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Spy Hop teaches the next generation of digital artists
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sam Highsmith and Gabby Huggins from Spy Hop, Credit: Courtesy of Spy Hop
Spy Hop's executive director Kasandra VerBrugghen shares the story of Utah's award-winning youth media arts program.

Bought by WMUU-LP and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Life of the Mind: Bob Abzug
From: Victoria Davis
Series: Life of the Mind
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Duncan Moench speaks with Robert Abzug, the Director of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies and also professor of History and American Studie...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2016
  • Length: 27:08
Life of the Mind: Sandy Levinson
From: Victoria Davis
Series: Life of the Mind
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Duncan Moench speaks with Sanford Levinson, Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. They discuss why the American people deif...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2016
  • Length: 31:17
22: Abby Falik, Global Citizen Year & Alexis Sclamberg/Sharon Ufberg, Finding Yourself
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Abby Falik, Global Citizen Year
One of the ways people used to "find themselves" was to join the Peace Corps after college. But what if you could take a year off before college--t...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KSJD, and WRIR


  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 3
Life of the Mind: Lorraine Pangle
From: Victoria Davis
Series: Life of the Mind
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Professor Lorraine Pangle examines what a "liberal education" means. Pangle is the Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center and Core Texts and Ideas...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 31:07
Allusionist 23: Criminallusionist
From: The Allusionist
Series: The Allusionist
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Phoebe Judge and Lauren Spohrer from the podcast Criminal stop by to talk about the linguistic challenges of crime reporting. They also share their...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2015
  • Length: 23:05
Life of the Mind: Janet Davis
From: Victoria Davis
Series: Life of the Mind
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Professor Davis discusses how working outside academia made her a better teacher, whether technology in the classroom hinders learning, and her com...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2015
  • Length: 27:16
Ideas Books: Gavin Francis, Adventures in Human Being
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
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An in-depth conversation with author Gavin Francis about his book, the human body and his life as a doctor. A beautiful conversation about celebrat...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Sep 11, 2015
  • Length: 24:05
  • Purchases: 1
Uptalk on Jeopardy (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Uptalk is that rising, questioning tone some people use when ending a statement. And women aren't the only ones who do it—so finds a study of conte...

Bought by WCNY, WVTF, KEDT, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, WTJU and more


  • Added: Sep 04, 2015
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 7
Dan Weiss of Haverford College and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Leading Through Education
From: Arch Street Press
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Dan Weiss, current President of Haverford College and soon to be President of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York discusses his lifelong inter...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jul 07, 2015
  • Length: 42:50
  • Purchases: 1
What Would You Do? (Hour long version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In this hour we talk about ethics and we explore the world's oceans for zooplankton and follow a roving tick robot. (And more...)

Bought by WCNY, WFAE, KPVL, WTJU, and KKRN


  • Added: Jun 19, 2015
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 5
What Would You Do? (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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If you swipe a stranger’s car and nobody sees, what do you do? In this week's show we talk about ethics (and more...).

Bought by WJCT, WNMU-FM, KKRN, KVSC, WKCC and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
The Sex Education You Wish You Had
From: Gordon Whiting
Series: In Deep with Angie Coiro: Live at Kepler's
Caption: Angie Coiro, Credit: Host, Senior Producer
Show #81 Hour 2 April 18, 2015 | Guests: Julie Metzger and Dr. Robert Lehman, Sex and Health Educators at Great Conversations, Seattle WA.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jun 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:51
  • Purchases: 2
02 - Makers
From: Peabody Essex Museum
Series: The PEMcast
Caption: The PEMcast, Credit: Chip Van Dyke
Are you a maker?

  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 31:08
5: Leila Janah & Erin Ganju-Breaking the Cycle of Poverty for Millions of Women
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Leila Janah, SamaGroup
There are billions of people across the world who are living in poverty and 800 million people who are illiterate--two-thirds of them women and gir...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KSJD, and WRIR


  • Added: Apr 08, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 3
Sculptor and auto mechanic Harold Kyle talks about making art
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Auto Mechanic Harold Kyle plays with movement, balance, and shadows in his sculpture.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 01, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Kids and Character Building: What Works Best?
From: Francesca Rheannon
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Psychologist Walter Mischel talks about his new book The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control. It’s about his famed experiment testing delayed ...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
2: Kirsten Tobey & Kristin Richmond, Revolution Foods; Alex Bernadotte, Beyond12: Hot Food and High Tech
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Kristin Richmond & Kirsten Tobey, Revolution Foods
How good food and good data improves student success. The female founders of Revolution Foods and Beyond 12.

Bought by WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer, and WYAP


  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 3
Arts in the Schools!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Multifacted, Credit: Nati Soti of Zero One Projects.
Diana Green and Cathy Gassenheimer have a mission: Arts Education for Every Alabama pre-k thru 12 Student!

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 04, 2014
  • Length: :54
  • Purchases: 1
Nathaniel Philbrick winner of the 2000 National Book Award for his history In the Heart of the Sea talks about the glories of Moby-Dick
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Charles W. Morgan at Sea
In his slim, lucid and compulsively readable book Why Read Moby-Dick, Nathaniel Philbrick makes an enthusiastic case for taking a look at Melville...

Bought by Prairie Public, KPIP-LP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and WNJR


  • Added: Nov 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Biddle Duke on Conversations With Allan Wolper
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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Biddle Duke is the publisher of the award winning, Stowe Reporter, a weekly newspaper in Stowe, Vermont, an international ski destination, and the ...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 30:03
Ordway's Broadway Songbook on Tour
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Music and More from the Historic Holmes Theater
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The Ordway Theater brings the first 100 years of Broadway to the stage....Becky chats with James Roco, the creator of the Songbook on Tour.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 15, 2014
  • Length: 31:44
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Carla Perlo, founder and artistic director of Dance Place
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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How Dance Place’s open door policy helped transform an underserved neighborhood into a vital arts district. -

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 26, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
Summer Melt and the Z Degree (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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One of the largest community colleges in the nation has launched an innovative program that takes thousands of Latino high school students all the ...

Bought by WJCT, WLIW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WMNF


  • Added: Sep 12, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 4
Talking After the Trauma (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Haiti, 2010 earthquake damage
An interview with counselors about the importance of talking after a traumatic event like the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. And more...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, KWMR, Accessible Media Inc. Station Account, WTJU and more


  • Added: Aug 08, 2014
  • Length: 53:52
  • Purchases: 6