All Pieces for WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

 
Caption: Jelle Atema's collection of bone flutes., Credit: Jenny Junker
Whether or not Neanderthals made and played musical instruments is still up for debate. But if they did, it may have sounded like this.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2014
  • Length: 48:32
Caption: The Andromeda galaxy is our largest galactic neighbor, measuring 260,000 light-years across., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
What is the nature of our universe? Accidental, gargantuan, temporary, lawful, and spiritual are just a handful of the possibilities.

  • Added: Apr 08, 2014
  • Length: 48:13
Caption: An engine from Air France flight 447, as photographed on the sea floor. , Credit: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Bureau of Investigation and Analysis (BEA)
The crash of Air France flight 447 was a best-case scenario for a deep sea search. The missing Malaysian Airlines flight is anything but.

  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 49:20
Caption: The depletion of Peru's guano islands lay at the heart of the War of the Pacific. , Credit: Wikimedia Commons
It enabled the industrialization of agriculture, led to the discovery of El Nino, helped spawn the modern environmental movement, and lay at the he...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 49:30
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In the late 1800s, Louis Agassiz founded the Anderson School of Natural History on Penikese Island, the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, a...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 49:30
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In the 1950s and 60s, oceanographer Dean Bumpus filled hundreds of thousands of bottles with pleas for help and threw them into the ocean. Bumpus d...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2014
  • Length: 49:30
Caption: Helen & Klytaimestra, Credit: Glynnis Fawkes
Did ancient women view virgin sacrifices as belittling or empowering? What did ancient music sound like? An emerging field of archaeology attempts ...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2014
  • Length: 49:31
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On the anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, Vermont's Irene Recovery Officer, now Deputy Secretary of Transportation, reflects on lessons learned from ...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2014
  • Length: 04:56
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Tech spin-offs may be nothing new in Boston or Silicon Valley, but they are something of a novelty on Cape Cod. Hydroid is a small company that beg...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2014
  • Length: 04:57
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Modern-day life on an island is made possible by undersea cables carrying electricity, telephone, and broad-band communications. Residents of Cape ...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2014
  • Length: 02:33
Caption: Rhode Island fisherman Joel Hovanesian points to the bumper sticker he says he created. , Credit: Heather Goldstone
Tensions between New England's fishermen and the scientists and managers that oversee their industry are so engrained, they have come to seem as mu...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2014
  • Length: 06:02
Caption: Ernie Eldredge at the helm of one of the boat he uses to tend his weirs., Credit: Heather Goldstone
For decades, fishery management has focused almost exclusively on the need to restrict fishing. Now, environmental changes are forcing fishermen an...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 17, 2014
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 1
Caption:  Forest land on Martha's Vineyard is perforated by houses., Credit: Credit David Foster / Harvard Forest
Massachusetts is in the middle of a new wave of deforestation. The first wave came back in the 1800s when the land was cleared for farms and pastur...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2014
  • Length: 03:33
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It's Time For Our Pledge Drive (sung to the tune of Away in the Manger)

Bought by KISU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Dec 22, 2008
  • Length: 02:47
  • Purchases: 3
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Meals on Wheels on the Vineyard: Much of the world knows Martha's Vineyard as a rich person's playground, but many locals are struggling to find a...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2007
  • Length: 05:00
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Stressed Out in Eastham: According to a survey conducted by Barnstable County last year, 80% of the most needy households on the Cape wrestle with ...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2007
  • Length: 04:04
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The Winter Rental Shuffle in Sandwich: With off-season rental-housing prices skyrocketing, where are the working poor expected to look for shelter?

Bought by KPFA


  • Added: Feb 16, 2007
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 1
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Homeless in Hyannis Part 2: Shelters housed more than 500 homeless people last year. But untold others live on friends' couches, in motel rooms, an...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2007
  • Length: 04:52
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Homeless in Hyannis Part 1: Shelters housed more than 500 homeless people last year. But untold others live on friends' couches, in motel rooms, an...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2007
  • Length: 05:05
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Free and reduced lunch program statistics in Dennis indicate that there may be no accurate way to measure poverty.

  • Added: Feb 16, 2007
  • Length: 04:35