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The Yoga Pant Problem
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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The rise of synthetic fibers and the war on cotton

Bought by WSGE


  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 27:04
  • Purchases: 1
The Man, the Myth, the Laser
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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The disputed origin story of one of the 20th century’s most important inventions.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 30:06
  • Purchases: 1
UnCommonCore Podcast Episode 19 | Reef-A-Palooza: Part 3
From: Tom Howell
Series: Reef-A-Palooza
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The UnCommonCore Podcast explores the ideas, experiences and perspectives that make us all different. Content includes everything from live to tape...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2018
  • Length: 38:02
The Almost Forgotten Story of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: A letter by Katherine Jones, signed K. Ranalagh , Credit: Michelle DiMeo
The woman beside the father of chemistry.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2018
  • Length: 25:35
2017-10-29 Deep Dive Into the Arctic
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Greg Dalton, Executive Producer and Host
On the front lines of climate change, the Inuit of the high Arctic - together with scientists, educators and policymakers – are fighting a battle f...

Bought by KBBI Alaska, KUHF, NPR Now, and KWIT


  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Refugee Doctors
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Dr. Abdelwahhab Azzawi
Escape is only the first challenge.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 30:39
High-Tech and Amish
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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Using 21st-century medicine to maintain a 300-year-old way of life.

  • Added: Aug 16, 2017
  • Length: 27:16
The Rules of Life
From: Richard Paul
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What causes Alzheimer’s Disease? What causes cancers to form? Can we make jet fuel and plastics out of germs? To get these answers, scientists ...

Bought by WAMU, KQED, WCPN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Jul 24, 2017
  • Length: 57:59
  • Purchases: 6
Divers chronicle Great Lakes shipwreck that left 32 dead
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: The Admiral shipwreck, Credit: Marc Duncan
There’s more than just fish and sand in the Great Lakes – there are thousands of ships, airplanes, and other vehicles under the water. A story on ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, WRVO Public Media, WCMU Michigan, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 8
Ep. 20: Reinventing the Wheelchair
From: The Story Exchange
Series: Good on the Ground
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MIT-graduate Tish Scolnik is using the power of business to give people with disabilities a new sense of freedom.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 14:28
  • Purchases: 1
Race and the Space Race
From: Richard Paul
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The unlikely story of Civil Rights and the Space Program.

Bought by Nevada Public Radio, KUHF, WXXI Rochester, KWGS, KRCU Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 23
Rethinking Ink
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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Lasers, tattoo removal, and second chances.

Bought by KALW


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 20:56
  • Purchases: 1
Sound Ecology: Aleutian Geese
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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This segment of Sound Ecology focuses on the recovery of the once-endangered Aleutian Geese that winter in northern California.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 10: Big Fish, Big Science
From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf
Caption: Biochemist Dana Wetzel dissects a fish exposed to oil in the lab., Credit: David Levin
Scientists at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, are leading a new experiment that will help uncover the effects of oil spills on fis...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 08:20
Episode 9: Mapping Oil Spills by Satellite
From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf
Caption: Chuanmin Hu, an optical oceanographer at USF, points to a map of the Ixtoc-1 spill made from archival satellite data.
The 1979 Ixtoc-1 oil spill spewed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, but has since been largely forgotten. More than 35 years late...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 09:50
Cornea-copia
From: Elaine Vitone
Series: Pitt Medcast
Caption: Adult stem cells (green) and corneal cells (blue) one month after applying to the eye., Credit: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Corneal blindness affects millions worldwide. A husband-and-wife team at the University of Pittsburgh has been working toward the dream of regrowin...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2016
  • Length: 13:23
Owning The Clouds
From: Steven Jackson
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Cloud seeding -- intervening in clouds to squeeze out precipitation -- is done all over the world. But it's not an exact science; we still have muc...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 09:38
  • Purchases: 3
The Best Medicine for Heart Disease
From: Richard Paul
Series: The Best Medicine with Dr. Ken Miller
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A look inside the labs, treatment facilities, and homes of those closest to heart disease.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KHNS, MPR News Stations, Maine Public Radio, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2015
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 6
Wildlandfire
From: Whitney Henry-Lester
Caption: The view from Stehekin
Recorded on an iphone while on vacation 2 miles away from a wildfire. Recorded for KCRW's 24 Hour Radio Race.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 1
Explorers of the Brain
From: Richard Paul
Caption: Jacopo Annese, The Brain Observatory, Credit: John Gibbins/U-T San Diego/ZUMA press
Latest research from the frontier of neuroscience.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WBEZ, WRVO Public Media, Spokane Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 20
The Future of Coal
From: The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment
Caption: A coal terminal in Eastern Kentucky., Credit: Photo: Reid Frazier
Can the Appalachian Mountains recover from centuries of mining? What will happen to the thousands of coal miners projected to lose their jobs in th...

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 28, 2015
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 1
True nature of time remains elusive
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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As the old year ends and a new year begins, the passage of time is on our minds. We check the time on cell phones, computer monitors, watches and w...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 06:17
  • Purchases: 1
Pain Unknown: Living with Fibromyalgia
From: Anna Stitt
Caption: We can see that neurons fire when people complain of central pain, but still no one knows why. , Credit: Gerd Altmann
Cindey LeGeyt and Danielle Cellucci have fatigue and intense pain all over their bodies, and they believe they have a disease. But many people say ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 2
700 Fathoms under the Sea
From: David Schulman
Caption: Scientists discovered the "sound channel" in 1944. Whales use it to communicate across oceans — and during the Cold War the Navy secretly used it to track nuclear subs. This 1948 graphic shows sound traveling on an axis 700 fathoms down in the Atlantic., Credit: Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel
Something unusual happens about a half mile under the sea. Ocean physics create a special zone where sound travels for hundreds, even thousands of ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, American Voices, Hark!, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 11:11
  • Purchases: 11
Stuck in the Bluff
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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WABE reporter Jim Burress takes us to ‘The Bluff’, a neighborhood in Atlanta where a needle exchange program has become a vital part of a strugglin...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 23, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1