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Radios Changed the World

November 20, 2024  •  EPISODE 240

What’s the difference between AM and FM? Who invented the first radio, and what was featured on the very first radio broadcast? Join Roger Billings on Science LIVE as he delves into the fascinating history of radio and uncovers the science behind frequencies and radio waves.

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220 Comments

  1. jade champlain

    It’s crazy to see how much the world has evolved!

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  2. niki

    The difference of AM and FM now makes sense !

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  3. Spencer Palchanis

    I didn’t know how cool radios were.

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  4. Kierra Hodges

    Radios are so cool

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  5. Lloyd Wilson

    I didn’t realize how important radios were in the past.
    The razor radio is cool.

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  6. Jameson Stroud

    was Thomas Edisson only known from the lightbulb?

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  7. autumn cloud

    i love radios!!

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  8. Kevin Wilson

    I never knew how we made radio waves it was pretty cool learning how that works.

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  9. Brilee patterson

    Wow I really loved learning about the process of the radio turning into what it is now,

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  10. Jaylen Yates

    I now know why we have AM and FM

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  11. Josie Yates

    Radios are cool

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  12. Sophie Nelson

    I never knew what FM and AM was and the difference, now I do!! Thank you!

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  13. Yocabed kaleb

    I had no idea radios are this importent. I just thought it was just an old thing at my grandmas house.

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  14. mackenzie

    now I understand why there is a FM and an AM

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  15. Deion S

    I love music!

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  16. Bailey

    I learned that a voice broadcast over the radio travels at 700 miles per hour.

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  17. Tyler Rideout

    radios are so cool

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  18. Vivienna C

    It was so interesting to learn how the frequency works for the radio.

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  19. Lavienna C

    We didn’t know what AM and FM are before. We were only used to the streaming concept. This was very helpful.

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  20. Simone tarantelli

    R51💕

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  21. Skylar Cooper

    i’ve always been interested in radios and how they work.

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  22. Eduardo

    I love r51 and science live

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  23. alivia

    This episode was really cool, I learned a lot about radios. I never knew the difference between AM and FM before.

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  24. Ruqaia Majidsemin

    I never knew radios had so many uses!

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  25. Elias Barretto

    Radios were the only thing that could let people learn the news in 1960

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  26. Benaiah Kaleb

    I didn’t know radios had this much of an impact.

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  27. Edan Langston

    My daddy does HAM radio and I talk with him on it

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  28. Jonathan Nesmith

    I love to use radio to listen to music

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  29. Renee tarantelli

    Omg that’s so cool

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  30. Logan Phillips

    We listen to the radio in our car every day and I never thought about how it was created until now.

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  31. Mana Sattathip

    I didn’t know that radios have waves like light. It’s so cool to know how they work.

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  32. Campbell Dean

    When was the very first radio made.

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  33. Rho Zapf

    Radio’s are so 😎 🤟📻

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  34. Lillian Barkan

    Radios are in like every car but they are so technical to make the story behind the radio crazy I can’t even begin to say how much of a journey the radio has and how much the radio has evolved there are so many jobs because of the radio that was made.

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  35. Jackson B.

    It is crazy how much of a change the radio has brought to the world.

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  36. Teagan Oliver

    So crazy we don’t use radios as much as we used to!

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  37. Caiden Hiner

    I had no clue radios can do that much.

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  38. Madisyn Padilla

    Radios are so important and amazing

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  39. Calogero

    Who knew radios had so many uses!

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  40. James Wood

    Cool to see how frequency works with radios.

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  41. Julian

    Radios are cool, I didn’t know you could even be on the radio, I thought it was music only!

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  42. harleigh

    radios are so interesting!

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  43. julius young

    how did he know changing the length of the sound waves would make the sound

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  44. Jade

    Radios are so cool

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  45. Abigail McGrath

    Being on a radio is really cool, I’m glad it helped your speech impediment and I’m glad your here speaking today.

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  46. Grace

    Super cool I think it is very interesting to learn about radios

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  47. Isabella Nesmith

    Radios are Awesome!

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  48. Amelia Russell

    We use radios at my dad’s mill. Communication with radio is cool

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  49. Elisiyana Louis

    This episode was very enlightening, I really enjoyed learning about the different ways people can make radios!

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  50. Ally King

    Radios are so beneficial for the world. they make things a lot simpler.

