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Constant Wonder - Going Blind With Vigor and Aplomb
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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When a congenital condition began to destroy Andrew Leland's eyesight, he decided that the result didn't have to be tragic.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WYAP


  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 2
Constant Wonder - Snowfall, Snowflakes, and Ice Instruments
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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How snowfall fits into climate change, snowflake science, and instruments fashioned from ice actually work...and sound good!

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 27, 2022
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 2
Dogs and Fake News
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Who We Are With Dogs Is Who We Are as People. Topic 2: Fake News Isn’t Just Misleading. It Can Create False Memories.

Bought by KOWS


  • Added: Aug 11, 2020
  • Length: 51:41
  • Purchases: 1
3 New Insights on Happiness - Episode 9
From: Daisy Oz
Series: Happy News
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Three surprising insights were discovered about living a happy life at the 2019 International Positive Psychology Association's 6th World Congress.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
Bluegrass and Bach a Winning Combination
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Monroe Crossing, Credit: Jamey Guy
Bach and bluegrass. The combination really works, as composer Carol Barnett and lyricist Marisha Chamberlain proved a few years ago when they creat...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2017
  • Length: 08:00
Massed Mandolins are coming to Como Dockside
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Minnesota Mandolin Orchestra, Credit: Steve Rouch
The Minnesota Mandolin Orchestra has 25 mandolins and plays a combination of specially composed mandolin music and tunes everybody has heard. And t...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 07:59
Life on Mars?
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Elektro the Moto-Man and his Little Dog Sparko, created by Westinghouse Electric Company for the 1939 World’s Fair., Credit: New York City Public Library
Maria Lane, author of Geographies of Mars, relates what Percival Lowell observed on the red planet. This segment comes from BackStory's episode "Th...

Bought by Radio Newark and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 09:02
  • Purchases: 2
On Top of the World
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Elektro the Moto-Man and his Little Dog Sparko, created by Westinghouse Electric Company for the 1939 World’s Fair., Credit: New York City Public Library
Bradley Boyd and reporter Ashley Creek head to the top of an old hotel in Birmingham, Alabama, which made provisions for a future that never came. ...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 3
The New End of Old New York
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Elektro the Moto-Man and his Little Dog Sparko, created by Westinghouse Electric Company for the 1939 World’s Fair., Credit: New York City Public Library
Historian Max Page talks about why New York City is so often the target of destruction on the page and the silver screen. This segment comes from t...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 09:10
  • Purchases: 1
'Reel' Indians
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Chief Hollow Horn Bear depicted as the “American Indian” on a 14-cent stamp, 1922. , Credit: U.S. Postal Service.
Producer Kelly Jones and scholar Barbara Meek talk through Hollywood Indian English - a grammatical stereotype that often endures in today's media ...

Bought by Troy Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 07:11
  • Purchases: 2
Thwarting Democracy, the Battle for Voting Rights
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Bloody Sunday-Selma, Alabama
It’s election season! But since the 2013 Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act, many states have pushed changes to voter laws that raise di...

Bought by KMUN and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Go West, Young Orphan
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Pedro Pan girls, Florida City, Fla., 1962. , Credit: Courtesy of Ileana Ortega Menéndez.
For nearly 75 years, children from the orphanages of New York and other cities were shipped west to families in the West who needed farm labor. Som...

Bought by WOUB and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 08, 2014
  • Length: 08:05
  • Purchases: 2
17: Most Relaxing Song (Standard Length)
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds (Standard Length)
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There's a song out there that could make you crash your car... but in the most relaxing way possible.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
England: What do bell ringers and astronauts have in common?
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week, the Global Guru ventures waaaaaayyyy up into the bell towers of an English church to learn just how mathematical -- and dangerous -- bel...

Bought by WABE, HCC Radio The Dragon, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WTIP


  • Added: Jan 09, 2011
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 5
Whether you like it or not, it affects you too.
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The 150th anniversary of the Civil War is fast approaching. Nancy King, with the radio program "With Good Reason," discovered that many of our cur...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 1
Owners of a Purple Heart
From: Hillary Frank
Caption: Bill Jones
Three Purple Heart recipients talk about how they earned their medals.

Bought by The Story, KUT, KRUA, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 12, 2008
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 4
California
From: Jeff Brown
Series: The American State Songbook
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Do you know your state song?

  • Added: Dec 15, 2003
  • Length: 03:21