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99% Invisible #26- Chicago's Jailhouse Skyscraper (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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If you want to stand out as a skyscraper in Chicago, you've got your work cut out for you.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 11
99% Invisible #23- You Are Listening To (Standard 4:30 Version Only)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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When open-source data becomes a thing of beauty.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WTJU and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 13
99% Invisible #21- BLDGBLOG On Sound (Standard 4:30 Version Only)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The word of the day is: archaeoacoustics.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 12
99% Invisible #18- Check Cashing Stores (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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One could argue that check cashing stores do a lot of things that are just plain wrong. But given so many people use them, what are they doing right?

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 14
99% Invisible #15- Sounds of the Artificial World (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Without their beeps and chimes, all of your modern conveniences would be very hard to use.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Troy Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 14
99% Invisible #10- 99% Sound and Feel (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Even though he was deaf, Beethoven wrote some of the greatest works of music of all time. So when Chris Downey started losing his sight, he didn't...

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 15
99% Invisible #19- Liberation Squares (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Tompkins, Tiananmen, Tahrir...why do revolutions always start in public squares?

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, WUTC, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 15
EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create The World We Want
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Nation Books, Credit: Alyssa Stepien
Reports of the health of our planet appear dim. Our conditions are becoming worse as hunger increases, and the variety of species disappear. Autho...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Future Food Production: The Sky’s The Limit
From: Alex Wise
Caption: Dr. Dickson Despommier
We often hear about vertical economic growth and vertical integration in business but the idea of growing our food vertically sounds fantastical. ...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2011
  • Length: 30:00
Global Ethics Corner: Space Junk
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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According to NASA, over 135 million pieces of man-made metal debris orbit the Earth. While the space race may be over, someone's got to do the clea...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
Designing with Nature: Applying Green Chemistry
From: A World of Possibilities
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You cannot see molecules, but human-made chemicals flow through every living thing on earth today and have a profound impact on every person’s life...

Bought by 'The Sea', KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 26, 2011
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 4
Guardian Science Weekly Podcast: Brain science blogging and the sounds of space
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Caption: Guardian Science Weekly, Credit: guardian.co.uk
Neurophilosophy blogger Mo Costandi takes us on a tour of the brain and Astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell reveals the sounds in space

Bought by KUER and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 26, 2011
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 2
Future Generations Are Screaming At Us: The Clean Energy Climate Challenge
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 11
Caption: James Hansen, Credit: Frank Rogozienski
The climate crisis is a crisis of governance and leadership. Will we move rapidly enough to realign our policies, politics and economy to stabilize...

Bought by KKRN, KZYX, and KWIT


  • Added: Aug 08, 2011
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Tears in the Eyes: Rainbow in the Heart
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 11
Caption: Dr. Jane Goodall of the Jane Goodall Institute, Credit: (c) Jennifer Esperanza
The visionary primatologist and conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall revolutionized primatology and helped us realize how close our kinship is with the...

Bought by KQUA and KKRN


  • Added: Aug 01, 2011
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Guardian Science Weekly Podcast: Alok Jha meets author and activist Mark Lynas
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Caption: Guardian Science Weekly, Credit: guardian.co.uk
Author and activist Mark Lynas discusses his new book on global climate change The God Species

  • Added: Jul 15, 2011
  • Length: 26:37
Guardian Science Weekly Podcast: Nell Boase discovers the rock'n'roll side of science
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Caption: Guardian Science Weekly, Credit: guardian.co.uk
This week Nell Boase discovers the radical and reckless side of great science when she meets Michael Brooks, who's new book Free Radicals: The Secr...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 30:37
  • Purchases: 1
Climate Change Gridlock: Where Do We Go From Here? (Part 2)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Global warming is no longer a fear for the future. It’s threatening human civilization, now. Part 2 of a special 2 part series produced by Brian E...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Climate Change Gridlock: Where Do We Go From Here? (Part 1)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Global warming is no longer a fear for the future. It’s threatening human civilization, now. Part 1 of a special 2 part series produced by Brian Ed...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Mosquitoes
From: Vermont Public
Series: Charlie's Garden Journal
Caption: A Mosquito Up Close, Credit: gravitywave/Flickr
In this episode, Charlie Nardozzi debunks mosquito myths and shares some advice for coping with mosquitoes without harming the environment.

Bought by WMNR and WMNR


  • Added: Jun 13, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Vanishing Ice - Getting to the Core of Climate Change
From: SQRadio
Caption: Melting Away, Credit: Sheri Quinn
Glaciers around the world are melting at an unprecedented rate and glacier shrinkage is evidence of climate change. Paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thomp...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2011
  • Length: 30:02
Guardian Science Weekly Podcast: Alok Jha meets Nobel Laureate Sir Paul Nurse
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Caption: Guardian Science Weekly, Credit: guardian.co.uk
This week Alok Jha corners one of the UK's leading scientist Sir Paul Nurse who alongside being a Nobel winning geneticist, is also the present Pre...

  • Added: May 27, 2011
  • Length: 34:11
Red Hot Chili Peppers
From: Vermont Public
Series: Charlie's Garden Journal
Caption: There's no mistaking a hot pepper, Credit: Courtesy fRedi via Flickr
Charlie Nardozzi, expert horticulturist, talks about red hot chili peppers that range in intensity from mild to so-strong-they-are-used-for-nationa...

Bought by WMNR and WMNR


  • Added: May 23, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Guardian Science Weekly Podcast: Alok Jha discovers supercooperators
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Caption: Guardian Science Weekly, Credit: guardian.co.uk
Alok Jha talks to science writer Carl Zimmer about the awesome power of viruses and his new book Planet of Viruses, also Nell Boase meets evolution...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 06, 2011
  • Length: 01:13:10
  • Purchases: 1
Hope or Despair on Earth Day?
From: Daphne Wysham
Series: Earthbeat
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Hope or Despair on the 41st Earth Day? US Whistleblower Says Fukushima Hydrogen Explosion Could Happen Here. Oil Companies’ Control Over Media

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and KQED


  • Added: Apr 23, 2011
  • Length: 57:03
  • Purchases: 2
World on the Edge – A Discussion with Author Lester Brown
From: Daphne Wysham
Series: Earthbeat
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The world is facing a potentially devastating 'Food Bubble,' that according to pioneering environmentalist Lester Brown.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 56:59

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