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The work of composer and sound artist Olivia Block has been described as "distinctive and individual" by The New York Times. She is happy enough wr...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WUNC, and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 01, 2016
- Length: 04:20
- Purchases: 3
This song will finish in about another 600 years.
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 01:34
- Purchases: 4
Being surrounded by invisible streams of data.
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 01:31
- Purchases: 4
Airplanes in department stores? There was a time in U.S. History when people experienced this reality. But are we any closer today to realizing the...
- Added: Nov 14, 2015
- Length: 13:22
Alberta citizen/researcher Jessica Ernst takes on Big Frac
- Added: Nov 02, 2015
- Length: 29:52
- Added: Oct 19, 2015
- Length: 29:58
When the NUMMI auto factory in Fremont closed five years ago, close to 5,000 people lost their jobs. An estimated 20,000 others were also out of w...
- Added: Jul 16, 2015
- Length: 28:37
What can America learn for today from the Wright brothers? Don’t miss this fascinating interview with David McCullough on The Public Square®.
- Added: Jul 09, 2015
- Length: 57:26
Life in the Age of Leisure
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, KALW, XRAY.fm, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 15, 2015
- Length: 12:41
- Purchases: 4
Join us for an interesting and fun conversation with planetary astronomer, Alessondra Springmann. She’s working on NASA’s Osiris project and could ...
- Added: Jun 12, 2015
- Length: 28:02
Host Ed Ayers talks to historian Christopher Jones about the 1870s skirmish between John D. Rockefeller and the upstart competitors who built the c...
- Added: Jun 08, 2015
- Length: 10:26
California eighth graders are ranked 45th in the country in math, according to the most recent scores on the National Assessment of Educational Pro...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and Radio Newark
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 07:05
- Purchases: 2
A short, evocative audio postcard made while visiting power-generation facilities in northern California.
- Added: May 13, 2015
- Length: 02:22
A Studs Terkel "Working" interview for a smartphone society.
- Added: Apr 20, 2015
- Length: 02:52
Sylvie Rokab talks unexpected relatives, the hidden dangers of city life, and dancing with Liam Neeson.
- Added: Apr 16, 2015
- Length: 20:50
Some technologies flash in the pan so quickly they hardly leave a trace (Google Glass anyone?); while others seem to stick around long past their u...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Apr 01, 2015
- Length: 38:38
- Purchases: 1
A sport for the twenty-first century? Two words: rocket racing. Ann Kane explores this real-life combination of NASA and NASCAR. Then, Lillian Warn...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 06:21
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
In 1984 your host was twelve years old, and like George Orwell’s protagonist Winston Smith, he kept a diary, for the citizens of the future.
For t...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 31, 2014
- Length: 50:51
- Purchases: 2
Have you noticed how the way a space feels really depends on how it sounds? Take the California Academy of Sciences for example. With all the hundr...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 09:46
Theoretical particle physicist David Kaplan talks the observer effect, the importance of the throw-out option, and why failure is sometimes success
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 31:49
For more than four decades, Radio Row it was the largest collection of radio and electronics stores in the world. Then in 1966 the stores were cond...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 18, 2014
- Length: 13:55
- Purchases: 4
Readers form book clubs. Bowlers join leagues. What do motorcycle enthusiasts do? They ride, of course. Some head to Sturgis, South Dakota every ye...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 05:04
