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Self Help Me!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Self-help books promise a secret formula to individual success and Jay Shetty is just the latest Dale Carnegie to do so. But, even after the Guardi...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
How Pushing Hospitals to Give Away More Free Care Could Backfire
From: Tradeoffs
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With high health bills drowning patients in debt, some lawmakers want nonprofit hospitals to give away more free care. But experts warn that could ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2024
  • Length: 15:44
787-Far Out
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Milky Way Rising Over the Gila Wilderness, Credit: David Thornburg
In 2024, Voyager I is 163 times further from the Sun than we are and is the most distant, human made, traveler in the night.

Bought by KRWG, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
A lack of base housing is forcing Navy sailors to live on ships, even when they're home in the U.S.
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Commander Robert Molinaro, Executive Officer of the USS Ramage, inspects the ship's sleeping quarters March 22, 2023. Though the Ramage is back in port in Norfolk, Virginia, some sailors have to live on the ship because of a shortage of barracks space on, Credit: Adriones Johnson / U.S. Navy
A lack of barracks space - as well as poor living conditions in some barracks buildings - are contributing to complaints about sailors' quality of ...

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  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 6
786-Comet 31
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Enke, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered his 31st comet while asteroid hunting in Leo with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Ariz...

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Mass Shooting Sequence: In Memoriam
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
We know too much of the sequence of the aftermath of a Mass Shooting Sequence.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1
NY Times Columnist David Brooks on How to Know and See a Person
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we talk with New York Times columnist David Brooks, about his new book - How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 29:30
A Navy SEAL's fight against LGBTQ+ policies tests the Pentagon's new extremism rules
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Navy SEAL Bryce Henson, right, speaks into a bullhorn directed into the face of a pro-LGBTQ+ demonstrator at a rally in Orange, California, Sept. 7, 2023. , Credit: Courtesy of Kelly Stuart
The Navy stopped short of invoking the extremism rules against Bryce Henson, who has appeared at rallies alongside the Proud Boys and posted threat...

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  • Added: Feb 07, 2024
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 4
5 ways America's Courts Could Change Health Care in 2024
From: Tradeoffs
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Key court decisions in 2024 about prescription drug prices, abortion bans, gender affirming care and the Affordable Care Act could change the way h...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2024
  • Length: 18:49
What’s Wrong, America? A 2024 Election Special
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Turns out Americans don't feel great about the direction of our country. But what exactly are they upset about, and are things as bad as they think?

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Taking What Is Not Yours To Take; Giving What's Not Yours To Give
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
What leads people to take what is not theirs to take? Or give what is not theirs to give or for that matter, withhold from others? These are questi...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 04:59
Why Are People Afraid of the Most Popular Opioid Addiction Treatment?
From: Tradeoffs
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Fentanyl killed 75,000 people in 2022. Now it’s making one of the few treatments for opioid addiction harder to use.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 23:50
Nikki Haley's Emergence
From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio
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Nikki Haley’s Emergence January 22, 2024 Photo by Gage Skidmore Analysis | Nikki Haley: Navigating Challenges and Shaping the 2024 Republican Pr...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2024
  • Length: 05:28
Analyzing Ron DeSantis’s Unexpected Withdrawal from the Presidential Race
From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio
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Governor Ron DeSantis unexpectedly withdraws from the presidential race, citing personal reasons and hinting at family health issues, reshaping the...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2024
  • Length: 10:43
782-Probing The Cosmic Web
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: A Cosmic Thread, Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Feige Wang (University of Arizona)
In the past two decades astronomers have discovered that galaxies are not randomly distributed in space but rather occur along filaments of mass wi...

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  • Added: Jan 21, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Looking for the Wounded Deer: Doing Good in the Face of Culturally Sanctioned Aggression
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
A Registered Maine Guide I know searched for a wounded deer - wounded but not felled- he still seeking to do good for evil - as it is perceived by ...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 04:50
When the Press Becomes A Casualty of War
From: Mateo Schimpf
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The dangers of conflict reporting past and present

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


  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Maldives in Hot Water
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a beach in Lakshadweep, Credit: Twitter account of Narendra Modi @NarendraModi
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's images of the Indian islands of Lakshadweep triggered a social media spat with the Maldives.

  • Added: Jan 16, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
A Pentagon report finds that troops' suicides are often preceded by legal or administrative troubles
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Chief Aviation Boatswain's Mate Ryan Cuppernall leads SafeTALK suicide training in Norfolk, Va. on Aug. 9, 2023. SafeTALK is a three-hour course that trains sailors and civilians how to prevent suicide., Credit: Jacqueline R. Ramos / U.S. Navy
About a quarter of all suicide deaths occur among troops caught up in legal or administrative battles - sometimes for minor infractions.

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  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 7
To the First Images Seen of A Black Hole
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: " Breathing: American Sonnets" (Shermans.com), Credit: Susan Cook
Black holes still doing what they do. Re-visiting Einstein imagining his most important discovery.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 05, 2024
  • Length: 01:03
  • Purchases: 1
Yonder Report - December 28, 2023
From: Center for Rural Strategies
Series: The Yonder Report
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The search for rural childcare, support for Minnesota's BIPOC farmers, and a fight to keep AM radio.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
From Bethlehem to Kyiv: A Prayer for Peace at Christmas
From: Mateo Schimpf
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How do celebrations change during war?

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Dec 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
“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
A World in Turmoil: 2023's Defining Moments
From: Mateo Schimpf
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That's a wrap.

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Yonder Report - December 21, 2023
From: Center for Rural Strategies
Series: The Yonder Report
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Small-town papers; wildfire smoke and mental health; working out with recovery court judges

  • Added: Dec 21, 2023
  • Length: 03:00

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