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Global Guru - Aboriginal Boomerangs
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week the Global Guru wades through tourist kitsch to find authentic aboriginal boomerangs.

Bought by WABE, WTIP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 3
Global Guru-Tanzania's Barbershops
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week the Global Guru explores why there are so many barbershops -- sometimes a dozen in a single block -- in Tanzania.

Bought by WABE, HCC Radio The Dragon, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 3
Global Guru - Latin America Bas Reliefs
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week we go to Latin America where we learn what all bas reliefs have in common, and what that can tell us about our social order.

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 07, 2010
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 2
Music That Matters To Tim Surrett
From: WAMU
Series: Music That Matters
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WAMU's Bluegrass Country asks some of the finest musicians in bluegrass music what they are listening to and how it influences their own music.

  • Added: Sep 16, 2009
  • Length: 01:49
Music That Matters To Chris Pandolfi
From: WAMU
Series: Music That Matters
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WAMU's Bluegrass Country asks some of the finest musicians in bluegrass music what they are listening to and how it influences their own music.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2009
  • Length: 01:36
Jody Zorgdrager and "The Foretelling"
From: Elizabeth Austen
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Seattle poet Jody Zorgdrager reads “The Foretelling” and literary producer Elizabeth Austen reflects on what the poem has to say about our innate a...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2009
  • Length: 04:56
The Charles River Didn't Kill Me
From: Terrascope Youth Radio
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A science experiment that didn't go tragically wrong

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 10, 2009
  • Length: 01:13
  • Purchases: 1
Perfect Green Gift for Dad
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Finding the perfect Father’s Day present can be daunting. Does he really need a new wallet? Does he even wear a tie?

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: May 28, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
WUTB-Variation 1B -Techno/Robot Version
From: David Green
Series: We Used To Believe...
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When you were younger, did you ever believe something which turned out not to be true? How about recently? Producers Owen and Jack caution that if ...

Bought by PRX Remix and Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Mar 23, 2009
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 2
Black bile
From: Distillations
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A sad, melancholy element

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
Pneuma
From: Distillations
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The science of the soul.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
Platinum
From: Distillations
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Platinum: beautiful, expensive, and scientifically important.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
Neon
From: Distillations
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The story of neon, element 10.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
Krypton
From: Distillations
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The real story of krypton

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
Fire
From: Distillations
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Fire, from a chemical perspective

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:31
Chromium
From: Distillations
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Chromium, the element named after color

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
Carbon
From: Distillations
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the most abundant element in the universe

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
Ruthenium
From: Distillations
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Ruthenium, a transition metal.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
Copper
From: Distillations
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a colorful use for this common element

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:31
The Origins of Rock -- on ThoughtCast!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Rock and Roll. A term we all know well. But what does the word rock mean? Simple enough question. But how did the term originate? Where -- and ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WMUB


  • Added: Jul 22, 2008
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 2
Google Cooking, Griefer and other Neologisms - on ThoughtCast!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Google Cooking is a new phrase - a neologism - born on the Internet. Listen to this short ThoughtCast program for a definition...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 22, 2008
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 1
11 Central Ave # 80. The Fundraising episode, with Peter Sagal.
From: 800 lb. Productions
Series: 11 Central Ave
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This week's installment of the radio comic strip...Written by Diane Toomey and Susan Shepherd, mixed by Walter Dixon.

Bought by New England Public Media, WUGA (part of GPB), WBEZ, and KUT


  • Added: Apr 08, 2008
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 4
Modern Cowboy
From: Jen Nathan
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Man rides horse cross country in search of fame

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WILL


  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 3
Terminal A, Hotdogs, Desire, and Dreaming
From: SCAD Radio
Series: Commentary Corral
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A young man wishes he were more cosmopolitan

Bought by WXLV-FM and KOOP


  • Added: Oct 01, 2007
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 2
Groovy Energy-Saving Prototype Van
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Now here's a ride Little Miss Sunshine and her eccentric family would have appreciated-Think sixties hippie culture meets Star Trek...

  • Added: May 24, 2007
  • Length: 01:32