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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
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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
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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
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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
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
Caption: Rising sea levels and extreme weather conditions threaten the nation's coastal towns, Credit: Jan Sturmann
The San Francisco Bay is a place of beauty and biological diversity. But sea level rise and extreme weather will change human life along its coastl...

Bought by WHRV, KAAD-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WHRV, WRIR and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
Caption: Steve Mello is a farmer on Tyler Island in the San Francisco Bay Delta, Credit: Jan Sturmann
Rising waters threaten the lands of a farmer and of a developer, yet they and their families dismiss all warnings of danger. Why are so many of us ...

Bought by WHRV, KAAD-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WHRV, WRIR and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
Caption: Chuey Cazares and his family live in the tiny coastal town of Alviso at the southern tip of the San Francisco Bay, Credit: Jan Sturmann
Adapting to climate change will be a messy and painful business. And in the short term there will be winners and losers. Chuey Cazarez’s family is ...

Bought by WFHB, CI Dolphin Radio, WHRV, KAAD-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
Caption: A dish made with food grown near Louisville, Kentucky, Credit: Dalton Main
An extended interview with Slow Food International Secretary General Paolo di Croce about how his organization plans to feed the growing world popu...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 07, 2011
  • Length: 06:23
  • Purchases: 1
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Here's one silver lining to a slow economy: High recycling rates. Americans are wasting far less, and recycling far more. Nowhere is the trend as s...

Bought by KZYX, WRVO Public Media, WTIP, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 04, 2011
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Geoff Marcy, Credit: NASA
Planetary scientist Geoff Marcy describes how the Earth got just the right amount of water to support life.

Bought by Radio Newark, KRUA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 01:29
  • Purchases: 3
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Not all owls hunt at night and nest in trees. Burrowing owls greet the sun from abandoned prairie dog dens. What else makes these tiny birds unique?

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Big Bend National Park is home to many rare and endangered species, but the Big Bend gambusia lives particularly close to the edge of extinction. H...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Some birds sing. Others twitter, tweet or trill. But the common nighthawk goes boom in the night. This noise isn’t all that sets nighthawks apart i...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Learning to vocalize is a surprisingly unusual ability in the animal world. How do young songbirds master their musical talents?

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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The 21 oak species in our region assume many forms and are survivors of the last Ice Age. Who are these tenacious trees? And what animals depend on...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Pando, Credit: Sheri Quinn
The Pando Aspen is a clonal colony of a single male Quaking Aspen (populus tremuloides) also known as the trembling giant because of its elliptical...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2011
  • Length: 27:33
Caption: Harvester ants carry food several times their size., Credit: Cathryn Hoyt
You’ve seen their sprawling, barren mounds, like little moonscapes in your field or lawn. But what lies beneath harvester ants’ conspicuous mounds?

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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These tiny crustaceans come to life for just a short while during our rainy season, but their eggs can wait decades to hatch and ride the wind for ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 1
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Animals and insects aren’t being altruistic when they pollinate a plant. So how do plants attract and reward them for their services?

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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With its showy red crest and golden bill, the pyrrhuloxia shouldn't be confused with its more flamboyant cardinal relative. What makes this desert ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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They eat roadkill. They urinate on themselves. When frightened, they vomit. The turkey vultures have returned. Why does this harbinger of spring ha...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Mar 22, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Trees seem scarce in the Chihuahuan Desert. But soapberry trees manage to thrive throughout our region and can even be used to wash your hands. How...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Mar 22, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Brian Greene, Credit: www.columbia.edu
Brian Greene says mathematics shows how every decision we make creates a parallel universe; plus, we join Tim Jackson as he takes a Q&A session on ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 42:53
  • Purchases: 1