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Informed and Educated by the Evening News
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Last night there was a football game on television instead of the evening news.

  • Added: Jan 10, 2010
  • Length: :52
French Logic
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
John’s girlfriend tells him that he will have a headache if he drinks any more white wine. So John cries out, “Waiter, a bottle of red wine."

  • Added: Dec 23, 2009
  • Length: 01:32
Disasters
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Every discipline has its own problems

  • Added: Dec 16, 2009
  • Length: 01:46
Sarah Palin Book Signing
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
One of my friends saw Chase Whiteside’s Youtube piece called Sarah Palin Book Signing as “[e]vidence that our educational system has tanked.”

  • Added: Dec 12, 2009
  • Length: :33
Worn Out Wisdom
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
There are people who scrape together and repackage scraps of tired old worn out wisdom, but when it’s encapsulated they call it an aphorism, becaus...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Dec 10, 2009
  • Length: :41
  • Purchases: 1
My Little Red Book
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Taboos associated with menstruation limit public discussion of a primary event in the lives of more than half of the human population of the world....

  • Added: Dec 07, 2009
  • Length: 28:55
What Happens When Modern Science And Buddhism Meet?
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Can modern scientific methods and meditative spiritual theory compliment each other? In the past it may have seemed that Buddhist beliefs in re-inc...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Nov 17, 2009
  • Length: 46:35
  • Purchases: 1
From Death Row To A Doctorate
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Consider spending time on death row and turning that experience into the drive to get a doctorate?

  • Added: Nov 16, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
Go-Karting
From: WHJE
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Vroom, vroom, vroom...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2009
  • Length: 03:59
No a la Bulimia
From: Asociacion de Radios y Programas Participativos de El Salvador (ARPAS)
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Cápsula de 1 minuto, con el Objetivo de Promover el amor propio y la aceptación de las características físcas de la persona.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: :48
NEA Jazz Master Artie Shaw on Not Looking Back
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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ARTIE SHAW WAS ONE OF THE MOST INNOVATIVE AND OUTRAGEOUS FIGURES IN JAZZ. HE ONCE WROTE AN EPITAPH FOR HIMSELF WHICH READ, HE DID THE BEST HE COU...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2009
  • Length: 01:29
  • Purchases: 8
NEA Jazz Master Phil Woods on the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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IN 1956, 2007 NEA JAZZ MASTER PHIL WOODS TOOK A SEAT IN THE RENOWNED DIZZY GILLESPIE BIG BAND. IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF A LONG FRIENDSHIP, WITH GI...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WICR, WUSF and more


  • Added: Oct 29, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
Picture Day!
From: Big Shed Audio
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Spend a day with a school-portrait photographer at an elementary school in the Washington, DC.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Oct 25, 2009
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 3
Perfect Pitch, Autism, Savants, and the Music Connection
From: Larry Carlson
Series: Music is Therapy
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Perfect Pitch, Autism, and Savants. Is there a music connection? Therapist Susan Rancer, RMT shares her experiences.

  • Added: Oct 24, 2009
  • Length: 29:03
First Hand Account in Getting a DUI
From: Vince Workman
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A brief interview with someone who experienced what its like getting a DUI early in life.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2009
  • Length: 04:52
No Ice Cream Means No Ice Cream
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
You can lose weight

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 18, 2009
  • Length: 02:09
  • Purchases: 1
Branford Marsalis on NEA Jazz Master Herbie Hancock’s classic “Headhunters”.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Branford Marsalis explains how NEA Jazz Master Herbie Hancock's "headhunters" created shockwaves in the Jazz Community.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WICR, WUSF and more


  • Added: Sep 10, 2009
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 9
Understanding Depression
From: Christopher Moyer
Series: PsychRadio
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Depression is much more than ordinary unhappiness.

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Jul 13, 2009
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 1
Magda Apanowicz
From: Tony Tellado
Series: Best Of Sci-Fi Talk
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Magda Apanowicz

  • Added: Jun 15, 2009
  • Length: 31:01
Graduates' Next American Dream
From: Jordan Nelson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This year's college graduates weigh in on what's next for the American Dream, in this piece by Jordan Nelson of KOSU in Stillwater, Okla.

  • Added: Jun 10, 2009
  • Length: 03:33
Falling in Love and the Cultural Age Barrier
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Can a man of 29 fall in love with a girl of 14?

  • Added: May 22, 2009
  • Length: 01:52
Gay Marriage Legalized in Maine
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
There are people who are distressed at the thought of gay marriage.

  • Added: May 12, 2009
  • Length: 02:41
Teacher Crush Vox
From: Curie Youth Radio
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A vox full of memories of innocent teacher crushes.

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, KUT, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Mar 30, 2009
  • Length: 02:17
  • Purchases: 4
Active Exploration for Healthy Kids
From: Tom Niemisto
Caption: Children explore the river's wildlife, Credit: Brian Mohan
Clearwater acts as a model for letting children be active and interactive with nature on the Hudson River. Welcome aboard

  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 01:46
Grad Student on Full Fellowship
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
You might think your daughter is doing well if she is dating a grad student on a full fellowship.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 02:09
  • Purchases: 1

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