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If you’re stuck in traffic, here’s something you might be interested in knowing. A University of Southern California research group reports that ne...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Oct 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Patient Transfer Vehicles. They look like ambulances but they're not. Riding in one can land you in the wild wild west of unregulated care. 'Risky ...
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: 30:50
When there aren’t enough hours of work to go around, why not share them? That’s the premise of “shared-work” programs in seventeen states around th...
- Added: Aug 12, 2010
- Length: 07:10
Despite Obama’s words of support of small business, experts say some aren’t relying on government, but more and more on community groups and micro-...
Bought by WCSU-FM, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Aug 12, 2010
- Length: 09:00
- Purchases: 3
We look at how the unemployed are getting creative about making ends meet, from starting their own businesses to work-sharing.
Bought by WCSU-FM and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Aug 03, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jun 18, 2010
- Length: 01:13
- Purchases: 1
Domestic tranquility has its place, but we all need a little walk on the wild side from time to time. And, apparently, the same goes for bees.
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Running with the wolves just isn't happening on upper Michigan's Isle Royale. That's because most wolves on the remote isle have advanced arthritis.
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Added: Mar 26, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Seems there are some strange critters living in water. Take for example the anglerfish with its glow-in-the-dark lantern on its forehead...
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- Added: Mar 26, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
The black plague once decimated human towns in Medieval Europe. Today it's hitting prairie dog towns on the grasslands of the northern Midwest.
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- Added: Jan 22, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Ageism can strike anyone once they reach a certain age, and it can be as harmful to its victims and society as racism or sexism.
- Added: Dec 10, 2009
- Length: 03:43
A young lumberjack in northern Wisconsin gets run over by a team of horses.
- Added: Nov 28, 2009
- Length: 03:13
Remember the days when kids hiked into the woods? Caught tadpoles in a stream, and played tag on the playground? Well, those days are fading fast.
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- Added: Oct 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
This isn’t how fertilizers are supposed to work. You’d think that more nutrients in water would be good for aquatic life. But, they’re actually con...
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- Added: Oct 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Rachel Carson warned us.In 1962, she spoke out against the use of DDT in her book Silent Spring. I wonder what she would say about carbofuran today...
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- Added: Oct 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
The latest air pollution discovery reads like a murder mystery.
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- Added: Sep 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
The Feria de Mataderos in Buenos Aires is the biggest cattle market in the world. Monday through Thursday 45,000 head of cattle pass though it's p...
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- Added: Aug 06, 2009
- Length: 10:29
- Purchases: 1
Can you imagine a world without tuna? No more, "Chicken of the Sea?" Believe it or not, most tuna species have been heavily fished, some almost to ...
- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:31
If you’re stuck in traffic, here’s something you might be interested in knowing. A University of Southern California research group reports that ne...
- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
One does not argue with a person afflicted with a Type A personality
- Added: Jul 14, 2009
- Length: 01:33
What happens to our consumer electronics after they've served their useful life? Discarded computer monitors often get shipped to Asia or Africa.
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
In the groovy 60s we were singing “Where have all the flowers gone?” Could a day come when we’ll sing the same about the honeybees?
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
One of every 15 people in the world relies on China’s Yangtze River, the third largest river on Earth. How big is it? Well, people used to say the ...
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- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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When it comes to air pollution, every little particulate has a green card. It can just board the next wind current and take a ride to greener pastu...
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- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
