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Apps for Employees with Autism
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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As of January, there were over three quarters of a million apps available for our smartphones and iPods. Thanks to one occupational therapist, some...

Bought by KENW, KFAI Minneapolis, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 29, 2013
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 3
Edna the Engineer and National Security
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
Caption: Secretaries, housewives, waitresses, women from all over central Florida are getting into vocational schools to learn war work. Typical are these in the Daytona Beach branch of the Volusia county vocational school., Credit: National Archives and Records Administration
A recent science test showing that American girls are lagging behind boys has brought women in science back into the national conversation. More th...

Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Radio Newark, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 4
International Testing in Science and Math
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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In response to international tests that show American students lagging, a number of programs supporting the study of science, technology, engineeri...

Bought by KENW, KFAI Minneapolis, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 3
The Republican Party has reached its peak in the South
From: With Good Reason
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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
American Hipster
From: With Good Reason
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Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs—all names you might recognize as poets of the Beat Generation. But a friend and inspiration to ...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:27
United Germany
From: With Good Reason
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When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 a country that had been divided was reunited. But after the physical wall was torn down, Germany was still l...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 02:27
Brain Injury and Couples
From: With Good Reason
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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
A New Book on Thomas Jefferson and Slavery
From: With Good Reason
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A recent book critical of Thomas Jefferson as a slaveholder has raised controversial questions about our founding father. Allison Quantz has the st...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:47
A tribute to Toni Morrison
From: With Good Reason
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In 1993, Toni Morrison became only the second American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Joanne Gabbin, executive director of the Furiou...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2012
  • Length: 02:39
The First Africans
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Until recently, not much was known about the first Africans who stepped foot on the North American continent. Today, scholars are learning unexpect...

Bought by KENW and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 12, 2012
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 2
A new book about the Taylor/Burton romance
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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When naming the most important stories of the 20th century, gossip writer Liz Smith rattled off the assassination of JFK, the Lindbergh kidnapping,...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Sep 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
West Nile and Birds
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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This year’s outbreak of the West Nile virus is breaking records, with over 1500 cases reported so far. One researcher believes that decreasing the ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Sep 07, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
Early Memory Loss
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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People born at the leading edge of the Baby Boom turned 65 last year, with more and more Americans entering what experts call “young old age.” One ...

Bought by KENW, WXDU, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 4
It may not sound like medicine...
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The growing field of music therapy found recent success in the treatment of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Her therapists sang or played...

Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 06, 2012
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 3
After the Blacklist
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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In the early years of the Cold War, a number of Hollywood directors and writers were blacklisted from the motion picture industry. One author says ...

Bought by KENW and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jul 17, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
An answer to the American education crisis
From: With Good Reason
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A psychologist and education specialist is finishing up a major study that looks at how teenage brains respond to mental exercises. His findings su...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
Dickens turns 200
From: With Good Reason
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Charles Dickens turns 200 this year, and two new films based on his books are in the works. But one scholar says there’s more to Dickens than his m...

  • Added: May 31, 2012
  • Length: 02:27
The legacy of Harry Crews
From: With Good Reason
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Southern Gothic writer Harry Crews died in March of this year. Although many people have never heard of him, Crews’ stories about outcasts inspired...

  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:26
Dead Zones
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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A renowned marine biologist is studying a silent killer in oceans and bays. Allison Quantz has the story.

Bought by KENW


  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 1
A New Western
From: With Good Reason
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A playwright’s new web-Western is part of television’s jump to the internet. Allison Quantz has details.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
Affrilachian Poet Frank X Walker
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The Kentucky poet who coined the term “Affrilachian” has a new collection of poetry. Allison Quantz reports he takes on historical and current racism.

Bought by KENW and West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 2
On Opening an Independent Bookstore
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Wendy Welch has written a memoir about what it means to open an independent bookstore at a time when physical books seem to be disappearing. Alliso...

Bought by Prairie Public, KENW, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 3
The Nightly News and the Civil Rights Movement
From: With Good Reason
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The Civil Rights Movement was the United States’ first major domestic news story to be televised. The author of a new book exploring television’s r...

Bought by WMTNradio, Troy Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 02:25
  • Purchases: 3
Veterans in the College Classroom
From: With Good Reason
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With the end of the War in Iraq, tens of thousands of soldiers have returned home, and many of them are going to college. Two writing professors ha...

Bought by KUOW, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 31, 2012
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 3
Arctic Ice Melt
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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In recent years, sea ice in the Arctic has been melting at an alarming rate, and scientists are asking why. The science community has recently take...

Bought by KENW and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 2