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We explore the secret lives of nuclear scientists and learn why these brainiacs are way more interesting than you’d have ever imagined.
Bought by WTJU and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Nov 10, 2011
- Length: 08:20
- Purchases: 2
Mort Segal and his sister, Joan Feldman, remember their father, Jack Segal, a booking agent for novelty acts in the Catskills.
- Added: Aug 01, 2011
- Length: 01:58
- Purchases: 3
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
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
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
Some tough science threatens an otherwise happy marriage, and some gifted students try to unravel relativity.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 26, 2010
- Length: 13:00
- Purchases: 1
Pie Town, New Mexico: population 90. Over the past thirty years, this small town perched atop the continental divide has become a mecca for pie af...
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 2
THE RENEGADE SPORTSMAN is one of those books with a beefy sub-title: "Drunken Runners, Bike Polo Superstars, Roller Derby Rebels, Killer Birds, and...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jul 09, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
St. Cloud businessman Nick Barth, the owner and operator of Cru Wine Specialists, shares his passion and sommelier skills in this lively conversati...
- Added: Feb 10, 2010
- Length: 31:33
Jonny Porkpie is a novelist, burlesque impressario,
and the self-proclaimed Burlesque Mayor of New York.
He is married to the burlesque artist Na...
- Added: Dec 13, 2009
- Length: 29:21
City High junior A Greene asks, "What would you be like if you were the opposite sex?" and finds the answers surprising.
- Added: Dec 08, 2009
- Length: 04:56
You can't help but love insects when you listen to Kenyan entomologist Dino Martins. In this short piece he explains the natural history of the Coc...
- Added: Oct 28, 2009
- Length: 01:37
Mick Dodge has been going barefoot--all the time, everywhere he goes--for almost 25 years. He believes that our feet connect us to nature. KUOW's J...
- Added: Sep 21, 2009
- Length: 09:29
What makes a good neighbor? Should neighbors be friends? Who was the worst neighbor you ever had?
- Added: Sep 12, 2009
- Length: 02:10
The music by Argentinean composer Astor Piazzolla is often charged with romantic and melodramatic urges. When it comes to playing Piazzolla, violi...
- Added: May 29, 2009
- Length: :24
A trip to Texas for a weekend wedding gets weird.
- Added: Oct 13, 2008
- Length: 02:09
Tech correspondent Glenn Fleishman on Extreme Programming, Password Lockdown, and Free Text Messaging KRAK
- Added: Aug 12, 2008
- Length: 12:29
You're locked in your bathroom. Who will save you?
- Added: Jun 19, 2008
- Length: 13:10
- Purchases: 5
Amusing, entertaining and informative conversation with Cornell Food and Brand Lab Director BRIAN WANSINK, with a focus on his bestselling book, "M...
- Added: Oct 09, 2007
- Length: 28:00
There's an old saying in the music business: never turn down work. Composer Jennifer Higdon maintains a full schedule of commissions, and sometim...
Bought by WITF and New England Public Media
- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: :31
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Feb 19, 2007
- Length: 08:36
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 06, 2006
- Length: 03:22
- Purchases: 1
Gay youth from the Belly of the Conservative Beast talk love and marriage
- Added: Feb 15, 2006
- Length: 06:27
- Added: Jan 06, 2006
- Length: 03:07
Single commuters use mass transit for mass flirting
- Added: Sep 24, 2004
- Length: 04:53
- Purchases: 2
