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Is it possible to study human remains ethically?
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 44:44
Ordered to stay in their homes early in the pandemic, residents of the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago are hit by a toxic dust cloud from a ...
- Added: May 28, 2022
- Length: 15:00
The U.S. health care system is responsible for 8.5% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. We discuss how health care contributes to climate ch...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Mar 24, 2022
- Length: 15:11
- Purchases: 1
How are algorithms and data science making their way into the American criminal justice system?
- Added: Jun 27, 2017
- Length: 32:20
Dr. Roger Kligler had been fighting prostate cancer for 14 years before he got the news: it's terminal. With no more treatment options, Roger sued ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 23, 2016
- Length: 07:40
- Purchases: 1
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Series: At the Crossroads: The Rise of Hepatitis C and the Fight to Stop It
Series: At the Crossroads: The Rise of Hepatitis C and the Fight to Stop It
Rhode Island’s prisons are grappling with a dilemma. Hundreds of inmates have hepatitis C. New drugs can cure it. But they’re so expensive the depa...
- Added: Jan 20, 2015
- Length: 08:39
Earlier this fall San Francisco Muni buses displayed an ad that may have upset you. Or angered you. Or made you feel threatened. The Muni ad was pa...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 09:04
For the past eight years, one weekend in late summer brings first responders from across the country and around the world -- firemen, medics, SWAT ...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Dec 28, 2014
- Length: 09:07
- Purchases: 1
Sunnyvale, California doesn't have a history of violence, so why does the mayor want to make a safe city safer?
- Added: Aug 01, 2014
- Length: 06:15
Are we being told the truth about GMO foods in our midst? Sheldon Krimsky is Editor/reader here and Ralph Nader wrote the foreword to this informat...
- Added: May 30, 2014
- Length: 01:40
Missing laborer in Brazil highlights disappearances amid police crackdown in favelas
- Added: Aug 17, 2013
- Length: 04:58
From: Free Speech Radio News
In Canada, people are rallying to support an Indigenous community in northern British Columbia that is claiming its sovereignty over the land and m...
- Added: Jul 17, 2013
- Length: 05:39
The sound of a fine acoustic violin is deviously hard to mimic. But a leading maker now has a digital prototype designed to sound the equal of a St...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, Troy Public Radio, Hark! and more
- Added: Jul 15, 2013
- Length: 07:38
- Purchases: 17
Nearly 500 inmates serving life sentences have been freed from California prisons since voters passed Proposition 36 last November. The law authori...
- Added: Jun 20, 2013
- Length: 22:29
How do YOU talk about race? And why can it be so touchy?
- Added: Apr 14, 2012
- Length: 28:32
You may have heard by now that California’s prisons are overcrowded. Last May, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that California must decrease its priso...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 15, 2011
- Length: 05:54
- Purchases: 1
Thirty-five people were arrested last night in San Francisco, after a gathering to protest the shooting death of a Muni fare evader turned violent....
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Aug 03, 2011
- Length: 07:15
- Purchases: 1
News and features on the conflicts in Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
- Added: Jun 20, 2011
- Length: 10:42
Activists gathered in Sacramento Monday as part of a weeklong demonstration against budget cuts to schools. Sixty-five protesters were arrested for...
- Added: May 16, 2011
- Length: 06:53
Landmark decision in favor of parents -- of any sexual orientation
- Added: Oct 07, 2009
- Length: 02:03
- Added: Jun 19, 2009
- Length: 28:56
Green Party votes help Republicans? Greens react.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WYSO, WLRN, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 06, 2008
- Length: 03:54
- Purchases: 4
How small-town entrepreneurs are trying to establish themselves, and what presidential campaigns want to do to help them
Bought by KOSU, KRZA, KBIA, NPR Station Showcase with PRX, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 05, 2008
- Length: 44:09
- Purchases: 5
Baltimore City Police head out to find kids wanted by the police...but meet the kids' mothers instead.
- Added: May 14, 2008
- Length: 06:56
As factory farms grow bigger, they get harder to regulate. Just try counting cows on a mega-dairy.
- Added: Jan 16, 2008
- Length: 05:35
