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From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Roll up your sleeve past your bicep, flex your arm at the elbow, and squeeze — or contract — your bicep muscle. Take a look at it. What do you see?...
- Added: Jan 22, 2017
- Length: 09:32
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Coccyx is a small triangle-shaped bone at the base of the spinal column in humans and other apes. Representing a vestigial tail and most commonly c...
- Added: Jan 21, 2017
- Length: 05:37
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
The word “inauguration" takes us all the way back to the politics of ancient Rome and the birds behind the words inauguration, inaugural, auspiciou...
- Added: Jan 20, 2017
- Length: 22:14
A boy's Bar Mitzvah becomes a family battle ground; three literary pilgrims search for the author Paul Bowles in Morocco; and a novelist decides th...
Bought by Vermont Public, Michigan Radio, PRX Remix, KCPW Salt Lake City, KOSU and more
- Added: Aug 20, 2016
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 48
Preyas Roy has performed in famous venues like the Jazz Showcase. But he makes his living on a downtown Chicago street corner — despite the unwield...
- Added: Aug 15, 2016
- Length: 02:56
Magic: The Gathering, the international, collectible card has over 20 million players. So when Clinton's friend and "magic buddy," Brent, moves awa...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Jul 26, 2016
- Length: 32:00
- Purchases: 1
Brother Twelve ran a colony on Vancouver Island in the late 1920s. What started as a utopian community ended in pieces. This is a weird exploration...
- Added: Apr 26, 2016
- Length: 43:00
In the second episode of the new series, Palestinians Podcast, we hear from Rana Akleh, a doctoral student at Boston College. Rana artistically des...
- Added: Jan 22, 2016
- Length: 29:15
Like the JFK assassination, everyone remembers what they were doing when they heard the news. For Aliza Goren, that isn’t so hard – she was one of ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2015
- Length: 09:56
A scientist recounts the harrowing quest for life beneath the ice
- Added: Aug 05, 2015
- Length: 25:11
Katia Hauser explores the intricacies of teenagers having the legal right to make their own medical decisions.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 06, 2015
- Length: 02:44
- Purchases: 1
Los Angeles County's poverty line is almost at 20%, and the majority of these households have children. The Los Angeles Unified School District (LA...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 01, 2015
- Length: 03:45
- Purchases: 2
An artist living in Seattle has just had to move for the fifth time in four years. As he gets older it's becoming harder and harder for him to expo...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 04:44
A story I told for our embarrassment podcast.
Edited by the amazing Mr. Nathan Friend.
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 01:26
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Oct 05, 2014
- Length: 01:47
Andy Holliden's interest in Frank Zappa first manifested itself while he was in high school. Beyond listening to the music and poring over linear n...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 02, 2014
- Length: 17:11
- Purchases: 1
Once again, the best of what's new in the world of EDM, plus another audio essay when Mongo Speaks: Weird Stuff On YouTube.
- Added: Sep 20, 2014
- Length: 59:04
Ray has been an activist most of his life. He organized lunch counter sit-ins and participated in the March on Washington. When he was drafted to f...
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 23:59
Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Job in Suck City, reads a poem about the late guitarist and songwriter Lou Reed.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 02, 2014
- Length: 02:33
- Purchases: 1
This week, on State of the Human, people are changing radically in order to recover
Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9
- Added: Jun 27, 2014
- Length: 58:52
- Purchases: 2
This week on State of the Human we’re investigating how people use joking to create new realities for themselves and the people around them.
Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9
- Added: Jun 25, 2014
- Length: 58:18
- Purchases: 2
What’s love got to do with the law? Then again, what’s the law got to do with falling in love? From coast to coast, Life of the Law occasionally ta...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 11, 2014
- Length: 17:26
- Purchases: 1
Personal Essay on working odd jobs to get by in Los Angeles, trying to find creative and fulfilling work, getting older, and, finally, leaving Holl...
Bought by XRAY.fm and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: May 27, 2014
- Length: 11:53
- Purchases: 2
Since he was three years old, Obasi Onuoha has been in love with computers. really. To him, they're way more than just machines....
- Added: Apr 03, 2014
- Length: 02:30
What is the nature of speech? Why did we start writing stuff down? And which of these lasts longer?
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 03, 2014
- Length: 03:55
- Purchases: 2
