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Clever Apes: Trick of the lgiht
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
Caption: Lisa Utschig holds a vial of the protein active in photosynthesis.
In this installment, we consider why photosynthesis remains a puzzle to science. And we’ll find out how a research team at Argonne National Laborat...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KUT


  • Added: Aug 02, 2011
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Mort Segal and Joan Feldman
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Mort Segal and his sister, Joan Feldman, remember their father, Jack Segal, a booking agent for novelty acts in the Catskills.

Bought by WEZU, KERA, and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 01, 2011
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 3
A Conversation with Frank Stella
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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One of the most well-regarded postwar American artists still working, Frank Stella discusses his five-decade career in the visual arts, from painti...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2011
  • Length: 21:40
A Conversation with Writer, Unai Elloriaga
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Basque writer Unai Elorriaga and Amaia Gabantxo, translator of Elorriaga's novel Plants Don’t Drink Coffee, discuss the book as well as the art of ...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2011
  • Length: 25:51
Exit 28: White Lightning
From: Sam Dingman
Series: The Road 2 Shambala
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Brooklyn rockers The Bottom Dollars visit Hootenanny Studios and grace us with their jams, as well as the ragtag circumstances that brought them to...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2011
  • Length: 45:24
Vidal Sassoon: Inspired by Architecture
From: Sarah Lilley
Caption: Mary Quant, as styled by Vidal Sassoon
In this evergreen single-voice portrait, renowned hair designer Vidal Sassoon discusses one of his greatest artistic inspirations with charm and in...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 16, 2011
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
The Three Card Monte
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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Should we resolve inconsistent beliefs... or let them be?

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
Bare As You Dare!
From: Vaska Trajkovska
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Every year, in cities across the world, cyclists throw off their clothes and ride naked as part of the World Naked Bike Ride - a global protest mov...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jun 15, 2011
  • Length: 18:13
  • Purchases: 1
The Live Feed Present: New X Art Ensemble
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
Caption: Billy X Curmano and New X Art Ensemble
On this episode of "The Live Feed" KQAL's Teri Tenseth presents the area's most bothersome band, comprised of local musicians and artists. New X Ar...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2011
  • Length: 33:27
The Chef of Film Making
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with Les Blank, film maker extraordinaire. Les Blank will receive the Albert Maysles award at the 2011 M...

  • Added: May 23, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Clever Apes: Seeking the grail
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
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There are certain questions that get scientists really excited – discoveries that are big, tantalizing, and often, far out of reach. Even if they’r...

Bought by WDBM, WTJU, KUT, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: May 18, 2011
  • Length: 08:40
  • Purchases: 4
Finding the Muse
From: Lauren Peterson
Series: Jazz Fest 2011
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At last weekend's 41st Annual Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans, Louisiana, Lauren Peterson spoke with a member of the Muses, an all-female...

  • Added: May 09, 2011
  • Length: 03:01
The Dude: on Bowling
From: Bridget Byrne
Caption: Justin Barr bowling at Bayside Bowl, Portland, ME., Credit: Bridget Byrne
A short piece on Justin Barr, and his experiences as a first year bowler in the Bowl Portland league (Portland, ME).

  • Added: May 09, 2011
  • Length: 05:53
Bay Area composer scores the soundtrack of outer space
From: KALW
Caption: Bay Area composer Christopher Hedge designed the sound for the Academy of Science's Morrison Planetarium
If you've been to the planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences recently, then you've heard Christopher Hedge's work on the show "Life: A C...

Bought by KUT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 27, 2011
  • Length: 08:36
  • Purchases: 2
Clever Apes: Yuck
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
Caption: Bill Stanley holds the skull of an African rat he discovered. It's being cleaned by carrion beetles.
In this episode, host Gabriel Spitzer explores the dirty work of science, from flesh-eating beetles working at a museum to creepy crawlers that fin...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 08:42
  • Purchases: 1
Clever Apes: Demystifying dinosaurs
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
Caption: Paleontologist Paul Sereno
Why do dinosaurs ignite our imaginations and why do we have so many misconceptions about them? In this episode, Gabriel Spitzer tackles those quest...

Bought by KUT and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Mar 30, 2011
  • Length: 08:47
  • Purchases: 2
Victorians Get the Google Treatment
From: With Good Reason
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How many Victorian books would you have to read to know the Victorians? What if you could read all 1.7 million?

  • Added: Mar 29, 2011
  • Length: 28:57
The Black Swan of Cairo - Mark Blyth
From: Open Source
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Open Source "Shorties" are 7-8 minute cuts of our best evergreen material. Today: Mark Blyth on the political economy of uncertainty in Japan, Egyp...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 1
On The Margins of Music - Alan Lomax & Anthony Burgess
From: Open Source
Caption: Anthony Burgess by David Levine, from The New York Review of Books
First, we join biographer John Szwed in thanking the eccentric musical anthropologist Alan Lomax for his rare recordings of early twentieth century...

Bought by KRVS, KPIP-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KXOT Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
A philanthropic walk across the United States
From: KALW
Caption: Jonathan Stalls and his dog arrive at Ocean Beach at the end of his walk across the U.S., Credit: Photo courtesy of Jonathan Stalls
Jonathan Stalls is a pretty typical young American. Nice guy. Loves his family, his friends, his country. You’ll learn more about all that later. F...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2011
  • Length: 08:31
Wolf Senatus on painting Little Haiti Mural for Mosaic of Art
From: George Fishman
Series: LITTLE HAITI MURAL
Caption: Little Haiti Commemorative Mural, Credit: Mark Diamond
Artist WOLF SENATUS describes participation in Little Haiti Earthquake Anniversary Mural.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 03:25
The Live Feed Presents: Bryan Day and Ember Schrag
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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Bryan Day and Ember Schrag performed in a Noise Show at the Root Note in downtown LaCrosse. A kind of performance art, both musicians experiment wi...

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 28:10
  • Purchases: 1
Clever Apes: Sense abilities
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
Caption: www.wbez.org/cleverapes
In this episode, host Gabriel Spitzer explores the realm of the senses, finding out how cochlear implants are opening up a world of sound for the h...

Bought by KUT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 25, 2011
  • Length: 08:47
  • Purchases: 3
From Pakistan to Tanglewood - Vazira Zamindar & Composers
From: Open Source
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Historian Vazira Zamindar talks about the "wound of partition" in today's Pakistan. Then, we meet three young composers - Cynthia Lee Wong, Jacob B...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 24, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
The Guardian's Science Weekly: Christmas at the Large Hadron Collider
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Caption: Shutdown screen at Cern, Credit: Andy Duckworth
As the Large Hadron Collider goes into hibernation for the winter, producer Andy Duckworth visits the Atlas experiment at Cern, Geneva, to ask, wil...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 21, 2011
  • Length: 24:18
  • Purchases: 1

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