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A Progressive Environmentalist
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Cecelia Tichi
Jack London is known for his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North. But, that’s overlooking the real story. London was a reporter who made n...

Bought by KVSC, KPVL, and KCBX


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
Sunny's Back Yard: Nature's jewel tones
From: WTIP
Series: Sunny's Back Yard
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Nature has its own array of "jewel tones" - whether colors, smells or sounds. In this edition of Sunny's Back Yard, we are reminded that jewel tone...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2015
  • Length: 04:32
Can Oakland successfully curb illegal dumping?
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: A mountain of mattresses in West Oakland, Credit: Todd Whitney
For over a decade, Oakland has attempted to abate the illegal dumping of mattresses, electronics, furniture, and other large items onto city street...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 07:20
What To Do With Bayou Bienvenue?
From: WWNO
Series: What To Do With Bayou Bienvenue
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The Lower 9th Ward's Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle of today is what is called a “ghost swamp”. Until the 1960s, it was a full of cypress trees, ...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2014
  • Length: 18:02
Catching Cosmic Rays
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Out There: The Science of Exploring the Universe
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In December 2012, a two-ton instrument built to detect cosmic rays ascended into the Antarctic sky, carried by a balloon the size of a football fie...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 14:00
Food Sleuth Radio Benny McLean Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Benny McLean has been working in the Florida citrus industry ever since he was 10 years old. Today he is production manager for Uncle Matt’s Organ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
The Beat: Emily Brisse - "Playground"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Emily Brisse's place based work has appeared in publications like Orion, The Writer's Chronicle, and Minnesota Conservation Volunteer. She teaches ...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 02:06
The Beat: LouAnn Shepard Muhm - "Sitting Outside To Write Poems On the Day the Cottonwoods Let Go, Grand Marais, Minnesota"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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LouAnn Shepard Muhm is a widely published poet and teacher living in northern Minnesota. She has been featured in the mnartists.org series "What Li...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2013
  • Length: 01:28
Episode 6: "On the Banality of Pest Control"
From: WFHB
Series: The Custom House
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We explore both the lyrical and ethical heart of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring as we ask what are the ecological and moral effects of the banal and...

  • Added: Jul 13, 2013
  • Length: 29:05
Presence of the Past
From: Jennifer Jerrett
Caption: Archeologist Michael Holt at work in Bering Land Bridge National Preserve., Credit: NPS photo by Andrea Willingham
Some of the earliest records of human occupation in North America are in northwest Alaska. Archeologists in Bering Land Bridge National Preserve te...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KISU, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jun 09, 2013
  • Length: 06:15
  • Purchases: 4
The Beat: LouAnn Shepard Muhm - "Monologue"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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LouAnn Shepard Muhm is a widely published poet and teacher living in northern Minnesota. She has been featured in the mnartists.org series "What Li...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 01:42
The Beat : LouAnn Shepard Muhm - "Shoveling Out"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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LouAnn Shepard Muhm is a widely published poet and teacher living in northern Minnesota. She has been featured in the mnartists.org series "What Li...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 01:38
Fresh Talk: Roswell Artists in Residence Program
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
Caption: Roswell Artists in Residence participants, Spring 2012
Traveling to Roswell, NM, Cathy Byrd meets artists Sarah Bostwick, Jon-Paul Villegas, Brian Kluge, Corwin Levi (aka RadioSebastian), and Siobhan Mc...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 13:25
The Compromise of the California State Parks
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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The history and current status of the California State Park System is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious in a conversation with Frank Graha...

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Aug 22, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 1
German Chef Rolf Schmidt
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: AFRICA'S WILDEST STORIES
Caption: At Rolfs Place, Credit: http://rolfsplace.tumblr.com/
Rolf came to Kenya in 1973 in search of "Real Africa" and he found it. Few people know that Rolf is now a proud Kenyan citizen. I interviewed him a...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2012
  • Length: 13:28
Who was Guinea Pig B
From: Euan McAleece
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An exploration into the life and legacy of Richard Buckminster Fuller

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 01, 2012
  • Length: 15:00
  • Purchases: 1
Welcome to the Star Party
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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In the past decade, dark sky festivals have become attractions in parks across the U.S. 

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Feb 24, 2012
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 6
99% Invisible #31- The Feltron Annual Report (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Information designer Nicholas Felton has figured out how to graph the un-graphable: a year in his life.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service and more


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 13
99% Invisible #28- Movie Title Sequences (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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There's more to the Art of the Title than meets the eye.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 13
99% Invisible #27- Bridge to the Sky (Director's Cut)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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There are rules that dicate how high you can build. Bradford Gilbert just didn't believe in them.

Bought by KUOW and North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 2
99% Invisible #26- Chicago's Jailhouse Skyscraper (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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If you want to stand out as a skyscraper in Chicago, you've got your work cut out for you.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 11
99% Invisible #25- Unsung Icons of Soviet Design (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Imagine you're a country with 17 timezones. Your citizens want cassette players, but your factories only make tanks. What do you do?

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, WOUB, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 17
99% Invisible #24- The Two Fates of the Old East Portico (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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When the District recovered the old Capitol columns, it forgot about the other fragments that had also once held up the country's icon of democracy.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WTJU and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 16
99% Invisible #23- You Are Listening To (Standard 4:30 Version Only)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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When open-source data becomes a thing of beauty.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WTJU and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 13
99% Invisible #22- Free Speech Monument (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The inscription on the granite reads, “This soil and the air space extending above it shall not be a part of any nation...”

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 17