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Using 21st-century medicine to maintain a 300-year-old way of life.

  • Added: Aug 16, 2017
  • Length: 27:16
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Technology's grip on us: the 4-1-1 on what's behind your selfie; an artist's computer simulation shows humans aren't as unique as we think; and how...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 20:52
  • Purchases: 1
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By sending pipe from a moving ship roughly three miles down to collect sediment and rocks a third of a mile beneath the sea floor in an ocean trenc...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2016
  • Length: 04:22
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
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
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8 More Ways To Save The Most Money, Ever, Understanding Today's Most Popular Investment: ETFs, Do You Have Good Debt Or Bad Debt? Need A Moving Com...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WMUU-LP, WETD, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WLRN


  • Added: May 11, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Advertisement encouraging people to donate a kidney., Credit: Science Museum, London, Wellcome Images
Rethinking the ethics of organ transplants.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 21:10
Caption: FEMA trailer with bicycles. , Credit: Courtesy of Akasha Rabut
Ten years later and thousands of miles away, Hurricane Katrina lives on.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2015
  • Length: 27:58
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Billy Mack got a house, and then got 95 people to play a song about it.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2015
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Computer students John Ryland and Mary Bartholomew at 30th Street Senior Center, Credit: Jen Chien
Getting seniors comfortable with using technology is the aim of SF Connected, the City initiative that administers the class at 30th Street Senior ...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Mar 17, 2015
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Wing sails on San Francisco Bay, Credit: Jason Albert
90% of the world's goods are carried by cargo ships. And the oceans they sail on are streaming with wind: High tech wing sails used on America's Cu...

Bought by Hark!, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTIP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 15, 2013
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Making way for the Marcellus, Credit: Reid R. Frazier/Allegheny Front
We use natural gas to heat our homes and generate our power. Can we use it to fuel our cars? Big Gas thinks shale gas is the key to cleaning up our...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2011
  • Length: 06:57
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Redefining the parameters of self defense

  • Added: Nov 20, 2008
  • Length: :40
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The depression was caused by products that never wore out

  • Added: Nov 18, 2008
  • Length: 02:07

  • Added: Sep 23, 2008
  • Length: 02:09
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Electricity is habit forming

  • Added: Jul 23, 2008
  • Length: 01:52
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A study in the circumlocutive prowess of an honest man

  • Added: Jun 15, 2008
  • Length: 01:15
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Keeping up with technical terms

  • Added: Jun 08, 2008
  • Length: 02:03
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Can you understand your power bill?

  • Added: Jun 03, 2008
  • Length: 02:30
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Bones In Motion turns cell phones into athletic training devices

  • Added: Nov 27, 2006
  • Length: 08:15