PRX - Pieces for Tone: Surprising

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
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During the 1960s when we were racing to the moon, computing tech made a huge leap. Computers had to be small to fit in the Apollo capsules and it w...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Being Reasonable
Tahli Kentoff, a former pharmaceutical sales rep and now certified master herbalist, expresses her belief that all pharmaceuticals, including vacci...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:00
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Girls get slightly higher grades in science and math worldwide than boys, but fewer enter STEM professions.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, KENW, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 06, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Population Media Center President Bill Ryerson corrects misconceptions, debunks myths, and shares a variety of surprising facts about overpopulatio...

Bought by KTRL, KMUD, and KTRL


  • Added: May 16, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Lucille (L) and Barbara Horn (R)
Lucille Horn, 95, tells her daughter, Barbara, about the baby incubator exhibit at Coney Island that saved her life.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Blue Mountain Radio , and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 10, 2015
  • Length: 01:52
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Host Martha Burk
When the U.S. space program was launched, women were tested for astronaut duty -- and passed.

Bought by Radio Catskill, KUOW, and Radio Newark


  • Added: Jul 24, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 3