PRX - Pieces for Tone: Inspiring

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For the past fifty years physicists around the world have been trying to create a fusion power reactor, harnessing the processes deep inside of sta...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: Deep Sound being assembled, Credit: David Barclay
David Barclay tells the story of the time he recorded the deepest sounds in the ocean.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 29, 2013
  • Length: 04:49
  • Purchases: 2
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Before the launch of the Voyager probes, Carl Sagan was given the daunting task of assembling a guide to all things human. Something that would fit...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2013
  • Length: 01:44
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Laser cutters, 3D printers, sewing machines, injection molders, welders, notchers, planers, lathes, hand tools, computers. Enter TechShop, San Fran...

Bought by KZYX and KZYX


  • Added: Aug 02, 2013
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 2
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South of Market in San Francisco, industrial designer Scott Summitt, is blurring the line between medical devices and sculpture. He calls what he’s...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Aug 02, 2013
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on Into It, Andrew Bales explores space dives, an extreme jump that tests the limits of technology and the wills of dare devils.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
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Tereshkova climbed aboard the Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963, and was launched into space to orbit the Earth forty-eight times over a three day period.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:30
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A toy designer talks about what it's like to design toys for children with special needs.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Feb 19, 2010
  • Length: 16:40
  • Purchases: 1
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A boy's grief led him to an extraordinary discovery...

Bought by XRAY.fm, WJCT, KUT, KUOW, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Oct 05, 2009
  • Length: 09:35
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Buzz Aldrin Apollo 11
50th Anniversary Mix of man's trip to the moon which began on July 16th, 1969

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, XRAY.fm, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), and Louisville Public Media


  • Added: Jul 16, 2009
  • Length: 12:13
  • Purchases: 4
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If music is made on the street, why record it in a booth?

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Nov 16, 2007
  • Length: 13:40
  • Purchases: 1
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This story is free! Guatemala City's youth are given an alternative to gang life and crime through a unique program in the heart of the city's wors...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2007
  • Length: 05:20
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Eric Stockinger and MIchael Norgang embark on a 400 year old tradition of wooden boat building in Maine.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2007
  • Length: 06:31
  • Purchases: 1
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Hopi and Navajo fight to protect their aquifer

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KRCC-FM, and KSUT


  • Added: Apr 01, 2006
  • Length: 07:03
  • Purchases: 3
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Going inside the operating room with a man having brain surgery for Parkinson's disease.

  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 24:40