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269-Gamma Ray Eyes
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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With gamma ray eyes one half of your sky would be dominated by two huge bubbles coming from the center of the Milky Way.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
250-Born Wild
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Our home planet was formed after a period of chaos in the solar system.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KENW and more


  • Added: May 05, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Hill Museum and Manuscript Library Saves Manuscripts from Extremists and Makes Them Available to the Public
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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Have you ever dreamed of wandering through the Great Library of Alexandria? Well, in today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesot...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2016
  • Length: 29:56
Bonus Episode: Favorite Books from Ottumwa, Iowa
From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids
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This Bonus Episode comes to us from the Ottumwa Public Library in Iowa where the Middle School Book Club shares its favorite books.

  • Added: Apr 06, 2016
  • Length: 07:31
What is Dilbit?
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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What exactly is in pipelines? (Dilbit plus)

  • Added: Mar 13, 2016
  • Length: 02:04
Renewable Energy in a Nuclear Neighbourhood & Suing Environmentalists
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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Ontario's reliance on nuclear energy means renewable energy is happening on a community level. Suing environmentalists Suing environmentalists to s...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 06:42
What is a FAD or Fish Aggregating Device?
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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Ocean campaigner Charlie Latimer tells us what a Fish Aggregating Device is and why using them to catch fish is ruining the oceans.

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Feb 18, 2016
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 8 - Chains
From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids
Caption: Amandla, Imani, Angela, and Eunhea, readers from Robert Goddard Montessori School, Grace Christian School, Fairhaven School, and St. Anne's School – all in Maryland.
What role did African-Americans play in the Revolutionary War? "Chains" - the first in a trilogy by Laurie Hulse Anderson - takes us to Manhattan i...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2016
  • Length: 21:04
WorldCanvass: Research to Real Life (Part 3)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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What does it mean to be a ‘research university?’ WorldCanvass guests answer that question from multiple perspectives on this program called “Resea...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 31:17
The Waiting Game
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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For high school seniors, college applications are the number one priority. Every class, club, activity, sport, grade, and standardized test score w...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 1
WoodSongs 826E: Best of WoodSongs Kids
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: 10 year-old EmiSunshine shows off her powerful voice!
On this week’s encore broadcast, Michael Johnathon selects some of his favorite WoodSongs Kids performances. A fund drive special of this show is a...

Bought by KENW, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WEKU, KALH and more


  • Added: Dec 23, 2015
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 11
The Youth and the Prophet - We Are Conjurors of Our Own Fate
From: Ethical Programs Distribution, LLC
Series: A Question of Ethics - The Youth and the Prophet
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The images we carry around in us and project around us shape our life. In this way, we control our destiny and conjure up our own fate.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2015
  • Length: 14:44
Martin J. Blaser, M.D., author of "Missing Microbes"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Blaser, a microbiologist and physician, discusses how the overuse of antibiotics is fueling our modern plagues.

  • Added: Oct 20, 2015
  • Length: 29:30
The Search for Fort Holes, Dakota Conflict Era Settlers Fort, Begins on the SCSU Campus
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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Today’s Untold Stories of Central Minnesota is about a critical St. Cloud building that hasn’t existed for over 100 years and the Minnesota Histori...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2015
  • Length: 29:45
Episode 5 - The Hound of Rowan by Henry Neff
From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids
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Love Harry Potter? You'll love the tale of a different sort of wizard school.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 20:19
Parrot Mimicry Circuit
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Disco the talking parakeet., Credit: Courtesy of Judy Bolton
A newly discovered brain structure in parrots hints at new mechanisms in brain evolution.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jun 27, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
AAST 240: How to Win a Beauty Pageant: Race, Gender, Culture, and U.S. National Identity
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: The Uncommon Core
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The Uncommon Core is a series that examines unusual college courses being taught in schools across the United States. In this episode, a professor ...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 04:30
3-D Talking Map
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Touching the miniature buildings on the map activates auditory information and directions. , Credit: University of Buffalo
3-D talking maps use a variety of sensory modalities to help the visually impaired find their way around college campuses and other institutions.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Dec 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Curiosity to Learn
From: Susanne Bard
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Heightened curiosity about one subject primes people to learn less interesting information as well.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Oct 11, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Kenny Thompson, Gary Barber and Dakota Gibson
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Dakota Gibson (left), Gary Barber (middle) and their mentor Kenny Thompson.
Kenny Thompson, a volunteer mentor, tells students Gary Barber and Dakota Gibson about discovering that...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Sep 23, 2014
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 1
The Indiana Jones of Mathematics
From: Ben Harden
Caption: Ken Golden drilling through the sea ice, Credit: Amanda Kowalski
Ken Golden isn't your typical mathematician. He's the Indiana Jones of Mathematics. He gets up from behind his desk, armed with mathematical theory...

Bought by KALW, Troy Public Radio, Radio Newark, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 07:32
  • Purchases: 10
Episode 7: Bodies that challenge the norm
From: Faye Reiff-Pasarew
Series: The Art Of Medicine Podcast
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Is it a boy or a girl? What happens when babies are born with ambiguous genitalia.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2014
  • Length: 29:09
Origami Robots
From: Susanne Bard
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Using origami techniques to make real life Transformer robots.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Brain Chip
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Improving computers by making them think more like humans.

Bought by KMXT and WXDU


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
Online Dating for Baby Boomers [Boomerology Revealed TV #17]
From: Shahar Boyayan
Series: Boomerology Revealed
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Online Dating for Baby Boomers [Boomerology Revealed TV #17]

  • Added: Aug 08, 2014
  • Length: 34:43

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