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99% Invisible #15- Sounds of the Artificial World (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Without their beeps and chimes, all of your modern conveniences would be very hard to use.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Troy Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 14
99% Invisible #10- 99% Sound and Feel (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Even though he was deaf, Beethoven wrote some of the greatest works of music of all time. So when Chris Downey started losing his sight, he didn't...

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 15
99% Invisible #19- Liberation Squares (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Tompkins, Tiananmen, Tahrir...why do revolutions always start in public squares?

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, WUTC, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 15
Exiting
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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How does death shape our behavior? Why do we grieve? How do we cope? What do we fear? and how can we accept our own exiting? Experts share their th...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 42:30
  • Purchases: 1
Schrödinger's Cat
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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We dive into the Schrödinger's Cat paradox and ask what it reveals about the nature of quantum mechanics and physics in general.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 09:48
  • Purchases: 2
What is meditation, really?
From: The Tibet Connection
Series: Open Mind
Caption: James Neal, former Buddhist monk, Credit: fpmt.org
A former Buddhist monk debunks some meditation myths.

  • Added: Jan 02, 2011
  • Length: 06:58
Ice Drip
From: Ed Herrmann
Series: Wake Up and Hear the Roses
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the sound of ice dripping

Bought by PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Jul 19, 2010
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 1
Encounters Boreal Forest
From: Encounters: Radio Experiences in the North
Series: Encounters
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What is so special about the Boreal Forest?

Bought by KCHU, KDUR, KTRT RADIO INC, KHNS, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 05, 2010
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 5
This Beautiful Carcass
From: Joan Schuman
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On a desolate beach in Northern California's Humboldt County, a marine biologist and a citizen scientist troll for bird carcasses, inadvertently fi...

Bought by KZYX and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 15, 2008
  • Length: 11:49
  • Purchases: 2
P.O.V. - The Chances of the World Changing Filmmaker Interview
From: P.O.V. / American Documentary, Inc.
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Filmmaker Eric Daniel Metzgar talks with P.O.V. about the making of his film "The Chances of the World Changing"

  • Added: Sep 14, 2007
  • Length: 06:29
Double Bill on ThoughtCast! An hour with Alex Vilenkin and Jay Allison
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Jenny Attiyeh speaks with cosmologist Alex Vilenkin about the search for other universes, followed by a talk with public media guru Jay Allison

  • Added: Jul 09, 2007
  • Length: 57:42
Feed the Tigers
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Tigers are victims of vanishing wilderness.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
A Scientist Researches Near-Death Experiences
From: With Good Reason
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Escaping death changes life

Bought by CKMO


  • Added: Nov 15, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Olfactograph
From: Trent Wolbe
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Conceptual artist Jamie O'Shea discovered a way to record smells, and paired them with something special.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 01, 2004
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 2