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Dust Bowl Survivor
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Sunday, April 14th, 1935, mid-afternoon. A monstrous black dust cloud quickly forms over southwest Kansas -- and within minutes, people were runnin...

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Dec 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
The World of 1607 part 3
From: WCVE
Series: The World of 1607
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Measuring the Macrocosm and the Microcosm

  • Added: Nov 07, 2007
  • Length: 01:02
QUEST_The Legacy of Salt
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Quest radio takes a look at the largest wetlands restoration in the West - the South Bay Salt Ponds Restoration Project.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2007
  • Length: 05:48
Wolves Return to Eastern Germany
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Who's afraid of the big, bad wolf? Certainly not wildlife lovers in eastern Germany...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
Saving the Salton Sea
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Have you ever wondered where migratory birds get all the energy for such long, grueling flights? Well, there are pit stops along the way, like the ...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Climate Change Threatens Siberian Permafrost
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The Siberian permafrost - a sub-Arctic peat bog about the size of France and Germany - is chock full of carbon that's trapped in its frozen soils. ...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
gnome - word of the day
From: Charles Hodgson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The story behind the word "gnome"

  • Added: Nov 13, 2006
  • Length: 02:48
This I Believe - Roald Hoffmann
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann believes the middle is a good place to be, both in life and in science.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WEZU, WEZU, and KJZZ


  • Added: Oct 06, 2006
  • Length: 04:43
  • Purchases: 4
March 31: Great Celebrities/ Rene Descartes (in Russian)
From: Alona Suvórova
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Birthday piece

  • Added: Mar 28, 2006
  • Length: 02:55
March 21: Great Celebrities/ Steve Wozniak ( in Russian)
From: Alona Suvórova
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Birthday piece

  • Added: Mar 21, 2006
  • Length: 03:18
March 17: Great Celebrities/Gottlieb Daimler ( in Russian)
From: Alona Suvórova
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Birthday piece

  • Added: Mar 17, 2006
  • Length: 02:30
March 3: Great Celebrities/ Alexandr Bell (in Russian)
From: Alona Suvórova
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Birthday piece

  • Added: Mar 07, 2006
  • Length: 02:24
Feb 15: English - Suvorova on Galileo Galilei
From: Alona Suvórova
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Birthday piece

  • Added: Feb 15, 2006
  • Length: 03:02
Feb 15: Russian -Suvorova on Galileo Galilei
From: Alona Suvórova
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Birthday piece

  • Added: Feb 13, 2006
  • Length: 02:50
Feb 12: English- Suvorova on Charles Darwin
From: Alona Suvórova
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Birthday piece

  • Added: Feb 12, 2006
  • Length: 02:31
Feb 12: Russian - Suvorova on Charles Darwin
From: Alona Suvórova
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Birthday piece

  • Added: Feb 12, 2006
  • Length: 02:50
Feb 4: Russian - Alona on Charles Lindberg
From: Alona Suvórova
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Birthday piece

  • Added: Feb 01, 2006
  • Length: 03:25
Sectional Strangeness
From: KVNF
Series: Belief Systems and Other B.S.
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Peculiarities of United States land surveying.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 17, 2006
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 1
Darwin Exhibit
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Profile of the American Museum Of Natural History in New York's Darwin Exhibit

  • Added: Dec 23, 2005
  • Length: 09:54
THEY MADE AMERICA: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators, with Sir Harold Evans
From: Sarah Montague
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Sir Harold Evans looks at the lives, times and ideas of the innovators that shaped America.

Bought by WNIJ, WFDD, WFIU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPBS and more


  • Added: Oct 26, 2005
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 11
Scenes From The Beach 4
From: George Thatcher
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Reflections on the night sky

  • Added: Aug 11, 2005
  • Length: 01:37
Timothy Leary - Open
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Moments of America
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Psychologist Timothy Leary implores listeners to stay open to new ideas.

Bought by WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Jul 06, 2005
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
Countdown Discovery
From: Mike Crane
Caption: PRX default Piece image
NASA tries to launch the first Space Shuttle since the Columbia disaster in 2003

Bought by KPIK-LP, KBBI Alaska, WBST, WYSO, WAER Syracuse, NY and more


  • Added: Jun 13, 2005
  • Length: 58:52
  • Purchases: 16
Einstein
From: Talking History
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Elizabeth Stoddard explains Einstein's theories and historian William Ashworth comments on Einstein's personality.

Bought by KPIK-LP


  • Added: May 16, 2005
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Moon, Mars and Money
From: Richard Paul
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Will we go back to the Moon and on to Mars? A reality check.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WSHU, and KBBI Alaska


  • Added: Mar 24, 2005
  • Length: 05:54
  • Purchases: 3

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