
Health & Science
Could old skulls help us understand why we have crooked teeth?
Something changed over the course of human evolution that left a lot of us with weak chins and buck-teeth. ...
8 years ago
Listen 5:27A natural history museum questions what ‘natural’ means
In a business district east of Pittsburgh’s downtown, between a pizza shop and a Vietnamese restaurant, is an easy-to-miss storefront m ...
8 years ago
Listen 13:05It’s ‘game on’ for the man in charge of 145 million specimens
It seems that Kirk Johnson was training from a very early age to one day head the country’s largest and most comprehensive natural ...
8 years ago
Listen 9:47Diorama dilemma: The art and science of museum displays
A lot more than meets the eye goes into dioramas at natural history museums.
8 years ago
Listen 9:23This Friday’s full moon is both the Harvest Moon and a penumbral eclipse. Penumbral means that the moon passes through the outer sh ...
Air Date: September 12, 2016
Listen 00:05:56Teens are known for their one-word answers, and for being moody – but underneath their often grumpy exterior, many of them are very ...
Air Date: September 12, 2016
Listen 00:03:02Back to School; Back to Stress
What do our emerging adults need from us? What is it like to be a teen in today’s world with working parents, blended families, emp ...
Air Date: September 12, 2016
Listen 00:50:33Across the country, parents have gotten in trouble with the law for letting their children walk home from a park or from school by themse ...
Air Date: September 5, 2016
Listen 00:03:07This is what I’m doing while you are asleep
I don’t know if it is due to an undesirable hereditary trait or some kind of chemical change, but insomnia seems to have attacked my sy ...
8 years ago
Faster than a speeding bullet!
It turns out those lazy dog days of summer aren’t so lazy after all! Dave Heller and Dr. Derrick Pitts discuss the rotations and re ...
Air Date: August 29, 2016
Listen 00:08:14A trip to the zoo with Ed Yong reveals an entire invisible world
Atlantic science writer Ed Yong can’t look at an eleph ...
9 years ago
ListenThis week: Scientists have discovered another solar system member. Niku, a chunk of ice 124 miles in diameter, has been discovered out b ...
Air Date: August 22, 2016
Listen 00:08:26Diagnosing poison ivy is easy. Getting my insurance company to pay for the generic steroid cream to cure it? Not so much. Getting ...
9 years ago
What’s really behind our love of spicy food?
At a stylish shop in Brooklyn, a different kind of ‘sommelier’ guides tastings from a row of small bottles lined up on the co ...
9 years ago
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