You have questions and A Moment of Science has answers. These two-minute audio podcasts provide the scientific story behind some of life's most perplexing mysteries. There's no need to be blinded by science. Explore it, have fun with it, but most of all learn from it. A Moment of Science is a production of WFIU Public Media from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
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A weekly one hour program, Profiles features new guests each week from a variety of backgrounds, delving into the person behind the persona.
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Earth Eats is a show about food and farming. It’s storytelling, recipes, farm visits, and kitchen sessions. We have conversations with scholars, chefs, growers, and food justice activists. We hear from authors, artists, scientists, poets, and people who love to eat. Earth Eats is a production of WFIU Public Radio and Indiana Public Media.
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Arts interviews, reviews, and features from WFIU Public Media from Indiana University.
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Arts interviews, reviews, and features from WFIU Public Media from Indiana University.
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Ethercast is the companion podcast to Ether Game, a weekly music trivia show produced by WFIU Public Radio in Bloomington, Indiana. On each episode of Ethercast, host Christopher Burrus explores big questions in the world of classical music.
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Night Lights is a weekly classic jazz program and jazz blog by host David Brent Johnson produced by WFIU Public Media in Bloomington, Indiana.
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Arts interviews, reviews, and features from WFIU Public Media from Indiana University.
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Arts interviews, reviews, and features from WFIU Public Media from Indiana University.
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Arts interviews, reviews, and features from WFIU Public Media from Indiana University.
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Arts interviews, reviews, and features from WFIU Public Media from Indiana University.
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Arts interviews, reviews, and features from WFIU Public Media from Indiana University.
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Ethercast is the companion podcast to Ether Game, a weekly music trivia show produced by WFIU Public Radio in Bloomington, Indiana. On each episode of Ethercast, host Christopher Burrus explores big questions in the world of classical music.
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InFocus is a live, 30 minute monthly production, airing on WTIU and WFIU. Each show includes a panel of experts, discussing the proposed topic of the month. The focus of this program is to highlight issues or concerns in the state. Each show’s topic is carefully selected to provide useful information to the community, on upcoming policies, and important events. The show allows opportunity for in-depth discussion of topics in areas of the economy, education, and diversity. The goal of the sho ...
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Angles from the IU Art Museum Podcast – Arts and Music
Angles from the IU Art Museum Podcast – Arts and Music
Arts interviews, reviews, and features from WFIU Public Media from Indiana University.
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The U.S. government’s sole execution chamber is on the grounds of a prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. Isolated from its general population, 44 condemned men are held in the Special Confinement Unit, or America’s death row. In 2020, the Trump administration launched a spree of executions, killing 13 condemned Americans in quick succession. A team of public radio journalists covered each execution in person.
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Good Reef!توسط Indiana Public Media
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“As Greeks, we don't really shop from supermarkets. Everyone knows someone who knows someone who comes from a village and has access to olive trees and olive oil.” On today’s show, a conversation with Greek chef and anthropologist Nafsika Papacharalampous. She shares a recipe for Greek comfort food, and talks with me and Ogla Kalentzidou about the …
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Blue Lobstersتوسط Indiana Public Media
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Pine Processionary Caterpillarsتوسط Indiana Public Media
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Body Dysmorphic Disorderتوسط Indiana Public Media
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Cows, like people, have preferences, and those preferences impact behavior, especially when it comes to grazing.توسط Indiana Public Media
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“We know that there are all sorts of good chemicals that come out of the dirt and working with land–working with plants–that are beneficial to our mood and our health. For refugee populations that have had to be on the run or had to live in refugee camps for decades, having a little piece of land that you can tend to that you can take care of and t…
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We all assume that we remember things that have happened to us with great accuracy--after all, we were there!توسط Indiana Public Media
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There are a few camouflage survival strategies, but there's no perfect solution to blend into the background.توسط Indiana Public Media
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In 2020 amateur fossil hunter Justin Reynolds and his eleven year old daughter Ruby were walking along a beach near their home in Somerset, England when Ruby spotted something interesting.توسط Indiana Public Media
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Learn about confirmation bias with a simple experimentتوسط Indiana Public Media
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Octopuses have three hearts, each one crucial to maintaining the robust blood pressure that allows them to be active hunters and powerful swimmers.توسط Indiana Public Media
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“At least 100 years ago, the last robber barons, we got nice libraries out of it. This one, it’s like ‘oh, what is the family using its money for? To gut public education via charter school networks?’ It’s kind of Machiavellian–it’s Machiavellian in a really sad way” This week on the show, I’m talking with Austin Frerick, the author of Barons: Mone…
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Spiders have eight eyes, horseshoe crabs have ten, and, daddy longlegs only have two. Or do they?توسط Indiana Public Media
