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A Conversation with NEA Jazz Master, Jimmy Heath
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Saxophonist, composer and arranger Jimmy Heath talks about his storied career and some of the jazz greats he’s played with.

Bought by KMUW


  • Added: Apr 07, 2024
  • Length: 33:05
  • Purchases: 1
The Science Journal for Kids, with Tanya Dimitrova
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
Caption: Tanya Dimitrova, founder of Science Journal for Kids, Credit: Courtesy of Tanya Dimitrova
Do scientific research articles sometimes sound like another language? To K-12 students, very often it’s yes. Tanya Dimitrova tried to help solve...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 48:59
Aiming for Equity in K-12 Computer Science, with Rosemary Kamei
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
Caption: Rosemary Kamei of the Silicon Valley Education Foundation., Credit: Silicon Valley Education Foundation
The Silicon Valley Education Foundation (SVEF) is a nonprofit running several programs in K-12 STEM education, including its Computer Science Insti...

  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 35:39
jerk
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Mechanical engineers must work to eliminate excessive jerk. This is Episode 100 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fasc...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:51
WorldCanvass: Space, Cancer Treatments, and Iowa's Bioscience Priorities, Part 1
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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This is an intriguing conversation about research breakthroughs and the many unexpected but essential discoveries that flow from them.

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Nov 08, 2019
  • Length: 25:02
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: Space, Cancer Treatments, and Iowa's Bioscience Priorites, Part 3
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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This is an intriguing conversation about research breakthroughs and the many unexpected but essential discoveries that flow from them.

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Nov 08, 2019
  • Length: 26:21
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: Space, Cancer Treatments, and Iowa's Bioscience Priorities, Part 2
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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This is an intriguing conversation about research breakthroughs and the many unexpected but essential discoveries that flow from them.

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Nov 08, 2019
  • Length: 22:30
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: Artificial Intelligence (Part 3)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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It’s news to very few of us that artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer only in the realm of science fiction—it’s all around us. But what is it...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 26:32
WorldCanvass: Artificial Intelligence (Part 2)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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It’s news to very few of us that artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer only in the realm of science fiction—it’s all around us. But what is it...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 26:15
From Word to Word
From: Claud Leandro
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The fascinating evolution of everyday words.

  • Added: Jan 30, 2019
  • Length: 50:13
zero-indexed
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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One is fun, and zero is a hero, in our engineering programming languages. This is Episode 73 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on fa...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2018
  • Length: 03:42
Time Blindness: Jack Alpert #222 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Frustrated at the abysmal rate of adoption when seatbelts were introduced into cars in the 1960s, Jack Alpert quit his job as an automotive enginee...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Indie3 Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 4
Time Blindness: Jack Alpert #222
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Frustrated at the abysmal rate of adoption when seatbelts were introduced into cars in the 1960s, Jack Alpert quit his job as an automotive enginee...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio and KTRL


  • Added: Jul 18, 2017
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
World's Worst Cocktail Names
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: The Wine Fellers Radio Program
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What are the World's Worst Cocktail Names? We also discuss knitting and get into the Wine News. The Wine Fellers is an upbeat, good chemistry dri...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:00
GP002 - A Trip to the Art Museum - BYO Sack Lunch
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio
Caption: The Baptism by Stewart, Credit: LACMA
In this episode of GetPublished! we take you on a field trip to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art – LACMA. It’s behind the scenes at an after-ho...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2016
  • Length: 54:52
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
253-Lunar Village
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The world's spacefaring community is preparing to build a village on our moon.

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


  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Island Stories: Virginia's Restless Archipelago, Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Barry Truitt., Credit: Charles McGuigan
This is the fastest moving real estate on the entire East Coast, and behind the sandy shores of these Virginia Barrier Islands is the purest ocean...

  • Added: May 29, 2015
  • Length: 27:16
LATIN WAVES INTERVIEWS AUTHOR/ACTIVIST MICHAEL ALBERT
From: Latin Waves Media
Series: Latin Waves Media
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Albert on the current economic system and need to move to participatory economy

  • Added: Aug 18, 2014
  • Length: 29:34
The Future of Higher Education (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In May of 2012, Harvard and MIT announced a partnership to provide free online courses to anyone, anywhere, sparking an intense debate about the fu...

Bought by WJCT, WMNR, KVSC, WFHB, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
50007 - The Age of Telemann
From: Otto Schulze
Series: The Age of Telemann
Caption: Georg Phillip Telemann
50007 - The Age of Telemann

  • Added: Oct 01, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
The Privatization of Death Parts One & Two
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses the rights of families to care for their dead and the funeral industry in this two-part interview with Lisa Carlson and Jos...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 58:02
Sex and Punishment
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious brings you part one of a two-part conversation about the struggle to regulate the most powerful engine of human behavior-sexuality. W...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Earth's Tipping Points & Abrupt Climate Change
From: Generation Anthropocene
Series: Generation Anthropocene
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Richard Alley, a climate researcher and the host of PBS’s Earth: The Operators’ Manual, discusses rapid changes in Earth’s climate through history ...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 27:55
Yogurt & the Apocalypse: The Narratives of Environmentalism
From: Generation Anthropocene
Series: Generation Anthropocene
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Literary critic and pop culture enthusiast Ursula Heise dissects environmental storytelling and its relation to science… both real and fiction. [Se...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 34:06