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  51. Campbell Dean

    When was the very first radio invented?

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  52. Ronnie Horner

    This lesson was really cool. I liked learning about old radios!

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  53. Raelynn barnes

    I love music im so grateful for radios!

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  54. Madi

    The difference between Am and FM radios is AM varies the strength of the radio wave. FM varies the frequency of the radio wave.

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  55. Andrew

    Radios can do so much

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  56. sara

    it was cool learning about radios i love music!

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  57. mark

    Those old radios are cool.

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  58. Jack A

    This was a cool lesson. I like to repair old radios in my spare time.

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  59. E l l a R o s e

    I love the radio!!

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  60. Dane Taylor

    I like how the Ventioneering club taught us how to make a homopolar motor.

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  61. jacob

    what radio did you have on the desk

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  62. julia grace powell

    radios are awesome!!

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  63. Aden Neumyer

    I learned that radio’s give off high and low frequencies.

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  64. Yusuf Aboshihata

    awesome

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  65. Caiden Hiner

    I watched this last night and I forgot to leave a comment but I really like Learning about how radios changed the world.

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  66. Gracelyn Weitz

    great video

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  67. Laci

    they are so funny

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  68. Rebekah Wright

    they always manage to make me laugh

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  69. Connor S. Alif

    The battery motor that the Ventioneers did was amazing!

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  70. Onyx McKie

    My favorite part was the guy from Area 51. His voice was funny.

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  71. Alexander .K. Alif

    I love it very much

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  72. Layla

    Learning about radios was so cool.

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  73. Kayla

    Sound waves are so interesting! I love this episode!

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  74. Hailey Wallace

    maybe one day i can make a cool radio for my car!!

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  75. Max McCall

    What are the effects of radio waves on the human body can they even make contact with a human?

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  76. Eva

    This was an awesome episode! Thanks for sharing your secrets Dr B. haha

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  77. Sasha Golub

    Wow, this episode was so cool the story about the person that made the wireless radio is very interesting.

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  78. Phillip Golub

    I never knew that people used toilet paper rolls and wires to make radios.

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  79. Adelia Golub

    It is so crazy that you can make a battery motor out of a battery and some magnets and a copper wire. Can’t wait to try it!

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  80. James Hines

    its pretty cool how he was a radio announcer

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  81. James Allen Paul Hines

    cool how he was a radio announcer.

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  82. David Jacobs

    i know a lot about radios from learning about ww2

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  83. aleiah bowman

    that’s so cool! i didn’t know all that about radios!!

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  84. Jaden

    Radio waves…

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  85. Maximilian

    When the radio plays my favorite song…

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  86. Brieanna Wright

    WOW!

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  87. Kyle angus

    very cool

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  88. Michael Tymofy II

    this is so interesting

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  89. Maddison Tymofy

    wehave a crank radio

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  90. Harley Gonzales

    Radios are amazing

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  91. Sarah Bruce

    Love this episode.

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  92. Calvin Evans

    What makes a radio function

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  93. Calvin Evans

    How do we tune radios?

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  94. Calvin Evans

    The invention of the radio is so cool

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  95. Barrett Pirtle

    that’s cool! now I know how a radio works.

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  96. David Woods

    I’m 100% making a raideo

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  97. Aaliyah McLaughlin

    Radios are awesome Thank you for the amazing video!!!

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  98. Lydia hales

    I like this one! r51 mixed up Radios and Rodeos.

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  99. Gabrielle McClean

    I have an alarm clock with a built in radio you can also adjust the antenna and listen to a bunch of different radios stations! So I think that now that I have an in depth explination of how it works is neat!

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  100. Magnus Philgence

    If they make any future radio models I wonder what they’ll look like

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  101. Jessica Romero

    Radios are cool

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  102. Tino Salazar

    This is awesome!

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  103. Cain Green

    Totally cool!

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  104. Paige Pendergrass

    Very interesting! Great topic!

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  105. Gunnar Bendorf

    Love it!!!

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  106. Daniel Cuter

    That’s so cool I didn’t know this about radios

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  107. Tyler Whitsel

    radios are amazing

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  108. Bradley

    Who named radio, radio

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  109. Aidan Griser

    its interesting that the first radio discussion was a fail and that instead was used for music

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  110. Theodore Dall

    Interesting!

