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Science Friday: Studying a Baby Mammoth
A 40,000-year-old baby mammoth was discovered frozen in Siberian permafrost in 2007. Most of her body was still intact, allowing paleontologists an unparalleled opportunity to study this extinct animal. Aired May 1, 2009 [12:29]
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Science Friday: Air Travel Safety Study
An audio recording discussing a NASA study found that serious safety problems, including aircraft near collisions and runway interference, occur far more often in the aviation industry than previously recognized. [6:41]
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Science Friday: Study Links Methane in Water to Gas Extraction
Methane levels in well water are higher closer to natural gas wells, according to a new study.
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Science Friday: Study Suggests Earlier Meat Eating in Hominids
Study authors say fossil bones have marks from the tools used for butchering.
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Science Friday: Studying Aging Through Tsimane Tribe
Researchers are studying a tribe living in Bolivia's Amazon region to learn more about the effects of aging in the developed world.
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It Conversations: Conversation With Mallett and Hart
This podcast addresses the issue of harnessing legal music on the web. Traditional record labels are unsure of the true nature of this emerging industry and have little idea how to turn a profit. John Heilemann leads Jeffrey Mallett and...
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Science Friday: Cell Phone Radiation Affects Brain, Study Says
Researchers identify an effect of radiation from cell phones on the brain.
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Science Friday: Science Advice for Future Presidents
A report from the Center for the Study of the Presidency examines the science and technology that are embedded in many issues that the President must confront. To do that, the President needs a basic understanding of the these, and...
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It Conversations: Social Software
This podcast features a panel discussion from Accelerating Change 2004 on Weblogs, Wikis and Digital Democracy with Lada Adamic (HP Labs), Peter Kaminski (SocialText) and Zack Rosen (CivicSpace).
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Science Friday: Are Math Skills Built in to the Human Brain?
Amazonian villagers with no schooling understand basic geometry as well as math-schooled adults.
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Science Friday: Studying Schizophrenia, by Giving It to Computers
Dr. Ralph Hoffman discusses how he made computers recall stories as a schizophrenic patient would.
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Science Friday: Cities Cutting Energy Use
How are cities around the world taking steps to cut energy use? Ira talks with a journalist who looked at the nine different approaches of nine different cities to the energy problem.
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Science Friday: Studying Epilepsy in Sea Lions
We'll talk about epileptic seizures in sea lions, caused by algal blooms at sea, as a model for human epilepsy.
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Science Friday: Studying Comet Contents
We'll check in with researchers on the Stardust probe, which captured dust from comet Wild-2 in 2004.
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Science Friday: A Conversation With Ocean Explorer Bob Ballard
In this segment, Ira talks with undersea explorer Robert Ballard about his life and work, both in exploration and education.
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Science Friday: Keeping Up With Math
Ira talks with actress and math author Danica McKellar about keeping students' math skills sharp over the coming summer months.
Library of Congress
Loc: Veterans' History Project: We Were Pirates: A Torpedoman's Pacific War
Listen to a panel discussion including a U.S. Navy submariner, Robert Hunt, and the two authors who told his story about his missions in a submarine during World War II in the Pacific in the book, We Were Pirates: A Torpedoman's Pacific...
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Loc: Experiencing War: Merrill's Marauders
The China-Burma-India Theater is often ignored in the study of World War II. Read the stories of some of the daring men who fought in Merrill's Marauders, a guerilla fighting group, and listen to lengthy interviews describing their...
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas: Months
Various listening examples of native speakers in different dialects saying the months of the year and using them in conversation. Provides a transcript as well so you can read along. Great way to bring native speakers into the classroom...
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Loc: Veterans' History Project: Women Serving in Combat: Lioness
After viewing the PBS documentary, "Lioness", a panel of veterans conduct a discussion about women in combat. The recording of the discussion is available here. March 24, 2009
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Science Friday: Vitamin B3 and Alzheimer's
A conversation with Kim Green, a research scientist, who has been studying mice to see if large doses of vitamin B3 could reverse the effects of Alzheimer's disease. After having success with this research, they are looking to start...
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Science Friday: Home Run Physics
A discussion of the design of the new Yankee Stadium and whether there is any engineering reason that there seem to be more home-runs being hit there than there ought to be. A wind engineer, for example, explains how winds might be a...
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Science Friday: The Geek Dad on Father's Day
Listen to this discussion of a Video Pick of the Week, which presents one of the projects from the book 'Geek Dad: Awesomely Geeky Projects and Activities for Dads and Kids to Share.' This project involves launching a a videocamera into...
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Science Friday: Gene Therapy and Blindness
A followup interview a year later on the status of research into the use of gene therapy to treat a type of congenital blindness. Researchers found that younger subjects have improved the most. Includes a link to a video from the...