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History is written by the Big and the Small. "The Vietnam War" documentary has reminded us that. The Moving Wall, a half scale version of the smoot...
- Added: May 27, 2016
- Length: 07:06
Human Growth and Development textbooks may be the ‘go to’ reference to explain ‘what the hell is going on’ as the new Republican opponent appar...
- Added: May 04, 2016
- Length: 04:52
Back in 2005, Dana Connors, Maine State Chamber of Commerce president said, "This is not the time or place to expand Maine care coverage to more u...
- Added: Apr 24, 2016
- Length: 07:02
I was reading the New York Times article about the last batch of the 30000 emails released that Hillary Clinton received on her private server- wh...
- Added: Mar 04, 2016
- Length: 05:17
Today’s Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks :As politicians one-up each other, what’s the difference between the candidate as demagogue- who openly app...
- Added: Feb 04, 2016
- Length: 01:21
A Town Clerk in Kentucky has refused to give out a marriage license to a gay couple, risking jail time, because the two of them marrying “does not...
- Added: Sep 06, 2015
- Length: 04:13
In 1948, the United Nations said seeking asylum is a basic right to seek protection from government persecution. In my state, there is now a contro...
- Added: Jun 24, 2015
- Length: 04:50
Examine the life of one of America’s most famous 20th century artists, who you may not have even heard of.
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 16:24
Well, in my state the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting published a lengthy article about a veteran lawmaker who is strongly supporting a ...
- Added: May 20, 2015
- Length: 03:23
The Supreme Court of the United States has decided that Arizona’s 2000 law which created an Independent Commission to determine Congressional Re-d...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 07:04
The ethical challenge for Facebook has been to re-create the ethics of community where there are real consequences for using information in a destr...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 05:49
Audio essay bringing the current summer-long Market Basket situation back to the basics.
- Added: Aug 28, 2014
- Length: 04:34
The vision of Gorbachev now is destroyed by Vladimir Putin. A sonnet will remind us of what Gorbachev made possible and what is now lost by Putin's...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jul 07, 2014
- Length: :57
- Purchases: 1
Boys' State is an experiment in Democracy that a select group of high school boys attend in Maine this week. We can hope they will learn about the...
- Added: Oct 17, 2013
- Length: 06:00
Citizens are being reminded these days of everything they don't have control over. Any nutritionist will tell you that the one thing you always ha...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 04:02
Many six year olds believe that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. The President of the NRA, is of the same mind...
- Added: Dec 21, 2012
- Length: 04:13
From Archie Bunker to Murphy Brown, TV characters have been getting trapped in elevators, freezers and all other manner of small spaces for decades...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 22, 2012
- Length: 04:32
- Purchases: 2
The pair of crawler-transporters at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida have been delivering shuttles to their launch pad since the Apollo missions...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 15, 2012
- Length: 01:47
- Purchases: 1
International Women's Day is a time for women to acknowledge how women are discredited by others. And yes women too discredit women. All of this c...
- Added: Mar 09, 2011
- Length: 04:00
This fun piece launches from the ideas broached in the New York Times article, "What is it about 20-somethings?" I ask my friends, all at the tail-...
- Added: Dec 02, 2010
- Length: 03:54
The road to writing a best seller has to start somewhere.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 07, 2010
- Length: 03:20
- Purchases: 1
Eric Singley, Yelp’s Product Manager who has been working on Yelp’s iPhone app, walks us through the augmented reality (AR) experience they’re brin...
- Added: Dec 11, 2009
- Length: 10:37
A young man seeking enlightenment once travelled far away to a distant land and climbed a tall mountain where a wise old man was known to dispense ...
- Added: Jul 07, 2009
- Length: :46
on the day before their marriage his bride-to-be told him about all of her previous affairs.
- Added: Dec 16, 2008
- Length: :28
A game it is, but baseball is serious business to many of its young players.
- Added: May 08, 2007
- Length: 03:36
