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Critical Materials
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A government laboratory works to maintain supplies of some little-known metals.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KENW, and WLPR


  • Added: Mar 23, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
Cactus Water Filter
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Cross-section of a prickly pear cactus, Credit: Susanne Bard
The drought-defying interior of the prickly pear cactus holds a secret to purifying water.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KENW, and WLPR


  • Added: Mar 23, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
World Champion Dragonflies
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: The body and wings of the dragonfly Pantala flavescens have evolved in a way that lets the insect glide extraordinary distances on weather currents The body and wings of the dragonfly Pantala flavescens have evolved in a way that lets the insect glide ext, Credit: Greg Lasley
One species of dragonfly traverses vast oceans to breed.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KENW, and WLPR


  • Added: Mar 08, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
Insects vs. Birds
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The loud noise of insects causes some birds to delay the onset of their song in the morning.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KENW, WEZU, and WLPR


  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 4
Wolves & Monkeys
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: An Ethiopian wolf among a herd of grazing gelada monkeys., Credit: © Jeff Kerby
An unusual relationship has formed between Ethiopian wolves and gelada baboons.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jun 27, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
2014 Science Breakthroughs of the Year: CubeSats
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: PRX default Piece image
2014 Science Breakthroughs of the Year: The rise of the pint-sized satellite.

  • Added: Dec 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
The Monkeys of New Guinea
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Goodfellow's tree-kangaroos inhabit the rainforests of New Guinea., Credit: (Liquid Ghoul/Wikipedia)
Tree kangaroos hop up trees instead of swinging through them like monkeys.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Oct 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
How to Give
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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This week we're asking what it takes to get us to give, and how we know if we're doing it right.

Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, WKCC, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 26, 2014
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 5
Russians Buckle Up
From: Julia Barton
Caption: The NGO "Road Safety Russia" has been using photos like this to promote child car seat use., Credit: Road Safety Russia
A lot of people die on Russian roads. But things are getting better thanks to better enforcement and a clever public service ad campaign.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2014
  • Length: 04:48
Shy Baboons
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: The Tsaobis Baboon Project in Namibia., Credit: Alecia Carter/Tsaobis Baboon Porject, CC-BY
Shy baboons are less likely to put what they learn from watching others to use.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
Seal Mystery
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Grey Seal., Credit: (Mateusz Wlodarczyk/Wikipedia)
Melting sea ice allows marine mammal species that were once isolated to intermingle – and share diseases.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
Seeing Red
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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The Guys share a little-known story about that time Stalin coined the term “American Exceptionalism"

Bought by WOUB, Radio Newark, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 23, 2013
  • Length: 06:32
  • Purchases: 3
Space Crafty
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
Caption: Cameron Smith testing out his homemade, hand-sewn space suit, Credit: Julie Sabatier
The maker movement is taking off and the private space industry is booming right now. So, naturally, some fearless do-it-yourselfers are crafting t...

Bought by WDBM, Marfa Public Radio, Hark!, New Hampshire Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Jul 12, 2013
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 7
Spying on Americans: Not a New Activity Part One & Two
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a two-part 1999 conversation with Mike Frost, a retired Canadian spy and author of “Spy World:  Inside the Canadian and Amer...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2013
  • Length: 58:02
Bounding Manifest Destiny
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Peter Onuf talks with Amy Greenberg, an historian at Pennsylvania State University, on the rogue diplomat that ended the Mexican-American War ...

Bought by XRAY.fm, Radio Newark, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 06, 2013
  • Length: 11:01
  • Purchases: 3
Nose as Destiny
From: Bending Borders
Series: Love is Complicated
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Plastic surgery is growing in Afghanistan and more and more women see it as the key to their fate.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, Outer Voices, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jan 27, 2013
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 7
Bonjour Chanson Series 10, Episode 46.
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 10
Caption: Finis Terrae, Brittany
This Episode of "Bonjour Chanson" runs the gamut from a fantastic world where kids solve mysteries hidden in iron masks and stone sarcophagi, to a ...

Bought by XRAY.fm, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, and KUT


  • Added: Sep 27, 2011
  • Length: 29:21
  • Purchases: 3
The Decisions Project - 15 - A Month in Juárez
From: Aengus Anderson
Series: The Decisions Project
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A recent college graduate receives an unexpected job offer from his uncle: teach English in Ciudad Juárez.

  • Added: May 03, 2011
  • Length: 03:25
The "Curse" of the Hope Diamond
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Does bad luck befall everyone who's owned the infamous Hope Diamond?, Credit: The Smithsonian
Is the world's most famous diamond... cursed?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 2
Organizing
From: War News Radio
Caption: Iraqi workers stack up bricks in a brick factory on the outskirts of Najaf, Credit: Associated Press
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Dec 17, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
American Soldier Missing in Action
From: War News Radio
Caption: Ahmed Altaie, a reserve soldier from Ann Arbor, Michigan, was kidnapped while visiting his wife in downtown Baghdad., Credit: Associated Press
We hear about an American soldier missing in action.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2010
  • Length: 09:12
In The Prime: Washington's Meridian
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: D.C.'s Meridian Hill Park got its name from the Prime Meridian Thomas Jefferson proposed along 16th Street NW., Credit: Rebecca Sheir
What if Washington, D.C., really were the middle of the world?

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 15, 2010
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 1
Divided By Borders: Mexican migrants and their children
From: Chris Goldstein
Caption: Divided By Borders cover, Credit: Joanna Dreby
Author Joanna Dreby explored the impact of work migration through intimate interviews with extended Mexican families and children in New Jersey and...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 24, 2010
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 1
Lost Maritime Cultures: China and the Pacific
From: Heidi Chang
Caption: Excavating sites like this one in China link China's ancient seafarers with people throughout the Pacific, Credit: Bishop Museum
The origin of people living on islands throughout the Pacific has been a mystery for years. Now some archaeologists in Hawaii believe they have th...

  • Added: May 12, 2009
  • Length: 05:10
Animals of Australia take a Hold
From: Ray Gard
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A Behind the scenes look at the Australian animals associated with the National Aquarium in Baltimore.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2007
  • Length: 09:55