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With kids online so much of their lives, we learn more about privacy and internet safety with award winning author and technologist Cory Doctorow. ...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
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HOUR ONE: 'Our Virtual Reality' - Not everyone has a big yard to stretch out in while sheltering in place. But maybe all you need is a virtual spac...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:59
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Since the first rail line was completed in Minnesota in 1862, the railroad has had a storied existence in the state. Fire is part of that story. KF...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Apr 25, 2021
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Brett Oppegaard
We talk with Dr. Brett Oppegaard, the lead investigator of the UniD project, which produces audio descriptions for the visually impaired.

  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Ryan Flahive, Credit: Jason S. Ordaz
We talk with Ryan Flahive, the archivist at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). Ryan also teaches archive studies and oral history at IAI...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 20, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: team installing water heater controllers
The refrigerator or water heater in your home can be part of the clean energy revolution.

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 10, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Jennifer Jenkins
Jennifer Jenkins, Principal Investigator with the Tribesourcing Southwest Film Project, works at the intersection of literature, film, and archival...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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This beauty doesn’t have to speak to be heard, but she has something to say. Introducing to few, reintroducing to many Lauren Maillian, best-sellin...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2018
  • Length: 46:32
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The rise of synthetic fibers and the war on cotton

Bought by WSGE


  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 27:04
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Stephen Hawking
Celebrating the world's most famous theoretical physicist, author of A Brief History of Time and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Camb...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 20, 2018
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: MHL Talk Radio
Host Sonya Dunn explores the Air Force Research Laboratory in commemoration of its 100th anniversary.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: 53:41
Caption: 90% of young adults use social networking sites., Credit: (C) Kaitie Pearson 2016
Whether you tweet, snap, like, or share social media is the way to communicate; but can it be used for more then just a home for dog memes? Report...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2016
  • Length: 05:48
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Fracking is popping up everywhere and we look at various responses. In Newfoundland (Canada), they create art. In the UK, they (pretend to) frack t...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 18:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Advertisement encouraging people to donate a kidney., Credit: Science Museum, London, Wellcome Images
Rethinking the ethics of organ transplants.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 21:10
Caption: Modi and Zuckerberg
Is net neutrality just a right for the West and a luxury for the rest. And must poor countries be told, be grateful, half an internet is better tha...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
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Independent labels have long been at the forefront of bringing great music to the public, especially lost gems and overlooked greats that went out ...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Lucy DeVito
Two short plays about teenagers facing their futures. With summer imminent, they look ahead with anxiety, optimism, resignation, possibility. In th...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), Oregon Public Broadcasting, WHRV, and KUNM


  • Added: Nov 04, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
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In this project, I explore the bizarre world of Fiverr, a website that lets you purchase services for five dollars. To learn how it works, I take o...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2015
  • Length: 27:00
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Rendered follows up with Etsy about some of the concerns sellers brought up about the company on our April episode and get an update on how the com...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2015
  • Length: 18:09
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Split into three clips for your own programme schedules If you think you are in charge of your Life; forget it You are controlled by 3 billion che...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2015
  • Length: 13:51
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We have now created temperatures hotter than the Sun inside two buildings here on Earth. We are trying to create stars on Earth to reproduce the n...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2015
  • Length: 14:45
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Orville and Wilbur, DIY scientists, were bicycle mechanics at the turn of the 20th century in Dayton, Ohio before they changed our world. David Mc...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 17, 2015
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Wearable Tech Insider podcast for week ending June 12 2015

  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 07:38
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In 1999, most of America’s tech hysteria centered around Y2K. But at that same time, a teenager in Canada was messing around in chat rooms, meeting...

Bought by KALH and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 08, 2014
  • Length: 16:26
  • Purchases: 2