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Classic Rock Originals - Part Two
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Pt. 2 from last week's show! Get your fill on who ORIGINALLY wrote your favorite classic rock songs with Dr. Joe Burns and Monique Gregoire. The hi...

Bought by KSKQ and KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 06, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Fear & Learning in America
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: John Kuhn
There is a vast divide between those in the “education reform movement” and those who recognize the very real problem of inequality. School superin...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jun 17, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Derek Bok: The View from the Top
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Derek Bok is the only two-time president of Harvard University, which is to say he has twice reinvented the management of the oldest, richest, mayb...

Bought by KVSC and KPIK-LP


  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 31:11
  • Purchases: 2
Chasing the Dream: Arts School
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Show biz is center stage next in our higher ed series: Two venerable private art schools in Boston’s Back Bay — Emerson College and the Berklee Col...

  • Added: May 17, 2014
  • Length: 58:35
The Rise of Modern Medicine
From: Open Source
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In the annals of Boston medicine two historic chapters in the last 50 years were the near conquest of sudden death by heart attack and (not unrelat...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 59:05
Planet of the Apes -- Groks Science Show 2014-02-19
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dale Peterson joins us to discuss chimpanzee behavior.

Bought by 'The Sea', 'The Sea', WMUU-LP, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KPVL


  • Added: Feb 24, 2014
  • Length: 27:44
  • Purchases: 5
Neutrino Hunters -- Groks Science Show 2014-02-12
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Astrophysicist Dr. Ray Jayawardhana discusses the hunt for neutrinos.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WRNC-LP, KPVL, and KTXK


  • Added: Feb 13, 2014
  • Length: 34:01
  • Purchases: 4
Restoring Opportunity
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Restoring Opportunity jacket cover, Credit: Harvard Education Press
Americans see education as the primary social institution for achieving the goal of equality and opportunity. While there are sharp disagreements o...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 02, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Evolution of the Eye -- Groks Science Show 2014-01-15
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Ivan Schwab tells us the story of eye evolution.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Jan 15, 2014
  • Length: 33:03
  • Purchases: 2
Space Robots -- Groks Science Show 2013-11-06
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Chris Impey joins us to discuss unmanned space exploration.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KPVL, and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Nov 07, 2013
  • Length: 39:28
  • Purchases: 3
Makalah's Black Music Month Piece
From: Youth Spin - KOOP 91.7 FM
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Here is a peice Makalah did for Black Music Month back in June.

  • Added: Jul 07, 2013
  • Length: 01:08
The Age of Ivory -- Groks Science Show 2013-07-03
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Kevin Uno discusses carbon, ecology, elephants, and conservation.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KPVL, and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Jul 03, 2013
  • Length: 23:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Rockwell Kent Passport Case
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On Art Beat, we continue celebrating Rockwell Kent’s time in Winona Minnesota, with a presentation by Kent Gernander on Rockwell Kent’s passport ca...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jun 06, 2013
  • Length: 01:03:08
  • Purchases: 1
Chronicling an immigrant community: Professor Nikos Alexiou's research on Greek America
From: Michael Nevradakis
Series: Dialogos Interview Series
Caption: The Dialogos Interview Series, produced by Dialogos Radio, Credit: Michael Nevradakis
An interview with professor Nikos Alexiou of CUNY Queens College in New York City, who discusses his extensive research on the historical developme...

  • Added: May 26, 2013
  • Length: 35:33
Portrait of an Educator: M. Scott Tatum
From: Savannah Breckenridge
Caption: M. Scott Tatum
The following piece is a portrait of a relationship between a high school theatre teacher and his student.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: May 24, 2013
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Dinosaurs They Are A-Changin’ – Groks Science Show 2013-05-15
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Brian Switek discusses his new book, “My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs.”

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KPVL, and WRNC-LP


  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 32:03
  • Purchases: 3
From Music Studio to Big Screen
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: Fresh Picked by Open Orchard Productions
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How do the scores for Hollywood Blockbusters come to be? Talented composers like Michael Rubino create musical pieces crafted for the emotion on s...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2013
  • Length: 07:15
Ballooning to the Stars -- Groks Science Show 2013-02-20
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Tristan Matthews discusses how physicists use massive helium balloons launched from the Antarctic to study stellar phenomena.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KMXT, and KPVL


  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 32:51
  • Purchases: 3
Music Licensing
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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On this week's Rock School, we'll be talking about the different kinds of music licensing being used in the world of advertisement and beyond. We'...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 01:05:44
Global Ethics Corner: Should Scholarly Research Be Free For All?
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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Facing prosecution for illegally downloading millions of academic articles, Internet activist Aaron Swartz recently committed suicide. Should Swart...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2013
  • Length: 02:13
Tabled Fables 5 Beauty and the Beast
From: Amy Kraft
Series: Tabled Fables
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In this episode we explore beast bridegroom tales and other stories where pigs marry peasants and men fall for snakes. It's a mad fairy tale world ...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2013
  • Length: 27:22
Down and Dirty Justice
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Gary T. Lowenthal, Emeritus Law Professor at the Sandra Day O’Conner College of Law at Arizona State University and autho...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 29:02
President Obama and the 113th Congress
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Summary: Radio Curious visits with California Democrat, Rep. Sam Farr to discuss the 113th congress.

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
Molecular Origami -- Groks Science Show 2012-11-21
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Protein folding, i.e. how a long chain of amino acids attains its three-dimensional structure, is an incredibly complex problem. To solve it, scien...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WRNC-LP, KMXT, and KPVL


  • Added: Nov 21, 2012
  • Length: 22:37
  • Purchases: 4
Joel Boyd on Santa Fe Schools (Part I)
From: nancy udell
Caption: Joyl Boyd
Today I share part I of my interview with Santa Fe’s new superintendent of schools, Joel Boyd.

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:11

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