PRX - Pieces for Format: Actuality

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Caption: Sometimes, story is the best form of medicine.
Superhumans is an immersive audio docu-series that takes you deep into the unspoken intersection of health & humanity. In each episode, real people...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 04:39
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Forty years after Carl Sagan’s ‘Golden Records’ began their long voyage into the depths of outer space, Eyal Gever - an Israeli high-tech-wunderkin...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2020
  • Length: 31:11
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
A United States outdoor clothing store sells coats, labelled to assure us that the down is from US Ducks Independently Verified to Have been Neith...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 01:17
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Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein share 100 percent of their DNA. Separated at birth, the twins were both adopted and raised by loving families. The...

Bought by WDBM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, American Voices, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 15:05
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
When a scientist makes a mistake, it makes the news

  • Added: Mar 17, 2010
  • Length: :40
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Refuse from keg party not found in sediment of lake

  • Added: Mar 14, 2010
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
If overheated in a microwave, coffee will explode

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Mar 01, 2010
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
25 rats trained for a pilot medical project in Africa have identified 300 cases of early-stage TB - infections missed by lab technicians with their...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2009
  • Length: 01:12
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
You heard about the woman who had the wrong embryo implanted. Because a scientist made a mistake it warranted a spot on the national news.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2009
  • Length: :39
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
When it comes to formulating an opinion on global warming, would you be more inclined to believe an MIT professor who has studied climate change or...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jun 29, 2009
  • Length: :58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
In the next 10 years your electricity bill will at least double

  • Added: Jun 03, 2009
  • Length: 01:47
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Corporate America has produced a pill that combats obesity

  • Added: Mar 26, 2009
  • Length: 02:32
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
You can save on electricity if you never open the door

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Jan 10, 2009
  • Length: 01:54
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
the values of certain pairs of conjugate variables cannot both be known with arbitrary precision

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Dec 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:38
  • Purchases: 1
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Redefining the parameters of self defense

  • Added: Nov 20, 2008
  • Length: :40

  • Added: Nov 19, 2008
  • Length: 01:18
  • Purchases: 1
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It is cold enough without throwing in the windchill factor

  • Added: Nov 17, 2008
  • Length: 01:59

  • Added: Oct 25, 2008
  • Length: :20
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Communicating with Language

  • Added: Jul 18, 2008
  • Length: 01:59
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A woman claimed she lived in the trunk of her car for three days

  • Added: Jul 15, 2008
  • Length: 01:06
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Redundancy is built into language

  • Added: Jul 08, 2008
  • Length: :25
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My electrician tells me that I should forget about solar energy

  • Added: Jul 02, 2008
  • Length: 01:53
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Keeping up with technical terms

  • Added: Jun 08, 2008
  • Length: 02:03
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Motto: May The Swarm Be With You

  • Added: Jun 04, 2008
  • Length: 01:58
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Divorce and tornadoes

  • Added: May 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:38