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ID Theft/ Women on the Front Lines/ Man behind the Chocolate/ RVs/ The Real Real
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
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Segment 1: Tanya Biank/women in military Segment 2&3: Dale Penn/identity theft Segment 4: Michael D'Antonio/Hershey Segment 5: Melanie Kaplan/RV sa...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge and KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Mar 12, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
The fickle fortunes of professional gaming pioneers
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Saahil Arora in Alameda where he lives with his championship winning DOTA 2 team., Credit: Jeremy Dalmas
Video games are now a spectator sports. And Dong Won, who’s 24, has made over $160,000 in prize money by playing in tournaments, sometimes for tens...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 10:02
#21 Felicia Day
From: How To Be Amazing
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With the publication of her memoir, “You’re Never Weird On The Internet,” Felicia Day walks Michael through how she made her own success on her ter...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2016
  • Length: 01:04:34
Startup Series: Lebanon
From: Hebah Fisher
Series: Kerning Cultures
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A Lebanese startup's journey through the nation's first accelerator and the Central Bank Circular 331 funds.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 20:47
  • Purchases: 1
Owning The Clouds
From: Steven Jackson
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Cloud seeding -- intervening in clouds to squeeze out precipitation -- is done all over the world. But it's not an exact science; we still have muc...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 09:38
  • Purchases: 3
The Ghost in the MP3
From: Emily Richardson-Lorente
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What's lost when a song is compressed into an MP3? To the untrained ear, perhaps nothing. But to one composer, these "lost sounds" are a source for...

Bought by WTJU, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 09:50
  • Purchases: 3
The Speed of Sound: Toro y Moi
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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Chaz Bundick never meant to be a musician. It was never in his original plan. He wanted to be a graphic designer. But now that he’s blown up as Tor...

Bought by KHNS and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Nov 14, 2015
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 2
It's Thin, It's Plastic, It's Back: Flexi Discs Find New Fans
From: Allyson McCabe
Caption: "In the metal community, there's a fascination with the tangible aspect of things," says Albert Mudrian, editor of metal magazine Decibel., Credit: Bruno Guerreiro /Courtesy of Decibel
In the digital era, brick-and-mortar record stores' stock in trade has increasingly become vinyl sales. But within that niche of an increasingly fr...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Nov 13, 2015
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
Windows Expert Hacks 'Droid Rifle at RAMming speed
From: Lyle Troxell
Series: GeekSpeak
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Brand new very fast memory, Windows 10 rolls out slowly, how to stay safe online: experts vs non-experts, and more Geeky News.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WYAP


  • Added: Sep 02, 2015
  • Length: 50:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich and the Quest for Longitude
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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Come with us on a visit to the home of the prime meridian for a conversation with the curator of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich about the race to...

Bought by WQCS, KMUD, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KFCF FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Planetary Radio Live-New Horizons Phones Home From Pluto!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Mat Kaplan and guests at KPCC waiting for New Horizons to phone home from Pluto., Credit: Southern California Public Radio
Join our live audience for highlights of an amazing evening, featuring Jim Bell, Bruce Betts, Mike Brown, Emily Lakdawalla and Bill Nye the Science...

Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KFCF FM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KWMR


  • Added: Jul 20, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 5
Start Even, I Do. Where?
From: Aaron Leeder
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This is a remixed interpretation of a collaborative piece with Benjamin Riskin - "Where Do I Even Start?" - A working interview for a smartphone so...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2015
  • Length: 05:50
Getting Humans to Mars with Chris Carberry
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The first human steps onto Mars in this illustration from the 2015 Humans to Mars Report., Credit: Explore Mars, Inc.
Explore Mars revealed the 2015 Humans to Mars Report at a recent conference in Washington. CEO Chris Carberry gives us a quick tour of this realist...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KMUD, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Designing the Washing Machine
From: Michael May
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Producer Michael May discovers prototype designs for washing machines from the 1800s, which not only scrubbed clothes, but churned butter and made ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 04, 2015
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 1
Where Do I Even Start?
From: Benjamin Riskin
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A Studs Terkel "Working" interview for a smartphone society.

  • Added: Apr 20, 2015
  • Length: 02:52
Open Source Song Writing
From: Fil Corbitt
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Billy Mack got a house, and then got 95 people to play a song about it.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2015
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 1
Making Love to Siri: The Seductiveness of Robots
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Tonight’s show “Making Love to Siri,” seeks to understand what is seductive to us about robots. Which question should we ask: Can we make love to S...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 58:33
The brave new world of play!
From: KALW
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Children today have a completely different experience on playgrounds than their parents did -- that's because they've changed as the result of new ...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2015
  • Length: 09:24
Jim Bell Welcomes "The Interstellar Age"
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Jim Bell's new book chronicles the Voyager mission to the outer solar system and beyond., Credit: Dutton Publishing
Planetary scientist and author Jim Bell has just written “The Interstellar Age—Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission.” He talks with Mat Kaplan abo...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Mar 03, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 1
Drones
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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For all of life's most meaningful moments, say it with a drone.

  • Added: Feb 18, 2015
  • Length: 02:07
In an old church, the Internet Archive stores our digital history
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: The Internet Archive, San Francisco., Credit: Under CC license from Flickr user Beatrice Murch
In San Francisco’s Richmond District, where Geary Boulevard meets Park Presidio, there stands a bright, white, defunct Christian Science church. Th...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 06:37
  • Purchases: 2
Youth Radio: How Some Teens Text 4 Free
From: WUNC
Series: WUNC Youth Radio
Caption: Jamayah Parrish conducting an interview outside the WUNC Studios in Durham, Credit: Carol Jackson
Jamayah Parrish is a rising senior at Northern High School in Durham. As a part of WUNC's Youth Radio Project, she reports on teens who have found...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 1
Call Your Mother!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip Roy tries to call his mother, but it proves to be more challenging than one would expect.

  • Added: Feb 02, 2015
  • Length: 04:30
The Allusionist 3: Going Viral
From: The Allusionist
Series: The Allusionist
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Remember when 'viral' used to only mean something bad, IE something that would make you ill or destroy your computer?

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 15:05
  • Purchases: 1
Recipe for a Small Planet
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of exoplanet Kepler -186f., Credit: Wikipedia
Astronomer and planetary scientist Courtney Dressing is the lead author of research that may have found the formula for the mass and composition of...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WYAP, and KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 4

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