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“Fake News” Is An Oxymoron
From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio
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In recent years, “fake news” has become a prevalent and contentious phrase, often used to describe misinformation or disinformation presented as le...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2023
  • Length: 03:01
An Interview with Author William Yeske
From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio
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“DAMN THE VALLEY” , wriitten by Wiilliam Yeske was a phrase regularly uttered by the men that spent any amount of time in the Arghandab River Valle...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2023
  • Length: 14:44
Part II: Ryan Merkley
From: Jed Alexander
Series: "What is Mis / Dis?"
Caption: Ryan Merkley, Aspen Institute , Credit: Picture provided by Ryan Merkley
Managing Director of Aspen Digital at the Aspen Institute, Ryan Merkley briefly discusses a report on mis- and disinformation released in November,...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2022
  • Length: 07:41
648-Smoky Nights
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Smith Telescope McDonald Observatory, Credit: McDonald Observatory
Until recently smoky nights at the observatory were rare. Now they have become more common place as wild fires continue to devastate portions of th...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, RADIOLEX, KGLP and more


  • Added: Jun 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
645-Shrinking Stratosphere
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: A view of Earth's atmosphere., Credit: NASA
As a result of human caused increases in green house gases the troposphere is expanding and the stratosphere is shrinking. Between 1980 and 2018 t...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Jun 04, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Rosa’s Story: Undocumented and Unemployed in the Pandemic
From: Feet in 2 Worlds
Series: A Better Life
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Undocumented hotel housekeepers are among some of the most vulnerable workers in the pandemic. In this episode, we hear one of their stories.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 15, 2020
  • Length: 22:18
  • Purchases: 1
589-Defending Earth
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The International Asteroid Warning Network, or IWAN (Eye-Whan) for short has been established to link scientists who are discovering, monitoring, a...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, KSFR and more


  • Added: May 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
565-Ancient Crater
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In ancient times, Aboriginal people in southwestern Australia quarried fine grained rock on an ancient hill called Barlangi Rock to make very sharp...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Nov 22, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Steven Stoll, Ramp Hollow & Rachel Cleetus, Underwater
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Steven Stoll about his brilliant history of Appalachia: Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia. Then, coastal property values are threa...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
Del Toro's Scary Obsession With Monsters
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: An object in Guillermo del Toro's monster collection., Credit: Xan Holston
Monsters: they’re everywhere: behind the door, under the bed, and currently, at the museum. KFAI’s Xan Holston wandered through the cabinet of curi...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2017
  • Length: 04:34
Loki_Wounded at the Front
From: Kimberley Little White Owl Lambert
Series: The Water Protectors: Killing the Black Snake #noDAPL
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Standing Rock Water Protector Loki talks about his extraordinary experience at the Front

  • Added: Dec 01, 2016
  • Length: :42
Loki_Militarized DAPL
From: Kimberley Little White Owl Lambert
Series: The Water Protectors: Killing the Black Snake #noDAPL
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Standing Rock Water Protector Loki talks about his experience at the Front with Militarized DAPL Police

  • Added: Nov 30, 2016
  • Length: 01:25
Deadly Opioid Overwhelms First Responders And Crime Labs in Ohio
From: Side Effects Public Media
Caption: Bob Topmiller, chief of toxicology at the Hamilton County Coroner's Office, holds a small vial containing carfentanil extracted from a sample of blood., Credit: Jake Harper/Side Effects
Heroin isn't new in Cincinnati, but the recent surge in overdoses is being blamed on an even more potent drug called carfentanil. It's 100 times st...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 27, 2016
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 1
Alabama
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Once there was a great hue and cry about racial profiling by law enforcement in America and it resulted in a landmark called Driving while Black. T...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 17, 2015
  • Length: 06:04
  • Purchases: 2
Italian Bakers: Mafia Slicing Into Profits
From: Nancy Greenleese
Series: Made In Italy...For Now
Caption: Baker Salvatore Raccuglia rolls the bread as bakers have done for centuries in Sicily. , Credit: Luigi Fraboni
Italian breads and pastries are favorites among foodies. But Italian artisan bakeries are shutting down. Changing eating habits, the crisis and t...

Bought by KUOW, KLCC, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 06:09
  • Purchases: 3
Stephen King's Movie Rose Red
From: The humble Farmer
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Scary things

  • Added: Oct 02, 2008
  • Length: 01:34
Drink More Beer
From: The humble Farmer
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To Drink or not to drink

  • Added: May 11, 2008
  • Length: :36
Sex Toy Safety
From: The Environment Report
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Some sex toy retailers are concerned about chemicals used to make the toys.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 25, 2007
  • Length: 07:08
  • Purchases: 1
Court Sentences Argentine Priest to Life in Prison for Genocide
From: Marie Trigona
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Court Sentences Argentinean Priest to Life in Prison for Genocide(3:24)

  • Added: Oct 11, 2007
  • Length: 03:47
Elderly and gambling
From: Next Generation Radio
Series: NPR's Next Generation Radio
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Retirees move to Las Vegas and become addicted to gambling

  • Added: Aug 28, 2007
  • Length: 05:15
WesternAmazon
From: Anton Foek
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Changing of the Amazonia Region

  • Added: Jul 30, 2007
  • Length: 01:45
Nanotech Nervousness
From: The Environment Report
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Nanotechnology is being used in all kinds of products with little government regulation.

Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 18, 2007
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 2
Adapting to Climate Change
From: The Environment Report
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Business are coping with effects of climate change.

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: May 14, 2007
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 1
High Country News Interview: Buffalo Hunting in Montana
From: KRCC-FM
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What happens when you shoot a buffalo (typically, they die)

  • Added: Feb 13, 2006
  • Length: 09:21
Japanese Beef Embargo Returns
From: KRCC-FM
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A beef over U.S. beef in Japan

  • Added: Jan 27, 2006
  • Length: 04:33