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Too Healthy for the Hospital, Too Sick for the Streets

From: Tradeoffs

Why are a growing number of private insurance companies starting to invest in medical respite — a decades-old way of caring for homeless people?

Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

An environmental success story.

Bought by KRZA

The Yoga Pant Problem

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

The rise of synthetic fibers and the war on cotton

Bought by WSGE

Second Skin

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

The unexpected origin of the sports bra.

Bought by PRX Remix

Episode 10: Big Fish, Big Science

From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf

Caption: Biochemist Dana Wetzel dissects a fish exposed to oil in the lab., Credit: David Levin

Scientists at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, are leading a new experiment that will help uncover the effects of oil spills on fis...

Episode 9: Mapping Oil Spills by Satellite

From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf

Caption: Chuanmin Hu, an optical oceanographer at USF, points to a map of the Ixtoc-1 spill made from archival satellite data.

The 1979 Ixtoc-1 oil spill spewed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, but has since been largely forgotten. More than 35 years late...

Blues America 59 - Jontavious Willis

From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America

20 year old Jontavious Willis from Greenville, Georgia is a touring, unrecorded, self-taught mult-instrumentalist who can be seen belting out pre-w...

Bought by Public Radio East and Spokane Public Radio

Blues America 58 - Janiva Magness

From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America

Janiva Magness is one of the most beloved figures in the Americana, blues and roots music world. She’s reached a larger and more diverse audience w...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Public Radio East, WART FM, Prairie Public, and Spokane Public Radio

Blues America 34 - Guy Davis

From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America

Guy Davis is an award winning blues-roots musician and the son of Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. He talks about his new album, Kokomo Kidd.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Public Radio East, KDLG, WART FM, WEAA and more

Blues America 27 - Alabama Mike

From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America

The downhome blues singer Alabama Mike is a “church house” tenor who was a Blues Award nominee for Traditional Male Artist of the Year by the Blues...

Bought by Public Radio East, GCR (Global Community Radio), KRPS, KDLG, WEAA and more

The Best Medicine for Heart Disease

From: Richard Paul
Series: The Best Medicine with Dr. Ken Miller

A look inside the labs, treatment facilities, and homes of those closest to heart disease.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KHNS, MPR News Stations, Maine Public Radio, KCPW Salt Lake City and more

Blues America 22 - The Jerry Lawson Legacy Project 2

From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America

Jerry Lawson documents his early days in New York and discusses songs from the Persuasions first album, Acappella (1970, Reprise/Straight Records).

Bought by Public Radio East, GCR (Global Community Radio), KDLG, KPIP-LP, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.

In The Big Easy, Food Vendors Create A Little Honduras

From: Laine Kaplan-Levenson

Thanks to a quirk of history — and a love of bananas — New Orleans has had a Honduran population for more than a century. But that population explo...

Stuck in the Bluff

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

WABE reporter Jim Burress takes us to ‘The Bluff’, a neighborhood in Atlanta where a needle exchange program has become a vital part of a strugglin...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio

Episode 4 ~ Online Gaming Communities

From: Matthew Mustovich
Series: The Art of Video Game Design

Randall Coleman and I talk about the impact video game communities have on the development of new titles.

One Child at a Time: Custom Learning in the Digital Age

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

Caption: Working a math problem at Mooresville Middle School in North Carolina, where each student gets a laptop., Credit: Stephen Smith

Learning with a personal tutor is one of the best ways to learn. But hiring a tutor for every student was never a realistic option, until now. Can ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KPIP-LP, KMXT, KOSU, WTIP and more

Whitebark Pine, Grizzlies, and an Ecosystem on the Brink

From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay

Caption: Yellowstone flyover 2, Credit: K. Gourlay

Whitebark pine trees, once a feature of the mountainous west, are under attack. Nearly two-thirds have died from beetle attacks and other causes, h...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Cave Conservation

From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay

Caption: Looking up and out of the mouth of Horse Cave, Kentucky, Credit: K. Gourlay

Caves may lie beneath our radar, but they play an important role in many Southeastern U.S. ecosystems. They filter water and shelter diverse wildli...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio

Stages: 10 Years of ACL Fest

From: KUT
Series: Texas Music Matters

September 2011 marks the 10th anniversary of the Austin City Limits Music Festival. What started out as a modest two day affair heavy on regional ...

The Austin Aces

From: KUT
Series: Texas Music Matters

Caption: Stephen Bruton, of the 10 Austin Aces

Janis Joplin. Roky Erikson. Doug Sahm. Stevie Ray Vaughan. Names like these helped establish Austin’s global reputation as hothouse for great music...