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Bet the Farm
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Frederick Kaufman
In the last five years the world has seen two devastating spikes in the price of food, and according to journalist and professor Frederick Kaufman,...

Bought by KZYX and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Silent Spring Turns 50
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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The 50th anniversary of the ground breaking book on the environment; Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 17:25
  • Purchases: 1
Tinnitus
From: Elaine Vitone
Series: Pitt Medcast
Caption: Some tinnitus sufferers experience their phantom frequencies as buzzing or chirping sounds, like the song of a cicada (here, converted mathematically into graph form)., Credit: Photo Researchers
This dramatic soundscape uses interviews, narration, sound effects, and music to explain the emerging neuroscience of tinnitus - a ringing, buzzing...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Oct 19, 2012
  • Length: 09:40
  • Purchases: 1
Computer Talk Radio (October 6th-12th, 2012)
From: Benjamin Rockwell
Series: Computer Talk Radio (54 Minute)
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Computer Talk Radio weekly show for the broadcast week starting October 6th, 2012. Benjamin Rockwell, the computer nerd and expert, opens with the ...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
How Birds Talk
From: With Good Reason
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People used to think alarm calls made by birds just meant "danger, danger!" But it turns out, birds are more specific than that. They can even aler...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 08:10
  • Purchases: 1
The Dirt on Compost: Jason Mark
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jason Mark
Have you ever been to the dump? It’s a pretty smelly place. Part of what you’re smelling is methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that’s created as bi...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 27, 2012
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
CANE TOADS: THE CONQUEST -- Mark Lewis interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Filmmaker Mark Lewis on challenging himself, glamorizing amphibians, and the human folly of trying to outsmart Mother Nature.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2012
  • Length: 19:17
Not Just for the Birds
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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One key to curtailing the West Nile virus? Birds.

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Sep 07, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Healing With Music
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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For teenagers dealing with substance abuse issues, talking about what they’re feeling can be a challenge. So one music therapist uses rock and heav...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KPIP-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KWMR


  • Added: Aug 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 5
Marie Curie: The Love Life of the Mother of Modern Chemistry
From: Liz Humes
Series: Wordy Birds
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On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview Lauren Redniss about her book, Radioactive: A Tale of Love and Fallout, which artistically chronicles t...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2012
  • Length: 27:31
The Size of Life
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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How small and how large can life be? Hear scientists consider various answers to these questions and even attempt to convince you that life can be ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 19, 2012
  • Length: 10:49
  • Purchases: 2
Making Waves, Making Energy
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: George Taylor
If you sit at the edge of Pacific or Atlantic Ocean and watch as waves ferociously slap the sands, you can’t help but recognize the awesome power o...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 10, 2012
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
My Saints Alive
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A man whose wife died of breast cancer manages to find love again. But then he learns the woman who will be his second wife is diagnosed with breas...

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
A Pre-Historic Brain In The 21st Century
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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How to live with the brain of a cave-man in the 21st century, is the subject of this edition of Radio Curious, in conversation with Rick Hanson, P...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
Dr. Edlow’s Deadly Dinner Party
From: Radio Rounds
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Physicians have long been compared with detectives, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, was himself a physician. This episode f...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 28:52
The Underwear Drawer
From: Radio Rounds
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We discuss work-life balance with Dr. Michelle Au, an anesthesiologist and acclaimed author. Since medical school, she has penned “The Underwear Dr...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 29:30
Slightly Funnier Than Placebo
From: Radio Rounds
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In one of the most entertaining episodes of Radio Rounds to date, hosts Lakshman Swamy and Yojan Patel speak with the one of a kind “ZDoggMD,” the ...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2012
  • Length: 29:30
Weird weather & climate change...how are they related?
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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MPR meteorologist Paul Huttner visited Grand Marais, Minn., recently, stopping by the WTIP studios to talk with The Roadhouse host Buck Benson abou...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 26:49
Mental Calisthenics for Teenagers
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Until recently, most researchers believed the brain stopped developing cognitive ability after a certain age. But a new study suggests otherwise.

Bought by WJCT and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The New Arctic Part II: “The Eskimo and the Oil Man”
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Bob Reiss
When he began research for his new book, The Eskimo and the Oil Man, author Bob Reiss thought that he would affirm his belief that Arctic oil drill...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: The History of Sustainability
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 01:56:29
The New Arctic: A Thawed Diamond
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: David Fairhall
This week on Sea Change Radio we begin a two-part series on the Arctic. If you’re looking for present-day observable impacts of global warming, hea...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
Chris Mooney: Inside The Republican Brain and Climate Denialism
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Chris Mooney
If you’re listening to this show, chances are you believe that climate change is real, that it’s a problem, and that human actions have brought us ...

  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
Emotional Intelligence and Leadership: The Pioneering Psychologists
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
Caption: Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
Ever wonder why some leaders appear unwilling to pay attention to others' feelings? Ever wonder why a particular person really upsets you and you c...

  • Added: May 20, 2012
  • Length: 54:01
OTTER 501 -- Mark Shelley and Katie Pofahl interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Katie Pofahl & Mark Shelley, San Francisco, CA 5/5/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Executive Producer/Director of Photography Mark Shelley and star Katie Pofahl talk otters, kelp forests, and doing the right thing.

  • Added: May 11, 2012
  • Length: 18:25

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