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Songs of the Doomed
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Looking down the barrel at 2024, from our perch in the High Desert. Mojave thunderstorms, the strange maxims of the ancient temples, Christmas-tree...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
The Apple Seed - Bill Harley's "The Best Candy in the Whole World"
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Grammy-winning storyteller Bill Harley tells us a story about candy that makes a teacher exclaim, "This is the best candy in the whole world!"

Bought by KTXK, WVPE, KSJE, KKRN, and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
This Performance Company Wants You to Talk about Sex
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Sex Ed: A Sex Prov is a variety show that encourages talking about sex, Credit: Matthew Schneeman
Sex is hard to talk about. We often speak about it so indirectly. In Minnesota, many of us are even more adept to tiptoeing around the issue. But S...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2023
  • Length: 07:42
Artifact or Artifice: The Kensington Runestone Hoax
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture Podcast
Caption: Reporter Matthew Schneeman poses in front of the runestone at the Kensington Runestone Museum, Credit: Mattew Scheeman
In 1898, a farmer dug up a stone engraved with a Nordic language in a field in Kensington, Minnesota. People have been arguing about it ever since...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 25:48
The Apple Seed - Monkey King and Inky Pinky
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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"The Monkey King" features a story about an emperor of the south gate to heaven creates a monkey from a magical stone. Then listen to fun stories c...

Bought by KTXK, KSJE, KTXK, KKRN, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920 and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2021
  • Length: 54:56
  • Purchases: 6
The Apple Seed - Black Mamba
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On this episode of the Apple Seed we'll hear a story by the great storyteller Charlotte Blake-Alston, about a village who's survival depends someho...

Bought by KSJE, KKRN, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, WVPE, and KTXK


  • Added: Sep 14, 2021
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 5
The Apple Seed - The Invisible Boy
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On this episode of The Apple Seed we're bringing you a rendition of the Cinderella story. The story of Cinderella has hundreds of versions from all...

Bought by KSJE, WVPE, KTXK, KKRN, and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Sep 02, 2021
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 5
The Apple Seed - Onions
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On this episode of the Apple Seed you're going to hear a story called "Onions" from Cindy Rivka Marshall. It's a Jewish folktale about a young girl...

Bought by KTXK, KSJE, KKRN, KTXK, and WVPE


  • Added: Jul 20, 2021
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 5
Straight To Hell
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Night has fallen on the desert, the desert at its most brutal. The punishing desert, the earthly purgatory, the sun-blasted wilderness so many hero...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
'Rona Ramadan
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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Many Muslims fast during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. This year, it falls within the coronavirus pandemic and people are curious about the he...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and WYAP


  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
sontimeter / centimeter
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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If your client calls a centimeter a "sontimeter," I'll assume they're medical and you've got a leader. This is Episode 82 of Engineering Word Of T...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2020
  • Length: 06:10
In Defense of Captain Hook
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: Erik Bergmann as Captain Hook, Credit: Eric Molinsky
Peter Pan is not supposed to grow up, but he has grown from a symbol of immaturity to an iconic inner-child. Either way Captain Hook got a raw deal...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 22:27
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Donnie Pedrola and Tom Gasko
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Donnie Pedrola and Tom Gasko at their StoryCorps interview in Rolla, Missouri on June 26, 2019. , Credit: By Dupe Oyebolu for StoryCorps.
Tom Gasko has been a vacuum repairman for some 35 years, but his passion for vacuums extends far beyond that and into a collection of hundreds and ...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:21
Engineers on Eyes
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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What’s so great about the human eye? Can we build something just like it? When would we need to design something better? Sadhan joins the podcast a...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Jul 07, 2018
  • Length: 19:47
  • Purchases: 1
crazing
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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I tried ceramic glazing / The result was quite amazing / When I saw it cool / I touched not a tool / The surface showed cracks and crazing. ***This...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2018
  • Length: 04:57
Swipe Right for Hookup Culture!
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
Caption: College student using Tinder as a way to keep busy during the day., Credit: © 2018 Morgan Trau
"Hookup culture" is seen as just a part of society for college students. But could dating apps be what is harming relationships? Click play to hear...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 04:04
Mobile Game and App Reviews
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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Pius reviews with Rachel five mobile apps related to engineering education, available on Android and iOS. A ten-year-old guest reviewer also gives...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2017
  • Length: 29:56
duty cycle
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Not a doodie cycle, but a duty cycle. Episode 48 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phra...

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Dec 06, 2017
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
circumscribe
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Trying not to talk in circles here.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 1
inclinometer
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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A tool for pirates navigating the oceans, and more, yarrr...

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 1
autogyro
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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How is an autogyro different from a helicopter?

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
iterate
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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An introduction to this series about engineering vocabulary, phrases, acronyms, jargon, and slang.

Bought by WETD and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 03:14
  • Purchases: 2
Cello
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Cellist Alisa Weilerstein, Credit: Decca / Harald Hoffmann
We'll hear music by Steven Stucky, Elena Ruehr, Osvaldo Golijov, Jennifer Higdon, Paul Moravec, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, and Elliott Carter on this ep...

Bought by KMUN, KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), 'The Sea', WETS and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 9
Finding Center
From: Hebah Fisher
Series: Kerning Cultures
Caption: Teeba Alkhudairi, hooping in Dubai desert
Horse whisperers, Muslim astronomers, hula hoopers find their spiritual and physical centers.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 27:10
  • Purchases: 1
Shipwreck discovered off the coast of Lake Ontario
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: A photo of the recently-discovered Royal Albert., Credit: Jim Kennard
On Wednesday, a group of New York-based underwater explorers announced they discovered a mid-nineteenth-century shipwreck that's been hiding in the...

Bought by WSKG, WCMU Michigan, WBFO, and WCPN


  • Added: Jun 29, 2016
  • Length: 01:23
  • Purchases: 4