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Frugal Science: How one lab is using toys to make chemistry accessible to the world
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: A pile of foldscopes, Credit: Prakash Lab
I am in a lab tucked away in the basement of a Stanford University engineering building. Bioengineering professor Manu Prakash is showing me a tiny...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 28, 2014
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 2
A Stop in Mewat
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Mewat, India, Credit: Sandip Roy
A small unknown town in India has a history that makes it worth stopping in to have a look.

  • Added: May 19, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Oakland City Administrator says civilian oversight of police faces roadblocks
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Oakland Police Department, Credit: Credit under CC license from Flickr user vision63
In every police department, there’s a special division just for policing the cops. Its responsible for investigating all officer misconduct, includ...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 10:45
Fade To Darkness: The Age Of Alzheimer's (hour special)
From: 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station
Caption: Bernice Osborne Pollard and her 74-year-old mother, Mary Osborne, who is in the late stages of Alzheimer's disease, Credit: Deb Becker/WBUR
Alzheimer’s is the incurable disease that destroys memory, speech and function. Scientists say the number of Americans with Alzheimer's may triple...

Bought by KOSU, WNYC, KQED, KZYX, and Maine Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5