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From Frisbee Teammates to Co-Founders of ExPrep
From: Tara Lanigan
Caption: Brandon Eng and Mark Skinner work in the comfort of Skinner's house where Eng has been sleeping on the couch the past year. , Credit: (c) 2016 Tara Lanigan
Former Syracuse University students Brandon Eng and Mark Skinner met on the club frisbee team. They combined their skills to create an innovative,...

  • Added: May 09, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
07-11: Globalocal: The Migration of Grassroots Solutions, 5/18/2016
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Mallika Dutt
Innovations usually arise locally. If conditions are right, they spread globally. That story is playing out around the world today. In India, human...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
36: Annie Leibovitz and "Women"; "Screenagers" Director, Delaney Ruston
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Annie Leibovitz
Lauren sits down with world renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz about her exhibition on tour, "Women:New Portraits"commissioned by UBS and making...

Bought by KKRN, KUT, KCMJ Community Radio, KSJD, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
35: Maria Klemperer Johnson--Carpentry School for Women & Diane Loviglio--Style on Demand
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Maria Klemperer-Johnson
In the trades, most workers--carpentry and otherwise, are still men. Lauren's guest Maria Klemperer-Johnson thinks that this state of affairs can a...

Bought by KSJD, KWMR, KCMJ Community Radio, KSJD, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
On deck with the Rainbow Warrior
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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The RW comes home to Vancouver. Is this ship iconic in the city where Greenpeace began?

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 13, 2016
  • Length: 08:47
  • Purchases: 1
34: Stephanie Tilenius, founder of Vida Health & Talia Milgrom-Elcott, founder of 100kin10
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Talia Milgrom-Elcott
Across the nation, there is a STEM teacher shortage in K-12 education. My guest Talia Milgrom-Elcott has taken this challenge to heart with her nat...

Bought by KSJD and WRIR


  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 2
33: The Future of Transportation--Robin Chase, co-Founder of ZipCar & Sara Schaer, co-founder of Kango
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Robin Chase
Robin Chase co-founded ZipCar, changing the way we think about transportation--and has since continued to innovate in ways that will shape our futu...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, KSJD, WMUU-LP, and WRIR


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Civilizations Among the Clustered Stars?
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Messier 5 is a globular cluster containing hundreds of thousands of stars. It is about 25,000 light years from our solar system., Credit: ESA/Hubble
New research indicates that globular clusters—collections of up to a million stars—could provide stable environments for life, along with opportuni...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR, WMUU-LP, and KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 5
2015: A Great Year for Space Exploration
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Enhanced color image of Pluto from New Horizons, Credit: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI
Our year-end review features the “best of 2015” lists from Jason Davis, Casey Dreier, Emily Lakdawalla and Bill Nye the Science Guy. What’s Up offe...

Bought by XRAY.fm, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WMUU-LP, KWMR, KMUD and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
Jennifer Theisen: Girls Who Code
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Women make up 47% of the US workforce, but hold only a small fraction of computer and IT jobs in the US. The latest stats from the Department of La...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Dec 17, 2015
  • Length: 11:44
  • Purchases: 1
12-10: From Bows and Arrows to Laptops: Marrying Traditional Knowledge with Web Technology to Save the Amazon , 12/23/2015
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Chief Almir Narayamoga Surui
Forty years ago when a logging road was blasted deep into the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, the outside world discovered the Surui people. Contact...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
David Fajgenbaum and CDCN: Investing in Cures and Support for Castleman Disease Patients
From: Arch Street Press
Series: Innovate Podcast
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Tune into our Innovate Under 30 interview with Dr. David Fajgenbaum of Castleman Disease Collaborative Network to learn more about Castleman diseas...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 29:17
09-10: From Soap Operas to Avatars: Digital Diplomacy and Making Fiction into Fact , 12/2/2015
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Rita King
A popular character on a Spanish-language soap opera resonates so deeply with viewers that they become empowered and educated about reproductive he...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Dec 02, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Cosmic Ray Catchers
From: Ross Chambless
Caption: A map of the northern hemisphere sky. The cosmic ray “hotspot” is in red. The hotspot is located below the Big Dipper constellation. , Credit: University of Tokyo Institute for Cosmic Ray Research
For over a century scientists have pondered the source of cosmic rays, those powerful particles bombarding Earth from space. Now an international t...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 24, 2015
  • Length: 10:45
  • Purchases: 1
From Mars to the Stars With Lou Friedman
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Lou Friedman’s new book offers an inspiring view of our future in space., Credit: University of Arizona Press
The founding Executive Director of the Planetary Society has just written “Human Spaceflight: From Mars to the Stars,” an optimistic view of humani...

