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As the workforce of funeral directors ages, young folks are stepping up to lead and change the death care industry.
- Added: Apr 17, 2024
- Length: 58:23
There are 1.8 billion monthly menstruators worldwide. Better understanding the science behind period blood, as well as cultural stigma and period p...
- Added: Feb 01, 2024
- Length: 58:23
In surrogate partner therapy, a therapist, a surrogate partner and a client work together to understand and help resolve the client’s challenges wi...
- Added: Oct 04, 2023
- Length: 58:23
Twenty some years ago, when I lived in Eastern Washington, I was out at a lake one busy summer day, enjoying the heat of an Indian summer. I wasn't...
- Added: Sep 03, 2023
- Length: 07:12
The Nocturnists’ Emily Silverman tells a story about how medical school satisfied much of her curiosity about the human body—but how some mysteries...
- Added: May 05, 2023
- Length: 44:24
Actor-turned-otolaryngologist Alessa Colaianni has no problem acting sad—it’s actually feeling sad that’s the problem. In this episode, Alessa tell...
- Added: May 05, 2023
- Length: 40:08
- Added: Jun 15, 2022
- Length: 09:55
- Purchases: 1
Poetic and musical reflections about being "happy".
- Added: Nov 14, 2020
- Length: 54:22
Some move through the world with laser focus. Others are swept into the future by forces of fate. This week we hear about the roads you've taken. O...
- Added: Oct 19, 2020
- Length: 42:25
A series of random events in Nepal bring an Israeli reporter and a nepalese teenager to grow an unlikely bond.
- Added: Dec 06, 2018
- Length: 23:57
Artipoeus visits Swedish artist Henrik Stromberg's "Echoes in Dust" at Galerie Aplus in Berlin.
- Added: Sep 12, 2017
- Length: 20:00
Teodora Schipper (b. 1944 in the Philippines) reflects on her life based on this 2013 interview by 5th graders Addie and Scott of Winchester Thurst...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KGLP
- Added: Mar 03, 2016
- Length: 05:04
- Purchases: 2
Niama Elharrak (b. 1971 in Morocco) reflects on her life based on this 2014 interview by 5th graders Hannah, Carsten and Garrett of Winchester Thur...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 03, 2016
- Length: 03:56
- Purchases: 1
Former steelworker Marlene “Miss Pumpkin” Murphy of Homestead, Pennsylvania reflects on her life based on this 2015 interview by Propel Homestead m...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 03, 2016
- Length: 04:52
- Purchases: 1
Mary Wohleber (b. 1916 on Pittsburgh's Northside) reflects on her life based on this 2008 interview by 8th graders Hironda and Jesse of Manchester ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 03, 2016
- Length: 11:39
- Purchases: 1
Lena Cammarata (b. 1912 in Yatesboro) reflects on her life based on this 2008 interview by 8th graders Morgan and Brisha of Manchester Academic Cha...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 03, 2016
- Length: 08:37
- Purchases: 1
Laxmi Aryal (b. 1951 in Nepal) reflects on her life based on this 2014 interview by 5th graders Mat, JP and Lily of Winchester Thurston School in P...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 03, 2016
- Length: 04:22
- Purchases: 1
Karla Stept (b.1918 in Austria) reflects on her life based on this 2011 interview by 5th graders Anatea, Ellis and Jackson of Winchester Thurston S...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 03, 2016
- Length: 08:32
- Purchases: 1
Hermila Perez reflects on her life before and after coming to the United States in 1951 based on interviews by Clarence and Jevon, teens participat...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 03, 2016
- Length: 02:54
- Purchases: 1
In the age of texts, twitter and email, do people still write fan letters? What compels us to do so?
- Added: Dec 24, 2014
- Length: 29:40
At the beginning of the 19th century women in the United States had an average of seven or eight children. By 1900 they had only three or four, and...
- Added: Dec 03, 2014
- Length: 40:27
How old is gender? Can a six-year-old child really be considered transgender? Marlo Mack explores this question, with a little help from her tran...
Bought by WCPN
- Added: Sep 06, 2014
- Length: 08:54
- Purchases: 1
Youth Media Project intern Tara Trudell, a student at New Mexico Highlands University, interviews South African folk artists Lulama Sihlabeni, in a...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 08:22
N’MPower participant and Program Manager, Curtis Billie, interviews Kathy Wan Povi Sanchez, a potter from the San Ildefonso Pueblo, in a community ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 06:32
N’MPower participant, Justin Zeigler, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Andrew Montoya, in a community engagement project between the Museum of In...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 05:29
