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From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Caption: Homemade masks made by the Auntie Sewing Squad Alt-text: Four homemade masks made from patterned cloth sitting on top of a fabric cutting mat , Credit: Credit: Mai-Linh Hong

On today's show, we'll revisit the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic by looking at two alternative supply chains for masks during the fallout fro...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KMUN

The Big Pond #50: Showing Our Colors

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

People of mixed heritage lead complex lives, often navigating between two racial and/or cultural identities. Producer Jocelyn Robinson, who lives t...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO

Bootstraps & Silver Spoons

From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Series: Ways & Means "Shorts"

New economic research reveals how difficult it is for some people to gain wealth in America, even when they do everything right.

Early Spring

From: Science Update
Series: Science Update

Spring is arriving early to North American wildlife refuges because of climate change.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, Spokane Public Radio, KENW, WTIP and more

Small Town Archaeology

From: Science Update

A town square offers a trove of archaeological discoveries.

Episode One: "Taxes & Taxonomy"

From: Troy Public Radio
Series: Carried Home: Alabama Authors and The Pulitzer Prize

A conversation with biologist and naturalist E.O. Wilson on what winning a second Pulitzer Prize meant for him and his Harvard colleagues. A look ...

Museum seeks WWII Navy pilots

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: A plane recovered from Lake Michigan, Credit: John Davies

To accompany a documentary screening, the National Museum of the Great Lakes is searching for Navy pilots who trained on Lake Michigan during World...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, WCMU Michigan, WKSU, and WBFO

Could the Soviet Union Have Won the Space Race?

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Scale rendering of the Soviet LK moon lander next to the US Lunar Module., Credit: Eberhard Marx

Space historian and policy expert John Logsdon joins Mat Kaplan for a fascinating conversation about how the US could have lost the race to the moo...

Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP and more

Dialects & Society

From: Susanne Bard

While the media affect our vocabulary, our accents are a product of our community.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KENW, and WLPR

Giant Armadillos

From: Susanne Bard

Caption: An extinct glyptodont., Credit: Carl Buell

DNA evidence reveals that the enormous armored glyptodont, an extinct South American mammal, was a close cousin to modern armadillos.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KENW, and WLPR

The Haunting Tale of Why Clara Barton's Memorial Was 60 Years In The Making

From: Rebecca Sheir

Caption: Did Clara Barton's ghost commune with the living?, Credit: National Park Service/Clara Barton NHS

A so-called spiritual medium, Clara Barton’s so-called spirit, and the man whose dedication swayed him to fall for an elaborate swindle.

Historical Speech Acoustics

From: Susanne Bard

Caption: Pericles' Funeral Oration., Credit: Philipp von Foltz/1852

How did historical leaders once address crowds of thousands, unaided by modern amplification

Bought by KENW and WLPR

Civil defense sirens activated for severe weather

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices

Air raid sirens were designed to alert the public of incoming enemy attacks during World War II. But 50 years ago--during the worst tornado outbrea...

The Freedom Riders of 1961

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices

The Freedom Riders of 1961 were upholding the law. So why were they being arrested as soon as they got off the buses in Jackson, Mississippi? KFAI'...

Bought by Hark! and WDSE

Six Chairs: Rowan Pope, Voice to Vision and the Holocaust Book Project

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices

David Feinberg started the Center for Genocide & Holocaust Studies at the University of Minnesota more than 10 years ago. This year, a group of Gol...

James J. Hill's Minnesota legacy

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices

James J. Hill is known as the “Empire Builder.” His vision for a Great Northern Railway in the 19th century helped put Minnesota on the map. Produc...

Bought by KSRQ and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota

The Source: Boom time at San Francisco’s Presidio

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

San Francisco is America’s second most densely populated area, after Manhattan. And with new construction all over town, it’s going to get even den...

NanoArchaeology

From: Susanne Bard

Caption: A 17 cm carved stone figurine shown inside the SEM chamber ready for non-destructive imaging and analysis, Credit: (Timothy Rose/Smithsonian)

Modern technology reveals ancient techniques used in the production of purloined antiquities.

Bought by KMXT

Tituba, Witch of Salem

From: With Good Reason

There’s a new season brewing for a television series about the Salem Witch Trials. A scholar puts one of the witches under the spotlight. Lilia Fuq...

Bought by PRX Remix, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Troy Public Radio

Lactose Intolerance Genetics

From: Susanne Bard

Caption: The practice of cheesemaking goes back many centuries in various cultures around the world. (A page from the 14th century Medieval handbook Taccuino Sanitatis from the Biblioteca Casanatense in Rome, Italy)

Central Europeans developed a dairying culture at least 4,000 years before they evolved the ability to digest milk.

Bought by KMXT

Superspreaders

From: Susanne Bard

Caption: Mary Mallon, aka "Typhoid Mary, Credit: From the The New York American newspaper, dated June 20, 1909.

Learning about the immune system from people who catch germs but don’t get sick.

Bought by KMXT

Thwarting Democracy, the Battle for Voting Rights

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

It’s election season! But since the 2013 Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act, many states have pushed changes to voter laws that raise di...

Bought by KMUN and WNJR