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StoryCorps: Wilson Matthews and Jeanne Yeatman
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Wilson Matthews (L) and Jeanne Yeatman (R)
Flight nurses Wilson Matthews and Jeanne Yeatman talk about their work aboard emergency response helicopters and their attempts to save a child who...

Bought by WTJU and Blue Mountain Radio


  • Added: Jul 24, 2015
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 2
Ethical Systems Design: Bringing Behavioral Science Into Corporate Life
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Impact: Where Business and Ethics Meet
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This is the first in a series of podcasts in collaboration with EthicalSystems.org to explore behavioral science in the workplace. In this installm...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2015
  • Length: 25:59
The Madam Next Door
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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There’s a small town in Idaho where prostitution was practiced openly—in effect, decriminalized. The practice was tolerated, even embraced, until 1...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, KUNV, KKRN, and KPVL


  • Added: Mar 06, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 5
Robots for humanity: how technology is changing the life of one Bay Area man
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Jane and Henry Evans at their house, Credit: Angela Johnston
Then, Henry suffered from what is called a brain stem dissection. That stroke left him trapped, unable to lift a finger at first, or say a word. Bu...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 09:33
  • Purchases: 2
Bio-hackers Grow Their Own Ink
From: Britt Wray
Caption: Biohackers grow their own ink from soil-dwelling bacteria., Credit: La Paillasse
What does it mean to live in a world where biotech is done for and by the people? How long might it be until we are all growing our own ink, laund...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 1
The Beauty Premium -- Groks Science Show 2014-12-17
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Jaclyn Wong discussed the beauty premium.

Bought by WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KPVL


  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 29:58
  • Purchases: 4
Author Redmond O’Hanlon travels a mile deep in “Trawler"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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British naturalist and jungle survivor of Borneo, Amazonia and the Congo, O’Hanlon sets off this time on a commercial fishing ship in the harsh wat...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Dec 02, 2014
  • Length: 09:56
  • Purchases: 2
A Dream Job
From: Daniel Wanschura
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What exactly is a dream job? Is it one that pays a lot of money? One where you don’t have to do much work? Is it one that makes you famous? …Or, is...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2014
  • Length: 04:58
Food Sleuth Radio, Jeff Ritterman Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide has been linked to a mysterious fatal kidney disease among farmers in Central America, Sri Lanka and India. Join Food...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Futurework
From: Spectrum Radio
Caption: FUTUREWORK: How Technology Will Redefine the Culture of Work
IEEE Spectrum Radio explores what the workplace will look like and what the meaning of work will be 30 years into the future.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KHNS, KTSW 89.9, WUFT, KUER and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2014
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 54
The Barber Pole
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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The surprising history of a true cultural icon: the barber pole.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 11, 2012
  • Length: 01:47
  • Purchases: 1
Trust Me
From: The Drucker Institute
Series: Drucker on the Dial
Caption: Paul Zak, Credit: James Duncan Davidson/TED
Phalana Tiller talks with author Ron Ashkenas about his HBR blog "Learn to Trust Your Gut." She also interviews neuroeconomist Paul Zak about his r...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
StoryCorps NTI: Al Siedlecki and Lee Buono
From: StoryCorps
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Neurosurgeon Lee Buono and his eighth grade science teacher, Al Siedlecki, remember reconnecting after more than 15 years.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 01:52
  • Purchases: 2
Dream Jobs 2011 Promos
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
15 and 30 second promos for "Dream Jobs 2011: Outside the Cubicle"

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM, KMXT, WEKU, WNIN, WCPN and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2011
  • Length: :45
  • Purchases: 9
Building Green
From: Bill Baue
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Crossing Admiralty Inlet
From: John Ryan
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The rough seas -- real and virtual -- of Puget Sound

  • Added: Apr 06, 2007
  • Length: 06:08
Bridges over troubled waters
From: John Ryan
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Journey deep beneath the sea, and back in time, in the Tacoma Narrows

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Apr 04, 2007
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 1
Werner the Wormer
From: Zachary Barr
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2,000 people in Maine make their living digging for bloodworms. Meet Werner Rhode, worm digger.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX, The Nature Podcast, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Jul 07, 2004
  • Length: 04:19
  • Purchases: 3