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The Big Ponder #44: Ball Bearings
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Ball bearings — these mechanisms are all around us, inside our wheels and motors. Hidden away, we rarely see them, and most people don’t even know ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 01, 2022
  • Length: 28:24
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #43: The Typewriter
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In search of inefficiency in an overly efficient digital world, Jakob Lewis entered the ‘typosphere,’ an online community of typewriter enthusiasts...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 27:43
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #34: Sounds of Nature
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Tosca Terán creates soundscapes using fungi. In this immersive piece, Tosca takes listeners on a soundwalk, pausing periodically to interview other...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 14, 2022
  • Length: 25:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #30: The Zoo
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Growing up, Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller traveled the world with his family. On their trips, they always made time for a visit to the local zoo: in Ber...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 28:06
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #29: Humor
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Despite the cliché of the unfunny German, there is a rich tradition of comedy in German culture. Soraya Nelson visits comedy clubs in Berlin and in...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 27:41
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #27: Immersion
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Immersive artwork breaks down the border between the viewer and the artist, submerging the spectator in the exhibit. Nancy Pettinicchio discusses t...

Bought by KVSC, KMXT, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 06, 2022
  • Length: 27:02
  • Purchases: 3
The Big Ponder #26: Krampus
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In the U.S., Santa keeps tabs on who’s been naughty or nice, but there isn’t much follow through on the naughty list. In much of Europe, however, S...

Bought by WBEZ and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 23, 2021
  • Length: 27:27
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Ponder #22: Candy
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
Caption: The Big Ponder, Credit: © Goethe-institut
As a kid, candy makes the world go round. As an adult, it has the power to bring back long-forgotten childhood memories. Carol McKinley talks about...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:06
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #21: Community
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Community is the story of our lives. It is who we are, who we have been, and who we hope to become. Melissa Gerr visits Jewish congregations in Bal...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:19
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #15: Record Booth
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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By the 1920s, people had begun using coin-operated record booths to create audio souvenirs — immortalizing their thoughts and feelings on a disc. C...

Bought by HowSound and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Ponder #14: Sacred Self
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In her early 20s, Sibylle Baier recorded 14 folk songs that she says saved her life. Then, she packed the tape away and forgot about it. Decades la...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KMXT


  • Added: Jul 01, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Ponder #11: Home
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Is ‘home’ a place or more of a feeling? Jocelyn Robinson speaks with three American expats who unpack the relationship between self and place, draw...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 27:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #9: In Friendship
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Inspired by a year of forced isolation, essayist Bilal Qureshi explores the history, landscape, and meaning of friendship across cultures. At the h...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:47
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #5: Little America Revisited
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
Caption: The Big Ponder, Credit: © Goethe-institut
Since World War II, there have been countless American GIs stationed at military bases all over Germany. Sylvia Cunningham and Monika Müller-Kroll ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:52
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #4: Anatomy of an Apology
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Katie Davis tells the story of an inadvertent provocation between two boys at a teen center in her Washington, D.C. neighborhood, the conflict that...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 24:52
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #3: Radio Wanderlust
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Bilal Qureshi explores the German-English idea of ‘Wanderlust’ through his personal audio archives and conversations with fellow travelers. Does th...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 14, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #1: I Love You, I Hate You
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
Caption: The Big Ponder, Credit: © Goethe-institut
“We have the right to hate Germany because we love it,” German writer Kurt Tucholsky wrote. Listening to positions from both sides of the Atlantic ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Seeking and Blundering – The Discovery of Penicillin
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: Fehler (Mistakes)
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This episode of the FEHLER podcast is an exploration of mistakes in science and their connection to art. Listen for more!

  • Added: Oct 09, 2020
  • Length: 14:27
Rediscovered Radio: WYSO’s Lost Tapes
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: Fehler (Mistakes)
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Listen to this story on how an act of benign neglect transformed Southwest Ohio based WYSO from a small public radio station into a community.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 30:33
  • Purchases: 1
Voice Recognition
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Microphone, Credit: Grant https://www.flickr.com/photos/visual_dichotomy/
What do our voices say about us? On this edition we explore voice and identity. We'll hear from someone who nearly lost their voice as well as the ...

Bought by WNJR and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Oct 03, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Criminal: Hour-Long Special #1
From: Criminal
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Four stories of people who have done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in-between.

Bought by WYSO, WUNC, Louisville Public Media, KOSU, 90.5 WESA and more


  • Added: May 19, 2014
  • Length: 53:24
  • Purchases: 7
You Are How You Sound
From: Hold That Thought
Series: On Language
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How may speech affect your perceived level of intelligence? Dr. John Baugh describes research that sheds light on linguistic profiling.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Feb 17, 2014
  • Length: 12:31
  • Purchases: 1
Linguistic Insights
From: Hold That Thought
Series: On Language
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In the late 1980s, a personal case of housing discrimination prompted Dr. John Baugh to launch decades of research into what he calls linguistic pr...

Bought by KRZA and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 17, 2014
  • Length: 11:30
  • Purchases: 2
Zelma On Strike: One Taco Bell Worker's View of the 2013 Fast Food Strikes
From: The Good Fight
Caption: Your new favorite podcast.
On December 5, 2013, fast food workers across the country walked out on a one-day strike, demanding fairer wages. But what's really at stake? The G...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2013
  • Length: 06:08
Mascot Boot Camp: Putting the F-U back in FUN
From: Alexis Kenyon
Caption: Dave Raymond watching Fritz the Cat at Mascot Boot Camp, Credit: Alexis Kenyon
Since retiring as the original Philie Phanatic, Dave Raymond makes his living training professional mascot performers and creating new mascot ident...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2013
  • Length: 23:31