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23-Capturing an Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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NASA is planning an Asteroid Redirect Mission which will place a small asteroid in orbit about our moon. There it can be visited and studied by hum...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WKCC and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
22-Asteroid 2013 TV 135
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid 2013 TV135 is a potentially hazardous asteroid which at first appeared to be on a collision course with planet Earth. Subsequent observat...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WKCC and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
21-The Kepler Spacecraft's Search for Earth Like Planets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Kepler Spacecraft has discovered that planets which are apparently similar to Earth exist outside of our solar system.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WKCC and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Tech
From: Littleglobe
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Tilcara Webb delves into the pros and cons of technology. Evil agent of lost hours, or helpful Godsend?

  • Added: Sep 26, 2013
  • Length: 03:37
Episode 17 (2013-01-23)
From: Ruji C.
Series: Ruji C.'s "The Meta-Podcast"
Caption: Ruji C., Credit: Ruji C.
Klaatu from the podcast "GNU World Order" interviews me about e-cigarettes, and we get some unintentional vocal effects on his track due to feedbac...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2013
  • Length: 21:08
The Importance of Wild Rice
From: WDSE
Series: Ojibwe Stories: Gaganoonididaa
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Larry Amik Smallwood, a language instructor at the University of Minnesota Duluth, in both Ojibwe and English, talks about the harvesting of wild r...

Bought by Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Aug 21, 2013
  • Length: 29:35
  • Purchases: 7
The State of Faith
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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What is in the future for the Catholic Church and the shrinking parish of Jackman, Maine? Adapting to reality.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 05:14
  • Purchases: 3
Rumble Strip Vermont: After the Forgetting
From: Erica Heilman
Series: Rumble Strip Vermont
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A show about love, family and dementia, in two parts. First, a documentary, second, a followup interview.

  • Added: Jul 18, 2013
  • Length: 58:47
Ojibwe: A Living Culture
From: WDSE
Series: Ojibwe Stories: Gaganoonididaa
Caption: Larry Amik Smallwood
Ojibwe Stories: Gaganoonididaa this month features Larry Amik Smallwood, a language instructor at the University of Minnesota Duluth, who (in both ...

Bought by Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, and KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 16, 2013
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 5
52 Hz
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
Caption: A humpback whale surfacing, Credit: Craig Shank
52 Hz is the name given to a mysterious whale that vocalizes at a different frequency than other whales. Some refer to him as "The World's Lonelies...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Hark!, KALW, New Hampshire Public Radio, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jul 15, 2013
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 6
Social Security
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A comparative generational discussion between the older, middle and younger generations on the issues of Social Security.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Long Version - Colin Woodard Interview Parts 1 & 2
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Author Colin Woodard interview on Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow

  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:24
Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "The Long Shining Waters" by Danielle Sosin
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
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Danielle Sosin's novel, "The Long Shining Waters," tells three stories of three women living around the shores of Lake Superior in three distinct t...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 2
Restoring The American Chestnut
From: Hal B Klein
Caption: American chestnut grove in Sewickley, PA. , Credit: Hal B. Klein
Those chestnuts "roasting on an open fire" in the iconic "Christmas Song" have a secret. They're European. The American chestnut was once a keysto...

Bought by KLCC and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Nov 25, 2012
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 2
Enduring Connections - Belgium and the United States
From: Alison Turner
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Many American expats gathered in Brussels on 4th July this year to celebrate American Independence Day. Reporter, Alison Turner, joined the celebr...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 09:53
The Winter Connection
From: Capital Public Radio
Series: Connections
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Winter may be the coldest season of the year, when days are shortest and the nights are longest. It also brings people indoors, to visit with fami...

Bought by WUAL and WKSU


  • Added: Oct 25, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shift Work
From: The Drucker Institute
Series: Drucker on the Dial
Caption: Peter Drucker
Host Phalana Tiller talks with Business Talent Group's Jody Greenstone Miller and then we hear a rare audio recording of Peter Drucker on the mobil...

  • Added: Jul 13, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
Ban the Box! The Campaign for Post-Prison Employment
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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It’s not even the crime that counts sometimes. It’s that little box on an application that asks you to reveal if you have a criminal history. Chec...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Reclaiming the Holidays
From: Humankind
Caption: Annie Leonard - "The Story of Stuff'"
This special profiles people from different backgrounds who seek to get past the consumer frenzy of the December holidays, and to focus more on aut...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Nevada Public Radio, Prairie Public, WRIR, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 29
Empire of Corn: From Cornucopia to Corporate Commodity
From: A World of Possibilities
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Corn: that most American of grains. These days corn is feed, fuel and ubiquitous sweetener, the biggest of business and some say the core of an ind...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, and WRPI


  • Added: Nov 07, 2011
  • Length: 55:01
  • Purchases: 4
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!: Vince Martinez on Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States
From: Geoff Larson
Series: The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!
Caption: Vince Martinez, Credit: Mark Blasco
Songwriter Vince Martinez discusses his song inspired by Chapters 11 and 12 of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, written and p...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
What You Don't Know About Thanksgiving
From: Loyola Productions, Inc.
Series: Kaleidoscope
Caption: Pilgrims, Credit: turtlemom4bacon
Just who were the Pilgrims and what did they want?

Bought by WRFA-LP and KREV-LP


  • Added: Oct 24, 2011
  • Length: 46:15
  • Purchases: 2
Loneliness and How it Affects Us
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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How many of us are lonely? What is loneliness and how does it affect us? William Patrick, the founding editor of The Journal of Life Sciences and c...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Nurturing Creativity
From: A World of Possibilities
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Using a combination of new technologies and time-tested techniques, innovators can now build on one another’s insights to hasten the development of...

Bought by KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KPVL, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 5
Welfare
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A very enlightening generational discussion on WELFARE

  • Added: May 14, 2011
  • Length: 29:00