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An Illumination
From: Benjamen Walker
Series: Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
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Cédric Villani won the prestigious Fields Medal for his work in 2010. He knows how to catch ideas, and he wants to teach us how as well. We also ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 07, 2015
  • Length: 18:30
  • Purchases: 2
When Artists Experiment With Science Audio Extra
From: Meisa Salaita
Series: Small Matters
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Artist Amy Landesberg has teamed up with scientists to expand her exhibits and installations. She's contemplated how molecules evolve to form life...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2015
  • Length: 01:47
When Artists Experiment With Science
From: Meisa Salaita
Series: Small Matters
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We bring you a story about how experiments can uncover hidden truths. In science, experiments lead to medical breakthroughs and newer, faster techn...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Jan 27, 2015
  • Length: 05:23
  • Purchases: 1
Mobiles, Mountains, & Molecules
From: Meisa Salaita
Series: Small Matters
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Scientists are our modern day explorers… they populate lab benches, fume hoods, and field sites all over the world. And many times, their curiosit...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2015
  • Length: 05:20
The Arts and Healing in Cleveland
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jennifer Steinkamp's video installation"Kelly 1" at Cleveland Clinic, Credit: Courtesy of Cleveland Clinic
What happens when innovative medical practitioners join with a lively arts community? Find out from Maria Jukic, executive director of Cleveland’s ...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, KVSC, and WNJR


  • Added: Nov 15, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 8: Stuttering, Dancing, and Detours
From: Faye Reiff-Pasarew
Series: The Art Of Medicine Podcast
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Using creative adaptation to overcome the bugs in our systems

  • Added: Sep 03, 2014
  • Length: 24:35
Visual Stylometry: Where math forays into art
From: Jenny Chen
Caption: Paintings by Craig Moran, Credit: Jenny Chen
Visual stylometry is a new branch of mathematics that uses mathematics to determine the style of a particular artists' body of work. In this piece ...

Bought by WDBM, WABE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 5
Alchemy's Rainbow: Pigment Science and the Art of Conservation
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: An Alchemist in his Studio, Thomas Wijck. , Credit: CHF Collections
This episode explores the colorful (and sometimes risk-filled) history of pigments and painters, and the conservators who save paintings from the r...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 30:34
  • Purchases: 1
Drawing History: Telling the Stories of Science through Comics and Graphic Novels
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Real Heroes comic book from 1942
How do you show what the inside of an atom looks like? Or how a scientist feels in the moment of discovery? We decided to approach the human storie...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 21:15
  • Purchases: 1
Space Craft
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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A cold-water, slap on the face, static-electric jolt reminder of just how powerfully spaces can affect the way we think and act.

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
A Work of Art, For Your Mouth
From: Meisa Salaita
Series: Small Matters
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You’ve probably heard of fusion restaurants that combine two different types of cuisine in their cooking. Well, this story’s about a restaurant th...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 17, 2014
  • Length: 05:23
  • Purchases: 3
20: Voicemail Memories (Standard Length) Version 2
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds (Standard Length)
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Listen to a collage of voicemails, where you're asked to tell a story that will be shared with the whole world.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
20: Voicemail Memories (Standard Length) Version 1
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds (Standard Length)
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There's a private number you can call where you're asked to tell a story that will be shared with the whole world.

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
17: Most Relaxing Song (Standard Length)
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds (Standard Length)
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There's a song out there that could make you crash your car... but in the most relaxing way possible.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
09: Babble Machine (Standard Length)
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds (Standard Length)
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The Babble Machine, takes its name from a fictional device referenced in The H.G. Wells novel, The Sleeper Awakes.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
A conversation with director Jeff Orlowski
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jeff Orlowski, Credit: courtesy of Chasing Ice
Jeff Orlowski goes to the Arctic to film James Balog’s documentation of the rapidly disappearing glaciers. We hear all about it.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 30:20
Two Guys on Your Head: Metaphors and The Brain
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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Ever have those moments when you just can’t find the right words to express your thoughts? They happen. Articulation isn’t always easy. Sometimes,...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 07:20
Two Guys on Your Head: Writer's Block
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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Writer’s block! That phrase might induce panic and a recollection of a familiar experience. It’s a very common phenomenon. So, what is it? When...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2014
  • Length: 07:19
Algorithmic Design
From: Dan Weissman
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In recent years, algorithmic and parametric design processes have become a mainstream part of the design process. In this podcast we explore concep...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2014
  • Length: 06:19
The Search for Essential Reality - William Stoer (The CollectiveArtsInk Podcast)
From: Jim Fricker
Series: The CollectiveArtsInk Podcast
Caption: William Stoehr
"Stoehr’s ability to create works with open-ended meaning and the techniques he utilizes to do so have intrigued Neuroesthetic researchers who are ...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2013
  • Length: 16:20
Hello, My Name Is....
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Caption: The Producers, l to r: Ashley Mooney, Dillon Buckner, Grace Farson, Madeline Miller, Ted Phillips, Wilson Sayre, Eunice Kim, Clare Fieseler, Ligaiya Romero, Ben Finkel. Not pictured: Jagmeet Mac , Credit: John Biewen
A one-hour collection of short pieces about names and the naming of stuff, produced by undergrad and graduate students at Duke University. Hosted b...

Bought by KUER, WRVO Public Media, WCQS, KRCU Public Radio, WTIP and more


  • Added: Sep 06, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Rewire
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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After nine concussions, artist Raphael Diluzio woke up one morning not knowing his own identity.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 07:28
  • Purchases: 1
Hark! Who Goes There? Locating the Self in the Stories We Tell (Extended Conversation w/John Eakin)
From: WFHB
Series: The Custom House
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We enlist the aid of noted scholar of autobiography, John Eakin, as we seek to answer Andrew Bird's question: where exactly does the self reside, i...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2013
  • Length: 46:06
24: Tom Bills: Guitar Maker
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Tom Bills creates custom guitars in his basement shop near St. Louis. Hear the sounds of the guitar-making process as well as stories of his most f...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 25:37
  • Purchases: 1
23: The Great Animal Orchestra
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Following his influential career in music and composition, Bernie Krause decided to leave music behind and devote his efforts to studying the sound...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 23:50
  • Purchases: 1