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Die Nibelungen
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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After the success of the massive two-part crime film Dr. Mabuse in 1922, Fritz Lang and screenwriter Thea von Harbou, now husband and wife, embarke...

  • Added: May 24, 2022
  • Length: 02:52
GN_3.10_Tasty Plastic
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A small craft brewery in Florida is feeding the ocean instead of polluting it with a remarkable solution to single-use plastic packaging.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
GN_3.23_Desert Forest
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
When Egypt comes to mind, most think about the desert. Thanks to German and Egyptian scientists the country could soon be covered in trees.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
GN_3.27_No Deforest Norway
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Trees are the lungs of our planet. Norway takes a stand for mother earth by banning deforestation.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_3.29_Ollie Smart Bus
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Meet Olli: a self-driving 3-D printed vehicle that could change public transportation forever.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_3.24_Smog Free Future
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Dutch artist creates art that cleans our air one sculpture at a time.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
To Catch a Predator Fish
From: University of Montana Journalism
Caption: You don't belong here, Walleye
The story of two walleye that ended up where they're not supposed to be and the scientists who could possibly solve this unsolvable crime. They cal...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: May 02, 2019
  • Length: 07:26
  • Purchases: 1
Love, Hate, and Sex from the History of Science
From: Distillations
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This Valentine’s Day we could have just brought you some sappy love stories from science’s past. But instead we offer you three tales of lust, lone...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 01:17:06
Atlas for the End of the World: Urbanization Joins Conservation
From: Teosson Wells
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“It's the end of the world where we thought nature was an infinite resource and we could exploit it without consequence,” Professor Richard Weller ...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 57:07
My Concepts Of Risk & Return
From: The Steve Pomeranz Show
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Quick, one minute financial tips that everyone can use to live their one best financial life.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Mar 09, 2017
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
401k Rollovers - Tricks & Traps
From: The Steve Pomeranz Show
Series: On The Money Minute
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Quick, one minute financial tips that everyone can use to live their one best financial life

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WETD, KALH, and KMXT


  • Added: Feb 23, 2017
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 9: Mapping Oil Spills by Satellite
From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf
Caption: Chuanmin Hu, an optical oceanographer at USF, points to a map of the Ixtoc-1 spill made from archival satellite data.
The 1979 Ixtoc-1 oil spill spewed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, but has since been largely forgotten. More than 35 years late...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 09:50
Retirement Advice & Investing
From: The Steve Pomeranz Show
Series: On The Money Minute
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Quick, one minute financial tips that everyone can use to live their one best financial life

Bought by WETD, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KMXT


  • Added: Jan 05, 2017
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 3
My Concepts Of Risk & Return
From: The Steve Pomeranz Show
Series: On The Money Minute
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Quick, one minute financial tips that everyone can use to live their one best financial life.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 17, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
5 Things You'll Never Hear About Your Health Coverage
From: The Steve Pomeranz Show
Series: On The Money Minute
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Quick, one minute financial tips that everyone can use to live their one best financial life.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WETD, and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 4
Are Annuities Worth It?
From: The Steve Pomeranz Show
Series: On The Money Minute
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Quick, one minute financial tips that everyone can use to live their one best financial life.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WETD, KALH, and KMXT


  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 4
Understanding Living Trusts
From: The Steve Pomeranz Show
Series: On The Money Minute
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Quick, one minute financial tips that everyone can use to live their one best financial life.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WETD, and KMXT


  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 3
Ready to be Completely Wrong? Conjectural Genomics.
From: Robert Frederick
Series: The Conjectural
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"Ultraconserved elements" could be the most important parts of our genome, but scientists have no idea what they're for. And after a decade of stud...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2015
  • Length: 04:28
Death by Infection: Bacteria in a Post-Antibiotic World
From: Robert Frederick
Series: The Conjectural
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The number of people dying from infections is likely to rise over in the coming years as more and more bacteria become drug-resistant. One of them,...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2015
  • Length: 06:44
Last Best Stories: Episode 2
From: Jule Banville
Series: Last Best Stories
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Goats + Dumplings comes in at 13:28. It's the second episode of a new podcast, Last Best Stories. The first, longer feature (8:30) looks at how mou...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2015
  • Length: 13:29
Power Poses: Are They Ultimately Good or Bad?
From: Robert Frederick
Series: The Conjectural
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Striking a power pose--standing like a superhero--may boost your confidence and get you short-term gains. But scientists don't yet know if, or when...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Sep 02, 2015
  • Length: 04:42
  • Purchases: 1
How your DNA controls your life
From: terry mechan
Series: Interesting interview Clips
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Split into three clips for your own programme schedules If you think you are in charge of your Life; forget it You are controlled by 3 billion che...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2015
  • Length: 13:51
Who Owns Science? A Story About Bugs.
From: University of Montana Journalism
Caption: Junebug holotypes from Mike Ivie's entomology lab at Montana State University. When Ivie retires, his personal collection will be donated to the Smithsonian.
Until recently, bug specimens collected on federal land had to be returned as government property, even if they're dead and pulverized. The rules a...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 14, 2015
  • Length: 06:57
  • Purchases: 1
Our History: The Journey of Chagobay and Brunia - Ten-part series
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
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The places near water we treasure now were just as special to the people before us. Producers Brian Whittemore and John Sumption take us on a ten-...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 18, 2012
  • Length: 01:13:13
  • Purchases: 1
Our History: The Journey of Chagobay and Brunia
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
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The places near water we treasure now were just as special to the people before us. Producers Brian Whittemore and John Sumption take us on a trip...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 18, 2012
  • Length: 59:49
  • Purchases: 2