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Cyber Tracker
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
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Report on animal Cyber Tracker program inventor Louis Leibenberg.

  • Added: Feb 24, 2006
  • Length: 09:28
Sugar Cane Power Plants
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Barbados planners envision power plants run on sugar cane

  • Added: Jan 31, 2006
  • Length: 06:05
Darwin Exhibit
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Profile of the American Museum Of Natural History in New York's Darwin Exhibit

  • Added: Dec 23, 2005
  • Length: 09:54
Southern Colorado Weather Forecasting
From: KRCC-FM
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How the weather forecast is made

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Nov 02, 2005
  • Length: 06:15
  • Purchases: 1
The Truth about Bears and Humans
From: KRCC-FM
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Bears and humans clash in Colorado's foothills

  • Added: Oct 12, 2005
  • Length: 04:42
Hypnosis
From: Nathanael Johnson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Comedy hypnotists at county fairs have come to fill the space once occupied by the freak-show tent.

Bought by KTNA and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 21, 2005
  • Length: 05:32
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: Bridges of Bone and Blood
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A special documentary edition focusing on the work of the International Commission on Missing Persons to identify the remains of people who disappe...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
Self-Cleaning Fabric
From: Jacob Adelman
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A Hong Kong researcher creates a fabric that cleans itself in sunlight.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 01, 2005
  • Length: 03:22
  • Purchases: 2
Tunnel Singer
From: Catherine Girardeau
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Profile of a singer who is losing her voice.

Bought by KALW, PRX Remix, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2005
  • Length: 08:13
  • Purchases: 6
Elephant Orphans
From: 800 lb. Productions
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An elephant orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya, is keeping baby elephants alive.

Bought by KZYX, The Nature Podcast, KFAI Minneapolis, and Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Apr 21, 2005
  • Length: 08:15
  • Purchases: 4
March of the Salamanders
From: Adam Allington
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Every year the first spring rains rouse hibernating amphibians from their winter torpor. In Amherst, MA this time is punctuated by the annual Sala...

Bought by WABE, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, KUOW, and The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Apr 11, 2005
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 5
In Defense of Bad Weather
From: Guy Hand
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A good natured defense of bad weather.

Bought by KPIK-LP, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, and WGCU


  • Added: Feb 25, 2005
  • Length: 07:54
  • Purchases: 4
Metrology
From: Allan Coukell
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A romp through the history of measurement standards.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and AMERICAN-FM Internet Radio


  • Added: Nov 29, 2004
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 2
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
Finally: A Cure For Nervous Sheep
From: Merle Kessler
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Scientists find way to soothe anxious sheep. But how do you know when sheep are nervous?

Bought by KUSP


  • Added: Sep 23, 2004
  • Length: 01:25
  • Purchases: 1
The Museum of Jurassic Technology's David Wilson
From: M. Travis DiNicola
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An interview with David Wilson, the creator and curator of the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2004
  • Length: 13:23
Ask the Librarian: Will green tea treat my high blood pressure?
From: Jackson Braider
Series: Ask the Librarian
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Does green tea help with high blood pressure?

Bought by Raven Radio and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Aug 06, 2004
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 2
The Olfactograph
From: Trent Wolbe
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Conceptual artist Jamie O'Shea discovered a way to record smells, and paired them with something special.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 01, 2004
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 2
Werner the Wormer
From: Zachary Barr
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2,000 people in Maine make their living digging for bloodworms. Meet Werner Rhode, worm digger.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX, The Nature Podcast, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Jul 07, 2004
  • Length: 04:19
  • Purchases: 3
Listening by Design
From: Stasia DeMarco
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Feature on Hearing Technology for the Deaf

Bought by WGCU


  • Added: May 14, 2004
  • Length: 05:52
  • Purchases: 1
The Singing Yeast Cell
From: Claes Andreasson
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The sounds that cells make

Bought by PRX Remix, PRX, KFAI Minneapolis, BSR Radio, East Village Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2004
  • Length: 12:45
  • Purchases: 9
The Tongass National Forest Part One
From: Guy Hand
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The wet and wild nature of Alaska's Tongass National Forest, the largest intact temperate rain forest in the world.

Bought by PRX to iTunes, The Nature Podcast, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Dec 11, 2003
  • Length: 11:11
  • Purchases: 3
RIT Video Game Masters
From: David Clements
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Video Games

  • Added: Oct 07, 2003
  • Length: 07:23

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