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Vibrators have been around since the 19th century. Before they were marketed primarily as sex toys, they were sold as general health devices … and ...
- Added: Apr 03, 2024
- Length: 58:23
American sign language is the third most commonly used language in the U.S., but for many Deaf folks, it's about so much more than communication. A...
- Added: Mar 20, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Sex robots have been a sci-fi staple since the genre’s birth. Now that more advancements in technology are bringing early generation bots to life, ...
Bought by KWGS and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 16, 2024
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 2
Self-help has existed in some form since the dawn of human civilization and has grown into a robust industrial complex. But does self-help really m...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KTSW 89.9, Troy Public Radio, KGOU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more
- Added: Jan 04, 2024
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 10
Self-help has existed in some form since the dawn of human civilization and has grown into a robust industrial complex. But does self-help really m...
- Added: Jan 04, 2024
- Length: 58:23
The rise of the wellness industry and marketing of wellness products moves us away from the individualized practices that actually make us feel hea...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Boise State Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, KJZZ and more
- Added: Nov 22, 2023
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 7
A woman moves into her new student digs and hears something coming from the basement...
- Added: Feb 14, 2022
- Length: 10:36
If you could meet up with one person in the afterworld, who would it be?
This SUPERHUMANS story takes us into the mind of a NASA astronomer as she...
- Added: Feb 19, 2021
- Length: 34:24
Allison Gill is a musician, stand-up comedian, and host of the Webby Award-winning podcast, Mueller She Wrote. Her art has led to her to tackle top...
- Added: Jan 12, 2021
- Length: 52:09
On today’s show we’re talking with two enlisted veterans who rose to the top of their respective fields in civilian life: Navy veteran Chef Geoff C...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
“Everything Is A War,” focuses on stories about how serving in a war zone can stick to a person, so deeply that traces of it will magically appear ...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 56:23
Today’s show is titled, with our tongues lodged firmly in our cheeks, “The Undesirables,” because it features two wonderful veteran voices who spea...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
Today’s episode takes its name after a quote by Lewis Carrol, “All That Is Really Worth Doing is Worth the Doing is What We do for Others,” and we ...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
he past doesn’t go anywhere. Time is a river, and you are standing in it. – Utah Phillips
Today’s show is split into three parts and three differe...
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:01
What happens overseas comes home with you, and can find a way to reappear back into your life when you least expect it.
Today’s episode is titled,...
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:01
Less than one percent of the entire country serves in the military at any given time nowadays, which is perfectly fine from a national security per...
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:01
If the Pope had a reckoning with the sex abuse crisis, what would it sound like?
- Added: Feb 26, 2019
- Length: 06:44
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: 2018 Martin Middle School Stories
Series: 2018 Martin Middle School Stories
Ms. Booth talks to students about her aviation-filled family history.
- Added: Jun 11, 2018
- Length: 05:39
Frank was a white supremacist. Jesse was a jihadi extremist. What do we see when we look beyond ideology?
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Apr 24, 2018
- Length: 59:45
- Purchases: 1
Frank was a white supremacist. Jesse was a jihadi extremist. What do we see when we look beyond ideology?
- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 59:45
Joe Lindsley was the protégé of Fox News chairman Roger Ailes. What moved the ambitious twenty-something to abandon the conservative media titan?
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 40:13
How can sound heal a body? With our guides, Susan Rogers—who recorded albums for Prince and David Byrne—and hypnotherapist Daniel Ryan, we explore ...
- Added: Jun 15, 2017
- Length: 35:28
College girl goes wild and learns important lesson along the way.
- Added: Jul 29, 2016
- Length: 11:16
Whether you’re a paid home care provider, or rely on personal assistance to meet your daily needs, or a family member caring for a loved one, the n...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WVAS, and WRIR
- Added: Apr 08, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
The story of the Fruchters, an orthodox Jewish family who lived above Elvis Presley’s family in a house in Memphis. They would often call on teenag...
- Added: Sep 18, 2014
- Length: 05:43
- Purchases: 3