Bought by WRGY, KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
The Right Site: Choosing A Landing Spot on Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This artist's sketch is based on the Curiosity rover in NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, with proposed modifications based on the science definition team's recommendations. , Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The 2020 Mars Rover may be years away, but determining where it will land is already a hot topic among scientists and engineers. Many of the former...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMUD, KBBI Alaska, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Sean Solomon on the Climactic End of the MESSENGER Mercury Mission
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: A depiction of the MESSENGER spacecraft is shown flying over Mercury's surface displayed in enhanced color., Credit: NASA/JHU APL/Carnegie Institution of Washington
We open with the countdown to destruction--the MESSENGER spacecraft’s impact on Mercury ended its spectacularly successful mission. Principal Inve...

Bought by KRZA, KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR and more


  • Added: May 04, 2015
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 6
Countdown to LightSail: An Update
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: LightSail voyages across the cosmos., Credit: The Planetary Society
The road to space has been a rocky one for most spacecraft, and LightSail is no different. Challenges remain even with the May 20th launch of a tes...

Bought by KMUD, KWMR, KFCF FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Apr 27, 2015
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 5
12-09: Climbing Mt. Sustainability: Doing Well by Doing Good in the New Ecology of Business, 6/24/2015
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Ray Anderson
A handful of global business leaders are blazing trails to a biologically based “eco-nomics.” They are fundamentally recalculating core assumptions...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
1: Lindsey Turrentine, CNET & Caterina Fake, Flickr and Foundery: A Woman's Place in Tech
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Lindsey Turrentine, CNET.com
Lindsey Turrentine, of CNET.com & Caterina Fake founder of Flickr and Findery.

Bought by KWMR, KSJD, and WRIR


  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 3
The Innovators: Walter Isaacson In Conversation
From: Mateo Schimpf
Caption: Walter Isaacson, President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, Credit: Patrice Gilbert
Walter Isaacson, author of "The Innovators", is in conversation with Janes Wales, President and CEO of the World Affairs Council.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 58:08
2014: The Year in Space
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Orion spacecraft is recovered by the USS Anchorage, Credit: NASA
Our annual review of the greatest events and accomplishments over the last year features analysis and commentary by Bill Nye the Science Guy, Emily...

Bought by KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KMUD, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KBRP Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 30, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 5
Food Sleuth Radio, Andrianna Natsoulas Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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The foods we put on our plates have ripple effects way beyond our personal health. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda He...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
Women in STEM: Marine Mammal Center combines science with animal welfare
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Northern elephant seal weaners return to the wild after rehabilitation at The Marine Mammal Center, Credit: Mike Adaskveg
Women are underrepresented in a lot of scientific fields, but there’s one branch of biological science that bucks the trend: veterinary science. Wo...

Bought by KZYX, XRAY.fm, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 07:52
  • Purchases: 3
Cassini is Safe! Mission Update From Project Scientist Linda Spilker
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Mighty Saturn and its rings, imaged by the Cassini spacecraft., Credit: JPL/NASA
Project scientist Linda Spilker returns with a regular update on Saturn, its moons and rings not long after learning that the mission is funded thr...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 17, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 3