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Meteorite!
From: Matt Hill
Series: Today In History - with The Retrospectors
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The first meteorite to crash land into Earth - and have its date recorded - impacted the hamlet of Ensisheim (in modern-day France, then Austria) o...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 09:33
Top of Mind - Who Owns Our Cultural Heritage? — Museums, Repatriation, and Appropriation
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Who should decide how stories and artifacts of a cultural heritage are shared? What's the difference between appropriation and appreciation?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KOWS, KMXT, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 5
Ghostly Encounters of a Third Kind Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: ILLUSTRATION, Credit: by Doug Dobey
More ghostly encounters of a Third Kind with a woman named Sarah who seems to have something of a shine.

  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 25:23
Constant Wonder - Body, Soul & Memory: What would you do with a lock of George Washington's hair?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Clippings of Washington's hair were, for some, like a "selfie." For others, they were used to claim racial superiority.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jun 14, 2023
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 2
Submerged history in the land of 10,000 lakes
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: A volunteer with the non-profit Maritime Heritage explores a boat wreck at the bottom of Christmas Lake, Credit: Josh Knutson / Maritime Heritage
Have you ever accidentally dropped something in a lake? Plenty of Minnesotans have. That's why lake and river bottoms are full of artifacts and boa...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2022
  • Length: 06:38
Constant Wonder - Float Like a Butterfly, Major Taylor
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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The man who changed the course of boxing history.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 05, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 2
Constant Wonder - Pho-nomenal!
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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An exploration of delectable foods and the people who make them: pho, Italian grandmothers' pasta, and preserved sourdough.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 15, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 3
Top of Mind - Lautenwerck, Ghost Detective, Antarctic Forest
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Lautenwerck, Ghost Detective, Antarctic Forest

Bought by KSTK, RadioStPete Florida, RADIOLEX, KOWS, KSTK and more


  • Added: Aug 08, 2022
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 6
StoryCorps Griot: Fred Gilliam and Jerry Harris
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Dr. Thomas in his lab., Credit: Public Domain
Fred Gilliam and Jerry Harris remember their mentor, Dr. Vivien Thomas, a surgical researcher who developed groundbreaking medical techniques.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WYAP


  • Added: Jul 05, 2022
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 2
Top of Mind - Locking Letters, The Tolkien Heir, Crabs and Coral Reefs
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Before we had encrypted emails and security envelopes, people would protect their correspondence with fancy folding. Topic 2: How have J.R...

Bought by KSTK, RADIOLEX, KOWS, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 23, 2021
  • Length: 51:39
  • Purchases: 5
StoryCorps Griot: Dr. Charlene Drew Jarvis and Ernest Jarvis
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Dr. Charles Drew, pictured in a lab at Howard University in 1942, was known as the father of blood banking for pioneering the way we store and transport blood today., Credit: Dr. Charlene Jarvis
In the 1940s, Dr. Charles Drew was a surgeon and blood scientist, and today he is known as the “Father of Blood Banks.” His daughter, Dr. Charlene ...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 2
The Origins of Vaccine Hesitancy
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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More than half of all American adults have received a COVID-19 vaccine. But even though we’ve made great strides in our vaccination efforts, there ...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2021
  • Length: 03:27
Top of Mind - Founding Fathers, Smokejumpers, Generalists
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Founding Fathers, Topic 2: Smokejumpers, Topic 3: Generalists

Bought by KSTK, KOWS, WYAP, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jul 07, 2021
  • Length: 51:41
  • Purchases: 4
Toilets, Streetcars, and Light Poles—A Brief History of Artificial Reefs in Southern California
From: H2O Radio
Series: Journalism About Water
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Starting in the late 1950s, nearly everything but the kitchen sink was put in the ocean off the Southern California coast to promote sportfishing a...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Paranormal Cafe with Brian Haughton
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: The Paranormal Cafe
Caption: Brian Haughton's 'Haunted Spaces, Sacred Places, Credit: mysteriouspeople.com
Brian Haughton is an archeologist, researcher, and author on the subjects of supernatural folklore and ancient sacred places. When I contacted Bria...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2021
  • Length: 57:21
Top of Mind - Harriet Tubman, Global Warming, Library Fines
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 - Harriet Tubman; Topic 2 - Global Warming; Topic 3 - Library Fines

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KSTK, WYAP, RadioStPete Florida, KOWS and more


  • Added: Feb 24, 2021
  • Length: 51:42
  • Purchases: 6
March on Washington 2020, Animal Captivity Photography, Throat Singing
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 - Voices from the March on Washington 2020; Topic 2 - Photographer’s Intimate Portraits of 10,000 Species and Counting; Topic 3 - The Scien...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2020
  • Length: 51:22
Proving Einstein Right, Saving Coral Reefs, and Healthy Whining
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Proving Einstein Right: Daring Expeditions that Changed How We Look at the Universe. Topic 2: Scientists Lured Fish Back to Dying Coral Re...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 52:13
Collecting Scientific History, Fighting Dirty Money, Choice Overload
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Collecting scientific artifacts. Topic 2: How to fight dirty money. Topic 3: Are more choices better or worse?

Bought by KOWS


  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 49:28
  • Purchases: 1
Reel Discovery: Spaceship Earth
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Reel Discovery
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin explores a scientific story with an unexpected history in Spaceship Earth.

Bought by KSRQ and KKRN


  • Added: May 08, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Newton-flix
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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The bubonic plague forced a young Isaac Newton from his studies. How did he turn catastrophe into a year of wonders? For one, he didn’t have Netflix!

Bought by KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Silver Lining
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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2020 has felt like one disaster after another. Is there light at the end of this tunnel? Luckily, history suggests calamities spark innovations tha...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Poison Squad and the Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: A chemist's single-minded crusade for food safety. Topic 2: The neuroscientist who lost her mind.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2020
  • Length: 49:05
S2 Ep 8: Needle exchanges and harm reduction
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: David Venes (right) poses at the Tacoma Needle Exchange van with his dog, Ethel, and outreach worker, Laura Reynolds., Credit: Amber Cortes
In this episode we look at the idea of harm reduction and focus specifically on needle exchanges. Those are hundreds of places across the US that h...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 22:21
Reel Discovery: The Aeronauts
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Reel Discovery
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin takes to the skies with Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne in The Aeronauts.

Bought by WOUB, KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 05, 2019
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4