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Guest- South Portland mayor Deqa Dhalac.
- Added: Mar 07, 2022
- Length: 26:57
The Columbus and Franklin County Metro Parks have transitioned thousands of acres of farmland back into the prairie habitat, reconstructing parts o...
- Added: Apr 19, 2021
- Length: 05:39
Republicans say they hate debt. So why did they push for a tax bill that would add almost two trillion dollars to the country’s tab? Only one Repub...
- Added: Oct 01, 2020
- Length: 42:50
After Jeffrey Wakefield died unexpectedly in March, his daughter Melissa wrote a remembrance to run in the Falmouth Enterprise. Then the paper publ...
- Added: Jun 06, 2018
- Length: 07:19
How Apple's electronic health records feature works, and why it's concerning to privacy experts.
- Added: Apr 19, 2018
- Length: 04:15
Women-owned businesses generated over $1.6 trillion in sales in 2017, but they still make up less than 2/5ths of all privately held companies. But,...
- Added: Apr 19, 2018
- Length: 04:20
Hear how trash is affecting wildlife in one of the world's most remote places.
- Added: Dec 30, 2017
- Length: 13:56
This past Saturday, over 1,000 Richmonders streamed down Monument Avenue in solidarity with the Women’s March on Washington, planned for this weeke...
- Added: Jan 16, 2017
- Length: 01:21
What happens to our data when we die?
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 27:21
Environmental issues are mounting, and the stakes are huge. So how might big data be used to tackle the issues of sustainability, climate change, h...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 34:51
Are we addicted to the Internet? Is it even appropriate to use the language of addiction about smartphones and other digital devices?
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 24:30
Big data is revolutionizing health and medicine, from genomics to wearable technologies to precision health. But is our medical care system prepare...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 26:51
What is the future of work? Today, all of our careers are being transformed by big data, from how we find it, to how we collaborate with others, to...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 22:15
Your normal, everyday digital footprints can reveal surprisingly intimate facts – like whether your parents are divorced, and whether you own a gun.
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 22:03
A research team at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is using underwater recorders to track the life, and increasingly, the DEATH, of coral ...
Bought by WABE, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 02, 2015
- Length: 06:41
- Purchases: 4
What's the perfect environment for a fern species dating back 65 million years? Look no further than Washington, D.C.'s subway system.
Bought by WABE
- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 05:52
- Purchases: 1
Stereotypes about Asian-Americans abound - their kids get perfect scores on standardized testing and head off to Ivy League colleges to become doct...
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 06:36
100,000 times louder than a jet engine. Every 10 seconds. 7 days a week. For weeks and months. This is seismic air gun testing.
- Added: Dec 06, 2014
- Length: 11:54
In 2011, the Florida legislature slashed funding for statewide conservation programs. In September 2014, activists and policy makers gathered at Ho...
- Added: Dec 06, 2014
- Length: 08:40
Maine has a large population of senior drivers. How do we keep them safe, and what do these seniors have to say about staying on the road?
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 03, 2014
- Length: 07:27
- Purchases: 1
It currently costs $10,000 a pound to transport material from Earth into space. If humans want to live in space someday, those transport costs alon...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, KUOW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 26, 2014
- Length: 06:14
- Purchases: 4
Religious devotion and carnival revelry combined Friday night as thousands of devout Catholics gathered in the small Guatemalan village of San Bart...
- Added: Apr 08, 2014
- Length: 01:43
Efforts are underway to restore the fragile ecosystem of the shifting, changing land masses known as Virginia's barrier islands.
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Feb 27, 2014
- Length: 06:13
- Purchases: 1
Andy Warhol once said: "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." But in this town, you'll meet people who claim that in the pa...
- Added: Sep 12, 2013
- Length: 06:26
Unique, non-partisan military and veterans news and information in a short format.
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 05:00
