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Listen to stories about life's unexpected turns.

  • Added: Jan 22, 2020
  • Length: 58:03
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Geologist Lori Dengler talks about NOAA's National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program. This program provides and facilitates vital warning systems a...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Earthquakes occur on faults and fault ruptures many miles beneath the surface. Dr. Lori Dengler says we needn't worry about storms and surface wat...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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On this segment of Shaky Ground, Geologist Lori Dengler takes on tales of earthquakes swallowing up hapless critters.

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 01:23
  • Purchases: 1
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How will we know a tsunami may be coming? Other than feeling the ground shake, we rely on tsunami warning centers to alert us about potential risk...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 1
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The next earthquake is likely to happen when you least expect it. Relatively infrequent events are hard to plan for. Geologist Lori Dengler advise...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 01:28
  • Purchases: 1
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Beautiful walks along the beach are possible any time of the year on the northcoast. Lori Dengler encourages us to be mindful of the unexpected "...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Dr. Lori Dengler gives us a primer for the science of tectonics.

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Glenn Boyd was convicted of a crime he did not commit. This episode of the California Innocence Project features another story about a bad identifi...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2018
  • Length: 05:00
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The California Innocence Project relies on interns to go through thousands of requests for assistance. In this episode, interns share some of their...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
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Kids at Martin Middle School discuss what Dia de los Muertos means to them.

Bought by RADIOLEX, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Jake Harper, 29, is Side Effects Public Media's resident hypochondriac. His newest health anxiety stems from the human papillomavirus, or HPV., Credit: Brian Paul/Side Effects
A generation of young men missed out on the HPV vaccine. Now, Side Effects Public Media's 29-year-old correspondent wonders if that’s putting him a...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2016
  • Length: 03:23
Caption: Odessa Summers
For 22 years, Philadelphia FIGHT has hosted an entire month of free workshops, trainings, and outreach about HIV and AIDS. This year, Life of the L...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2016
  • Length: 01:01:58
Caption: Host Osagie Obasogie, Credit: Riverview Photography
This week we take you to New Orleans, for stories told by legal scholars about what life's like as a legal scholar.

  • Added: Jun 17, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:41
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This week we take you to Nashville for BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS: stories about the blues, jazz, songwriting and a cabin in the woods.

  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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Producer Grant Frashier attends the 1st Northwoods Pond Hockey Championship on McKinney Lake in Grand Rapids, MN. Will the weather cooperate?

  • Added: Feb 26, 2016
  • Length: 10:44
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Reporters ask people "If YOUR life was a TV Newscast, what would be your top story RIGHT NOW?" The result is a refreshing montage of what REALLY ar...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2016
  • Length: 28:45
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Reporters ask people "If YOUR life was a TV Newscast, what would be your top story RIGHT NOW?" The result is a refreshing montage of what REALLY ar...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2016
  • Length: 29:02
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Reporters ask people "If YOUR life was a TV Newscast, what would be your top story RIGHT NOW?" The result is a refreshing montage of what REALLY a...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2016
  • Length: 28:38
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Conor McSweeny is a graduate student studying music and popular culture and a lifelong guitar nerd. Naturally, his Song Story fits nicely into his...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2015
  • Length: 04:44
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“When I was incarcerated, I had no intention of falling in love. I wasn’t looking for it...Then one day our hands touched.”

  • Added: Sep 29, 2015
  • Length: 08:56
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Some people police their yards. Some people police their streets. And some people get together to police their neighborhoods. If you've ever been p...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2015
  • Length: 10:04
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"It was the summer. And it was hot."

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 26, 2015
  • Length: 08:48
  • Purchases: 1
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What are the origins of this dance? How did it begin? Who are the rising talents of this subculture based on the West Side of Chicago? And how has ...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 11:57
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A mother comes to terms with the fact that her young son...is actually her daughter.

Bought by XRAY.fm, HowSound, WCPN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 07:17
  • Purchases: 7