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Taste the fruit of a tree that has a placenta buried beneath it... it's tart and crisp. Learn about how the placenta, which connects mother and chi...
- Added: Aug 27, 2011
- Length: 08:04
Photographer David Maisel's project "Library of Dust" proves there is life after death, in vivid color.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and KUOW
- Added: Jul 18, 2011
- Length: 06:51
- Purchases: 3
More of what listeners want to know about the British novelist who produced six classic novels in a lifespan of just 47 years. She's been dead for ...
- Added: Jul 11, 2011
- Length: 03:00
A radio story about the peculiar life and voice of Kohn Ashmore, told by Andy Mills with the sounds of Hudson Branch.
Bought by KCUR, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUT, KUOW, HowSound and more
- Added: Jun 21, 2011
- Length: 08:05
- Purchases: 6
A man in his early forties decides to take a job in Afghanistan.
- Added: Jun 19, 2011
- Length: 03:43
Armstrong was born in Storyville, a redlight district of New Orleans, 1901. His father left and his mother was probably a prostitute. He first lear...
- Added: Jun 18, 2011
- Length: 03:00
Bhutan is a land of prayer flags and happiness. But people are people, and human suffering, including domestic violence, is as prevalent here as i...
Bought by KUER, KZYX, KQED, KFOK-LPFM, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jun 09, 2011
- Length: 24:36
- Purchases: 5
While he's not exactly a household name, with more than 400 patents to his credit, you know his work.
- Added: Jun 02, 2011
- Length: 03:00
Pigeon racers across New England get out their lawn chairs and wait for their birds. The flocks are released 150 miles away from home. The pigeons ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, WMPG, and SALTcast Podcast
- Added: May 27, 2011
- Length: 07:01
- Purchases: 4
A 21 year-old abandons his carefree bachelor fantasy and reluctantly marries a girl he accidentally impregnated.
- Added: May 26, 2011
- Length: 02:24
Film maker MT Silvia's mother, Pauline Silvia, was a US Navy biologist conducting research on the effects of radiation on mice and dogs from 1952 t...
- Added: May 05, 2011
- Length: 30:02
He was shy, geeky ... a genius ... and helped turn the tide in World War II.
- Added: Apr 28, 2011
- Length: 03:00
A professional wrestling referee talks about the split-second decision to end a match, ruin a show, and go off the script.
- Added: Apr 05, 2011
- Length: 03:00
When he finally went home to Viet Nam, he began using a name from an I.D. card he had purchased: Ho Chi Minh ... which means "bringer of light." An...
- Added: Dec 09, 2010
- Length: 03:00
Even if you've never heard of Grace Hopper, she changed your life.
- Added: Nov 12, 2010
- Length: 03:00
A love story, an interview, an explanation and an experiment. Here we see what happens when you take tree hugging to the next level.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 06, 2010
- Length: 11:31
- Purchases: 1
Harvard professor Ogletree speaks about his book, The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in Ameri...
- Added: Oct 28, 2010
- Length: 29:00
Eastern Tennessee to Tucson, Arizona. Two Wheels to Nowhere is a seven-part series that weaves together the story of one man's motorcycle journey a...
- Added: Oct 03, 2010
- Length: 24:22
- Purchases: 4
Dover, Delaware to Highway 129, North Carolina. Two Wheels to Nowhere is a seven-part series that weaves together the story of one man's motorcycle...
- Added: Oct 03, 2010
- Length: 27:46
- Purchases: 4
Keene Valley, New York to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Two Wheels to Nowhere is a seven-part series that weaves together the story of one man's moto...
- Added: Oct 03, 2010
- Length: 29:05
- Purchases: 5
Chicago, Illinois to Lake Oneida, New York. Two Wheels to Nowhere is a seven-part series that weaves together the story of one man's motorcycle jou...
- Added: Oct 03, 2010
- Length: 26:06
- Purchases: 5
From Kanab, Utah to Portland, Oregon. Two Wheels to Nowhere is a seven-part series that weaves together the story of one man's motorcycle journey a...
- Added: Oct 01, 2010
- Length: 33:11
- Purchases: 6
From San Francisco, California to Kanab, Utah by way of the Salton Sea.
Two Wheels to Nowhere is a seven-part series that weaves together the stor...
- Added: Oct 01, 2010
- Length: 30:20
- Purchases: 6
An oral history of the Polk Street neighborhood in San Francisco, as told by those who have called it home.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KCPW Salt Lake City, KZYX, KQED, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more
- Added: Jun 12, 2010
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 23
A provocative tour into one of America's most curious museums, The Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
- Added: May 23, 2010
- Length: 10:22
- Purchases: 3
