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Clever Apes: Paper covers rock
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
Caption: Rock paper scissors, and its variations, may lie hidden in the math that underlies natural systems. (WBEZ/Gabriel Spitzer), Credit: (WBEZ/Gabriel Spitzer)
Behind the workings of nature, there is math. It's the blueprint for galaxies and atoms. But WBEZ's science experiment is about to make it look eas...

Bought by WTJU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 23, 2011
  • Length: 08:15
  • Purchases: 3
Producer Profile: Chris Bashinelli
From: Vision Maker Media
Series: Native Producer Profile
Caption: Chris Bashinelli
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with filmmaker Chris Bashinelli.

  • Added: Nov 14, 2011
  • Length: 15:41
Podcast #48: Discussing the importance of achieving universal quality education for all children
From: UNICEF
Series: Beyond School Books
Caption: A girl attends Koulweogo Primary School in Zorgho Village in rural Ganzourgou Province in Plateau-Central Region. Burkina Faso was among the first 18 countries invited to join the Fast Track Initiative (now Global Partnership for Education) as early as Ju, Credit: UNICF Burkina Faso/2011/ Marinovitch
The Global Partnership for Education has helped more than 19 million children go to school for the first time. A campaign to renew support for thes...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Nov 04, 2011
  • Length: 09:42
  • Purchases: 1
The Mikie Show #43, Sarah
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Hurrah, it’s another show about stuff I don’t know! Yes, this episode we speak with Sarah Mattson, planetary photographic cartographer, you know, I...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Nov 01, 2011
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1
FINDING JOE -- Filmmaker Pat Solomon
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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FINDING JOE -- Filmmaker Pat Solomon on bliss, fear, and why Joseph Campbell will always be relevant.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 13:51
Producer Profile: Charles Dye
From: Vision Maker Media
Series: Native Producer Profile
Caption: Charles Dye
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with filmmaker Charles Dye.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 14:52
Producer Profile: Adrian Baker
From: Vision Maker Media
Series: Native Producer Profile
Caption: Adrian Baker
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with filmmaker Adrian Baker.

  • Added: Sep 22, 2011
  • Length: 15:50
Producer Profile: Heather Rae
From: Vision Maker Media
Series: Native Producer Profile
Caption: Heather Rae
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with filmmaker Heather Rae.

  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 17:53
Being Black and Green: African-Americans & the Environment
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Red, Bike & Green's inaugural ride in April 2010, Credit: Red, Bike & Green
African-Americans are helping to lead the environmental movement. We take you to a resettlement community in North Carolina, sustainable farms in W...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
Crowd-sourcing Biological Solutions Through Gaming
From: Sarah Lilley
Caption: Fold.It screen shot
A web-based video game called FoldIt uses crowd-sourcing in the hopes of solving some very big -- er, tiny -- biological problems.

  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 06:17
Biomimicry
From: Sarah Lilley
Caption: Nautilus
Designers, engineers and corporations around the world have begun seriously to study Evolution's most successful problem-solving strategies in natu...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 21, 2011
  • Length: 06:25
  • Purchases: 3
Producer Profile: Tom Curran
From: Vision Maker Media
Series: Native Producer Profile
Caption: Tom Curran
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with filmmaker Tom Curran.

  • Added: Jun 13, 2011
  • Length: 16:50
POM WONDERFUL PRESENTS THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD -- Morgan Spurlock
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Morgan Spurlock, San Francisco, CA 4/8/11, Credit: Andrea Chase
Morgan Spurlock talks selling out, buying in, and bathing with a Shetland pony.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 18:12
Native Sounds: Steve Wood of Northern Cree and Derek & Melonie Mathews
From: Vision Maker Media
Series: Native Sounds
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Eric Martin speaks with Steve Wood of Northern Cree and Aden Marshall speaks with Melonie and Derek Mathews.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KSQM 91.5 FM, and KWIS 88.3 FM


  • Added: Apr 14, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Long-Term Care Reform and Innovation
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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Dr. Mary Jane Koren, vice president for the Picker-Commonwealth Fund Long-Term Quality Improvement Program, joins us today.

  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 25:50
Clever Apes: Demystifying dinosaurs
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
Caption: Paleontologist Paul Sereno
Why do dinosaurs ignite our imaginations and why do we have so many misconceptions about them? In this episode, Gabriel Spitzer tackles those quest...

Bought by KUT and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Mar 30, 2011
  • Length: 08:47
  • Purchases: 2
Making Beef Better: A search for the World's best steak.
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
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An interview with Mark Schatzker, author of Steak, on why great steak is hard to find and how a few small-scale ranchers are helping to make beef b...

Bought by KISU


  • Added: Mar 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 1
Producer Profile: Jonathon Stanton
From: Vision Maker Media
Series: Native Producer Profile
Caption: Jonathon Stanton
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with filmmaker Jonathon Stanton.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2011
  • Length: 13:13
Producer Profile: Diane E. Benson and Jonathon Stanton
From: Vision Maker Media
Series: Native Producer Profile
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Ben Kreimer speaks with Diane E. Benson and Jonathon Stanton, about their films incorporating Alaska Natives and their efforts to overcome harsh Al...

Bought by KBBI Alaska and KMXT


  • Added: Mar 10, 2011
  • Length: 27:55
  • Purchases: 2
Brain Vitamin: doing the math on the electric car
From: KALW
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Ian Wright is one of the original founders of Tesla, and now the owner of Wrightspeed, a clean energy transportation company based in San Jose. He ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2011
  • Length: 07:02
The 5 Browns: Interview with Deondra & Ryan Brown
From: Kyle Gassiott
Series: Guest Hosted interviews for Troy Public Radio's Community Focus
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East Alabama Art's Kyle Gassiott interviews Deondra and Ryan Brown two members of The 5 Browns who will perform at the Opelika Center for the Arts ...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 14:30
Tango Fire: Interview with dancer Juan Malicia and musician Howard Goldstein
From: Kyle Gassiott
Series: Guest Hosted interviews for Troy Public Radio's Community Focus
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East Alabama Art's Kyle Gassiott interviews Juan Malizia and dancer from the Argentinian based troupe Tango Fire who will perform at the Opelika Ce...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 14:15
The Mikie Show #31, Michael
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Episode thirty-one! They exclaimed. It’s an exclamatory remark! Okay, I’m calm now. Join us for a discussion with Dr. Michael Miles, a practitioner...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 17, 2011
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
Producer Profile: Diane E. Benson
From: Vision Maker Media
Series: Native Producer Profile
Caption: Diane E. Benson
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with Diane E. Benson (Tlingit). She is an actress in the film For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska.

Bought by KSTK


  • Added: Feb 08, 2011
  • Length: 15:29
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Mary and Charles Van Beke
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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94-year-old Mary Van Beke tells her son, Charles, about growing up in the 1920s.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WEZU, KFOK-LPFM, and KUOW


  • Added: Feb 07, 2011
  • Length: 01:52
  • Purchases: 4

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