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Caption: Rebecca Moore
New, democratized access to powerful analytical and mapping tools is transforming our understanding of the natural world – and with it, our ability...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
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How do you feel about electronic music? On this episode of Wind & Rhythm, we look at techno influences in wind band music. We’ll hear Techno Blade ...

Bought by WUAL, WQCS, KMFA, Interlochen Public Radio, WBAA and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 9
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With kids online so much of their lives, we learn more about privacy and internet safety with award winning author and technologist Cory Doctorow. ...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
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Days of wonder, days of rage. We're living through an information revolution as profound as any since Gutenberg and the printing press, but are we ...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Mar 07, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we're doing something we've never done before. What are we doing you ask? Well, the Blue Horizon Flying Club w...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2019
  • Length: 06:24
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-Taking an ethics course is not necessarily transformative-- rather, it will teach how to think through all sides of an issue and determine what re...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WTJU, KXCV, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 15, 2018
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 11
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Capt of more than one Greenpeace ship Capt Peter Wilcox tells us what a RHIB is. (like a life boat, but not.)

  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 01:36
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Airplanes in department stores? There was a time in U.S. History when people experienced this reality. But are we any closer today to realizing the...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2015
  • Length: 13:22
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In Aroostook County, life still revolves around the potato harvest even though few family potato farms are left.

  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 06:16
Caption: Working a math problem at Mooresville Middle School in North Carolina, where each student gets a laptop., Credit: Stephen Smith
Learning with a personal tutor is one of the best ways to learn. But hiring a tutor for every student was never a realistic option, until now. Can ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KPIP-LP, KMXT, KOSU, WTIP and more


  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Civil rights activist Bob Moses famously helped organize a voter registration drive in Mississippi that changed the political landscape for the bla...

Bought by WJCT, KRZA, and KVLU


  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Writers of science fiction have long predicted a time when computers could engage humans in two-way communication, from R2D2 to the sinister Hal 90...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Apr 11, 2013
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 1
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A robotics competition for 9- to 14-year-olds is a sneaky way to get kids excited about science. Allison Quantz followed one team into competition ...

Bought by KENW and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 07, 2012
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 2
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The Periodic Table knew what our universe was made out of even before we did.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, Spokane Public Radio, WMUU-LP, Rhythm & News Service and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 19
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In a specially extended show, we visit the European Space Agency's operations centre, and get a taste of some of the most exciting research being c...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 14, 2011
  • Length: 57:33
  • Purchases: 1
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The future of the Internet is the future of our education, health, opportunity, and self-determination. Right now big cable and telephone companies...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2010
  • Length: 59:50
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The digital is expanding the definition of the print and creating a complex relationship between artists, their work, and the tools they use to cre...

  • Added: May 15, 2008
  • Length: 17:30