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Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
What do you do when your computer quits?

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 06, 2010
  • Length: 01:47
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Young people who are not distracted can do most anything.

  • Added: Jul 03, 2010
  • Length: :35
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
The Day The Earth Stood Still

  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: :50
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Children without television have been known to learn how to read.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: May 19, 2010
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 1
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Recently, St. Cloud State University hosted the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States for their annual conference. Please join ...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2010
  • Length: 28:02
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Does increasing broadband only increase the volume of junk email?

  • Added: Apr 03, 2010
  • Length: :59
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
It seems like just yesterday that Dick Tracy first used his two way wrist radio.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2010
  • Length: 01:27
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Even crime is committed on an elementary level

  • Added: Feb 25, 2010
  • Length: :33
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
The pet in the driver's lap has been replaced by a cell phone

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jan 22, 2010
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 1
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What is the importance forgetting has played throughout human history? What will be the effects on society, relationships and humanity now that so...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2010
  • Length: 58:02
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
25 rats trained for a pilot medical project in Africa have identified 300 cases of early-stage TB - infections missed by lab technicians with their...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2009
  • Length: 01:12
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Modern life has become a constant stream of electronic devices demanding our attention. What are the consequences when we choose e-mail, Blackberri...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2009
  • Length: 29:01
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With the Concorde soon to stop flying, an era of air transport has come to an end. Unknown to most people the era ending is the 1950s, and the Conc...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:51
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But information, of course, isn't knowledge ... and therein lies Google great success.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:47
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Every breath a SCUBA diving takes is due to Jacques Cousteau. We think of him as just a television showman of sorts, yet he was a real innovator i...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:37
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We owe a major step in the eradication of polio, and a host of other diseases, to one unsung person. I'd say hero, but this person never knew what ...

Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 2
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How the Volkswagen Beetle started ... and ended.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:54
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Is sliced bread really one of the "best things?" Yes!

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:49
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The Maclaren Stroller: Build like aircraft landing gear.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:26
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Boeing's 7E7 jet - now the 787 - uses high tech to use less fuel

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:51
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The Lego toy company has hit hard times with the advent of electronic toys.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 1
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I stand a top Los Angeles at the Getty Museum looking at one of the great engineering wonders of our time: The LA Water Supply.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:46
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
You heard about the woman who had the wrong embryo implanted. Because a scientist made a mistake it warranted a spot on the national news.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2009
  • Length: :39
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
No matter how well you plan out your project, you are going to have to drive into town twice to get what you need.

  • Added: Aug 05, 2009
  • Length: 01:54
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
The people who design web pages were born after some of us were already collecting social security, so too many web sites are not user friendly for...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2009
  • Length: 02:16