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Drawing on his 34 years in office, Lee H. Hamilton, former Congressman from Indiana and president and director of the Woodrow Wilson Center for Sch...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2010
  • Length: 01:31
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Drawing on his 34 years in office, Lee H. Hamilton, former Congressman from Indiana and president and director of the Woodrow Wilson Center for Sch...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2010
  • Length: 01:32
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Drawing on his 34 years in office, Lee H. Hamilton, former Congressman from Indiana and president and director of the Woodrow Wilson Center for Sch...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2010
  • Length: 01:29
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The AFL-CIO and a coalition of its allies have launched a major campaign aimed at creating many thousands of new jobs.

  • Added: Nov 27, 2009
  • Length: 03:27
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Airline and railroad workers voting on whether to unionize are greatly hampered by peculiar rules that count eligible voters who don't vote as voti...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2009
  • Length: 02:59
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A pothole is a uniquely American phenomenon. Drive the highways of South Africa, Germany or France and you'll find few ruts and divots. Why pothole...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:47
  • Purchases: 3
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Story of the inventor of the wind up radio

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:30
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The importance of cryptography for the web

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:48
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As terrorist uses more sophisticated technology we face a Faustian bargain in using technology to track them.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:45
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Most technological "breakthroughs" aren't breakthroughs at all, instead they are the result of simple, steady engineering.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:35
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The story of engineer Saul Griffith and his machine that instantly makes lenses for developing countries.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:29
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The lessons from the August 14, 2003 blackout of the United States and Canada.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 03:01
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RFID: A technology that keeps track of the globe, but may threaten our freedom

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:38
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How many people attend a demonstration on, say, the Mall in Washington D.C.?The answer is "we don't know" because no one is really counting.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:35
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New studies show that the young Americans who will shape our future have been hit painfully hard by today's economic downturn.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 09, 2009
  • Length: 04:36
  • Purchases: 1
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Despite the recession, women workers are close to outnumbering male workers.

  • Added: Sep 25, 2009
  • Length: 02:36
Caption: Lisa Herner, Credit: Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University
Dave Zirin and Elizabeth Terzakis take a look back at the history of discrimination against women in sports, and we’ll hear where the long battle f...

Bought by WJCT, RadioStPete Florida, KMXT, 90.5 WSNC, KUT and more


  • Added: Sep 04, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 6
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Unions are marking Labor Day with high hopes that the Obama administration will move to finally lessen the severe on-the-job hazards facing U.S. wo...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2009
  • Length: 04:20
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Drawing on his 34 years in office, Lee H. Hamilton, former Congressman from Indiana and president and director of the Woodrow Wilson Center for Sch...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2009
  • Length: 01:42
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Drawing on his 34 years in office, Lee H. Hamilton, former Congressman from Indiana and president and director of the Woodrow Wilson Center for Sch...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2009
  • Length: 01:41
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Drawing on his 34 years in office, Lee H. Hamilton, former Congressman from Indiana and president and director of the Woodrow Wilson Center for Sch...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2009
  • Length: 01:15
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Drawing on his 34 years in office, Lee H. Hamilton, former Congressman from Indiana and president and director of the Woodrow Wilson Center for Sch...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2009
  • Length: 01:23
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Drawing on his 34 years in office, Lee H. Hamilton, former Congressman from Indiana and president and director of the Woodrow Wilson Center for Sch...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2009
  • Length: 01:26
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Drawing on his 34 years in office, Lee H. Hamilton, former Congressman from Indiana and president and director of the Woodrow Wilson Center for Sch...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2009
  • Length: 01:38
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Drawing on his 34 years in office, Lee H. Hamilton, former Congressman from Indiana and president and director of the Woodrow Wilson Center for Sch...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2009
  • Length: 01:28