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How justices are added to the Supreme Court, via partisan or nonpartisan means.
- Added: Nov 07, 2023
- Length: 04:32
Two stories about local government.
Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 52:00
- Purchases: 2
Ramesses II (Also known as Ramses or Rameses) became Pharaoh at the age of 14, had more children than any other Egyptian ruler, and reigned during ...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Dec 23, 2020
- Length: 04:46
- Purchases: 1
Mistranslation? Awkward. Surprisingly, it was a classic mistranslation after the Franco-Prussion War that prompted the acceptance of biosafety. Now...
- Added: May 07, 2020
- Length: 03:00
Welcome to our funniest episode yet. Scientists avert international tension between Sweden and Russia, learn something we didn't know about herring...
- Added: Jan 13, 2020
- Length: 04:37
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
Episode 130:
Given all the horrible experiences people have had over the telephone with massive cable companies, it isn't clear that one can design...
- Added: Aug 18, 2015
- Length: 15:02
Dan Burgard is an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Puget Sound, and not long after Washington state voted to legalize cannabis...
- Added: Aug 01, 2015
- Length: 10:08
In the Oregon State Legislature, since the beginning of the 2015 session, the Joint Committee on Implementing Measure 91 has held a series of infor...
- Added: Mar 22, 2015
- Length: 05:42
What's in a name? As Kat Beame find out, everything. She talks to Goodspaceguy Nelson, an eccentric candidate running for Congress from Washington....
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 07:19
Republicans now control both houses for the first time since 2006. Paul Kane of the Washington Post joins us to talk about the attempted rebellion...
Bought by KCCU Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXXI Rochester, KUER, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio
- Added: Jan 08, 2015
- Length: 08:00
- Purchases: 5
In Episode 18 of Behind The Thread, we look at wages around the world. Sokny Say of the Free Trade Union of the Workers of the Kingdom of Cambodia ...
- Added: Nov 21, 2014
- Length: 40:07
California seems to be getting it from both sides. The state is in a serious drought at the same time coastal areas are studying ways to avoid bein...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 06:46
In CRN #8 we hear back to school thoughts from Betty Aldworth, Executive Director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy. Jane West owns and operates...
- Added: Sep 04, 2014
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 2
Another vote -- this time on raising the debt ceiling -- and other fissure exposed inside the GOP. Carl Hulse of the New York Times talks to Polit...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXXI Rochester, and WRKF
- Added: Feb 20, 2014
- Length: 08:00
- Purchases: 3
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 first President of the United States, Samuel Huntington, died today. Wait, I know what you're thinking: "What happened to George Washington?" W...
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 03:01
The true story of the first state to sponsor a rock concert ... nicknamed "the Governor's Pot Party"... and what became of that governor.
Bought by KLCC
- Added: Dec 22, 2010
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
We're celebrating inauguration day! Learn about stem cells and smokeless gunpowder. Chemical Agent: Stem Cells.
- Added: Jan 22, 2009
- Length: 11:47
- Added: Nov 21, 2008
- Length: 05:47
