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You’ve probably experienced test anxiety. Listen to what it’s like for teenagers to take a test with test anxiety. Then hear educators question whe...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 31, 2015
  • Length: 09:12
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Underwood & Underwood, Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
R. Marie Griffith discusses the how debates from the 1920s over birth control relate to religious and political controversies today.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 15, 2014
  • Length: 12:00
  • Purchases: 1
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What should consumers do who worry their data is being misused?Whose job is it to educate people about their responsibilities?Does privacy mean any...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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In the past few years medical companies have been producing a range of devices to help aging people keep track of their vital statistics: pulse rat...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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Diabetes used to be a fatal but very rare disease. Now rates of Type Two diabetes are soaring worldwide. What’s responsible for the spike in cases?

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Dr. David Carpenter, author of numerous scholarly articles including Public health implicat...

  • Added: May 26, 2014
  • Length: 28:36
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The study of gestures in American Sign Language sheds surprising new light on Autism Spectrum Disorders.

  • Added: May 12, 2014
  • Length: 10:52
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Host Brian Balogh interviews historian Rebecca Plant about war veterans and “mom-ism.”

Bought by Radio Newark and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 07:24
  • Purchases: 2
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When we make big decisions in life, such as buying a house or getting married, we often consider those decisions to have been based on a ‘gut feeli...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2013
  • Length: 07:20
Caption: Kurt Eichenwald
In his newest book, bestseller author Kurt Eichenwald chronicles the fast paced decisions, deceptions and delusions following the 9/11 attacks.

  • Added: Sep 18, 2012
  • Length: 28:58
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The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Greg Palast - investigative reporter for BBC television. Greg discusses his latest book Bil...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Aug 23, 2012
  • Length: 28:43
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Anton Treuer: Everything You Wanted To Know About Indians But Were Afraid To Ask
Anton Treuer recently spoke at the Bemidji Public Library about subjects addressed in his book "Everything You Wanted To Know About Indians But Wer...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 10, 2012
  • Length: 40:35
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Matti Friedman
In an age when physical books matter less and less, here is a THRILLING story about a book that meant everything. A thousand years ago the most per...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
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Heidi Holtan talks with Therese Zink about this collection of writing in various forms penned by modern day rural health care professionals. Things...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 20:08
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: “MOHAMED ALI JINNAH: His Moslem tiger wants to eat the Hindu cow” [April 1946]
Christopher Lydon on the road in South Asia, in a compilation of conversations and reflections on Pakistan's past and dynamic present. Featuring no...

Bought by WCPN, KUOW, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Explorer, naturalist, writer ... in his too-short life, Lewis helped to make this country ... literally ... what it is today. From sea to shining s...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
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News and features on the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.

  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 03:36
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Drone warfare to combat terrorism has increased sharply in recent years. Where are we headed with these robotics of war? In this uncut interview, ...

  • Added: Jul 13, 2011
  • Length: 17:00
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Are new methods to help the environment solutions or scams? Independent journalist and author Heather Rogers traveled the globe to get the scoop on...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
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25 years before the battle of ‘The Little Bighorn,’ 40 years before the ‘Battle of Wounded Knee,’ there was ‘The Bloody Island Massacre’ in the spr...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2010
  • Length: 26:04
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Cannabis, commonly known as marijuana has caused considerable debate and political discussion, but just what is in this plant which creates such co...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2009
  • Length: 28:34
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Are you jealous? Have you ever been? Do you know the origin of your jealousy? Jealousy often goes hand in hand with feelings of love, but where doe...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2009
  • Length: 29:08
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Recorded on January 20, 2009, the day Barack Obama became President of the United States, Radio Curious visited again with Congressman Sam Farr, wh...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Dec 08, 2009
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 1
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As part of a series of ‘Radio Curious on tour in Scotland’ we interview Jim Fairlie, the organizer of Farmers Markets in Scotland. Jim is a farmer...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2009
  • Length: 29:20
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Taboos associated with menstruation limit public discussion of a primary event in the lives of more than half of the human population of the world....

  • Added: Dec 07, 2009
  • Length: 28:55