He showed off his new fangled wheeled shoes with an epic entrance to a party t...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jemez Ruins
Join Patrick Moore and Timothy Roberts, the director and deputy director of New Mexico Historic Sites, who together with interpreters and educators...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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The U.S. transportation system has long been rife with inequality, making it more difficult for low-income people, people of color, and people with...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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A word on sound quality: We're still recording remotely. Just pretend Amy is on the moon, reporting from her own personal spaceship. Besides the ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 05:09
  • Purchases: 1
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Topic 1: Teaching Slavery in an American Classroom. Topic 2: The London Mansion Where British Spies Eavesdropped on Nazi German Generals. Topic 3: ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KOWS, and WYAP


  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 51:23
  • Purchases: 3
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We all know that people listen to radio and watch television. The difference between radio and television is in the image. When you listen to radio...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
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Shane Flores and Rebecca Sharp, both from New Mexico Highlands University, talk about building and activating the digital archive of the Manitos Co...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Topic 1: Collecting scientific artifacts. Topic 2: How to fight dirty money. Topic 3: Are more choices better or worse?

Bought by KOWS


  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 49:28
  • Purchases: 1
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Necco Wafers and Jelly Beans were candies citizens were urged to "send to the troops" during the Civil War. Easy to transport and not likely to mel...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 29, 2020
  • Length: 04:05
  • Purchases: 1
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Smallpox… the word sounds harmless enough, but this “speckled monster” was the scourge of Western Europe throughout the 1700s. Why did it disappear...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 24, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Viruses cycle through many names. Recently, the World Health Organization has limited the types of words used to label viruses. However, these rule...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
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The bubonic plague forced a young Isaac Newton from his studies. How did he turn catastrophe into a year of wonders? For one, he didn’t have Netflix!

Bought by KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
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2020 has felt like one disaster after another. Is there light at the end of this tunnel? Luckily, history suggests calamities spark innovations tha...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: What would you ask a Neanderthal? - We can bring Neanderthals back, a la Jurassic Park, with technologies we have today....

  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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In this episode, our hosts dive into the history of pop, soda, cola, and other popular fizzes liquids.

Bought by Belfast Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2020
  • Length: 11:31
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode, our hosts will discuss the most notable Nobel prizes in history.

Bought by Belfast Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2020
  • Length: 11:27
  • Purchases: 1
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Dr. Rhett Allain and Issaak Bartholomew examine the science and history of radio

Bought by Belfast Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 09, 2020
  • Length: 07:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Microsoft's first case of piracy actually happened with their very first product.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2019
  • Length: 10:25
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In 1986 the BBC released a comprehensive survey of Britain. Burned onto two LaserDiscs, the early computer encyclopedia was a technological marvel.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2019
  • Length: 33:04
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Computer viruses today pose a very real threat. However, it turns out that their origins are actually very non-threatening. Today, we are going to ...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2019
  • Length: 29:11
Caption: Garrett Brown
Garrett Brown - Inventor of the Oscar-winning Steadicam - Rocky, The Shining, Philadelphia, Bulworth, La Traviata, The Forgotten

  • Added: Oct 13, 2019
  • Length: 29:00