ere are the current
topics for A Moment of Science® on the radio. The approximate air dates for these programs are 8/26/08 - 1/1/09, but check with your local station for exact air dates and times. You may also get the programs via podcast by going to
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Prog. # Title
08.169 Yer Ma Was a Monkey (1)
08.170 Is a Tree Related to Me? (2)
08.171 Getting a Tongue Lashing
08.172 The Musical Sun
08.173 Dew and Rain
08.174 Why Are There No Restaurants on
the Moon?
08.175 Ocean Stripes
08.176 A Glacier in My Cocktail
08.177 Who's the Biggest? Who's the Baddest?
08.178 How Calluses Form
08.179 Melatonin and Memory
08.180 Red Meat and Global Warming
08.181 Swollen Cans
08.182 What Annoys an Oyster?
08.183 Ant Ranchers and Caterpillar Corrals
08.184 How Do You Make a Diet Coke Float?
08.185 Food Caching
08.186 Male Fruit Flies under the Influence
08.187 A Nuclear Reactor under Your Basement
08.188 Transgenic Plants That Attract Their Own Bodyguards
08.189 Where Are the Giant Spiders?
08.190 Cryptoendoliths
08.191 How Do Robins Find Worms?
08.192 Twin DNA
08.193 Can't Sleep? Warm Your Hands
08.194 The Psychology of Gift Wrap
08.195 The Physics of Water Towers
08.196 Dinosaur Oil Crisis
08.197 Algae Biofuel
08.198 Glass Beaches
08.199 Honeybees in Winter
08.200 All This Carbon Dioxide Is Making Me Hungry!
08.201 Camels
08.202 No Need to Panic
08.203 Haven't We Met?
08.204 Early-morning Shivers
08.205 Tricking Your Muscles
08.206 The Color of Lint
08.207 Sailing Over a Tidal Wave
08.208 Not So Silly Geese
08.209 Boiling Water Under Boiling Clouds
08.210 Clouds in the Kitchen
08.211 Selective Memory Erasure
08.212 Musical Healing
08.213 Calm Old Age
08.214 Ocean Heat
08.215 Old Faithful
08.216 The Habitable Zone
08.217 Smart Wheels
08.218 The Cyclopean Ear
08.219 Urine Signaling - 1
08.220 Urine Signaling - 2
08.221 High Tech Sports Equipment
08.222 A Scientist in the Locker Room
08.223 A Baby's Smile
08.224 Who Believes in Vampires?
08.225 Taking a Volcono's Temperature
08.226 Shade Avoidance Syndrome (SAS)
08.227 Rub a Dub Dub---but Why Do We Rub?
08.228 What a Fetus Hears
08.229 Gender Jumping Toads
08.230 Gun Silencers
08.231 Sinking River Deltas
08.232 Smiley Voices
08.233 Prune Skin
08.234 What Was It Like to Be Three
08.235 Killer Seas
08.236 Smarter Than Humans
08.237 Short-lived Chameleons
08.238 Cuttlefish: Colorblind Masters of Camouflage
08.239 Spinning Our Planet
08.240 The Bloated Look of the Starving
08.241 Biobanking
08.242 Why Frisbees Fly
08.243 Man's Best Friend---in All Shapes and Sizes
08.244 Sugar Bowls and Holes
08.245 Airplane Contrails
08.246 Terrestrial Planet Finder
08.247 Forry, Wrong Number
08.248 Megaphones
08.249 Zits Versus Hairy Faces
08.250 A Fishy Gaze
08.251 Lying to a Machine
08.252 Cats Who Flex
08.253 A Suicidal Survival Strategy
08.254 A Hyena's Sibling Rivalry
08.255 Cold Feet and Hot Wings
08.256 Diet and the Evolution of Big Brains
08.257 Honey: Food for Yeast or a Natural Preservative
08.258 The Oldest Sweetener, the Freshest Bread
08.259 You Snooze or You Lose
08.260 What Is Fire?
08.261 When the Sky Turns Green
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