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Companies claim they can catch cancer sooner with new blood tests and full-body MRI scans. What are the risks and benefits?

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 18:02
  • Purchases: 1
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In 2021, University of Minnesota health economist Hannah Neprash listened to a Tradeoffs story on ransomware in health care and was inspired to stu...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 24:29
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Stories about Chicago's Community Glue repair cafe and the Minnesota coalition of techies and farmers who won the nation's strongest Right to Repai...

Bought by WFHB and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 12, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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There’s growing excitement that artificial intelligence can make health care better by speeding up care, improving diagnoses and easing the burden ...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2023
  • Length: 23:21
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As the CEO of the California utility giant PG&E, Patti Poppe is charged with navigating the company through massive wildfires, disrupted energy mar...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Aug 01, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
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As the CEO of the California utility giant PG&E, Patti Poppe is charged with navigating the company through massive wildfires, disrupted energy mar...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
Caption: Arushi Saxena
Imagine... widespread consensus around scientific facts and historic events. Online interactions based on mutual respect and dignity. Systems that ...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Ride along with a sanitation worker who collects everything in San Francisco’s blue bins, and learn some dos and don’ts of recycling at a Recology ...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Brett Oppegaard
We talk with Dr. Brett Oppegaard, the lead investigator of the UniD project, which produces audio descriptions for the visually impaired.

  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Jennifer Jenkins
Jennifer Jenkins, Principal Investigator with the Tribesourcing Southwest Film Project, works at the intersection of literature, film, and archival...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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When you’re trying to figure out a piece of information online, your search will typically bring you to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia about pr...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 10:56
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"We live in an age in which it is effortless to telecommunicate across the globe, in which we could all just dial in from some sylvan suburb," says...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 1
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The Indian government plans to give all 1.2 billion Indians a fingerprint ID. Are you in favor of a national biometric ID to prevent identity theft...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
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Spoofs have never been more popular. What makes parodies work and not work online? On this edition of the TippingPoint, we take a closer look.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2010
  • Length: 30:37
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‘Tis the season to buy and sell. We take a closer look at some of the current trends in retail online.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2010
  • Length: 26:10
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The snow has started to fall. What does the internet offer for amusement in the winter? Matisyahu, Charlie Brown, and curling in the same audio pla...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2010
  • Length: 19:42
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Are mashups the new metaphors– combining rather than comparing unlike things — as a commentary on our culture? How have mashups influenced and chan...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2010
  • Length: 23:37
Caption: Curltv.com, Credit: Curl TV
The Winter Olympics only comes around every four years, but fans of the peculiar sport of curling can find curling content online all year round. T...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2010
  • Length: 04:46