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History of Radio
From: KSLU
Series: STEM Science Radio
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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
The Man Behind the Projector
From: Out of the Blocks
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It was a good living. If you can stay in business 53 years, that says a lot.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 1
GPS
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Hugo Fruehauf, one of the co-inventors of GPS, explains the nitty-gritty of what GPS is. He also details his critical engineering work on the GPS s...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2020
  • Length: 32:27
Bill's Problem With Piracy
From: Sean Haas
Series: Advent of Computing
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Microsoft's first case of piracy actually happened with their very first product.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2019
  • Length: 10:25
The BBC Domesday Project
From: Sean Haas
Series: Advent of Computing
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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
Finding Wonder and Meaning in a Book by Carl Sagan’s Daughter
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Sasha Sagan and Mat Kaplan enjoy a moment in the Planetary Society studio., Credit: Planetary Society/Merc Boyan
Bill Nye says of Sasha Sagan’s new book, “Sagan finds the meaning of life everywhere—with her family, around the world, and especially among the st...

Bought by KCNP, KDNK, KWMR, KRZA, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Creeping Towards Viruses
From: Sean Haas
Series: Advent of Computing
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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
Garrett Brown - Inventor of the Oscar-winning Steadicam - Rocky, The Shining, Philadelphia, Bulworth, La Traviata, The Forgotten
From: MergingArts Productions
Series: Spoiler Alert Radio
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
Living Deliberately: Laura Dassow Walls On The Whole Human Life of Thoreau
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In her biography, Henry David Thoreau: A Life, Laura Walls shows us a man deeply engaged with friends, relatives and neighbors, a man thoroughly of...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2019
  • Length: 58:55
Spectrum 07/16/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Do you want to live on the moon? - Look up at the moon when you get a chance. Because this will be the last decade wher...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jul 17, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Inside The Making of an Epic Documentary: A Conversation with Robert Stone
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
Caption: Chasing The Moon
Robert Stone's three part documetary, Chasing The Moon, airs July 8-10 on the PBS history series The American Experience. After previewing the epic...

Bought by WLPR , KWMR, and Boise State Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 05, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
High Weirdness
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Author Erik Davis takes us on a weird, wild ride through the gnostic/network experiences of Philip K. Dick and Robert Anton Wilson in the early 197...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rethinking Chernobyl
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Rethinking Chernobyl, Credit: Seth Shostak
The catastrophic explosion at Chernobyl triggered a full-scale destruction of the reactor in the worst nuclear reactor accident in history. But res...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, New Hampshire Public Radio, WMRA and more


  • Added: May 06, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 23
Episode 1: Power from the People
From: Raw Data
Series: Raw Data: Season 4
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How the U.S. Constitution created a series of data crises, and catalyzed the American computer industry in the process.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 04, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Irony of an Electric Car Named "Tesla" (And what a small town in Colorado had to do with it.)
From: H2O Radio
Series: Energy & Infrastructure
Caption: H2O Radio
Thomas Edison became a household name for inventing the first practical incandescent light bulb. But because of what happened in a small town in Co...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 24, 2019
  • Length: 05:22
  • Purchases: 2
Spectrum 03/19/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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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. So...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
47: Chlorine Trifluoride
From: Trace Kerr
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This chemical is no joke. Amy talks about how 1930's scientists discovered the explosive and insanely dangerous compound while trying to find a mor...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2019
  • Length: 04:25
42: International Ice Patrol
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Learn a bit about the women and men of the IIP who monitor icebergs in the northern reaches of our Atlantic ocean.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 02:59
35: Dr. Robert Liston
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Amy Barton has an eye for dangerous and innovative doctors and Dr. Robert Liston is no exception. FYI This episode has some up-close discussions of...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2019
  • Length: 03:09
Earthrise! The 50th Anniversary of Apollo 8
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The timeless "Earthrise" image captured by the Apollo 8 astronauts as they circled the Moon., Credit: NASA/Sean Doran
This is the 50th anniversary of the most audacious space mission in history. Apollo 8 blazed a path for the first moon landing seven months later, ...

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


  • Added: Dec 18, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
The High Resolution Life
From: Elaine Vitone
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Ernest Sternglass' work made possible Apollo 11's first videos from the moon, and he pioneered digital radiology while working at the University of...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 18:58
Moon Mission 3D from Queen Guitarist Brian May and David Eicher
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Moon Mission 3D: A New Perspective on the Space Race, Credit: MIT Press
You haven’t seen the best pictures from the Apollo era and other great space achievements till you’ve seen them in 3D. Queen guitarist and astroph...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK, KWMR, KRZA, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 14, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
315: Pick Your Poison / 316: Sentimentality For Silicon, 10/13/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Pick Your Poison" - A weapon? A medicine? A murder mystery plot? Take your pick. HOUR TWO: "Sentimentality For Silicon" - When does a ...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
A Voicemail Valentine
From: Radio Diaries
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Nowadays we’re very accustomed to recording and hearing the sound of our own voices. But in the 1930s many people were doing it for the first time....

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 11, 2018
  • Length: 10:50
  • Purchases: 4
Space, Rockets, and a Senatorial Conversation in Huntsville, Alabama
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Saturn V moon rocket on display inside the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Credit: Mat Kaplan
Host Mat Kaplan begins a two-episode visit to Huntsville and the Marshall Space Flight Center, recorded this week at the US Space and Rocket Center...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KDNK, KCSB-FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9

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