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Big Tech and Democracy: What Went Wrong
From: Mateo Schimpf
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As we race towards a particularly contentious presidential election in the US, we look at the influence of social media on our democracy. And, as p...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Oct 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Farmworkers Risk Smoke, Heat, And COVID-19 As California Burns
From: Mateo Schimpf
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From Santa Rosa to Salinas, farmworkers are harvesting as California burns. Workers are risking heat, smoke, and COVID-19 to pick grapes and harves...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 21, 2020
  • Length: 10:51
  • Purchases: 1
More to Say: President Trump & Public Lands
From: KUER
Series: More To Say
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During his first official visit to Utah, President Trump announced the largest cutback to national monument land in U.S. history. Bears Ears and G...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Dec 07, 2017
  • Length: 13:38
  • Purchases: 1
The Rules of Life
From: Richard Paul
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What causes Alzheimer’s Disease? What causes cancers to form? Can we make jet fuel and plastics out of germs? To get these answers, scientists ...

Bought by WAMU, KQED, WCPN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Jul 24, 2017
  • Length: 57:59
  • Purchases: 6
Inside a coal fired power plant
From: Reid Frazier
Caption: The Homer City Generating Station in Pennsylvania., Credit: Reid Frazier
How do you clean up 100,000 tons of air pollution? Boatloads of air filters, and some basic high school chemistry. This story takes the listener in...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 1
Foraging for fish in our own backyard
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Kirk Lombard explaining how to catch crab from the Bay , Credit: Angela Johnston
Kirk Lombard calls himself a sea forager, and every other week offers this walking and fishing tour: a two-hour lesson on how to catch your own sea...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2015
  • Length: 09:50
Looking Back, Moving Forward: 2014 Year in Review
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Protest at Levi Stadium before 49ers game against the "Washington NFL team", Credit: Laura Flynn
On this show we bring you an update on some of the stories we’ve covered this year. We’ll go to a protest to talk to advocates calling for an end t...

Bought by WRIR, WCSU-FM, and WNJR


  • Added: Dec 17, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Thrift City: Sorting through donations at the Salvation Army
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Previously owned toys being sorted at Salvation Army., Credit: Jeremy Dalmas
It can be hard to donate your old things to a thrift store, but the idea is that your stuff will get a second life. Once it is donated, it will mak...

  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 05:08
Life of the Law Shorts #23 - Of Prison and Pregnancy
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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The United States incarcerates six times as many women as it did thirty years ago. Many of these women are already mothers, and four percent of inc...

Bought by KRZA, XRAY.fm, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 30, 2013
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 3
In a Gas Boom, Looking for Answers on Health Questions
From: Reid Frazier
Series: Breaking the Land: Marcellus Shale and the Gas Age
Caption: Amy Pare, a plastic surgeon in heavily-drilled Washington County, Pa. She's found arsenic, benzene, and other drilling-related contaminants in the urine of her patients., Credit: Photo: Reid R. Frazier
Thousands of wells have been drilled in the Marcellus shale, using new types of drilling methods. But there are questions about the safety of these...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: May 18, 2012
  • Length: 09:50
  • Purchases: 1
Condor Rescue
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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A condor refuge recovers after a wildfire, and volunteers prepare for a dramatic release.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 03, 2008
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 2
Why Don't Kids Learn Science Anymore?
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Despite high-tech hubs like Silicon Valley, California's science literacy is in steep decline.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 03, 2008
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 1
Hayward Fault
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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The big quake is coming

  • Added: Oct 20, 2008
  • Length: 04:47
How to ID a Bullet
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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What if every bullet could tell you who fired it?

Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 14, 2008
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 2
Waiting for California's High Speed Rail
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Getting from San Francisco to LA in two-and-a-half hours -- and a $10 billion ticket price

  • Added: Oct 14, 2008
  • Length: 08:08
DIY Green Building
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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On the frontiers of green building

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 01, 2008
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
Listening Live
From: NYCity News Service
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The city's rising cost of real estate and gentrification have forced some well-known music clubs to go silent. While venues come and go, bands are ...

  • Added: May 19, 2008
  • Length: 20:00
It's Not Easy Going Green
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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It's one thing for a city to set environmental goals -- another thing entirely to meet them.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 04:54
Stamping Out the Light Brown Apple Moth
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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How should we be of the light brown apple moth?

  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 05:15
Sewage Happens
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Think your city has a sewage problem? You haven't seen the half ot it.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
The Traffic Tax
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Would you be willing to pay a fee to drive downtown?

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Nov 30, 2007
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 1
Quest_Graywater Guerillas
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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A report from the frontlines of D.I.Y eco-plumbing.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2007
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 1
U.S. Missile Defense
From: Claes Andreasson
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Missile defense deployed as first missile is put in its silo in Alaska

  • Added: Aug 09, 2004
  • Length: 14:39