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Videojuegos por una causa
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Edición Especial de la Pandemia en Español
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¿Te pasas la cuarentena jugando a videojuegos? Aprende como tú y tu ordenador podéis ayudar a los científicos a encontrar una cura para el nuevo co...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Nov 07, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Metales poderosos
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Edición Especial de la Pandemia en Español
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¿Quieres protegerte de una pandemia? Aprende de la historia y comienza a trabajar con ... ¡cobre!

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 14, 2020
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Real Life "Wonder" Boy and Mother, Last US/Canada Border Dispute
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Real Life “Wonder” Boy and His Mother Redefine “Normal” in New Memoir. Topic 2: The Last US/Canada Border Dispute

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KOWS, and WYAP


  • Added: Sep 28, 2020
  • Length: 51:51
  • Purchases: 3
Let Kids Vote! A special episode of THE FINA MENDOZA MYSTERIES
From: Kitty Felde
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A mysterious break-in, a congressional lobbying effort about voting, and a sneaky way to get kids excited about the upcoming election...without the...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 34:55
Razorblades in Apples?
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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It happens every year, temperatures drop for some needed relief from summer, kids go back to school, leaves start changing, and the fall season is...

  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 33:56
WRM10 - Will and Congress
From: KRSC
Series: The Will Rogers Minute
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Will Rogers loved to poke fun at Congress. Now he keep an eternal eye on them.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mighty Metals
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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Want to protect yourself from a pandemic? Take a page out of history’s book and start working with... copper!

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Panicked Purchases
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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Why would a pandemic lead to toilet paper hoarding? Uncertain times result in irrational decisions when faced with the aisle of a grocery store. Th...

Bought by KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Protecting the Herd
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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All contagions come to an end. But how? Herd immunity is inevitable. How we get there is up to us.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Gaming For a Cause
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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Spending your quarantine gaming? Learn how you and your computer can help scientists search for a cure to the new coronavirus! All while you sleep!

Bought by KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Gig Loss Pandemic
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Nur-D Quarantine World Tour , Credit: Ryan Dawes
On Friday, March 13, 2020, Gov. Tim Walz declared a "peacetime emergency" in Minnesota, discouraging large gatherings of people in an effort to ste...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2020
  • Length: 08:51
  • Purchases: 1
News In Context: Human Library with Derek Wolfgram & Jenny Barnes
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
Caption: Human Library Banner
Redwood City Library Director Derek Wolfgram and Library Services Supervisor Jenny Barnes talk about the Redwood City Public Library's Human Librar...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
Storytelling Health, Seniors and Suicide, Prescribing Food as Medicine
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: A pediatrician who promotes public health awareness through writing for TV shows. Topic 2: The risk of suicide among seniors is a growing ...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2020
  • Length: 49:32
S2 Ep 8: Needle exchanges and harm reduction
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: David Venes (right) poses at the Tacoma Needle Exchange van with his dog, Ethel, and outreach worker, Laura Reynolds., Credit: Amber Cortes
In this episode we look at the idea of harm reduction and focus specifically on needle exchanges. Those are hundreds of places across the US that h...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 22:21
S2 Ep 6: Treating addiction from the ER
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: Justina Bauthues (center) poses for a photo with her parents, Lisa and Tom Hilton.
A new approach is linking people with addiction to drug treatment, instead of just sending them out the door when they’re well again. Two doctors, ...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 28:04
S2 Ep 5: Treating the wounds of trauma
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: Musician and artist, Becka Baker, at band practice in Tacoma, Washington.
In this episode, we hear personal stories from three women that show just how tightly woven together trauma, pain and addiction are. Also, we hear ...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 32:36
Throwing It Out
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
We're talking trash at the library today. Specifically, the story of a 3,000-ton garbage barge that made a scene in Brooklyn in the 1980s… and, we ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 21:06
  • Purchases: 1
Upcycling for Sustainable Fashion
From: Generation Justice Admin
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How can what we choose to wear have an impact on the environment? Tune in to hear how one youth is working toward sustainability one garment at a t...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 14:15
Small Town Whups Big Oil: "You don't threaten Mainers"
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Citizens celebrate passage of Clear Skies Ordinance, Credit: Dan Wood
Despite millions of dollars of pressure from Shell, Exxon, and the American Petroleum Institute, the small city of South Portland, Maine stops the...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KRZA


  • Added: May 09, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Money, Machines, and More
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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Educator Rachel and engineer Pius introduce Season 4 and brainstorm about what interests us in K-12 engineering education today. We talk about scho...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2019
  • Length: 31:25
People Over Parking Lots
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Half empty lot on Black Friday, Credit: Strong Towns
Fayetteville Arkansas and Buffalo NY stopped requiring off-street parking and found that walkable shopping districts boost local business. Its some...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KRZA


  • Added: Feb 10, 2019
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 4
Masonic Temple Restoration Project with Lee Gundersheimer
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique we learn about the restoration of the Masonic Lodge here in Winona with Lee Gundersheimer, arts and culture coord...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jan 22, 2019
  • Length: 30:48
  • Purchases: 1
Uses for Winona's Central Elementary with Engage Winona
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique we visit with Brian Voerding from Engage Winona. Engage Winona recently facilitated a community meeting on the po...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2019
  • Length: 26:47
Stopping the Gentrification Train
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Evans Station Lofts
Making neighborhoods sustainable makes them desirable and rising prices push old residents out. Community land trusts in Denver CO and Burlington ...

Bought by WFHB, KGNU Community Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jan 10, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Rearranging the Numbers
From: Martine Chaussard
Caption: Ted Davis’ completed (and oddly shaped) Sudoku puzzles from a book called “Tricky Sudoku”
Pat and Ted Davis have been married for more than fifty years. But since Ted started showing signs of depression and dementia, he has become so qui...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 10:52

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