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For today’s dumb idea, meet Barry Marshall. An Australian medical student, in 1982 he claimed that bacteria cause gastritis… then peptic ulcers, th...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 02:30
Wonder drugs have snuffed out some terrifying diseases. But first they must be approved by the U.S. government’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 02:30
We don’t hear the word “anarchy” much today, but a century ago it was a worldwide social movement. In 1894 Charles Rodolf wrote: “The true anarchis...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 02:30
Apologies--we had sound quality issues. We did not record from the bottom of a metal trash can while hiding from mystery blobs falling from the sky...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Oct 11, 2021
- Length: 04:53
- Purchases: 1
Rice Miller is probably the more known "Sonny Boy Williamson" although there was previously to his time an actual Blues harmonica player who's went...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 59:19
If you know and love the Vidalia onion—an onion sweet enough, its fans say, to eat like an apple—you likely also know it as a product of Georgia, a...
Bought by WMMT, KVLU, and West Virginia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Jan 26, 2017
- Length: 28:42
- Purchases: 3
Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack explores the very thing that makes St. Cloud the “Granite City” as he heads out at the Stearns Count...
- Added: Sep 21, 2016
- Length: 30:00
On Wednesday, a group of New York-based underwater explorers announced they discovered a mid-nineteenth-century shipwreck that's been hiding in the...
Bought by WSKG, WCMU Michigan, WBFO, and WCPN
- Added: Jun 29, 2016
- Length: 01:23
- Purchases: 4
Do you know who wrote "That '70s Show" theme song, "In the Street"? Cheap Trick, maybe? Wrong: Big Star. Today's episode of Rock School will discus...
- Added: May 27, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
Abraham Lincoln through Fiction—a conversation with professor and novelist Adam Braver, whose work includes Mr. Lincoln's Wars; also, poetry from D...
Bought by KUCB
- Added: Mar 14, 2012
- Length: 29:02
- Purchases: 1
Never-before released interviews with the late Dick Latvala, the first official archivist for the Grateful Dead.
Bought by KZYX
- Added: May 03, 2007
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Mr. York explains the benefits of studying Shakespeare.
Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting, KUHB, WGBH Radio Boston, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jun 02, 2005
- Length: 59:49
- Purchases: 4
