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Black Soldiers of Utah
From: KRCL
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Black Soldiers of Utah was an exhibit on display in Utah showcasing and exploring the often untold history of black soldiers and veterans and how t...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 05:38
  • Purchases: 1
Bruce Patterson – "Old Time Tales of Anderson Valley"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Originally Broadcast: August 30, 2006 Walking Tractor And Other Tales of Old Anderson Valley Stories of the days that no longer exist in rural ar...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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
National Writers Series: Ed Yong
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Five
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Interlochen Public Radio's Ed Ronco talks with science journalist Ed Yong.

Bought by Michigan Radio and WKAR


  • Added: Oct 07, 2023
  • Length: 54:30
  • 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
Constant Wonder - Tiger in the Sea, Nine Lives Over the Atlantic
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Topic 1: A gripping tale of triumph, tragedy, unparalleled airmanship, and incredibly brave people in their finest hour; Topic 2: A ferry pilot's n...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2021
  • Length: 52:49
Constant Wonder - Truffle Hounds, Fungipedia
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Topic 1: Why truffles are the world's most expensive fungus; Topic 2: The extraordinary world of fungi

  • Added: Oct 12, 2021
  • Length: 52:51
GN_3.08_Wearable Fruit
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.
Vegan Leather? Seems like an oxy-moron, but now there is a leather-like material made of pineapples.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
Columbia Football and the Manhattan Project
From: Michael Jackson
Series: The Game Before the Money
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Did you know that the Columbia University football team helped with the Manhattan Project?

  • Added: Nov 25, 2020
  • Length: 08:06
Analog Computing and the Automatic Totalisator
From: Sean Haas
Series: Advent of Computing
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A lot of the technology we associate with the modern day started on anachronistic machines. I'm not talking about mainframes, I'm talking older. To...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2020
  • Length: 48:31
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
Farm Worker to Farm Owner
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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There’s a shift happening in American agriculture that has been hard to spot. Farm workers have entered mainstream consciousness through coverage o...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
578-First PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Assuming the first potentially hazardous asteroid of 2020 has a chemical composition similar to the stony meteorites we find on Earth, it could co...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Bill's Problem With Piracy
From: Sean Haas
Series: Advent of Computing
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Microsoft's first case of piracy actually happened with their very first product.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2019
  • Length: 10:25
The BBC Domesday Project
From: Sean Haas
Series: Advent of Computing
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In 1986 the BBC released a comprehensive survey of Britain. Burned onto two LaserDiscs, the early computer encyclopedia was a technological marvel.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2019
  • Length: 33:04
#884- E gaming A fast growing sport Video gaming
From: marc cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Forum
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Short concise newscast - E Sports Video gaming Growing super fast with revenues skyrocketing.

  • Added: Oct 12, 2019
  • Length: 03:42
73: Bridget 'Biddy' Mason
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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At the age of 42, Bridget Mason won a court case in California that freed her and her daughters from slavery. She went on to become a California re...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 05:14
539-Close Approaches
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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During a recent 30 day period, 11 small space rocks passed closer to us than the Moon. If one of them were to enter our atmosphere and you were di...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP, WLPR and more


  • Added: May 10, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Imperfect Pitch: the promises and perils of personal genomics
From: Elaine Vitone
Series: Pitt Medcast
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Our guests, Jeremy Berg (editor of Science magazine) and Mylynda Massart (a primary care physician with a special interest in genetics), discuss ho...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2019
  • Length: 29:20
515-Dust Moons
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The discovery of two large ghostly neighbors approximately 65,000 by 45,000 miles in size at the L4 and L5 sites approximately 250,000 miles from b...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, KKRN, KRWG and more


  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
490-Mini Moons
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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There are likely to be hundreds smaller than softball sized and perhaps several dozen football to beachball sized, natural Earth mini moons, which ...

Bought by KGLP, KENW, WLPR , WLPR , KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
AMOS 18.174: Multiple Discovery, 8/30/2018
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Multiple Discovery

  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 18.172: Cottonmouth, 8/28/2018
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Cottonmouth

  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 18.170: Exploding Ants, 8/24/2018
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Exploding Ants

  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 18.169: The Twin Within, 8/23/2018
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
The Twin Within

  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 02:00