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Pauline Oliveros - Deep Listening Institute
From: Katherin Vasilopoulos
Series: Technology in the Arts
Caption: Katherin Vasilopoulos
Pauline Oliveros has been a composer and musician for over 50 years. She describes how technology plays a role in her music, her impressions on the...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Oct 30, 2009
  • Length: 27:04
  • Purchases: 1
A Postcard from Paris: Getting from A to B
From: Janet Robbins
Series: A Postcard from Paris
Caption: Paris, 2008
Public transportation in Paris has been transformed

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Nov 01, 2008
  • Length: 09:23
  • Purchases: 1
How much water do we use?
From: William S. Hammack
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A look at how a typical American uses water - a large percentage of which is imported from outside the US!

Bought by Real Estate Today


  • Added: Oct 20, 2008
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 1
How to ID a Bullet
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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What if every bullet could tell you who fired it?

Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 14, 2008
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 2
Waiting for California's High Speed Rail
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Getting from San Francisco to LA in two-and-a-half hours -- and a $10 billion ticket price

  • Added: Oct 14, 2008
  • Length: 08:08
One Bryant Park
From: Science & the City Podcast Series
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Take a tour of the greenest building in Manhattan.

  • Added: Jul 02, 2008
  • Length: 19:56
WWOZ Street Talk- Student Design Expo
From: David Weinberg
Series: WWOZ- Street Talk
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Throughout New Orleans, Students are helping rebuild by taking on design projects.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Jun 06, 2008
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 1
High Tech versus High Touch: Printmaking in the Digital Age
From: Nicole Pietrantoni
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The digital is expanding the definition of the print and creating a complex relationship between artists, their work, and the tools they use to cre...

  • Added: May 15, 2008
  • Length: 17:30
The Bicycle Builder
From: peter smith
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A handmade bicycle builder talks about his trade

  • Added: Feb 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:09
Ecobikes Dublin
From: John Hennessy
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A new transport service in Dublin

  • Added: Jan 22, 2008
  • Length: 06:14
How to Make Your Own Supernova
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Will the world's largest laser be strong enough to create nuclear fusion in a can?

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WBEZ


  • Added: Jan 18, 2008
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 3
When Asteroids (almost) Attack
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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What if that Mars-bound asteroid had set its sights on Earth instead?

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Jan 18, 2008
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
Anti-Violence Program in Guatemala City keeps youth off the streets
From: UNICEF
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This story is free! Guatemala City's youth are given an alternative to gang life and crime through a unique program in the heart of the city's wors...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2007
  • Length: 05:20
Ed Fowler, Master Bladesmith: Portrait of a Wyoming Knife-Maker
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Caption: PRX default Piece image
PRNDI-award-winning portrait of a master craftsman and his apprentice.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2007
  • Length: 06:27
Quest_The Salt Water Solution
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Is desalination the solution to the California's chronic water woes?

  • Added: Aug 17, 2007
  • Length: 05:47
QUEST_The Science of Making Decisions
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Scientists use MRIs to study the neurology of shopping

Bought by KUOW and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2007
  • Length: 05:48
  • Purchases: 2
QUEST_Graywater Guerillas
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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A report from the frontlines of D.I.Y eco-plumbing.

  • Added: Jul 19, 2007
  • Length: 05:53
The Day the Music Died - web radio in peril
From: Eric Klein
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on July 15th radio over the internet is going to undergo a BIG change

Bought by 90.5 WSNC and WJCU


  • Added: Jul 10, 2007
  • Length: 29:08
  • Purchases: 2
After Oil
From: 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
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When we look at all the things that made America what it is, It's fair to say that for the last hundred years or so, America has been shaped, more ...

Bought by KZYX, WILL, Marfa Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Jun 08, 2007
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 39
The Other End of the Line: Profile of a 911 Operator
From: Aaron Henkin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
a look at life on the phone at the Baltimore City Police Department's 911 call center

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 15, 2007
  • Length: 08:10
  • Purchases: 1
A Bean of a Different Color
From: Homelands Productions
Series: Border Stories
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Investigative feature tells of an attempt by an American farmer to patent a yellow bean commonly found in Mexico, effectively prohibiting Mexicans ...

Bought by WRPI, KXOT Public Radio, KPFA, and KRCC-FM


  • Added: Apr 10, 2007
  • Length: 17:42
  • Purchases: 4
Pirates of New York: The Battle Over Bootlegged DVDs
From: Craig LeMoult
Caption: PRX default Piece image
It may be illegal, but bootlegged DVDs are all over New York City

Bought by WFUV, KZSC, and Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Sep 28, 2006
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 3
Food Technicians Battling EColi
From: Jay Garthwaite
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Tracking raw milk through the cheesmaking process to prevent EColi poisoning.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 23, 2006
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 1
Toiletbowl Conservation
From: Shana S. Weber, Ph.D.
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A sustainability professional explores water-saving dual-flush toilets.

Bought by BSR Radio


  • Added: Sep 22, 2006
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 1
You Are Here: 1000 years of mapmaking history in one brief segment
From: Jackson Braider
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A short introduction to the wonderful world of maps

Bought by PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, KUOW, and KTNA


  • Added: Aug 28, 2006
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 4