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Shoot The Messenger
From: Exile Content
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Shoot the Messenger is a new serialized, investigative-reporting podcast where we do deep dives on international news stories that warrant a reexam...

Bought by KGOU, KFCF FM, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUOW and more


  • Added: Jul 05, 2023
  • Length: 53:40
  • Purchases: 14
The African Burial Ground
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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Is it possible to study human remains ethically?

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 44:44
The Space Force will track troops' fitness with wearable devices. Will that keep them healthier?
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Air Force troops run a timed 1.5 miles during their annual physical fitness test at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois on June 9, 2022. The U.S. Space Force intends to do away with a once-a-year assessments in favor of wearable technology that constantly tr, Credit: Eric Schmid / American Homefront
Instead of an annual fitness test, the devices will monitor troops' activity throughout the year.

Bought by KPBS, WRFA-LP, KRPS, Texas Public Radio, and KUT


  • Added: Jul 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 5
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
Pain, Fear and Waste: The Costs of Unnecessary Care
From: Tradeoffs
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We explore “cascades of care” — how a doctor’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2022
  • Length: 18:18
Answering the Call, Part 1: America’s New Mental Health Crisis Line
From: Tradeoffs
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Starting July 16, 2022, anyone in the U.S. experiencing a mental health crisis will be able to dial 988 for help. We explore what it will take for ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 25:04
  • Purchases: 1
The Fight for Sheikh Jarrah + NATO
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Co-host Ray Suarez explores one of the underlying tensions that fuels the Israeli-Palestinian crisis by focusing on a single house in East Jerusale...

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
In the Country of Facebook. Hey, Wait a Minute. Facebook Is Not a Country!
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "There should be a way so that everybody could know everybody.", Credit: Susan Cook
On the Fresh Air episode, "For Facebook Content Moderators, Traumatizing Material is a Job Hazard", a Silicon Valley journalist plumbed Facebook's ...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: 08:21
My GPS and White House Spokespeople: A Citizen's Guide
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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I have for months tried to figure out the loose association that comes to mind when my voice-activated GPS begins. After Paul Manafort's sentencin...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2019
  • Length: 05:56
When Law Enforcement and Trauma Care Collide
From: Trevor Zavagno
Series: Radio Health Journal
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Many patients arrive in the emergency room as a result of violence or car crashes—events in which police have an investigative interest. Sometimes,...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Feb 22, 2019
  • Length: 17:30
  • Purchases: 1
Looking After Each Other: Putting Our Senses Back Together to Provide Healthcare
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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Insurers who raise health care premiums, systematically deflect accountability for increases as necessary to cover rising health care costs. Deduc...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2018
  • Length: 07:48
Apple Health Records
From: Kasiana McLenaghan
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How Apple's electronic health records feature works, and why it's concerning to privacy experts.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 04:15
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry: Shouldn't Facebook Be Accountable for their Exploitation of Anonymity - the Faceless- by FacebookTrolling?
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Enough is Enough. , Credit: Susan Cook
Shouldn't Facebook also be held accountable for their moral indifference to the human consequence of Facebook trolling that the platform's anonymi...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2018
  • Length: 01:35
Move over Uber -- the Army's testing self-driving vehicles
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Decal on truck, Credit: Kevin Lavery, WKAR
The day of the driverless car is gaining ground...FAST. Autonomous vehicles have caught the attention of Tesla, Uber and Google. Now, add the U.S. ...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCMU Michigan, WMUK and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 7
How can cities keep sewage out of Great Lakes? Go underground
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: A photo of the finished Euclid Creek Tunnel, the first of 7., Credit: Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District
Combined sewer overflows are common in over 700 cities and towns in the country. Several cities are under consent decrees to solve this problem --...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, WXXI Rochester, WCPN, WCMU Michigan, and WBFO


  • Added: Jun 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 5
Teaching A Computer to Find You- A Citizen's Guide
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: The Early primitive hacker, a Scottish lady in Accounts, deleted your data for late payment. , Credit: Susan Cook
Internet anonymity now is presented as ‘the standard’ . But being anonymous when online really is optional . If like many other human activities, a...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2017
  • Length: 06:29
Got pollution? Canadian city puts it in giant box
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: John Gee with Environment and Climate Change Canada stands on a platform overlooking the Randle Reef restoration project., Credit: Veronica Volk
Imagine a huge steel box – whose lid is 10 football fields across. It's being built in Hamilton's harbor on the western end of Lake Ontario. It’s d...

Bought by WMUK, WRVO Public Media, North Country Public Radio, WLPR , WCPN and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 8
Great Lakes targeted for offshore wind farms
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Lorry Wagner, CEO of LEEDCo, Credit: Elizabeth Miller
The nation's first offshore wind farm recently began operating in New England, and developers now are eying vast body of water: the Great Lakes. Pr...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, KUVO, WCMU Michigan, WRVO Public Media, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 20, 2016
  • Length: 03:28
  • Purchases: 8
Rural Pinetops Disconnected from Internet Thanks to Telecom Monopolies
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
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Last week, Wilson’s City Council voted to halt Greenlight Internet service to the community of Pinetops, North Carolina. City leaders, faced with t...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2016
  • Length: 03:28
Push for wind farms along Great Lakes sparks controversy
From: Great Lakes Today
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Apex Clean Energy plans to build dozens of wind turbines across the Great Lakes states -- including Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Illinois – to take ...

Bought by WCPN, Delta College Public Radio, WCMU Michigan, and WBFO


  • Added: Sep 16, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
Gridlocked
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Outside/In
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Something very different is going on up in Boothbay, Maine. It was an experiment which – if it works – could represent a fundamental shift in the w...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 22:15
"My Funny I.T. Guy" To the Tune of "My Funny Valentine'' (The song and dance genre)
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
A musical tribute to "My Funny I.T. Guy" . Blackberry phones - like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had- used to be considered difficult...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2016
  • Length: 02:08
Austin Zika Hackathon Fights Disease with Big Data
From: Jorge Salazar
Series: Science and Supercomputers Podcasts
Caption: Austin hackers battled Zika data., Credit: TACC
More than 50 volunteer programmers gathered in Austin on May 15 to use Big Data to fight the spread of Zika.

  • Added: May 24, 2016
  • Length: 07:50
Is Drone Training Really Necessary For People To Become A Drone Pilot?
From: Zhiyan Zhong
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This is a story discussing the need for taking drone-flying training in order to be a drone pilot. In the story, you will hear a major drone traini...

  • Added: May 10, 2016
  • Length: 03:19
Dean Hill Photography: Shooting Local, Going Global
From: WMMT
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With the release of the United Nations report on Friday, June 3, declaring internet access as a fundamental human right, the significance of buildi...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2016
  • Length: 11:37