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Top of Mind - Founding Fathers, Smokejumpers, Generalists
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Founding Fathers, Topic 2: Smokejumpers, Topic 3: Generalists

Bought by KSTK, KOWS, WYAP, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jul 07, 2021
  • Length: 51:41
  • Purchases: 4
Toilets, Streetcars, and Light Poles—A Brief History of Artificial Reefs in Southern California
From: H2O Radio
Series: Journalism About Water
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Starting in the late 1950s, nearly everything but the kitchen sink was put in the ocean off the Southern California coast to promote sportfishing a...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 1
591: Secrets of Alchemy / 592: Thinking With Animals, 6/5/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Secrets Of Alchemy" - The leading science of the 17th century was alchemy, the transformation of matter. What was it really? Could we st...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
Blue Dot: A REAL LIFE INDIANA JONES: A conversation with Professor Russell Shapiro
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
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Dave talks to Russell Shapiro, a geology professor at California State University at Chico. Dr. Shapiro has a fascinating array of interests and ad...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: May 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The World War II Bomber at the Bottom of Lake Mead
From: H2O Radio
Series: Journalism About Water
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The extraordinary story of how a B-29 crashed into Lake Mead over 70 years ago but was only found in the early 2000s—remarkably intact.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KRZA, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUNC & The Colorado Sound and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2021
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 7
Cycle of Life (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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As more cities close down streets to traffic, new riders are hopping on bikes every day.

Bought by WCNY, KAZU Seaside, Calif., 'The Sea', WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Jun 11, 2020
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 14
Cycle of Life (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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As more cities close down streets to traffic, new riders are hopping on bikes every day.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WSGE, RadioFreePalmer, KRDP, WJCT and more


  • Added: Jun 11, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
Cycle of Life (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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As more cities close down streets to traffic, new riders are hopping on bikes every day.

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WSGE, WNED Buffalo, KXCV, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Jun 11, 2020
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 6
Bringing Back the Tide, Stories of Marshes Restored
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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With a little help, carbon eating, coast protecting marshes are on the mend

Bought by WFHB, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KICI Iowa City, WFHB, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: May 06, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Damned From the Start—Many U.S. Reservoirs Could Be Rendered Useless—And That Was Part of the Plan
From: H2O Radio
Series: Energy & Infrastructure
Caption: H2O Radio
We’ve heard about the deteriorating status of American infrastructure and most imagine crumbling bridges and potholed roads. But there’s another lo...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and KMXT


  • Added: Sep 30, 2019
  • Length: 05:09
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 5: Our Future With Fire
From: North State Public Radio
Series: California Burning
Caption: Brennan Byrd holding a piece of Cob building material
On the fifth and final episode of California Burning, we look for solutions that address the many different factors associated with the wildfires p...

Bought by Capital Public Radio, KVCR, WMRA, KSKA, KALW and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Dan Keiser, The Oak Man
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Dan Keiser, the Oak Man, Credit: Britta Greene
The Mendota Dakota tribal community honored arborist Dan Keiser at their annual pow wow in September of 2019. Keiser goes by "Oak Man," a nickname ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Sep 20, 2019
  • Length: 09:15
  • Purchases: 1
Series Launching on September 30th - California Burning 30s Promo
From: North State Public Radio
Series: California Burning
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Generic 30 second promo for the 5 part series - California Burning

Bought by KCBX, KALW, KUSU, KSQD Santa Cruz, KWMR and more


  • Added: Aug 20, 2019
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 6
Voyages to The Bottom of The Sea: Stockton Rush and The Titanic
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
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In this episode Dave visits with Stockton Rush, founder and CEO of OceanGate in Everett, Washington. The company is working on an ambitious plan to...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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It's complicated.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 32:16
Peter Brannen, author of "The Ends of the World"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Bob Kustra speaks with Peter Brannen about Earth's mass-extinctions and piecing together the details with the world's leading paleontologists and g...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Oct 09, 2018
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
Moonshine and Prohibition (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-South Carolina banned the sale of alcohol in 1915. But the state itself had established its own dispensary system more than a decade earlier. -Moo...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 20, 2018
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 9
Early Spring
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
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Spring is arriving early to North American wildlife refuges because of climate change.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, Spokane Public Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 6
Tesla—No Not the Car, the Prolific Inventor
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Clean energy expert Richard Munson’s newest biography is "Tesla. Inventor of the Modern.” Serbian-American Nikola Tesla, born more than 150 years ...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 09:55
Ice World Travels 20,000 Years Ago: Craig Childs
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Nature writer Craig Childs is the author of Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America. It’s a travelogue of places and people, just like us...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 09:56
The Dispossessed, Part 2; Red Wolves of the Alligator River Chapter 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Red wolf howling.
Red wolves used to roam free across most of the eastern United States, from Maine to Florida, from Missouri to Texas, one of the top dogs in the fo...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2018
  • Length: 24:08
Lost Whales
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
Caption: Aerial view of some of the fish-salting tanks (cetaria) in the ancient Roman city of Baelo Claudia, near today's Tarifa in Spain. , Credit: D. Bernal-Casasola, University of Cadiz
Whales used the Mediterranean as breeding grounds during ancient Roman times.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, WLPR , and KENW


  • Added: Jul 15, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 5
Small Town Archaeology
From: Science Update
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A town square offers a trove of archaeological discoveries.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
150 Years Later, the American Divide Is Shifting
From: H2O Radio
Series: Water News in the West
Caption: H2O Radio News
John Wesley Powell recognized—back in 1869—that U.S. development west of the 100th meridian would have to be different than the East because water ...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2018
  • Length: 03:57
Interview w/ naturalist DIANE ACKERMAN about her book "The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us"
From: Out of Bounds
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Award-winning naturalist, poet & author discusses her most recent book "The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us"

  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 29:00