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While the media affect our vocabulary, our accents are a product of our community.
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KENW, and WLPR
- Added: Feb 19, 2016
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 3
DNA evidence reveals that the enormous armored glyptodont, an extinct South American mammal, was a close cousin to modern armadillos.
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KENW, and WLPR
- Added: Feb 19, 2016
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 3
Author William Doyle reads the first of two passages from his book, PT 109: An American Epic of War, Survival, and the Destiny of John F. Kennedy.....
- Added: Oct 15, 2015
- Length: 01:40
How did historical leaders once address crowds of thousands, unaided by modern amplification
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 2
Modern technology reveals ancient techniques used in the production of purloined antiquities.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Nov 23, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
Central Europeans developed a dairying culture at least 4,000 years before they evolved the ability to digest milk.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Nov 01, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
Did now-banned pesticides contribute to the obesity epidemic?
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WLPR , KMXT, and WXDU
- Added: Jul 26, 2014
- Length: 01:05
- Purchases: 4
(Our first daily reading for June:) A famous, enigmatic personality stood before the King and Queen of England and refused the honor of knighthood....
Bought by KCSM
- Added: May 29, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Mar 24, 2014
- Length: 01:00
Fifteen, 3-minute vignettes celebrating the contributions of African Americans in classical music.
Bought by Texas Public Radio, BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM, Texas Public Radio, Vermont Public, BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM and more
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 45:00
- Purchases: 10
According to Psychology Today, mindfulness can be defined as “a state of active, open attention on the present. When you’re mindful, you observe yo...
- Added: Oct 18, 2013
- Length: 09:34
While waiting for the sunlight of a bright new, less-needful day to wake all of us from our collective buying frenzy, there are a few steps we can ...
- Added: Oct 18, 2013
- Length: 09:31
In the long ago and far away of mid-to-late twentieth-century America, the clothesline was a common feature of the landscape. Sheets, towels, cloth...
- Added: Oct 18, 2013
- Length: 05:51
Although the term civility seems to connote a type of outmoded, formal etiquette not practiced since the turn of the previous century, the use of c...
- Added: Oct 18, 2013
- Length: 07:13
American turn-of-the-20th century author Jack London was one of the founders of serious American sport fiction. Stemming from his own love of spor...
Bought by KSLU
- Added: Jul 30, 2013
- Length: 02:36
- Purchases: 1
Penny Marshall's film brings awareness and respect for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1943-1954.
Bought by KSLU
- Added: Feb 04, 2012
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 1
General Kearny leads the Army of the West to Santa Fe and claims New Mexico for the United States of America.
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Dec 08, 2011
- Length: 01:58
- Purchases: 1
The mother of one of our greatest American writers. Long thought to be illiterate ... revealed by her letters to have a distinctive writing voice t...
- Added: May 17, 2011
- Length: 03:00
His was a life that nearly didn't happen. He fell under a boxcar, his left arm mangled as a child, yet went on to own and manage one of the greates...
- Added: May 05, 2011
- Length: 03:00
From great grandson of William Dawes, midnight rider with Paul Revere, to U.S. Vice President under Calvin Coolidge ... to co-writer of a number on...
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 03:00
You may not know his name, but chances are good you could sing, hum or whistle one of his tunes.
- Added: Nov 12, 2010
- Length: 03:00
The ultimate value of secure attachment is apparent when your child leaves the nest.
- Added: Jun 26, 2010
- Length: 03:02
Equality under the law became viable for African Americans only after hard, dangerous work turned public opinion and federal policy against the whi...
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 58:51
- Purchases: 2
April Fool’s Day piece. New Hampshire hunters ‘discover’ 15,000 year old human remains. The finding leads to political discussion about replacing O...
- Added: Apr 01, 2009
- Length: 06:48
