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⁠Host Diana Korte speaks with Canadian journalist Taras Grescoe, author of “THE LOST SUPPER. Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of th...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2023
  • Length: 10:49
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In Marc Schultz's THE GOOD LIFE, what makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? The simple but surprising answer is: relationships. T...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2023
  • Length: 10:01
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LONGPATH by futurist Ari Wallach is about a mindset that looks at a future where new ways aren’t quite here yet and the old ways don’t work anymor...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 10:13
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More than half of all American adults have received a COVID-19 vaccine. But even though we’ve made great strides in our vaccination efforts, there ...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2021
  • Length: 03:27
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Michael Cremo, alternative archeologist and Vedic scholar, discusses Human Devolution

  • Added: Jun 02, 2021
  • Length: 01:46:29
Caption: He didn't do it alone., Credit: Susan Cook
In the Department of Poetic Justice, the ode to 2020 and caucasian, male, non-mask wearing arrogant reality - like that of the now closed Institute...

  • Added: Jan 01, 2021
  • Length: 03:50
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Elizabeth William graduated from MIT in 1903 as one of the top students in physics and mathematics. As the head "human computer" at Lowell Observat...

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


  • Added: Mar 26, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: Observers watch an explosion during Operation Hardtack in 1958. 35 nuclear tests were conducted in the Pacific, exposing troops to radiation., Credit: Nevada National Security Site
The new certificate recognizes as many as 550,000 veterans who were exposed to nuclear weapons tests between 1945 and 1992. But the certificates le...

Bought by KRPS, KRZA, KPBS, KPCC, Texas Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 05, 2019
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 6
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Searching for Meaning in Kensington

  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 55:22

  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 32:16
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Clean energy expert Richard Munson’s newest biography is "Tesla. Inventor of the Modern.” Serbian-American Nikola Tesla, born more than 150 years ...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 09:55
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Brantley Hargrove is the author of "The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras.” It’s a true story of a Denveri...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 09:56
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Nature writer Craig Childs is the author of Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America. It’s a travelogue of places and people, just like us...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 09:56
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The disputed origin story of one of the 20th century’s most important inventions.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 30:06
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Jan 17, 2018
  • Length: 25:35
Caption: The Admiral shipwreck, Credit: Marc Duncan
There’s more than just fish and sand in the Great Lakes – there are thousands of ships, airplanes, and other vehicles under the water. A story on ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, WRVO Public Media, WCMU Michigan, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 8
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Out of the lab and into the streets.

Bought by KRZA and WXDU


  • Added: Jun 19, 2017
  • Length: 21:21
  • Purchases: 2
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Music & Mans Self Discovery with Dj Spooky aka That Subliminal Kid aka Paul Miller explores the ways in which music documents, inspires, heals and ...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2017
  • Length: 27:41
Caption: 1950s advertising. Vintage original magazine advertisement advert for MUM perspiration cream for women, Credit: f8 archive / Alamy Stock Photo
How deodorant became omnipresent in America.

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Mar 15, 2017
  • Length: 15:47
  • Purchases: 1
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The unnatural history of a carbonated drink.

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 13:27
  • Purchases: 1
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After decades of field work in southern Arizona, these two retired Univ of Colorado professors have authored the first in their Arizona Borderlands...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2016
  • Length: 09:56
Caption: Famous taxidermist Carl Akeley posing with the leopard he killed with his bare hands
Taxidermy is back. This time, with glitter.

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jul 07, 2016
  • Length: 26:05
  • Purchases: 1
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Learning to read and write rewired our brains in fascinating ways. But where and when did writing and language originate?

  • Added: Dec 02, 2015
  • Length: 18:38
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“Yea, those are human brains.” I’m looking into a wooden display cabinet with Stephanie Stewart Bailey. “It's kind of like a yellowy color they'r...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2015
  • Length: 09:29
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We tend to view our hunter-gatherer ancestors with pity for their primitive ways. But what if they employ strategies for leading a depression-free ...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2015
  • Length: 13:13