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The Year: 1990
From: WICR
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Songs in and around 1990

  • Added: Apr 22, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:01
Busoni
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Busoni's Piano Concerto with Kirill Gerstein, Credit: Myrios Classics
Rare Piano Concerti by Busoni

Bought by KMUN, KWAX, WETS, GCR (Global Community Radio), KVNO and more


  • Added: Apr 17, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 6
PE 1916
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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A littla dis, a littla dat

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), KHNS, KWMR, KEOS and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 14
54: Exploding Ants
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Meet C. explodens; worker ants who rupture their own abdomens--filled with toxic goo--to protect the colony from predators.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2019
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #22: The Story of the Brezn
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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The pretzel, known as a “Brezel” or “Brezn” in German, is not an ordinary pastry. It has a century-old history full of myths and stories. Where did...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 03, 2019
  • Length: 33:17
  • Purchases: 2
CRISPR
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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I like my definitions to be CRISPR and clearer. This is Episode 76 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or fu...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2019
  • Length: 04:26
52: Long Lives of Lobsters
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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The internet claims lobsters are immortal. Amy pulls a Dana Scully and debunks the heck out of that idea.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 26, 2019
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 1
51: Backpack vs Parachute
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Jumping out of an airplane without a parachute?! We explore a study that explains how sometimes, if you look at the data in just the right way, bac...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2019
  • Length: 02:40
fugacity
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Messing with this gas of a word isn't ideal. This is Episode 75 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2019
  • Length: 04:55
The Wax Museum show #24 Hour Two
From: Chris Palladino
Series: The Wax Museum
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Weekly two hour rock and roll radio program

  • Added: Mar 11, 2019
  • Length: 54:40
47: Chlorine Trifluoride
From: Trace Kerr
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This chemical is no joke. Amy talks about how 1930's scientists discovered the explosive and insanely dangerous compound while trying to find a mor...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2019
  • Length: 04:25
Money, Machines, and More
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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Educator Rachel and engineer Pius introduce Season 4 and brainstorm about what interests us in K-12 engineering education today. We talk about scho...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2019
  • Length: 31:25
45: Sneeze Voting
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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African Wild Dogs appear to vote on pack activities by sneezing.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 05, 2019
  • Length: 02:54
  • Purchases: 1
Threes
From: Wind & Rhythm
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We're not sure if it’s a magic number, but there are an awful lot of compositions out there with three movements. This week on Wind & Rhythm, we li...

Bought by KTXK, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMFA, and WUAL


  • Added: Jan 30, 2019
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 4
34: Wombat Poop
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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It's there and it's square. And now we know why.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2019
  • Length: 02:47
35: Dr. Robert Liston
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Amy Barton has an eye for dangerous and innovative doctors and Dr. Robert Liston is no exception. FYI This episode has some up-close discussions of...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2019
  • Length: 03:09
36: Cougar Screams
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Cougars are beautiful and stealthy solitary hunters. Until they want to mate. Then they sound like a person being run through a garbage compactor. ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 10, 2019
  • Length: 02:06
  • Purchases: 2
39: Sick Ants
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Where we talk about Dr. Nathalie Stroeymeyt and her foraging, black garden ants. Infected ants seem to stay away from other ants. Find out why.

  • Added: Jan 09, 2019
  • Length: 02:49
National Writers Series: Mary Roach
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
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Science writer Mary Roach talks with author and actor Benjamin Busch.

Bought by WKAR, WCMU Michigan, WKAR, and WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 21, 2018
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 4
Circling Pianos
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Circles by Simone Dinnerstein & A Far Cry, Credit: simonedinnerstein.com/music
Simone Dinnerstein's Circles plus more!

Bought by KMUN, KMUN, WETS, KMUN, KWAX and more


  • Added: Jul 31, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Secret Spot Episode 4
From: WERS
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Touching every era of R&B and Soul, The Secret Spot delivers the smoothest new tracks and deepest throwbacks

  • Added: Jul 19, 2018
  • Length: 58:35
Interview with Gail Honeyman, author of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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Interview with Scottish author Gail Honeyman. Her debut, highly-acclaimed novel is "Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine."

  • Added: Jun 18, 2018
  • Length: 10:13
A Spirochete Travelogue
From: Robin Miniter
Caption: Specimens on display outside of the the UMass Amherst Laboratory of Medical Zoology
If you’ve been following the news on the Cape and islands, you know that this Ground Zero for ticks and the diseases that come with them. In fact, ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 12, 2018
  • Length: 07:22
  • Purchases: 1
Literary Ringtails
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Well, I’m not sure I can add a whole lot more to this true story, but here are a few ringtail facts that are fun. Okay, fun for nature geeks like y...

  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 05:10
breakpoint
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Stop everything! We've hit a breakpoint, and things are gonna get dicey. This is Episode 65 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on fav...

Bought by Enchantment Radio


  • Added: May 28, 2018
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 1

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