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Online search engines are basically universal, so questions at the library reference desk are changing. We follow the story of one question, “I wan...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2019
- Length: 20:01
- Purchases: 1
Sometimes, in the wake of natural disasters, the library becomes an information center, a shelter and a community space. We travel to Coney Island,...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2019
- Length: 22:18
- Purchases: 1
Immigration is a pressing topic in our political landscape right now, with concerns about ICE raids and immigration bans. In this episode, we liste...
- Added: Jul 24, 2019
- Length: 21:11
“A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.” So goes the quote from librarian Jo Godwin. From Dr. Seuss to kosher books to ...
- Added: Jul 24, 2019
- Length: 24:17
Preserving history is about more than battling mold and disintegration. We took a trip to Greenpoint, Brooklyn to learn about how an environmental ...
- Added: Jul 24, 2019
- Length: 24:49
Youth Conservation Corps Rover Cody Gardner talks about his background in Long Island and urban planning and how it relates to his work in the wild...
- Added: Jul 15, 2019
- Length: 07:47
The third graders of "Third Grade Audio" made two Service Learning podcasts. Each one is about a social service organization which is working to he...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 03, 2019
- Length: 05:23
- Purchases: 1
An audio snapshot celebrating the unique diversity of tidepools along the pacific coast.
Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KRZA
- Added: Dec 14, 2018
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 3
Milling flour is an ancient art. While commercial, industrial milling has largely taken over, there are some who are continuing, and honoring, the...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 03, 2018
- Length: 04:50
- Purchases: 1
Producer Carla Seidl recalls her experience in Togo, West Africa, through language notes and audio recordings. A sound-rich cultural immersion/aud...
- Added: Nov 30, 2018
- Length: 09:04
Jonathan Austin is a North Side Richmonder who began juggling when he was just 12-years old. Two years later he performed his first professional gi...
- Added: Nov 27, 2018
- Length: 23:44
Jonathan Austin is a North Side Richmonder who began juggling when he was just 12-years old. Two years later he performed his first professional gi...
- Added: Nov 20, 2018
- Length: 27:02
In honor of Bernstein’s 100th birthday (August 25), we turn to Ted Libbey, a music scholar who knew the American icon well. Since there’s so much g...
- Added: Sep 17, 2018
- Length: 13:47
Encountering one of the last red wolves in the wild at Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge. And a run in with a black bear.
- Added: Jul 31, 2018
- Length: 24:57
Kim Wheeler is the Wolf Lady. She knows more about red wolves than just about anybody in the world. And the more I learn about these remarkable ani...
- Added: Jul 24, 2018
- Length: 24:51
This piece investigates the recent history of Cherokee foodways and examines lifestyle changes brought to the Eastern Band by the construction of H...
Bought by WMMT
- Added: May 23, 2018
- Length: 29:24
- Purchases: 1
Following the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeast Japan, a small boat belonging to Takata High School in Rikuzentakata was swept o...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 01:29
- Purchases: 1
In the early morning hours of February 27, 2010, Martina Marturana felt a slight tremor that lasted a long time. The 12-year-old lived on Robinson...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 01:28
- Purchases: 1
From measuring the "size of the wiggle" to monitoring a "seismic moment", Geologist Lori Dengler discusses the scientific endeavor to quantify ear...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 01:50
- Purchases: 1
Glenn Boyd was convicted of a crime he did not commit. This episode of the California Innocence Project features another story about a bad identifi...
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 05:00
The California Innocence Project relies on interns to go through thousands of requests for assistance. In this episode, interns share some of their...
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 02:00
The mountain beaver is an important part of ecosystem health.
Research Ecologist Bill Zielinski wrote this segment about this little-known mammal.
Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, KRZA, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Mar 31, 2018
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 4
Kamaishi junior high students saved themselves and many others during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Geologist Lori Dengler highlights t...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: Feb 13, 2018
- Length: 01:38
- Purchases: 1
Remarkable facts about the ubiquitous resident of our coastal regions, the harbor seal.
Bought by Radio Newark and KFOI Radio
- Added: Feb 07, 2018
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jan 11, 2018
- Length: 37:05
- Purchases: 1
