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Episode 122: Professor Quaalude
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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John Buettner-Janusch was one of the first Americans to study lemurs. He held prestigious faculty positions at Yale, Duke and NYU, before surprisin...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2019
  • Length: 28:12
Episode 5: Our Future With Fire
From: North State Public Radio
Series: California Burning
Caption: Brennan Byrd holding a piece of Cob building material
On the fifth and final episode of California Burning, we look for solutions that address the many different factors associated with the wildfires p...

Bought by Capital Public Radio, KVCR, WMRA, KSKA, KALW and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Series Launching on September 30th - California Burning 30s Promo
From: North State Public Radio
Series: California Burning
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Generic 30 second promo for the 5 part series - California Burning

Bought by KCBX, KALW, KUSU, KSQD Santa Cruz, KWMR and more


  • Added: Aug 20, 2019
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 6
Generation AIDS: Minnesota's HIV/AIDS Crisis
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: Bruce Brockway and Rene Valdes, 1980., Credit: Alan Lessik
In July 1981, the New York Times published an article about a mysterious illness plaguing gay men in New York City. After reading the article, Bruc...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 01:31:39
Treating America’s Opioid Addiction Part 3
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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Searching for Meaning in Kensington

  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 55:22
Treating America’s Opioid Addiction: Part 2
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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Synanon and the Tunnel Back to the Human Race.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 44:34
Treating America’s Opioid Addiction: Part 1
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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The Narcotic Farm and the Promise of Salvation

  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 32:11
The High Resolution Life
From: Elaine Vitone
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Ernest Sternglass' work made possible Apollo 11's first videos from the moon, and he pioneered digital radiology while working at the University of...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 18:58
The Dispossessed, Part 2; Red Wolves of the Alligator River Chapter 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Red wolf howling.
Red wolves used to roam free across most of the eastern United States, from Maine to Florida, from Missouri to Texas, one of the top dogs in the fo...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2018
  • Length: 24:08
The Man, the Myth, the Laser
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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The disputed origin story of one of the 20th century’s most important inventions.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 30:06
  • Purchases: 1
Drowned at Sea
From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation
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This week, we look at how a religious cult of number worshipers on the Italian coast gave rise to modern science, mathematics, philosophy, and musi...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 30:09
  • Purchases: 1
The Almost Forgotten Story of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: A letter by Katherine Jones, signed K. Ranalagh , Credit: Michelle DiMeo
The woman beside the father of chemistry.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2018
  • Length: 25:35
Eureka
From: Victoria Davis
Series: Humanities Minutes
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Today's episode asks why the Greek word "eureka" is so commonly associated with gold.

  • Added: Dec 06, 2017
  • Length: 04:17
Paul Ingles' Music Showcase #004 - Why Monterey Pop Mattered (Hour 2)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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Hour 2 of an appreciation of the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival, generally recognized as the first pop or rock festival of all-time.

Bought by KFSK, WPVM 103.7, KSJE, WRVO Public Media, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Divers chronicle Great Lakes shipwreck that left 32 dead
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: The Admiral shipwreck, Credit: Marc Duncan
There’s more than just fish and sand in the Great Lakes – there are thousands of ships, airplanes, and other vehicles under the water. A story on ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, WRVO Public Media, WCMU Michigan, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 8
What We Talk about When We Talk about Two Bears High-Fiving
From: The Organist
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Hermann Rorschach’s inkblot test has become ubiquitous in pop-culture as shorthand for both psychiatry and the subconscious. The first biography of...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 28:16
  • Purchases: 1
Hackademics 1
From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation
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After years of unusual episodes dating back to her childhood, Anita went to the doctor and was told there was nothing medically wrong with her. "Sh...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2017
  • Length: 42:40
Principles of Time Travel
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Time travel is really possible, in theory...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 02:35:33
The Mosquito Crusader
From: Jake Smith
Caption: Fred L. Soper crossing a bridge to investigate an area where yellow fever occurred, Credit: Photo by Wilbur A. Sawyer courtesy National Library of Medicine
Eighty years ago, one man set out to eradicate the mosquito that now causes Zika virus—and it sullied his reputation forever.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WABE


  • Added: Jun 21, 2016
  • Length: 12:08
  • Purchases: 2
Voices And Wonderlands
From: FOOLY BOO
Series: This Won't Hurt A Bit
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We discuss diseases and syndromes that distort reality, past societal failures with mental health as well as the brave story of young Nellie Bly. W...

Bought by WART FM


  • Added: Jun 02, 2016
  • Length: 32:39
  • Purchases: 1
Your Brain on Stories: part one
From: Battery Radio
Series: Your Brain on Stories
Caption: Cave art in Lascaux, France
Your Brain on Stories examines how storytelling could have given early humans a critical evolutionary advantage. Is homo sapiens really homo fictus...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 19, 2016
  • Length: 52:01
  • Purchases: 2
Your Brain on Stories: part two
From: Battery Radio
Series: Your Brain on Stories
Caption: Cave art in Lascaux, France
Your Brain on Stories examines how storytelling could have given early humans a critical evolutionary advantage. Is homo sapiens really homo fictus...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 19, 2016
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 2
Identical Strangers
From: Radio Diaries
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Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein share 100 percent of their DNA. Separated at birth, the twins were both adopted and raised by loving families. The...

Bought by WDBM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, American Voices, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 15:05
  • Purchases: 4
Life of the Law #71: Space Law 2.0
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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When you look up at the sky the last thing you probably think about is the law. But space is exactly where the next frontier of law is being played...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KALW, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 24, 2015
  • Length: 14:42
  • Purchases: 3
From Frogs To Wands of Destiny: The Invention of the Home Pregnancy Test
From: Mother
Caption: Meg Crane's home pregnancy test prototype, 1968., Credit: Courtesy of Bonhams.
Pregnancy tests weren't always the neat, little plastic wands we have in drug stores today.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 22, 2015
  • Length: 10:20
  • Purchases: 3