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90% of the world's goods are carried by cargo ships. And the oceans they sail on are streaming with wind: High tech wing sails used on America's Cu...
Bought by Hark!, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTIP, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 15, 2013
- Length: 06:41
- Purchases: 5
The maker movement is taking off and the private space industry is booming right now. So, naturally, some fearless do-it-yourselfers are crafting t...
Bought by WDBM, Marfa Public Radio, Hark!, New Hampshire Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more
- Added: Jul 12, 2013
- Length: 07:30
- Purchases: 7
It has been just over three months since the federal spending cuts known as sequestration first took effect.
A handful of programs were spared — b...
- Added: Jun 18, 2013
- Length: 06:06
Personal Audio LLC owns a patent that it says covers the entire concept of podcasting. Podcasters are being asked to pay licensing fees for the rig...
Bought by KUOW and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 05, 2013
- Length: 07:36
- Purchases: 2
New Bedford Harbor ranks among the worst harbors in the country for surface oil spills. Harbor officials and environmental groups can’t even agree ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 06:50
The Senate’s immigration reform proposal offers a fast track to citizenship for agricultural workers so that they can “continue to do the vital wor...
- Added: May 03, 2013
- Length: 04:02
One of the oldest and certainly the largest guest worker program in United States history was that of the Braceros. Nearly 5 million Mexican labore...
- Added: May 02, 2013
- Length: 03:48
A federal judge stopped the most controversial parts of Arizona's 2010 immigration law from going into effect. But supporters say that hasn't preve...
Bought by Listenwise
- Added: May 01, 2013
- Length: 04:11
- Purchases: 1
In the last two years, more than 205,000 parents of American citizen children were deported from the United States. That means a new influx of Amer...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 03:47
The majority of the 400,000 people deported from the U.S. in 2012 were adults, many with criminal records, but minors are sometimes caught up in th...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 03:47
- Purchases: 1
Writers of science fiction have long predicted a time when computers could engage humans in two-way communication, from R2D2 to the sinister Hal 90...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Apr 11, 2013
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 1
The trains of Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina are falling apart. A group of train workers and student activists says the problem is that private co...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 08:36
When city budgets are cut, public transportation is often on the chopping block; routes and lines serving those who need the service most, can be t...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 29:00
In Ohio, some of the best pockets of oil and gas in the East run right under Amish country. Reid Frazier found the drilling boom is confronting the...
- Added: Mar 11, 2013
- Length: 06:37
On January 24, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta lifted the ban on women serving in combat roles in the military. War News Radio reporter Amy DiPie...
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 03:47
Drones, or unmanned aircraft, are making headlines for their controversial attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan…and for how they could be used for s...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 07:01
- Purchases: 1
Since the 1970s, Republicans have controlled Southern politics, but according to one researcher, the Republican Party has reached its peak in the S...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 02:28
Mead Avenue is a single block in West Oakland in the triangle where San Pablo Avenue and Market Street meet. Like streets in a lot of low-income co...
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 09:53
When we think of the Arab Spring, the countries Egypt, Libya, Syria, and Tunisia come to mind. But what about Morocco? Elliana Bisgaard-Church ha...
- Added: Dec 11, 2012
- Length: 07:17
Picture a slimy seaweed thicket – each plant a dark gold-brown, with a strong spine – wrapping around ropes, chains, and other sea life. This is Un...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 06:13
- Purchases: 2
One of the areas hit hardest by state budget cuts is California’s judicial branch. Governor Jerry Brown and the Legislature cut $350 million from t...
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 04:56
After decades of neglect, prison rehabilitation programs are seeing a resurgence, despite some hiccups. For California, this emphasis on rehabilita...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Dec 02, 2012
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 2
Five times as many people get a brain injury than are diagnosed with breast cancer, and the aftermath of a traumatic brain injury can be devastatin...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Nov 19, 2012
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 1
For the past 39 years, the California’s 15th Congressional District has been represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by 81-year-old Pete S...
- Added: Nov 02, 2012
- Length: 04:42
A recent release of an environmental report provides insight in to the Mississippi River's condition.
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 05:18
