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Breast Cancer in a Bottle with Polly Marshall
From: Doug Wood
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Chemicals in personal care products millions of women use everyday increase your risk of breast cancer.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:21
Cracking the Havana Syndrome with Dr. Beatrice Golomb
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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The symptoms suffered by diplomats and White House staff came from the same kind of radiation emitted by cell phones and cell towers.

Bought by WNED Buffalo and WYAP


  • Added: Apr 03, 2023
  • Length: 57:10
  • Purchases: 2
The Monsanto Saga with Carey Gillam
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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The sordid story of the corrupt Monsanto corporation, which created a highly toxic, cancer-causing pesticide and then developed GMO crops that were...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:32
The Physicists
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A very dark comedy about the nuclear age.

Bought by KKRN, KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 31
The EXTENDED Untold Story of True Crime in Minnesota with Frank Weber
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s EXTENDED Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with forensic psychologist and mystery ...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2022
  • Length: 44:45
The Untold Story of True Crime in Minnesota with Frank F. Weber
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with forensic psychologist and mystery author Fr...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:59
Unequal Justice: the Criminalization of Black Youth
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Nearly two thirds of all children in the U.S. juvenile justice system are kids of color. That’s according to a report by the Children’s Defense Fun...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Apr 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Island City Block Party 2021: Sprig of That
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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Tonight on The Live Feed we went to the Island City Block Party to hear more from Sprig of That, a Minneapolis band who creates a unique sound with...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 50:27
Pulse of Performing Arts in a Pandemic: No Name Bar
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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KQAL's Matt Drewry checks in with the owners of local music venue, No Name Bar in Winona during the COVID-19 pandemic. Original air date: 12/08/20

  • Added: Oct 13, 2021
  • Length: 22:18
Groups to Sue Idaho Over Wolf Kill - State Laws Violate Endangered Species Act
From: Brian Bahouth
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Audio: A conversation with Earthjustice associate attorney Benjamin Scrimshaw

  • Added: Jul 24, 2021
  • Length: 08:59
648-Smoky Nights
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Smith Telescope McDonald Observatory, Credit: McDonald Observatory
Until recently smoky nights at the observatory were rare. Now they have become more common place as wild fires continue to devastate portions of th...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, RADIOLEX, KGLP and more


  • Added: Jun 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
645-Shrinking Stratosphere
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: A view of Earth's atmosphere., Credit: NASA
As a result of human caused increases in green house gases the troposphere is expanding and the stratosphere is shrinking. Between 1980 and 2018 t...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Jun 04, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Severe drought spells catastrophe for California salmon populations
From: Brian Bahouth
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With a severe drought looming this summer, we spoke with John McManus, president of the Golden State Salmon Association to learn more about the pli...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2021
  • Length: 18:21
Medical Racism Past and Present
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Black Americans are twice as likely to die from COVID as white Americans. Despite this, polls show that African-Americans are less interested in re...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 03:58
Farming - recorded 4/2003
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A 3 generation family farm business discusses farming

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 23:15
Vaccine Hesitancy: Building Public Trust For Public Health
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The Biden administration has promised to make Covid-19 vaccines available to all US adults by May 1st, but getting a vaccine to those who need them...

Bought by KDNK, KWMR, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 24, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Lucy
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Is autism a disability...or an evolutionary adaptation?

Bought by KFCF FM, KWMR, KMUN, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 25
Children & Toxins
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Philip Landrigan
Thousands of new chemicals have been developed and released into the global environment during the last four decades. Yet, most of those chemicals ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Groundwater Pumping around Pahrump impacts Amargosa Canyon speckled dace
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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Last week, the Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect three populations of speckled dace in the D...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2020
  • Length: 14:27
589-Defending Earth
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The International Asteroid Warning Network, or IWAN (Eye-Whan) for short has been established to link scientists who are discovering, monitoring, a...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW and more


  • Added: May 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
A Viral Shortcut
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Safe Social Gathering, Credit: Facemask Meeting 1955
A thirty minute Pandemic overview featuring the latest information, health warnings and preventative measures, mixed with music from a variety of m...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2020
  • Length: 29:16
Vaping: What You Don't Know Can Kill You - Hour Special
From: KRCB 104.9
Series: Vaping: What You Don't Know Can Kill You
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We investigate the dangers of vaping, while listening to the voices of high school administrators, health professionals and students. One thing is ...

Bought by KOSU, WHYY, Prairie Public, WXXI Rochester, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2019
  • Length: 01:05:51
  • Purchases: 12
565-Ancient Crater
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In ancient times, Aboriginal people in southwestern Australia quarried fine grained rock on an ancient hill called Barlangi Rock to make very sharp...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Nov 22, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Radicalized
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Cory Doctorow
How we deal with the possibilities of tomorrow are very dependent on how we handle those possibilities today. Sounds simple, however, even when we ...

Bought by KRZA and KCBX


  • Added: Sep 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
71: Ants on Stilts
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Ants hunt for food, but how do they know how to get back? Content warning: Science is messy. Some ants were harmed and we talk about it. Not in gre...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2019
  • Length: 08:50