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Barbie Land
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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The release of Barbie the movie seems the perfect excuse to look for the origins of patriarchy with science writer Angela D Saini.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 25, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Future Food
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Palm grub sushi, Credit: Sandip Roy
Just last year the U.N. reported that malnutrition rose to about 768 million people. Sandip Roy wonders if the time for insects as food is upon us.

  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
Social Mobility Through College (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Scott Jaschik, editor of "Inside Higher Ed", says social mobility has stalled and we should expand access to those universities admitting the larg...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRST-FM Oshkosh, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2018
  • Length: 53:49
  • Purchases: 12
Social Mobility Through College (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Scott Jaschik, editor of "Inside Higher Ed", says social mobility has stalled and we should expand access to those universities admitting the larg...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, WSGE, WLPR , WYAP and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2018
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 11
Who uses spider silk? The Army and Stella McCartney, for starters
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: These silk threads are produced by silkworms but based on the protein spiders use to spin a web. , Credit: Kraig Biocraft Laboratories
The silky strands made by spiders are prized for their strength and suppleness. Now, scientists in the Great Lakes region are using technology to r...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Michigan Radio, North Country Public Radio, WCPN, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 8
Inspiration Or Appropriation? Behind Music Copyright Lawsuits
From: Allyson McCabe
Caption: John Paul Jones, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. The band's "Stairway to Heaven" is the subject of a current copyright-infringement lawsuit. , Credit: Danny Martindale/Getty Images
Where do you draw the line between inspiration and appropriation when it comes to musical compositions?

  • Added: Nov 13, 2015
  • Length: 09:24
Shopping with Seafarers
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Dheeraj Singh trying on sunglasses at Old Navy in Emeryville, Credit: Julie Caine
Dheeraj Singh is the first officer on a container ship that makes regular runs from China, to California, to Japan, and back again.

  • Added: Jan 07, 2015
  • Length: 08:51
Inside San Francisco’s Secret SoundLab
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Have you noticed how the way a space feels really depends on how it sounds? Take the California Academy of Sciences for example. With all the hundr...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 09:46
Multi Ethnic Theater: Finding common ground through theater
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Cast of Multi Ethnic Theater's "Jitney"
In the garage of a house in San Francisco’s Excelsior district, rehearsal is underway. In the space where a car would normally go is a stage set: a...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 07:15
Not Your Grandma's Orchestra
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: The Firehouse Art Collective door opens to rainy Adeline Street., Credit: Mary Rees
Once or twice a month in the East Bay, violinists and bass-players, flautists and trumpeters -- gather to play orchestra music. But instead of a co...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 07:21
700 Fathoms under the Sea
From: David Schulman
Caption: Scientists discovered the "sound channel" in 1944. Whales use it to communicate across oceans — and during the Cold War the Navy secretly used it to track nuclear subs. This 1948 graphic shows sound traveling on an axis 700 fathoms down in the Atlantic., Credit: Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel
Something unusual happens about a half mile under the sea. Ocean physics create a special zone where sound travels for hundreds, even thousands of ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, American Voices, Hark!, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 11:11
  • Purchases: 11
The Sound of India Changed
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip Roy reflects on the meaning, and sound, of India old and new.

  • Added: Aug 18, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Harrisburg, PA's Shakespeare Connection
From: WITF
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A history of Shakespeare performances in Harrisburg, PA

  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 06:56
Are there tunnels under the loop?
From: WBEZ
Series: Curious City
Caption: A snippet of Chicago’s Deep Tunnel, Credit: Erik Nelson Rodriguez/The Illustrated Press
A Curious Citizen had a hunch there might be tunnels lurking beneath Chicago’s downtown. She had no idea how right she was.

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  • Added: Sep 24, 2013
  • Length: 09:32
  • Purchases: 1
Homeless hackers head to Noisebridge for shelter
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Chris Zapata shows a guest around Noisebridge, Credit: Holly J McDede
Every day, more than two dozen people pass through a hackerspace in San Francisco’s Mission district called Noisebridge. At its broadest, “hackersp...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 08:11
  • Purchases: 1
Volunteers hunt for moose bones on Isle Royale (Part 2)
From: Michigan Radio
Series: Lessons from Isle Royale's Wolves & Moose
Caption: Moosewatch volunteer Dave Beck holds up a marked antler. Team leader Jeff Holden looks on. They mark the antlers and hang them in a tree so others know the antler has been found and documented., Credit: Mark Brush
Wolves and moose are at the heart of the world’s longest running study of a predator and its prey. The drama unfolds on Isle Royale National Park ...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio and WTIP


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 2
Watching the lives of wolves and moose unfold on Isle Royale (Part 1)
From: Michigan Radio
Caption: Rolf Peterson on Caribou Island, one of more than 450 smaller islands in the national park's archipelago., Credit: Mark Brush
Researchers have studied the wolves and moose on a remote island archipelago in Lake Superior for 54 years. These days, the wolves are in trouble.

Bought by Delta College Public Radio and WTIP


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
This Week in Texas Music History: Cloet Hammon
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the first week of May (5/5): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at an often-overlooked musician who helped lay the founda...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
This Week in Texas Music History: The Eyes of Texas
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the second week of May (5/12): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at the unlikely origins of one of the states best known...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
This Week in Texas Music History: Birth of Zydeco
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the second week of August (8/8): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a historic recording session that helped set the s...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
This Week in Texas Music History: Troy Floyd
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the first week of January (1/5): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at an artist who performed in one of the first Africa...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
This Week in Texas Music History: Clovis Recording Studio
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the fourth week of February (2/25): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a home recording studio that helped produce som...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
This Week in Texas Music History: Rudy Tee Gonzales
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the first week of July (7/4): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at one of the pioneers of Chicano soul

  • Added: Aug 03, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
This Week in Texas Music History: Freak Dancing
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the second week of July (7/12): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a city ordinance that banned freak dancing.

  • Added: Aug 03, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
This Week in Texas Music History: Barbara Mandrell
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the fourth week of December (12/25): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a multi instrumentalist who combined gospel an...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2012
  • Length: 01:40