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This episodes features an interview with Kathleen Frankovic, who spent more than 3 decades devising, conducting and interpreting the results of CBS...
- Added: Apr 18, 2012
- Length: 56:31
This documentary views Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" through the lens of California's ma...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio, 90.5 WSNC, KFOK-LPFM, WDSE, and WZEN.org
- Added: Mar 02, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
A Vatican investigation into American nuns
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUOW, PRX Remix, and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Feb 21, 2012
- Length: 10:27
- Purchases: 5
What’s the connection between the increase in chronic diseases, mental illness and drug addiction in our society today? On this edition, Dr. Gabor ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 15, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Off the Beat explores the concept of home! Where do you call home? What makes a home a home? Can you have more than one home? Who are you when you’...
- Added: Jan 17, 2012
- Length: 30:12
Katie Marshall and Lisa Stauffer join Travis Ryder to preview the exhibitions appearing this month at MacRostie Art Center in Grand Rapids. The mai...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Jan 12, 2012
- Length: 11:52
- Purchases: 1
Heidi Holtan talks with Therese Zink about this collection of writing in various forms penned by modern day rural health care professionals. Things...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 27, 2011
- Length: 20:08
- Purchases: 1
In his new book, former federal prosecutor Ken Ballen reveals the personal and emotional secrets of Islamic terrorists.
- Added: Dec 18, 2011
- Length: 28:58
- Added: Nov 25, 2011
- Length: 18:26
You cannot see molecules, but human-made chemicals flow through every living thing on earth today and have a profound impact on every person’s life...
Bought by 'The Sea', KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KXOT Public Radio
- Added: Sep 26, 2011
- Length: 55:02
- Purchases: 4
The U.S. gives more money in foreign aid than any other country in the world. Researchers have just launched a web database that allows people to ...
Bought by KENW, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Sep 19, 2011
- Length: 02:44
- Purchases: 3
The database AidData allows the public to see where foreign aid money goes and to what purpose.
- Added: Sep 19, 2011
- Length: 29:00
This program is the first of a two part series with Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman, recorded on August 8, 2011 in the Radio Curious studios. S...
- Added: Aug 24, 2011
- Length: 29:00
In recent years, sea ice in the Arctic has been melting at an alarming rate, and scientists are asking why. The science community has recently take...
Bought by KENW and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 24, 2011
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 2
State fairs are an opportunity to eat fried foods, play games and discover parts of your state you might not know exist. Many of the fair's booths ...
- Added: Aug 23, 2011
- Length: 07:36
Hosni Mubarak’s dictatorship is gone, but a military council now rules Egypt, and has kept much of Mubarak’s repressive apparatus. Meanwhile extrem...
- Added: Aug 19, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Smartphones bring us streaming audio, directions to where we're going, instant connections with our friends and family. But an increasing number of...
- Added: Aug 03, 2011
- Length: 08:22
Gun control is a loaded issue around the country. Here in San Francisco, the laws are pretty strict: If you own a gun, you must keep it locked up. ...
- Added: Aug 03, 2011
- Length: 06:16
Crockett has a PhD in Applied Physics from Caltech and was a research scientist at the University of Iowa for almost 30 years. In his professional ...
- Added: Jul 28, 2011
- Length: 25:27
World population may hit 10.1 billion by the year 2100. Are population issues individual choices or are they fundamental concerns of public policy?...
- Added: Jul 15, 2011
- Length: 02:00
Is Bernie Madoff a monster or is it easier than you might think to slip over the line? Diana B. Henriques explores the ethical questions raised by ...
- Added: Jun 30, 2011
- Length: 34:20
The State of Minnesota is supposedly shutting down at least partially by July 1st.
Does that affect you in any way?
Do you work for the state?
Ar...
- Added: Jun 27, 2011
- Length: 05:55
The State of Minnesota is supposedly shutting down at least partially by July 1st.
Does that affect you in any way?
Do you work for the state?
Ar...
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Jun 27, 2011
- Length: 08:44
- Purchases: 1
BART closes just after midnight every night of the week, including on weekends when people like Pat Long stay out late. It’s been that way for 35 y...
- Added: Jun 06, 2011
- Length: 06:34
Can corruption be legitimized by common usage, legal process, or subsequent legislation? Should old crimes go unpunished by legislative amnesty? Or...
- Added: Jun 01, 2011
- Length: 02:00
