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Shifting the Baseline: Perception is Everything
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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How our perception of the world changes, from generation to generation. We talk about "Shifting Baseline Syndrome" with the man who coined the phrase.

  • Added: Nov 28, 2016
  • Length: 02:03
292-Disintegrating Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a disintegrating comet 67 million miles from us.

Bought by WLPR , Radio Newark, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
256-Pale Blue Dot
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The light reflected by a distant planet can tell us if we could live there.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KENW and more


  • Added: May 26, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
After a flood, solving the mystery of water
From: Jenny Chen
Caption: 2013 flood in Estes Park, Credit: Town of Estes Park
Recent floods in Texas and Oklahoma cost the country over $3 billion in economic losses. In some areas of the country, floods are growing in intens...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 08:45
  • Purchases: 1
The Art of De-Extinction
From: Britt Wray
Caption: Will the woolly mammoth face another day?, Credit: Tyler Ingram
A group of scientists are now trying to bring extinct animals - like the woolly mammoth and passenger pigeon - back to life, in a movement called D...

Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2015
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 3
The Future
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Fusion - Everlasting and Clean Energy
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We're getting closer and closer to making fusion power a reality - limitless energy created by fusing hydrogen into helium, the same process that p...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
Conservation in the Anthropocene
From: Generation Anthropocene
Series: Generation Anthropocene
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In our second compilation, we bring together voices from the Leopold Leadership Program to investigate the changing nature and changing goals of co...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 23:16
99% Invisible #30- The Blue Yarn
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Better (and less expensive) cancer treatment started with a sensei and ball of blue yarn...

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


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 10:20
  • Purchases: 11
99% Invisible #37- The Steering Wheel (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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I bet you think could pantomime changing lanes with an imaginary steering wheel. But you'd be very, very wrong. You’d probably kill a bunch of imag...

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


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 16
99% Invisible #36- Super Bon Bonn (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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What happens to a city when its purpose is stripped away virtually overnight?

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


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 12
99% Invisible #33- A Cheer for Samuel Plimsoll (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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This simple graphic design has saved thousands of lives.

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


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 17
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
Sea Rise
From: With Good Reason
Caption: Rising sea levels, Credit: marineinsight.com
The oceans are slowly rising due to ice melt and the warming of the waters. And at least one east coast city has hired a Dutch firm to evaluate op...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Mar 29, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Insects Galore
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Insects and the world we humans share with them is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious. Our guest is anthropologist Hugh Raffles, the author...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 29:23
How Do We Feel About Surrogate Mothers?
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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For millennia when couples were not able to conceive and bear their own children their options were somewhat limited, and not at all available if t...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2010
  • Length: 28:52