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Designing Above 50 Million Gallons of Water
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Caption: Sketch of the design for the park, Credit: West Seattle Blog
A tour around a newly undergrounded reservoir with Mark Brands, the landscape architect who designed the park to be built above it.

Bought by KLCC


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 05:18
  • Purchases: 1
VoxPod #11 - Fish Out of Water
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: VoxPod
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Today's show looks at people protecting the life of Puget Sound.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 08:15
  • Purchases: 1
Fidalgo Bay Audio Postcard
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: The Health of Puget Sound
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The Weekday High interns traveled to Fidalgo Bay, near Anacortes where they spent a morning with volunteers from the Puget Sound Restoration Fund s...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 02:45
99% Invisible #143- Inflatable Men (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
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They are men. Men made of tubes. Tubes full of air.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 7
99% Invisible #140- Vexillonaire (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Never tolerate a mediocre flag.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 21
Okeefenokee Wilderness
From: Untrammeled!
Series: Untrammeled!
Caption: Okeefenokee canal, Credit: Hyde Post
The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge Wilderness Area is one of the largest preserved marsh lands in the United States.

  • Added: Jan 09, 2015
  • Length: 18:38
Foraging for fish in our own backyard
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Kirk Lombard explaining how to catch crab from the Bay , Credit: Angela Johnston
Kirk Lombard calls himself a sea forager, and every other week offers this walking and fishing tour: a two-hour lesson on how to catch your own sea...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2015
  • Length: 09:50
A Shortcut Through 2014
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Voices of 2014
A retrospective of 2014, mixing the sounds and emotions of an incredibly explosive and confrontational year into a hour long montage. A historical...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KHEN-LP, KZYX and more


  • Added: Dec 23, 2014
  • Length: 57:52
  • Purchases: 9
99% Invisible #139- Edge Of Your Seat (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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"Sitting is the new smoking"

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Rhythm & News Service, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 20
99% Invisible #135- For Amusement Only (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The long battle to legalize... pinball.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 19
Ecotourism: A New Catch For Commercial Fishermen?
From: Laine Kaplan-Levenson
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There’s a new push to get tourists in New Orleans off bourbon street and into nature. Eco-tourism is the new way to explore Louisiana according to ...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Dec 08, 2014
  • Length: 04:34
  • Purchases: 1
It's All About Lucy
From: Nate Hegyi
Caption: UM doctoral student Wylie Carr is part of a research team collecting public opinion on the controversial idea of climate engineering. His travels have taken him to Kenya, the Solomon Islands and the northernmost point in Alaska., Credit: Catherine L. Waters
Wylie Carr studies climate engineering - a 'Plan B' for global warming. The idea terrifies him. Someday, however, his daughter may need to decide w...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2014
  • Length: 05:31
99% Invisible #137- Good Bread (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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It's not about white or wheat. It's everything else.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 21, 2014
  • Length: 04:28
  • Purchases: 20
99% Invisible #138- O-U-I-J-A (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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"It's just a game...isn't it?"

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2014
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 20
Women Rising 26: A Ride on the People’s Climate Train
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In September of 2014, Women rising radio rode the People’s Climate train coast to coast, with over 200 activists heading to New York City to join t...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Nov 10, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
99% Invisible #134- The Straight Line Is A Godless Line (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The straight line is godless and immoral.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 23
Urban agriculture ordinance heads to fruition in Richmond
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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A vibrant mural announces Happy Lot Farm and Garden to visitors and anyone passing by. A greenhouse stands in the middle of the lot, and an improvi...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 06:45
PELICAN DREAMS -- Judy Irving Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Judy Irving, San Francisco, CA 10/17/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Judy Irving talks discovery, falling in love, and sacred moments.

  • Added: Oct 26, 2014
  • Length: 22:31
99% Invisible #132- Castle On The Park (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Primitive cancer treatment never looked so good.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 20
Spooky Shearwaters
From: BirdNote
Caption: Wedge-tailed Shearwater, Credit: Duncan Wright
Some early sailors, visiting remote Pacific islands, surely feared that the ungodly wailing on shore meant they had been tricked to the gates of He...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WETD, and WKCC


  • Added: Oct 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
Blowing the Whistle, Paying the Price
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: A deformed baby duck found at Kesterson NWR, Credit: U.S. Geological Survey
The internet has put whistleblowers in the public eye, and the government’s crosshairs. The world’s biggest institutions are running scared and cra...

Bought by WNJR and KMUN


  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
99% Invisible #130- Holdout (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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A story of steadfastness

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 26
Wake up and Smell the Story: Sniffing out Health and Sickness
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Illustration of a nose., Credit: Wikimedia Commons
If you asked people which of their senses they most feared losing, they'd probably say sight or hearing. But what about the ability to smell? We ex...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Sep 25, 2014
  • Length: 43:58
  • Purchases: 1
Live at KDHX: Temples 4/30/14 and Nathaniel Rateliff 5/2/14
From: KDHX
Series: KDHX's Collector's Edition
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Temples and Nathaniel Rateliff perform live in the studios of KDHX in St. Louis on April 30, 2014, and May 2, 2014.

  • Added: Sep 22, 2014
  • Length: 27:14
99% Invisible #131- Genesis Object (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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In the beginning, there was design.

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


  • Added: Sep 17, 2014
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 19

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