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Microwave ovens are wonderful, revolutionary cooking devices. But there are some things that you cannot, or should not, do with microwaves.توسط Indiana Public Media
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Egg whites are often touted as a health food, filled with more proteins than fat-rich yolks. Surprisingly, though, those proteins are also the secret to some of the most decadent creations like pillowy meringues, airy soufflés, and all manner of delicate cakes.توسط Indiana Public Media
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Hollywood's version of the snake in the movie "Anaconda" was pure fantasy--a 100 foot long giant with an appetite for B-movie actorsتوسط Indiana Public Media
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Does doing math make you anxious? A Moment of Science has more on why that might be.توسط Indiana Public Media
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“And that’s why we call it a food value chain.You know, it’s a supply chain but it’s based on the values that you have as far as how the land is treated, how people are treated, what kind of nutrition contents in your food–all those things [that] people up and down–from the farmer to the consumer have an interest in. And so, this system that we’re …
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There are stories and myths about dragons from everywhere--from Europe to China to Australia to the Americas. Couldn't there be some reality behind the myth?توسط Indiana Public Media
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If you want to get strong, you're supposed to eat spinach like Popeye. But how powerful is that leafy green really?توسط Indiana Public Media
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We know from ancient skeletal remains that around one million years ago, hyenas of the Chasmaporthetes genus prowled the US and Mexico. But they also stalked the tundra—a fact we’ve learned from just two fossilized molars.توسط Indiana Public Media
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Let's say that ninety percent of the people who take a certain drug report that it works like a charm, but you know one person who says it didn't work. Would you try that drug?توسط Indiana Public Media
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When traveling by plane what makes our ears pop, and what is it exactly that pops?توسط Indiana Public Media
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“When you have to make those decisions do you buy the nicest ingredients to make your food, since that’s why people are there? Or do you pay your employees two dollars more an hour? Or do you rent the building that’s gonna put you in the location that gives you the highest chance of success? I think that in many ways restaurant owners have one of t…
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A team of scientists have created the Purple Tomato, featuring skin of deep amethyst, like a plum, and insides a vivid violet. But why would they want to?توسط Indiana Public Media
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In an ideal universe you could scarf carton-loads of super vanilla swirl ice cream every night after dinner without remorse. In the real world, however, there's a price to pay for such indulgence, and ice cream seems to be the worst offender in terms of calories.توسط Indiana Public Media
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What was your favorite field trip as a kid? The zoo? The modern art museum? For a group of New Zealand students, it’d be hard to beat one memorable excursion: their 2006 visit to a beach in Kawhia Harbor.توسط Indiana Public Media
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In shallow water off the Greek Island Zakynthos, you can see what appears to be the remains of an ancient city. But is it really?توسط Indiana Public Media
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Mammals, birds, and reptiles are so different from one another. How could they all evolve from a common ancestor?توسط Indiana Public Media
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"...one of which is sorghum sudan grass, and if you don't mow that, it gets to be like ten feet tall. And so we had pigs that were running through there, that reminded us of the velociraptors in Jurassic Park–you know, you can't see the animal, you just see the top of the plant waving back and forth. And so we were always on safari when we had to g…
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Have you ever wondered whether your dog understands at least some of what you say to them? Scientists have too.توسط Indiana Public Media
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You find a perfect, yellow banana in the store, but the next day at home it has brown spots. What happened?توسط Indiana Public Media
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Here's an at-home experiment you can try: take a can of "classic" Coca-Cola and a can of Diet Coke, and without opening either one submerge them in water.توسط Indiana Public Media
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These polka-dotted predators are no laughing matter. Learn all about hyenas with A Moment of Science.توسط Indiana Public Media
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Everyone knows that white reflects heat and black absorbs it. Does that mean you shouldn't wear black though?توسط Indiana Public Media
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“Animal agriculture creates more greenhouse gas emissions than all transportation combined. Yet, as individuals we’re often told ‘you should take public transportation and ride bikes,’ all of which are good things but not very frequently are we told, ‘let’s reduce our consumption of animal products, and that will have a tremendous impact on the env…
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There's an urban legend that teeth dissolve in a glass of soda. How harmful is it really?توسط Indiana Public Media
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The great astronomer Carl Sagan used to say that if he were transported anywhere in the solar system he would know which planet he was on just by looking around.توسط Indiana Public Media
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The typical toddler averages about four ear aches per year. But when's the last time you had an ear infection?توسط Indiana Public Media
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Diamonds are only occasionally brought to the surface. But because carbon is plentiful, science fiction, such as Neal Stephenson’s novel The Diamond Age, has sometimes imagined a world where scientists find an easy way to make lots of diamond artificially.توسط Indiana Public Media
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People like to ride horses, so why not zebras?توسط Indiana Public Media
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