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Self-Experimentation
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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A look at self-sacrificing scientists and home DNA test kits.

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Sep 26, 2008
  • Length: 11:55
  • Purchases: 1
Agriculture
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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The chemistry of compost, and more!

  • Added: Sep 12, 2008
  • Length: 12:00
Photography
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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From photons to film

  • Added: Sep 12, 2008
  • Length: 11:58
Best of Distillations #1
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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Some of our favorite segments.

  • Added: Aug 29, 2008
  • Length: 11:58
Damascus Steel
From: Distillations
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The tiny secret within Damascus steel

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 02:37
Secret Inks
From: Distillations
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Secret and invisible inks, explained.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:45
Black bile
From: Distillations
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A sad, melancholy element

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
Pneuma
From: Distillations
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The science of the soul.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
Fire
From: Distillations
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Fire, from a chemical perspective

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:31
Things We Wear
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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A look at the chemistry of clothing.

  • Added: Aug 13, 2008
  • Length: 12:15
Whether you like it or not, it affects you too.
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The 150th anniversary of the Civil War is fast approaching. Nancy King, with the radio program "With Good Reason," discovered that many of our cur...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 1
Venice Beach Freak Show
From: Briana O'Higgins
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A look into the contemporary Freak Show

Bought by WILL and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 16, 2008
  • Length: 04:08
  • Purchases: 2
An Immigrants' History of South Park
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Life on the Duwamish: Rediscovering Seattle's Dirty South
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Life on the Duwamish, Segment 1

  • Added: Jul 04, 2008
  • Length: 09:01
Ballroom Redux
From: Jenna Hammerich
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Social partner dancing is in for the first time since the '50s. A look at why more and more of us are trading in our weekends for ballroom, and a g...

Bought by KWIT


  • Added: May 19, 2008
  • Length: 21:27
  • Purchases: 1
Laurel & Hardy Festival
From: Philip Graitcer
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An unusual festival in Georgia celebrates Oliver Hardy's birthplace

  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 03:20
Leaplings and Lunar-cy: The Science of Leap Year
From: Rebecca Sheir
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Every four years, February packs a whole extra day... but why?

Bought by KHNS, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, KISU, KZYX and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2008
  • Length: 04:56
  • Purchases: 6
Ian's 78s
From: Bruce Wallace
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Baltimore record collector releases compliation of 78s from around the world

  • Added: Dec 13, 2007
  • Length: 14:06
The (de)Evolution of the Political Speech
From: Kevin Jones
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An investigation into the disappearance of great speeches from politics.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 01, 2007
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat Goes On #102: "Jukebox Jamboree"
From: Travis Parkin
Series: The Beat Goes On
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Great songs about the jukebox from a wide variety of musical genres.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 07, 2007
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 1
Six Degrees of Sacred Separation?
From: Merle Kessler
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Conflict in Israel? Stop presses!

  • Added: Mar 16, 2007
  • Length: 02:37
Banana pudding in Fulton, Kentucky
From: Bria Dolnick
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Narriative quest to find the history of the largest banana pudding in the world.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2007
  • Length: 08:13
Monty
From: Lisa Tharpe
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Monty talks about cleaning latrines in Vietnam while sitting in a communal hot tub.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Nov 29, 2006
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 1
genial - word of the day
From: Charles Hodgson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The story behind the word "genial"

  • Added: Nov 24, 2006
  • Length: 03:45
bombast - word of the day
From: Charles Hodgson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The story behind the word "bombast"

  • Added: Nov 24, 2006
  • Length: 02:40
pedigree - word of the day
From: Charles Hodgson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The story behind the word "pedigree"

  • Added: Nov 13, 2006
  • Length: 02:32

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