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15: Music and Memory (Standard Length)
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds (Standard Length)
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Nearly everyone has strong emotional connections to music, and one man realized that our relationship to music might improve the quality of life fo...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
09: Babble Machine (Standard Length)
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds (Standard Length)
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The Babble Machine, takes its name from a fictional device referenced in The H.G. Wells novel, The Sleeper Awakes.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Two Guys on Your Head: Aging and The Brain
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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Life is terminal. Whether we like it or not, time marches on, and as it does, we age. One of the most challenging realities for everyone to face ...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2013
  • Length: 07:20
Two Guys on Your Head: Choose Your Delusion
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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So how do we define delusion? Well, actually, like most other things, that definition can be left up to the person who is doing the defining. Mer...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2013
  • Length: 07:20
Riddles from the Border Regions 9/28/13
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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TWICE EACH YEAR ...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Sep 26, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Mt. Sutro's eucalyptus trees raise question of how to manage urban forests
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Just under 22 years ago, a fire caught in the Oakland hills. That fire killed 25 people and destroyed more than 3,000 homes, and it was so destruct...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 08:37
Did a WWII nuclear experiment make the U of C radioactive?
From: WBEZ
Series: Curious City
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Um, No. But did the Manhattan Project’s Enrico Fermi consider the risk to Chicago?

Bought by XRAY.fm, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 19, 2013
  • Length: 10:03
  • Purchases: 3
32: 52 Hz (Extended cut)
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
Caption: Pinball the Humpback whale, Credit: Craig Shank
52 Hz is the name given to a mysterious whale that vocalizes at a different frequency than other whales. Some refer to him as "The World's Lonelies...

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Jul 18, 2013
  • Length: 15:17
  • Purchases: 1
The Elusive Digital Stradivarius
From: David Schulman
Caption: Data from 12 different locations let violinmaker Joseph Curtin digitize a violin's sonic fingerprint., Credit: David Schulman
The sound of a fine acoustic violin is deviously hard to mimic. But a leading maker now has a digital prototype designed to sound the equal of a St...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, Troy Public Radio, Hark! and more


  • Added: Jul 15, 2013
  • Length: 07:38
  • Purchases: 17
The Last of the Iron Lungs
From: Julia Scott
Caption: Martha Lillard, 65, uses her iron lung to breathe at night., Credit: Julia Scott
Sixty years after polio was eradicated in America, a dozen survivors still rely on their iron lungs to breathe. Come inside the machine Martha Lill...

Bought by KPIK-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, KOSU, Hark! and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2013
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 14
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
Backpacks... for Dragonflies?
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Dragonfly wearing a "telemetry backpack"
Why itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny backpacks may be the key to understanding how animals capture prey.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 1
TRANCE -- Danny Boyle Phone Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Danny Boyle talks meeting royalty, seducing the audience, and training Rosario Dawson’s voice.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2013
  • Length: 12:00
01: The Tide and the Seay (Standard Length)
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds (Standard Length)
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Explore the role of sound in art with Jesse Seay and her "Mechanical Tide."

Bought by KWMR and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
15: Music and Memory
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Nearly everyone has strong emotional connections to music, and one man realized that our relationship to music might improve the quality of life fo...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 15:46
09: Babble Machine
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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The Babble Machine, takes its name from a fictional device referenced in The H.G. Wells novel, The Sleeper Awakes.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 02, 2013
  • Length: 11:30
  • Purchases: 1
Scaled Down
From: Mallory Falk
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When sea creatures get sick, there's one way to find out what's wrong: perform a necropsy.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 10, 2012
  • Length: 07:04
  • Purchases: 1
Almost Awake
From: Sanjena Sathian
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Peter Morgan can decide what he wants to do in his dreams. A research psychiatrist at Yale University, Dr. Morgan studies and practices lucid dream...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 11:56
Costly Invasive Fire Ants
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is killing fire ants using a method that sounds like it was inspired by the movie Alien. It involves using insec...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
Water Pollution Cleanup
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Garbage and noise. Sounds like the latest rock group. But no, turns out the two are much more useful. In fact, garbage and noise are actually being...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
CANE TOADS: THE CONQUEST -- Mark Lewis interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Filmmaker Mark Lewis on challenging himself, glamorizing amphibians, and the human folly of trying to outsmart Mother Nature.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2012
  • Length: 19:17
Stinky Feet Mosquito Trap
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The next time your significant other complains about your stinky socks, just tell them you’re doing scientific research!

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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
THE PEOPLE VS. THE STATE OF ILLUSION -- Filmmaker Austin Vickers
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Austin Vickers, San Francisco, CA 4/13/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Austin Vickers talks attitude, imagination, and particle physics.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2012
  • Length: 19:11
Robofish
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Technology inspired by nature, to help nature. This led an engineer and a zoologist to create a fish-shaped robot...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1