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Shoot The Messenger
From: Exile Content
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Shoot the Messenger is a new serialized, investigative-reporting podcast where we do deep dives on international news stories that warrant a reexam...

Bought by KGOU, KFCF FM, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUOW and more


  • Added: Jul 05, 2023
  • Length: 53:40
  • Purchases: 14
World in Progress 03/25/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Traveling without a passport - just by being scanned at an airport? Projects to test this kind of digital identity have alr...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
World in Progress 07/02/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Corona crisis, cybercrime and creative weddings - Blind people facing the corona crisis in India -- helping people with im...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: 30:01
Targeted Anticancer Agents: Changing Treatments to Benefit Patients
From: Peter Hofland
Series: The OncoZine Brief
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Recorded during the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), being held June 2 - 6, 2017 in Chicago, Ill, the team ...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 27:47
China and the Future of Indiana Steel
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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Correspondent Jerrod Dill looks into Indiana steel's efforts to block Chinese imports.

  • Added: Jul 21, 2016
  • Length: 10:34
The New Flying Technology, Air Drones, are Reshaping The World
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
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The new flying technology, air drones, are turning up everywhere. They can help save people's lives, help put out fires, and record videos up in th...

  • Added: May 03, 2016
  • Length: 07:11
Free Basics?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Modi and Zuckerberg
Is net neutrality just a right for the West and a luxury for the rest. And must poor countries be told, be grateful, half an internet is better tha...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Data Threats: Hackers, Government Agencies, and Defending Data Online
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Impact: Where Business and Ethics Meet
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Cybersecurity risks increases daily as more and more of our private information is stored online--and the biggest threat isn't necessarily hackers....

  • Added: Oct 08, 2014
  • Length: 18:47
The Get Better Show (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Turmeric root
We're looking at the power of curcumin, found in turmeric, in fighting deadly diseases. Plus a new method of treating melanoma. And a simple, cost ...

Bought by WJCT, WEZU, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 24, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 3
Cell Phone Eye Exams
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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In you lived in sub-Saharan Africa your chances of getting a prescription for a pair of eyeglasses would be almost impossible. There’s only one op...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WTJU, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 12, 2010
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 4
Police on Facebook
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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More than six million cars, trucks, and other vehicles clog the streets of New Delhi, India every day. And there’s not nearly enough police to enf...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 24, 2010
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 3
WVR - Show 345 (Half Hour) - Technology Special
From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly Half Hour
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(For Air Weekend of Aug. 21, 2010) Go ahead -- take a guess. What’s the most-watched television show in the world? TV is sweeping across the develo...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
WVR - Show 345 (One Hour) - Technology Special
From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly One Hour
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(For air weekend of 8.21.10) Go ahead – twitter this. What’s the most-watched television show in the world? TV is sweeping across the developing wo...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 06, 2010
  • Length: 01:50:25
  • Purchases: 1
Robot Kid
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Back when the Nepali village of Kaskikot didn’t have any technology except the radio, a young farm boy started wondering about how machines work. ...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2010
  • Length: 03:05
Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen at the National Press Club
From: National Press Club
Caption: Admiral Thad Allen
Retiring Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, Admiral Thad Allen, speaks to the National Press Club.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2010
  • Length: 54:02
Community Cooker
From: World Vision Report
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Kibera is a vast slum in the Kenyan capitol of Nairobi. People who live there struggle with the high price of cooking fuel and the lack of garbage...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2010
  • Length: 05:06
Camotero Cart
From: World Vision Report
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One piece of technology you’ll find in Mexico has fire in its belly and a shrieking whistle to blow off steam. Reporter Shannon Young examines a M...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WBEZ


  • Added: Jan 08, 2010
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 3
Solar Engineers
From: World Vision Report
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It’s been more than 30-years since the first Barefoot College was established in Tilonia in northern India. Since then smaller Barefoot Colleges h...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 08, 2010
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 1
World Vision Report - Show 313 (Half Hour) - Technology Special
From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly Half Hour
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Go ahead -- take a guess. What’s the most-watched television show in the world? TV is sweeping across the developing world like a prairie fire. And...

Bought by WKSU


  • Added: Jan 08, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
World Vision Report - Show 313 (One Hour) - Technology Special
From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly One Hour
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Go ahead – twitter this. What’s the most-watched television show in the world? TV is sweeping across the developing world like a prairie fire. And ...

Bought by WBEZ and Iowa Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 08, 2010
  • Length: 01:50:25
  • Purchases: 2
Building Green
From: Bill Baue
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1