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Thirty-six-year-old twins Carol Enoch and Katy Panek are physically identical in every way but one: Katy was born without ovaries. She never menstr...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, and KUER
- Added: Apr 05, 2016
- Length: 10:29
- Purchases: 3
Beginning in 1907, states in the US began to forcibly sterilize over 60,000 Americans -- people considered by scientists to be “unfit” -- the menta...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Mar 22, 2016
- Length: 22:29
- Purchases: 1
In Kansas, public schools are at the heart of a debate about how much money the state should budget for education -- a debate that comes down to a ...
- Added: Mar 08, 2016
- Length: 32:54
All over the country, critics argue that ID laws discourage voter participation--particularly among poor and minority voters. This is particularly ...
- Added: Feb 23, 2016
- Length: 24:44
In 2011 the FBI’s National Gang Intelligence Center released their Gang Threat Assessment, which listed Juggalos as a “loosely affiliated hybrid ga...
- Added: Feb 23, 2016
- Length: 22:45
In 2012 President Obama took matters into his own hands. His administration signed a memo addressing all branches of the Department of Homeland Sec...
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: 23:50
In the U.S., juries are often seen as democracy in action. Twelve men and women are asked to hear an entire case, and ultimately, decide another pe...
- Added: Jan 21, 2016
- Length: 23:13
In this episode of Wish We Were Here, we tell the remarkable story of Bishop Castle--an incredible piece of folk architecture that is likely one of...
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 59:08
In 2005, Danny Egipciaco had the opportunity to participate in a robbery of a drug supplier’s stash house. He was told he’d take home between $100K...
- Added: Nov 30, 2015
- Length: 19:35
Pregnancy tests weren't always the neat, little plastic wands we have in drug stores today.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 22, 2015
- Length: 10:20
- Purchases: 3
Underneath our vrooms, beeps and rumbles, natural sound may be more important than we think.
Bought by The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 20, 2015
- Length: 09:51
- Purchases: 3
In real life, the business of jury selection is a 400 million dollar industry. So in a world of high priced jury consultants what does a jury of ou...
- Added: Nov 03, 2015
- Length: 24:42
Imagine electronic music onstage without being welded to a keyboard. Imagine if a gesture could trigger a string section, a melody, a drum riff. No...
- Added: Oct 16, 2015
- Length: 58:55
We all know this feeling. You're driving. Maybe you're speeding. Maybe you don't think you're doing anything wrong. All of a sudden blue lights fla...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 06, 2015
- Length: 15:48
- Purchases: 1
Marijuana dispensaries in Victoria, BC occupy legal borderlands. Their very existence is contrary to the law of the land, but the law isn't crackin...
- Added: Sep 18, 2015
- Length: 27:51
Come with us as we deconstruct popular understandings of the death penalty through the stories of lives caught up in the web of state-sponsored kil...
Bought by KTSW 89.9
- Added: Sep 09, 2015
- Length: 59:59
- Purchases: 1
Pivot Point is a part of the 1016 Recovery Network in Midland, Michigan. It provides job training, and basic financial planning skills for those wh...
- Added: Aug 16, 2015
- Length: 25:00
During the state's largest HIV outbreak, a man conquers his addiction.
- Added: Aug 12, 2015
- Length: 13:06
Wyoming naturalist joins game herd, 'becomes' a mule deer
- Added: Aug 05, 2015
- Length: 21:04
The Bonfires of Social Enterprise with Romy Gingras of Gingras Global visits Ford Field in Detroit, the home of mentorship technology program, Tech...
- Added: Jul 28, 2015
- Length: 29:44
The Bonfires of Social Enterprise episode with Detroit fashion writer turned job maker and social enterprise entrepreneuer. Karen Buscemi is trying...
- Added: Jul 28, 2015
- Length: 28:08
From "Sista Suppers," to business skills training, Social Enterprise expert Romy Gingras talks about what inspired Lips & Hips founder, Yodit Mesfi...
- Added: Jul 27, 2015
- Length: 19:46
The law isn’t actually written in stone. It morphs and changes with the times. What happens when laws change all of a sudden and people find themse...
- Added: Jul 14, 2015
- Length: 19:32
Bounty hunters are kind of like human bloodhounds. They’re dogged. They won’t stop until they get who they’re looking for. Frank Abramovitz is a bo...
- Added: Jun 30, 2015
- Length: 20:22
Hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of rare books have been disappearing across America since the late 90s, and haven’t resurfaced in the marke...
- Added: Jun 30, 2015
- Length: 21:34
- Purchases: 2