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Making Love to Siri: The Seductiveness of Robots
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Tonight’s show “Making Love to Siri,” seeks to understand what is seductive to us about robots. Which question should we ask: Can we make love to S...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 58:33
The Body Appropriate: The new death movement
From: KALW
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“Yea, those are human brains.” I’m looking into a wooden display cabinet with Stephanie Stewart Bailey. “It's kind of like a yellowy color they'r...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2015
  • Length: 09:29
NASA Prelaunch Checklist w/music
From: Paul Messing
Series: Paul Messing's Audio Producer's Grab Bag
Caption: NASA Control
Every system must get an immediate "GO!" response to the mission commander. (From 1990s)

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 15, 2014
  • Length: :46
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 5: In my shoes
From: Faye Reiff-Pasarew
Series: The Art Of Medicine Podcast
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What is it like to experience a grand mal seizure?

  • Added: Sep 03, 2014
  • Length: 22:24
Sebastian Thrun: MOOCs, Angry Birds, and Lifelong Learning (Excerpt)
From: Open Source
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We’re speaking with a hot name in disruptive innovation, Sebastian Thrun. He’s part of our conversation on hacking higher education. He’s the foun...

Bought by Radio Newark and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 2
Consumer
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Privacy: Going... going... gone!
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Today, corporations and governments are using a vast array of tools to gather information on us. What trails are people leaving and do they even know?

  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
Scrambling to Adapt to Climate Change
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Impact: Where Business and Ethics Meet
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For years, climate change activists avoided "adaptive" solutions because they thought it was admitting defeat. But with the reality of extreme weat...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2014
  • Length: 09:58
BRAIN Initiative -- Groks Science Show 2014-01-01
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
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Partha Mitra offers background and insight into the BRAIN initiative.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WRNC-LP, and KPVL


  • Added: Jan 02, 2014
  • Length: 35:13
  • Purchases: 3
Self-Induced Abortion
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Destination DIY producer Jaymee Cuti takes on the delicate topic of at-home abortion, which typically means ingesting a pill or an herb that will c...

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 06:56
  • Purchases: 1
In Which Curiosity Goes Gangnam Style
From: Laurence Yeung
Series: The AudioPh[i]D
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Episode 1 - 10/16/12 - The latest headlines in academia, a bake sale for planetary science, and The Thesis Defense: A game show where the questions...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 15:41
Songs in Spaaaaace
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Find out what songs were attached records attached to the two Voyager probes and are now on their way out of the galaxy.

Bought by WMTNradio


  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Moody's rates drugs
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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In the news: Moody's and Standard & Poor's to be responsible for rating new drugs.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2012
  • Length: 06:07
The Myth of Sex Addiction Parts One & Two
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Does sex addiction catch your attention, spark your imagination or stir your libido? Radio Curious visits with Dr. David Ley, author of “The Myth o...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Aug 07, 2012
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 1
IBRT Season 1, Episode 2; 'A Distant Land'
From: Icebox Radio Theater
Series: The Icebox Radio Theater
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The Icebox Radio Theater has been creating great stories about life in the Far-North since 2004. Award-winning, mind bending, spine chilling, laug...

Bought by KRUA and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Jan 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 2
Mysteries of the Brain
From: With Good Reason
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Looking for ways to help the brain heal itself.

  • Added: Feb 24, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Cocoa And Lazer Guns
From: Littleglobe
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Interesting and scary facts about the nuts and bolts of love.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2010
  • Length: 03:45
Cultural Linguistics -- Groks Science Show 2009-12-09
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Prof. Daniel Everett discussed linguistics, the Piraha, and religion in Don't Sleep There are Snakes.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Dec 09, 2009
  • Length: 30:19
  • Purchases: 1
A Fred Friendly Seminar: Minds on the Edge
From: Murray Street Productions
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Cokie Roberts hosts a panel of international journalists, politicos, academics and legal experts consider mental illness in the context of two chal...

Bought by KMUN, WRVO Public Media, WTIP, KXOT Public Radio, KWIT and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2009
  • Length: 57:28
  • Purchases: 7
Fatalistic Teens Increase Risk of HIV Infection
From: Youth Radio
Caption: A Maker's Quest 2.0 story
A new study shows that teens who think they'll die young are seven times more likely to contract HIV.

Bought by WMNF and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 26, 2009
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 2
Fresh Greens: Teens and the Environment
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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Tells the stories of how American youth think about their daily impact on our planet.

Bought by KVMR, KZYX, KXOT Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUNM and more


  • Added: Aug 17, 2009
  • Length: 51:29
  • Purchases: 10
Camp Lovewave's 361st Show - Chemtrail Guru Clifford Carnicom
From: Terran Lovewave
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Chemtrail Guru Clifford Carnicom visits The Camp, once again, to wake our campers up about the government lies about Chemtrails. Plus, talks about...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2009
  • Length: 01:00:47
Elevate this!
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Scientists are studying a new emotion: elevation. Ian heads straight for the basement.

  • Added: Dec 29, 2008
  • Length: 02:03
Deep-Freeze Vault Will Preserve Seeds
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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I don't know if Santa Claus ever collected seeds, but one of his neighbors sure does...

Bought by KMXT and KUAC


  • Added: Sep 25, 2007
  • Length: 01:21
  • Purchases: 2
New Shark Kill Estimate
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Just about everybody's seen Jaws, the hit movie about a monster shark that snacks on captains and coeds. But have you ever wondered how many sharks...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:06
Hearing Things
From: Carolina Wheat
Caption: Sonic Rainbow
An experienced narrator explains how to hear ghosts

  • Added: Jun 25, 2007
  • Length: 02:31