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  111. Caleb Felker

    What a humourous video! I loved it!

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  112. victoria

    I love everything. And everything is so cool.

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  113. victoria

    I love everything and everything is so cool

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  114. Atlas

    I like radio

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  115. Hannah

    It’s a very important episode for me!

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  116. Makayla cook

    this is a really cool video as someone who owns radios and such.

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  117. Payton Reynolds

    Cool Information

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  118. Becker Eisele

    Great episode

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  119. Lela Eisele

    This was an awesome episode!

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  120. Will Ferguson

    I listen to the radio alot

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  121. Ashton coleman

    I had no idea why they were called AM and FM. Never really stopped to think about it.

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  122. Raven

    I never knew how cool radios were!

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  123. Azlynn

    You did this on my birthday lol

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  124. Merik

    wow that was so cool

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  125. Diego N

    how fast do these frequency waves go?

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  126. Henry

    It’s really cool that you can make a mini radio out of wire, charcoal, etc.

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  127. Catelyn Barton

    Thank goodness for radios haha!!

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  128. Sage Davis

    this video was good. always wondered how radios worked.

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  129. kylah Mazeika-Lebel

    This was an awsome video I love how radios communicate through frequency

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  130. Avner Golub

    This is awesome!

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  131. Mercede

    I really liked this one!

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  132. Varvara

    Great! Thanks!

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  133. Kennedy

    The battery and wire were interesting, and r51 was good.

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  134. Levi Parypa

    Great episode! I loved the story of the first radio broadcast show by Reginald Fessenden.

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  135. camden a

    this story about how the radio was started is awesome. it is really cool that someone thought about making sound go from one place to another and figured out how to actually make it happen!

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  136. trevor fishack

    radios really have changed over time

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  137. Kayla Rowbotham

    I like radios.

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  138. Sophia Garcia

    Why can Storm radios work when there is no electricity but regular radio stations and phones dont work?

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  139. Amayah Bethea

    I always enjoy learning something new each Wednesday.

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  140. Leeland Whitehouse

    I GOT MY GRANDADS OLD RADIO WITH THE ANTANAS ITS SO COOL AND GREAT LESSON TODAY

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  141. Anassa

    Are there any other types of radios?

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  142. Zach Hamp

    That was neat.

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  143. Mila

    How do radios waves know where to travel?
    I love listening to music so I am glad radios were made.

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  144. Lauren

    So interesting

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  145. Malaysia

    Do radio waves travel through space?

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  146. Elena

    Can you do a video on the jellyfish that never dies of old age?
    Thank you for considering my time.
    -Elena

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  147. MaryGrace

    Now I’m going to go around anyone who challenges me on the radio and they say something wrong I’m going to say nope that’s wrong Science Live said…. Thanks Everyone At Science Live keep up the good work.

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  148. Russell Mattsson

    Russell Mattsson. my mom is a paranormal investigator they use radio in fast sweeps forward and backwards to try and see if they can get communication..

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  149. Christian M.S Ross

    Radio is amazing ngl

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  150. Llondon Bates

    R-51 is Way too funny!! 🤣🤣😭😭

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  151. Leo sczuroski

    Did radios lead to the telephone?

    Leo Sczuroski
    RI

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  152. Carmela Myers

    love this so much!

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  153. Nylah McMillan

    I never would have thought that Dr. B would be on the radio back then. So Cool!

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  154. Kevin Crane

    It is cool how far radios have changed over the years and how much they have improved

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  155. dylan

    Fascinating idea on how newspapers was the radio a century ago.

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  156. Aaron Crane

    wow

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  157. Brianna Smith

    Thank you for the hard work you guys put into teaching us in these lives.

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  158. Mattox Goodman

    It would be so cool to make my own radio!

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  159. Isra-Lana Alsanabani

    Very informing!!!

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  160. Hunter Snapp

    What a simple technique that is really amazing!

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  161. Tehillah Turner

    Radios play all my favorite music.

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  162. karsyn mitchell

    great video on how to make a radio!

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  163. Sade

    This is so cool I would love to learn more about these things!

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  164. Mateo A

    I wonder what we would hear if we made a radio

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  165. Mateo A

    Radios are so cool

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  166. Hudson Bingham

    This is cool.

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  167. Samuel Sedore

    Love the morris code Christmas show.

