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The A in LGBTQIA: Learning from Asexuals About Sex & Relationships
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Angela Chen says her book, Ace, "invites everyone to rethink pleasure and intimacy.", Credit: Photo by Sylvie Roskoff.
Quick, what’s your sexuality? Most of us know roughly where we fall on the Kinsey scale that goes from 0 to 6. But have you considered the asexual ...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Jun 07, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Even if it smells bad, this researcher loves solving mysteries
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: Leo S. Morales loves his job as a researcher of minority health at the University of Washington., Credit: KUOW PHOTO/TORI ZIVKOVIC
People sometimes take unlikely paths to get where they're going. This is the story of an unlikely scholar.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
Science fiction writer Paolo Bacigalupi & "The Water Knife"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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This Paonia, Colorado National Book Award finalist describes a thriller version of possible future water wars in the American Southwest. Is this an...

Bought by KRZA, Radio Newark, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 04, 2015
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 3
A Dream Job
From: Daniel Wanschura
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What exactly is a dream job? Is it one that pays a lot of money? One where you don’t have to do much work? Is it one that makes you famous? …Or, is...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2014
  • Length: 04:58
A day at Herring River
From: Ben Harden
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Every spring, river herring return to the rivers and ponds of Cape Cod to spawn. They are met by a group of volunteers who, come rain or shine, sho...

Bought by Radio Newark and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 03, 2013
  • Length: 07:58
  • Purchases: 2
Author Anthony Brandt and "The Man Who Ate His Boots"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Anthony, no stranger to faraway places himself, tells the harrowing history of the search for the Northwest Passage in "The Man Who Ate His Boots."...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 17, 2013
  • Length: 10:11
  • Purchases: 1
Sound Healer
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A story of the surprising healing power of sound.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KGOU, SALTcast Podcast, and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 06:59
  • Purchases: 4
A Hope Thing
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine sells lab mice to medical research facilities all over the world.

Bought by KUOW and CKMO


  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 2
Sir Patrick Moore. The British star of astronomy. Promo 2.
From: Carl Stiansen
Caption: Carl Stiansen and Sir Patrick Moore
Sir Patrick Moore talks about his life in astronomy, life on Mars, and playing music with Einstein.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2008
  • Length: :18
Ask the Librarian: Who's got better eyesight -- the jumping spider or the hawk?
From: Jackson Braider
Series: Ask the Librarian
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A schoolbook claims jumping spiders have better eyesight than hawks: is that true?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and WUAL


  • Added: Nov 12, 2004
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 2