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Real talk: I’m not the biggest fan of San Francisco public transportation. So when I first heard of the alternative transportation network of priva...
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 05:59
![Caption: A wall upstairs at [freespace], Credit: Jen Chien](https://s3.amazonaws.com/production.mediajoint.prx.org/public/piece_images/251940/frees_square.JPG)
The seed idea for [freespace] came from a 48-hour hackathon called the National Day of Civic Hacking. A hackathon is when people get together for a...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 08:36
For nearly a hundred years, Morse Code was the official language of international communication for ships in distress. Then, at the end of the twen...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 06:45
- Purchases: 1
When we think of garage scientists, the eccentric, gray-haired Dr. Emmett Brown from Back to the Future might come to mind. But these days, garages...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 08:47
- Purchases: 1
The first thing you should know about ironworkers is that they don’t make things out of iron, like horseshoes. They’re builders. Ironworkers from L...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:30
On Saturday mornings, any number of jazz musicians can be found tucked away in tunnel in Golden Gate Park, improvising melodies and wooing passers-...
- Added: Jun 20, 2013
- Length: 05:58
This week on Culture Queue, we explore identity, including how it changes over time and how it stays the same.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 18, 2013
- Length: 01:28:12
- Purchases: 1
Secret Awesome defies categories. But if you press the founder, Zak Kirwin, he describes them as a D.I.Y. artists collective. They are definitely a...
- Added: Jun 02, 2013
- Length: 04:45
A look at the trend of developing rapidly-aged whiskeys.
Bought by Marfa Public Radio, KLCC, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 04:07
- Purchases: 3
There is a breed of modern day treasure hunters who need the Internet, a knack for orienting and solving puzzles, and a sense of adventure. They w...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 28, 2013
- Length: 04:29
- Purchases: 1
Michael Sistig Creates the Anti Ark at El Segundo Beach. The open air art installation consists of shipping containers, an emaciated polar bear and...
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 07:48
An interview with the Arabesque Wind Quintet about their history and the sessions for their upcoming CD
- Added: Feb 13, 2013
- Length: 13:24
The Brave New Workshop has helped launch the careers of humorists such as Al Franken and Tom Davis, the first head writers for Saturday Night Live...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Sep 15, 2012
- Length: 05:01
- Purchases: 1
For the third week of August (8/19): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a pioneering female of tejano music
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the second week of December (12/8): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a man who helped build a gospel music empire.
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
From: Deborah Van Fleet
While much of Iowa is now dealing with drought, last summer Hamburg, IA residents held up to 17 feet of floodwater at bay. Eight feet of dirt was ...
- Added: Jul 23, 2012
- Length: 03:54
In celebration of May Day, The Artsy Fartsy Show covered art in immigrant communities, activism and the artistic influences within the Occupy Wall ...
- Added: May 31, 2012
- Length: 52:11
Artsy Fartsy Show's annual Spring light show – finding humor in the bizarre and scary, stand-up comedy and much more with guests: Harrison Greenbau...
- Added: Apr 28, 2012
- Length: 54:30
A Virginia father teaches his children a rare Native American language.
Bought by WTJU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 02, 2012
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 3
For most home cooks, pulling off a traditional Thanksgiving feast is a tough job. An even tougher job? Replicating a meal fit for a Pilgrim in a ki...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, 'The Sea', WHCP-LP Cambridge, WVTF, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more
- Added: Nov 21, 2011
- Length: 05:32
- Purchases: 7
Politics and Civility--natural allies or unlikely partners? You decide
- Added: Nov 10, 2011
- Length: 28:31
On this week’s show we look at efforts to contain the Mafia in Sicily. We also explore who makes the big money off of coffee, and how coffee growi...
- Added: Jun 03, 2011
- Length: 01:50:22
- Purchases: 2
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
Can new, globalized cultural traditions that cross national boundaries be created with the aid of social media?
"Album in a Day" is a community-d...
- Added: Feb 27, 2011
- Length: 04:16
Garbage is not generally the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about fuel sources. However, commentator Mark Blackmon says that where he...
- Added: Sep 01, 2010
- Length: 02:52