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  168. Lawrence Berdan

    It would be so cool to make a radio. I was curious about what AM radio was for. It’s always fuzzy when I turn it on the station.

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  169. Eileen

    What a great video

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  170. Cierra

    I want to make a radio! Thank you for these great videos.

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  171. Ella J

    Curious what stations I would get if we made a radio at home. Will have to try.
    Interesting episode. Thanks!

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  172. Rosie

    I have always wondered what FM and AM meant.

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  173. Ruth baldwin

    R-51 is so funny

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  174. Cassidy Arnett

    I always question when the radios where made

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  175. Layton Benson

    Can you guys make a history live.

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  176. Elijah Baldwin

    I Loved this episode

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  177. Lego kid

    Olivia’s message was good. It’s good that I do theater 🎭

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  178. Gloom

    Radio📻👍

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  179. Logan

    cool did not know that

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  180. Muhammad

    Wow this is so amazing to the point it literally blowed my mind

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  181. Gianna Pritchett

    Dr. Billings, you have a great radio voice!!

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  182. Lucy

    I learned that radios can be really simple or really complicated!

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  183. Libby

    Wow this episode was a really entertaining one!

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  184. Leon Cutler

    What about PM? (pulse modification)

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  185. Jade

    I really appreciate the work that yall do. There are many things that I wonder how they work, for exmaple, airplanes. But radios have always been one of them. Thank you for teaching us. One last thing, where cam I learn about the club was mentioned?

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  186. Jasmine May

    Dr. Billings and Dr. Pajet seem like really cool and smart people.

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  187. Declan Hart

    How far into outer space can a radio wave travel?

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  188. NICOLE L. ROMAN ORTIZ

    Super entertaining and fun to watch, I loved every second of it!

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  189. Ryker mullican

    Super interesting!

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  190. Grape Fruit

    Tobias is so funny

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  191. Margaret Earley

    What an interesting video!

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  192. Josiah Alkire

    I have been to three rodeos in my fourteen years on this earth and all three were really cool. I love rodeos!

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  193. LaiLa

    As a current competitive dancer, what Olivia said is all very true! With any sport or art form you do, it’s so important to be consistent with rehearsals and making sure you are prepared for what is to come. With that being said, yes, studying is just as important, if anything its more important!

    The Razor Blade Radio is so crazy, I would never thought it was a radio

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  194. Bradley walker

    thank you for explaining everything to where I can understand it

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  195. brinley

    haha love this

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  196. Logan Rentner

    these are incredible

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  197. Ellie

    Now I can make a radio in case of an apocalypse! 🧟📻☢️ Yippee!!

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  198. Karis Martinez

    I love the reoccuring theme of ponies in this episode !

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  199. Gia Bormann

    The battery experiment was cool

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  200. Angelina

    Dr. Billings and Dr. Pajet are so entertaining!

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  201. jaxxon

    i think what happend is that r51 is that r51 got confused between rodeo and radio because they sound almost the same

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  202. Caiden

    r51 is hilarious:)

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  203. miley edwards

    Gonna go make my own radio now HaHa!

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  204. Emilynn schamback

    The metals clingy allowed sound to travel through?

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  205. Conner Mast

    Now I wanna make a radio.

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  206. Shoshanna

    WOW!!!!!!

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  207. zoe

    omg r 51 is so goofy heeeehaaaaa

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  208. Jaliy

    I love how radios changed over time !

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  209. legos r fun

    haha awsom r51

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  210. Bethel

    I tried to ask a question but it wouldn’t let me. Isn’t gama rays bad?

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  211. Emmett

    woo hoo dr J AND B

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  212. zoe

    awesome ;]

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  213. Jada R. S. Pace-Kitchen

    The story of the evolution of The Telegraph was cool.

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  214. Jayden Jackson

    How can I get more information about the ventionering club ?

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  215. Lego kid

    Nice video

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  216. Jordan Campbell

    Can you do a science live on psychology or biology Dr Billings?

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  217. Lego kid

    How come r51 got confused with radio and rodeo so funny 😂😆😄 here’s this pony pony and this pony pony ha ha ha ha ha ha

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  218. Josiah Alkire

    This is great, now I can make a radio! 📻📻📻

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  219. Kpop

    Thumbs up, that was great

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  220. Cecilia Cutshaver

    How do sound waves actually travel on the radio waves then turn back into sound once they reach where they’re going?

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