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Every day of the week John stands near the corner of Laburnum Avenue and Brook Road in Richmond, Virginia’s Northside. He holds a sign that reads: ...
- Added: Mar 13, 2015
- Length: 27:05
There are eleven tribes of Indians who call Virginia home, among them the Chickahominy. And though they all now enjoy state recognition, the federa...
- Added: Nov 12, 2014
- Length: 28:31
Witch-hunts are curious phenomena, and thoroughly reactionary in nature. They generally begin with an inexplicable event of one kind or other—cows ...
- Added: Aug 30, 2013
- Length: 26:55
Remember the days when kids hiked into the woods? Caught tadpoles in a stream, and played tag on the playground? Well, those days are fading fast.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Apr 26, 2011
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
An imposing brick building on Airport Way at the edge of the International District housed detained immigrants from 1931 to 2004. It was once known...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 16, 2010
- Length: 08:58
- Purchases: 1
What happens to our consumer electronics after they've served their useful life? Discarded computer monitors often get shipped to Asia or Africa.
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
In the groovy 60s we were singing “Where have all the flowers gone?” Could a day come when we’ll sing the same about the honeybees?
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Ocean dead zones. Air and water pollution worldwide. All this bad news is enough to cause “Eco-phobia.”
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Gender issues are one of childhood's mysteries. We look back and go hmm...
Bought by WGDR and KRCB 104.9
- Added: Sep 11, 2008
- Length: 02:40
- Purchases: 2
A beached whale is a heartbreaking sight. And while nobody's sure exactly why "beachings" occur, scientists have offered several theories.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Aug 19, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
When rain refills a dried out pond, life soon returns to normal. Frogs croak, algae grows and dragonflies dart back and forth. But...that's only pa...
- Added: Apr 29, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Here's a question for you aspiring ornithologists out there. Why does the Spoon-billed Sandpiper have a spoon-shaped bill?
- Added: Mar 29, 2008
- Length: 01:32
For over 200,000 years, the Iriomote Cat lived in isolation on a tiny island between Taiwan and Japan. More recently, however, Iriomote Island has...
- Added: Mar 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
These days, Americans are driving three times as many miles per capita as they did in 1980. Not only are longer commutes driving us crazy, they're...
- Added: Mar 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Why can't members of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization sleep at night? They're counting fish instead of sheep.
- Added: Mar 26, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Remember Pete Seeger's song, "Where have all the flowers gone?" He blamed their disappearance on young girls picking them.But with eight thousand f...
Bought by WYOU
- Added: Feb 28, 2008
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
Remember these lyrics from Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi? "Don't it always seem to go, That you don't know what you got till it's gone?" Unfortun...
Bought by WYOU
- Added: Feb 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
In April of 1990, biologist David Jude pulled a little bug-eyed fish from the Saint Claire River near Detroit. It was a Round Goby.
Bought by WYOU
- Added: Feb 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
If you're wondering how our penguin friends in the Antarctic are doing these days, here are the cold, hard facts. Their poo is getting mighty pollu...
- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Sea turtles have been around for more than a hundred million years, so you'd have to call them survivors. But sea turtles may have met their match...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Nov 19, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
Students of the A+ alternative education program talk about teen suicide. (FREE)
- Added: Apr 20, 2006
- Length: 03:24
